Ellen's Game of Games (2017–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - Episode #2.1 - full transcript
[sleigh bells ringing]
- [drumroll]
- You're about to witness
something amazing.
Something incredible.
Something unbelievable.
- [gasps]
- A 60-year-old woman
working in Hollywood.
[laughter]
- Tonight...
deck the halls
with spills and falls.
- Christmas is gonna
come early.
Would you like to see
what I got you?
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
- As we play Dizzy Dasher...
- ♪ Of the year ♪
- We'll play until you fall
on your rump-a-dump dumps.
- It's A Wonderful Wife...
- [screaming] Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
- Oh, she's so mad at you.
- I'm so sorry!
- Blindfolded Musical
Packages...
- You almost fell off
the entire thing.
- And Danger Word.
- I forgot to close my mouth.
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
♪ Of the year ♪
- Winners will move on
to the highest game
on television...
- I know who's been
bad and good,
so it's finally time to play
Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
[dramatic music]
I hate to say goodbye to you.
I really, really do.
- [screaming]
[laughter]
[shrieking]
- [chuckling]
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
- The final winner hoping
for an early Christmas
and a shot at $100,000.
- You won!
- ♪ Of the year ♪
- Let the holiday games...
begin.
- Cranberry!
- Please give a warm
holiday welcome
to your host, Ellen DeGeneres.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi!
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
Thank you very much!
I appreciate it, everybody!
Hello!
And have a seat.
tWitch, thank you so much,
even ugly Christmas sweaters
look good on you.
- [chuckling]
- This is a special
holiday edition
of my "Game of Games."
I've missed you all so much.
I've had my set decorated
for the holidays.
And I may have ordered you all
a little something.
[cheers and applause]
As you know, Walmart has
awesome gifts
for everyone, so...
would you like to see
what I got you?
[cheers and applause]
I've decided
I want you to wait.
Okay.
[laughter]
So does anybody
in this audience
want to win $100,000?
[cheers and applause]
All right, everybody ready?
♪ ♪
Holidays can test
your relationship,
but nothing tests it more
than this next game.
It's time to play
It's A Wonderful Wife.
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell,
jingle bell rock ♪
♪ Jingle bell chime ♪
- Hey, tWitch,
who's gonna play?
- Ellen, I found two men
who are fully committed
to winning this game:
Sam Spears
and Steve Trenkwald!
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Giddy-up jingle horse,
pick up your feet ♪
♪ Jingle around the clock ♪
- Hi!
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Good.
- Hi!
- Hi.
- Hi!
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell ♪
♪ Jingle bell rock ♪
Hi, you two.
- Hi.
- Who are you?
- I'm Steve.
Been married
to my beautiful wife
for five and a half years.
We have two
beautiful daughters,
London and Lila.
Hi, girls!
- Hello, girls.
It's wonderful to see your
daddy do this.
All right, wonderful.
And you are?
- I'm Sam,
and I'm married to my
wonderful wife, Dianna,
of seven years.
We have two beautiful kids,
Boston and Bennett.
And we actually met
in the Air Force
in the plains of Wyoming
where we were both
nuclear missileers.
- Wow.
- I know.
- Very nice.
- Yes.
- All right.
I'm sure that you both
think your wives
are angels, and that's why
we put them up in the heavens.
Ladies?
[cheers and applause]
[both screaming]
- Oh, my God.
- Oh!
♪ ♪
- Whoa!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Dianna!
- Sam, where are you?
- Hi, Dianna.
- Hi, Ellen!
- How you doing?
- It's so nice to meet you!
- It's wonderful to meet you,
and Chelsea, hi.
- [shrieking] Hi, Ellen!
- Hi, Chelsea.
All right, here's how
we play this game.
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell,
jingle bell rock ♪
- Here, two husbands
bet against each other
on how smart they think
their wives are.
The catch? There is no catch.
Three strikes,
and their wives fall
all the way down.
The winning couple
will then decide
who competes in Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
So...
I should mention that tonight
It's A Wonderful Wife
is brought to you
by hot cocoa.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
- Oh, my God.
- It looks great!
- You got it!
- Hot cocoa.
Sip it, splash in it,
it's always hotter with cocoa.
[twinkle chimes]
[laughter]
All right.
Here we go.
♪ ♪
Steve.
How many of Santa's reindeer
do you think she can name?
- I think she could name...
four reindeer.
- Four reindeer.
There's more than that.
- I...
I bet my wife can name...
five reindeer.
- Five, okay.
Do you think she can name
six reindeer?
- You know, Ellen, I think
I'm going to challenge.
- You're gonna challenge?
- Yes!
- All right.
- Whoo!
- All right, Dianna.
- I got it!
I got it.
- You got it.
- Of course, it's only
five of them.
In 30 seconds.
Start.
- Uh, Donner, Dasher,
Rudolph, Dancer,
Vixen.
[bell chimes]
- That's right.
- Yes!
- [screaming]
- Good job, Di!
- All right.
Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah, he had no faith
in you, Chelsea.
- Oh, my gosh, wait!
What does that mean?
- That...
[laughter]
- It means that you're about
to have some hot cocoa.
- [screaming] No!
- All right.
That is a strike for you.
[audience groans]
[lever whooshes]
- Oh!
all: Oh!
[cheers and applause]
- Oh!
Oh-ho-ho.
[laughter]
- Steve!
- I'm sorry!
- [screaming]
What were you thinking?
- She could have done it!
All right.
- [screaming]
- You're gonna pay for this!
- Oh, she's so mad at you.
- I'm so sorry!
- All right.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Sam.
- Yes.
- Things you put
on a Christmas tree.
How many can your wife name?
- I'm gonna bet
my wife can name
five things on
a Christmas tree.
- Five things to put
on a Christmas tree.
Be very careful, Steve.
[laughter]
- I think my wife can name
eight things
on a Christmas tree.
- Oh, my God.
[cheers and applause]
- I'm gonna challenge.
- Are you challenging?
All right.
All right.
Chelsea.
- [shrieks]
- Eight things in 30 seconds.
- Okay.
- Go.
- Okay!
You got lights,
you got ornaments,
you have pictures,
you have an angel,
you have presents,
you have, um...ah...
oh, my God!
I don't want to fall down!
- She's very dramatic.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Um, I can't think of anything!
- Three more things!
- Um...
Uh, a star!
- Yep. You got six.
- You got it.
- Okay--
[buzzer blares]
- [groans]
- [screaming]
- Whoo!
- [screaming]
- Oh, no.
- Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, no.
- All right.
That was two strikes.
- Oh, no. Oh, no.
- Well, you've experienced it,
so it's just more of the same.
- Not again!
Please don't, Ellen!
Please don't do it again!
- I'm sorry!
[lever whooshes]
- Ah!
- Oh!
- Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh.
- Are you okay?
- Oh, my God.
Ah!
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
Oh, my God.
- Whoo!
- Ah!
- You got it!
- [screaming]
- Okay.
Here's what's happening now.
That was your second drop.
- Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
- So one more drop,
and y'all lose the game.
- Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God.
- All right.
I am going to you, Sam.
- Okay.
- I'd be good at this.
Tequila brands.
How many types of tequila
brands can she name?
- I bet my wife can name
four tequila brands.
- Four tequila brands.
- Ellen, I think my wife
can name
five tequila brands.
- Five tequila.
She's gonna have one
right after this,
I can tell you that.
[laughter]
- Yeah.
- Six tequila brands, Sam?
- I'm gonna challenge.
- Ooh, that's risky.
I'll tell you that.
- It is.
- All right, so five
tequila brands.
Chelsea?
- Okay.
- Go.
- Okay.
Uh, Don Julio,
Patron,
1800 Silver,
Jose Cuervo,
and, um, uh...
Patron, uh, gold?
Patron, um...
Uh...
Okay, so Don Julio,
1800 Silver, uh...
- Five seconds, hurry up.
- Bacardi?
No, Bacardi's not that, uh...
Oh, my God, I have to name
a fifth one!
Oh, my God!
[buzzer blares]
- Oh, no!
- Oh, my God!
- All right. Unfortunately,
that means this
is your third strike.
- Oh, my gosh, Ellen, no,
please don't!
Please don't, Ellen!
- [shrieking]
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- [screaming]
- I'm sorry!
[lever whooshes]
- [screaming]
- All right!
Oh, my gosh.
[screaming]
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- That means Dianna and Sam
are the winners.
- Whoo!
- You're going on Know or Go,
one step closer to $100,000!
- [shrieking]
- Yeah!
- But before we get to that,
I have to help you down.
[lever whooshes]
- No, no, no!
[screaming]
- Oh!
- We'll be back.
- Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh.
- The next time
you see Dianna,
she'll be 30 feet in the air
on Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
Up next, Ellen serves up
a holiday feast.
- That is mashed potatoes
- It would be nice
if it was warm.
♪ ♪
.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to my
"Game of Games."
You know, there are a lot of
dangerous things you can say
this time of year, like,
"Put that all
on my credit card,"
or, "Sure, your whole family
can stay with us
over the holidays."
But this next game
can really get you in trouble
with just one word.
It's time to play Danger Word.
- ♪ Candles burning low ♪
♪ Lots of mistletoe ♪
♪ Lots of snow and ice ♪
- tWitch, who are my
holiday daredevils?
- All right, come on down,
Earl and Brittany Belt,
and Barb and Ryan Prince!
Let's go!
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Christmas means to me,
my love ♪
- Whoo!
- Hi, Barb and Ryan.
And how do you know each other?
- We're son and mother.
- Yes.
- Ah.
- We're from Michigan.
- Michigan.
- Yeah.
- Beautiful.
All right, and you are?
- I'm Brittany Belt,
and this is my dad, Earl Belt.
- Earl.
- We're from Wichita, Kansas.
- Wichita, Kansas.
- Wonderful.
- Yeah!
- I know!
- Here's how this game works.
[Stevie Wonder's
"What Christmas Means to Me"]
The object of the game
is to get your partner
to guess the winning word
using only one-word clues.
However, if they say
the danger word instead,
I'll blast them.
Take too long, get blasted.
Illegal clue? Get blasted.
If the other team guesses
the winning word,
that's right, you get blasted.
Three blasts
and the game is over.
Then the winning team
will send one player
on to Know or Go.
- Whoo!
- Yes, and this
is very exciting,
all of our cannons are filled
with Thanksgiving leftovers.
- Whoa!
- Ooh.
- Oh, I apologize in advance.
Here's my friend Kristen Bell
to tell the people at home
what the danger word is.
[funky music]
- The winning word is "ice."
The danger word is "frozen."
[cheers and applause]
- Ryan, you will go first.
[dramatic music]
- Cube.
♪ ♪
- Ice.
- Yes!
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
- Oh!
- Yes, Ryan!
- Yes!
- Oh, no, that was a good clue.
- Yes!
- That was a really good clue.
- All right, so that's
your first strike.
I am forced to push this,
uh, right here.
And, uh...
- Oh, no.
- And...
- Oh, no.
- I'm terribly sorry.
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
- Ah, oh!
- Oh, my goodness!
- Cranberry.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
Ah, oh!
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- All right, and now,
here is Sandra Bullock
with our next word.
♪ ♪
- The winning word is "cocoa,"
and the danger word
is "chocolate."
[cheers and applause]
- All right, Brittany,
we're gonna go with you first.
- [chuckling]
Okay.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Um, hot.
- Cold.
[buzzer beeps]
- Butter.
- Popcorn.
[buzzer beeps]
- Powder.
- Chocolate.
- [groans]
[alarms blare]
No!
- That is the danger word.
Unfortunately it was "cocoa"
we were looking for.
- [shrieks]
- Oh, no.
[laughter]
- Sorry, Earl!
- I'm so sorry, Dad!
- Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
- Brittany is so sorry.
- Sorry, Earl.
- So that is your
second strike.
Let's see what is in
this next one, okay?
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
Oh, it's muffin mix.
Yeah, that's right.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, Dad.
[cannons boom]
[laughter]
- All right, one more
and you're out.
So be very, very careful.
And here is Jennifer Garner
to tell us the next word.
♪ ♪
- The winning word
is "gingerbread."
The danger word is "cookie."
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Ryan, we go to you.
♪ ♪
- Snickerdoodle.
- Cookies.
- Oh, no.
[alarms blare]
Yeah, I worried about that.
But yeah, it was gingerbread.
All right.
Now you're happy.
- Sorry, Mom.
- Earl's so happy.
Barb, that's your first strike.
- [giggling]
[beeping, sirens blaring]
- Hurry up!
- Oh, you want me to hurry?
All right, fine.
Okay.
[cannons boom]
[audience groans]
All right.
- Oh, oh.
- All right.
That, Barb, is mashed potatoes.
- Oh.
- Oh.
- It would be nice
if it was warm.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
[audience groans]
- Oh!
[laughter]
Oh!
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Jack Black, the danger word,
please.
♪ ♪
- The winning word is...
♪ Caroler! ♪
The danger word is...
♪ Singer ♪
[applause]
Was that what you had in mind?
[laughter]
Was I supposed to sing
the whole thing?
[cheers and applause]
- Brittany, we go to you.
Be very careful.
You do not want another strike,
or you're out.
- Um...
[suspenseful music]
Mom.
- Carol.
[bell chimes]
- Yes, carolers.
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
- Okay.
Is that your mom's name?
- My mom's name is Carol.
- So that is two strikes.
[audience groans]
Okay, Barb, here we go.
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
Oh, it's muffin mix.
Muffin mix.
Oh, no.
- I forgot to close my mouth.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
[laughter]
- [laughing]
- Oh, no.
Okay. It is tied up.
Two to two.
So whoever loses this one
is the loser,
and the other person
goes on to play Know or Go.
I hear Sandy has one more.
- The winning word is "gift."
The danger word is "present."
[cheers and applause]
- We are going to Ryan.
- Hmm.
Wrap.
- Style.
[buzzer beeps]
- Um...
Exchange.
- Presents.
- Oh!
[alarms blare]
Oh, no!
- [screaming]
- Yes, Mom!
- "Present"
was the danger word.
"Gift" was what we were
looking for.
And it looks like
sweet potato casserole
is headed your way.
[cannons boom]
Oh, no.
That means you are the winner!
- Whoo!
- [screaming]
- You are both going on
to play Know or Go.
And one step closer
to $100,000.
- ♪ Whoa ♪
[cannons boom]
- [screaming]
- I had to.
We'll be right back.
- Ellen!
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- Ryan joins Dianna,
getting him one step closer
to $100,000.
Coming up, the holiday
hijinks continues
with Blindfolded Musical
Packages.
- What?
.
[upbeat dance music]
- All right!
Welcome back to my
"Game of Games,"
you little Christmas angels.
Of course, the best part
of the holidays
is being together
with your family.
I'm kidding,
it's opening presents.
And this next game has gifts
for almost everybody.
It's time to play
one of my favorites,
Blindfolded Musical Packages.
- ♪ You're here
where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling
as the carolers sing ♪
♪ Alone on Christmas day ♪
- We found five audience
members to play,
and you are?
- My name is Omid Haakstorfad,
I'm from Washington D.C.,
and I'm striving to become
a dentist.
- You're gonna be a dentist.
- Yes.
- So it doesn't
bother you that,
if people have bad breath
or anything,
and you're in their mouths?
- I love it.
- Really?
- I love it.
- Usually I brush before
to try to be polite,
but if you love it,
next time I know
my dentist probably enjoys it.
All right, you are?
- I am Donna Price.
I'm from Haslet, Texas.
They call me Hot Donna.
My girls are jealous because
I party more and dance more,
and they're jealous that I can
do it better than they can.
- Wow.
[cheers and applause]
All right, Hot Donna.
- Yeah.
- What is your name?
- I'm Daniel Gates.
I'm from a really small town
of 1,500 people
in southern Iowa.
- 1,500 people.
So that means
when you drive down
everybody waves at each other
when you pass each other?
- Oh, yeah, we know everybody's
family by the car.
- I know, I wish
we did that here.
I wish, but then you would
be like this constantly,
'cause there's...
a lot of people.
And you are?
- Hi! I'm Amber.
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
I am a pastry chef.
Um, and I'm obsessed
with sharks.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
- All right. You are?
- I am Caroline Howard,
I am a student at
Pepperdine University,
from Visalia, California,
and I've watched your show
every day for seven years.
- All right.
Caroline.
Here's how we play this game.
♪ ♪
Five contestants
will be blindfolded.
When I stop the music,
they'll race to find a seat.
Whoever can't find one
will be eliminated.
We'll play four rounds,
and the final player
in the game
will win and advance
to Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
And I will be controlling
all of the packages,
so you never know
where they're gonna
be popping up.
It could be popping up there,
maybe not, maybe over here,
maybe not.
And there's also
the spinning wheel of death
in the center;
be very, very careful.
No one has ever died.
We just like to call it that.
But it is a spinning wheel.
And we just added "of death."
All right.
[laughter]
tWitch will pass out
the blindfolds.
All right, so, everybody put
your blindfolds on.
Make sure you put them
on correctly.
All right.
Good luck.
Start dancing.
- ♪ You're all that I need ♪
- Oh, wow.
- ♪ Underneath the tree ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ I'm gonna hold you close ♪
♪ Make sure that you know ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
- Ooh.
Ooh.
[cheers and applause]
Ooh!
Ah.
[cheers and applause]
[bell chimes]
- [screaming] Yeah!
- Ooh.
Ooh!
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[laughter]
[bell chimes]
- Yes!
Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
- [shrieking]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
- There's only one more stool.
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
What?
- Oh!
[bell chimes]
- Yes!
[laughter]
- Okay. All right.
- Oh, boy.
- Good job. Good job.
- Oh, that was good.
[cheers and applause]
All right.
Good luck, everybody.
Start dancing.
- ♪ You're here
where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling
as the carolers sing ♪
♪ It just wasn't the same ♪
♪ Alone on Christmas ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- Whoo!
Yes!
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- [laughing]
- [laughing]
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
[bell chimes]
- Okay, all right.
All right.
Oh, boy.
Hot Donna is really hot now.
[laughter]
All right,
down to three people.
Getting close
for that $100,000.
All right.
[cheers and applause]
Ready?
Start dancing.
- ♪ I found ♪
♪ What I was looking for ♪
♪ A love that's meant for me ♪
♪ A heart that's mine ♪
[laughter]
- [laughing]
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, gosh.
Oh, gosh.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[bell chimes]
- [laughing]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Dawg.
Dawg!
[cheering intensifies]
Dawg!
Go!
- Yeah!
[bell chimes]
Whoo!
Ah!
[laughter]
- Phew.
All right. All right.
Daniel, you almost fell off
the entire thing.
- Yeah!
[laughter]
Ah!
Ah!
- [laughing]
Be careful now.
I feel like this is the size
of your town or something,
and you're...
[laughter]
You're having a hard time
figuring out your boundaries.
I don't know what's happening.
- Whoo!
- All right.
Down to Omid and Daniel.
And I have a feeling this
is gonna be very aggressive.
[laughter]
There is gonna be a lot
of rolling
and lot of things going on.
Okay.
Don't hurt each other.
But start dancing, careful.
Go.
- ♪ You're here ♪
♪ Where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling as the
carolers sing ♪
♪ It just wasn't ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
- [laughing]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
So close!
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
[cheers and applause]
[laughing]
- Oh.
[laughter]
- Good job, man.
- Omid!
You are the winner!
[Kelly Clarkson's
"Underneath the Tree"]
[cheers and applause]
All right, congratulations!
You are going up
onto Know or Go
and you're one step closer
to $100,000!
[cheers and applause]
All right,
maybe it's a good time
that I give you your gift.
No matter...
[cheers and applause]
No matter who you're shopping
for this season,
Walmart has gifts
for the whole family.
They even have my new
apparel line, EV1.
[cheers and applause]
And if you're
a last-minute shopper,
and then pick up your gifts
in the store
that same day.
And why am I telling you this,
you wonder?
Because I want all of you
to experience the joy
of giving great gifts
at great prices
with this $500 Walmart
gift card.
[cheers and applause]
Happy holidays, everybody!
We'll be back!
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Let's do it.
We are gonna play a game
with a special Santa spin.
It's time to play Dizzy Dasher.
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Run, run, Rudolph ♪
♪ Santa's got to
make it to town ♪
- tWitch, who are my
dizzy dashers?
- Ellen, I found
two contestants
who are ready to play
your reindeer games.
Come on down, Conisha Hernandez
and Amber Hildreth!
[both screaming]
- ♪ Run, run, Rudolph ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm reeling
like a merry-go-round ♪
- [shrieking]
- [shrieking]
- Hi!
Hi. Nice to meet you, Conisha.
- Yes.
- Tell me about yourself.
Where do you live,
what do you do?
- I'm from Detroit,
I'm a diesel mechanic
in the Navy,
and I'm a mom of three
beautiful children.
- Aw.
- And a wonderful husband.
- They're gonna have so much
fun watching you do this.
- Yes they are.
- That's wonderful.
And you are Amber.
- Yes.
- Hi, Amber.
- Hi.
- What do you do,
where do you live?
- I live in San Diego,
and I am a pediatrician.
- Aw, that's great.
Lots of little babies
that you take care of.
- Lots of little babies.
- All right.
I appreciate your enthusiasm,
so would you mind
dressing up for us?
Just because it's a Christmas--
- Yes!
- It's a holiday theme.
- Always!
- While we get you dressed,
here's how we play.
[Chuck Berry's
"Run Run Rudolph"]
After spinning,
two contestants
will race to answer
my questions correctly.
The first person to get
three questions right
moves on to Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
All right, here we go.
[cheers and applause]
Keep your antlers
against the dot.
We'll play until someone
has three points,
or until you fall on your
rump-a-dump dumps.
Okay.
[laughter]
Let's play Dizzy Dasher.
[cheers and applause]
The weather can get very cold
during Christmas.
[machine beeping]
[both screaming]
[wacky music]
[both screaming]
- Ah!
- Whoo!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Amber, yes.
- F-R-A-C-S.
- That's right.
[cheers and applause]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
- Whoo.
- Antlers against the dot.
You're about to spin
like a dreidel.
Spin 'em.
[machine beeping]
[wacky music]
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
- Ah!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Fin!
- Fin is right.
It rhymes...
with spin.
All right.
Amber has two.
You're one away from winning.
Conisha, you got to get
this next one, all right?
Ready?
Santa likes colors
red and white.
Red and white mixed together
is pink.
Finish this Pink lyric:
"I'm coming up,
so you better..." what?
Spin 'em.
[machine beeping]
[wacky music]
- Ah!
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
Whoo!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Get this party started!
- Get this party started
is right, Amber!
And you are the winner!
Congratulations!
- ♪ Santa's got to
make it to town ♪
♪ Santa, make him hurry ♪
- Congratulations.
- Thank you!
- Hopefully your head
will stop spinning.
You're gonna go up
on Know or Go
and you're one step closer
to $100,000.
And that's a lot of "doe."
You get it?
'Cause you're dressed
like a reindeer.
[laughter]
We'll be back.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- So Amber earned
the final spot
on Know or Go-Ho-Ho,
and Ellen's finger
is on the button.
- I have to send you down!
- [screaming]
- [yelps]
- Ay-yai-yai.
- Love you.
- Say "bye-bye"!
[cheers and applause]
.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- Well, I've been watching
all of my contestants.
I know who's been bad and good,
so it's finally time to play
Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
- ♪ Santa Claus, Santa Claus ♪
♪ Happy ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ In the morning ♪
♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ In the evening ♪
♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
- All right.
tWitch, bring out
the contestants, please.
[drumming]
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
[all cheering]
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
- Hey, everybody!
Hi!
All right, welcome back.
Let's remind everybody
how we got here.
Amber, no amount of spinning
could stop you from blitzing
past the competition
in Dizzy Dasher.
Dianna, you became
a human marshmallow
in It's A Wonderful Wife.
Ryan, you were one smart cookie
playing Danger Word.
Unfortunately your mother
still guessed "cookie."
- Ah!
- And finally,
Omid,
a pretty, pretty ballerina
who loves bad, bad breath.
All right, you've all managed
to reach the top,
and if you can stay there,
you'll get a chance
to play for $100,000.
[cheers and applause]
The game is simple.
If you know, you stay,
if you don't, you go.
If you miss a question
or take too long to answer,
I'm gonna be forced
to push this button,
and you'll know
what it feels to be
Santa going down a chimney.
All right, let's play
Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
[all cheering]
[dramatic music]
Amber, I'm gonna
start with you.
- Kay.
- If you have seven
swans a-swimming
and six geese a-laying,
what is 7 times 6?
- Seven times six is 42.
- That is correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Dianna.
I had to remove myself
from Thanksgiving dinner
because Britney Spears
wouldn't stop talking
about her umbilicus.
What was she talking about?
- Her umbilicus.
She was talking about...
her...
belly button.
- You're right.
[bell chimes]
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
- Ryan.
- Eight.
- That's correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Omid.
Answer me this.
Where was the coldest
temperature
ever recorded on Earth?
♪ ♪
- North Pole.
♪ ♪
Final answer.
- It is Antarctica.
[buzzer blares]
And it was minus
135 Fahrenheit.
[audience groans]
So sorry.
- [yelps]
[laughter]
[audience exclaiming]
[all exclaim]
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
Ah!
[laughter]
- Oh, boy,
it's getting real now.
- It's getting real!
- All right.
Amber.
"Hola" means "hello"
in Spanish.
- Merry Christmas!
- That's right.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Dianna.
Some people put angels
on tops of their trees.
- That is...
Bette Midler.
- That is correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Ryan, here's a fun fact.
Taylor Swift spent
part of her childhood
on a Pennsylvania
Christmas tree farm.
- Oh, Ellen.
- I know.
- Uh...
I'll say...
Philadelphia.
- Oh.
All right.
It's Harrisburg.
- Oh.
- I am so sorry.
- But maybe I could stay
for one...more.
- Well...
[laughter]
What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna send you
down and think about it.
Okay?
[laughter]
All right, Ryan, it was very
nice meeting you.
- You too.
Love you.
[all screaming]
[cheers and applause]
Love you.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God.
- All right.
Here's what happens now.
- Oh, my gosh.
- This is called Sudden Drop.
[audience groans]
If you miss an answer,
you don't automatically
lose and drop.
Your opponent
has a chance to steal.
If they get it right,
they win;
if they don't,
we go back to the questions,
okay?
- Okay.
- Here we go.
[cheers and applause]
Amber.
"Bah, humbug" is Scrooge's
catchphrase
in "A Christmas Carol."
Who's the author of that book?
- Author of
"A Christmas Carol"...
is not Ebenezer Scrooge.
He's in it.
Um...
Lewis Carroll?
[buzzer blares]
- Dianna.
You have a chance to steal.
- Oh, gosh. Is it, um...
it's Carroll.
I know it's Carroll something.
Um...
Carroll's not enough?
- Do you want it to be enough?
- Yes.
- It's got nothing
to do with Carroll.
It's, uh, Charles Dickens.
[both groaning]
All right.
Uh, Dianna.
Finish this lyric.
- Oh, dreidel, dreidel,
dreidel, I made you out of...
wood.
Clay.
I'm going with wood.
- You're gonna go with wood?
- I'm gonna go with clay.
I don't know!
[shrieking]
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know!
Oh, gosh.
I'm gonna go with clay.
- It is clay.
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
[shrieking]
- All right, Amber.
The holiday season is known
as the most wonderful time
of the year.
- It was...
Ah!
Um...
This is, uh, Chevy Chase!
That's not right,
but that's a name
in a holiday movie!
- All right, you going
with Chevy Chase?
- I, yeah, I know, I...yeah.
- I have a feeling
you're gonna steal this
and you're gonna win the game.
- Yes.
Yes.
- Who is it?
- Jimmy Stewart!
- That's right!
It's Jimmy Stewart!
- Yeah!
- Amber, you're saying bye-bye!
- [screaming]
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
- You are the winner!
- [screaming]
- Congratulations,
you're gonna play
for $100,000!
- [screaming]
[screaming]
- I have to send you down!
- No! No!
- I have to!
- [screaming]
- We'll be back.
- ♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ By the ho-ho-ho to you ♪
- Coming up...
- You're one step away
from $100,000!
- [screaming]
- Will Dianna's fingers
be fast enough?
- Ooh, that's gonna be good.
.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- All right.
We're here with Dianna,
and she's one step away
from $100,000!
- [screaming]
[cheers and applause]
- So have you played
the app before?
- Yes, all the time.
- You're good at it?
- I wish I could say
I was really good at it.
- Okay.
- I'm okay at it.
- Okay, well, maybe you'll
be really good at it now.
- I'm gonna be really
good at it today.
- Today you should be.
- Yes.
- Okay.
This is the moment
we have been waiting for.
Let's play Hot Hands.
[dramatic music]
- Whoo!
Oh, my gosh!
[drumroll]
Oh, my gosh.
[drum beating]
- All right.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Here is what is gonna happen.
We're gonna show you
a series of celebrities.
As soon as you say their name,
you hit the button
to lock in your answer.
It'll go right
to the next picture.
If you're wrong or if you take
too long to answer,
the picture will change
automatically.
You've got three seconds,
so you gotta think fast,
all right?
The more people you name
the more money you win.
If you name ten celebrities
in 30 seconds
you're gonna go home
with $100,000.
- Whoo!
- All right?
[cheers and applause]
That's a lot of
stocking stuffers.
All right.
You get to pick your category,
and they are:
Holiday Movie Stars...
Holiday Song Singers...
- Nope.
- And Christmas Carol
Song Writers
of the Early 1800s.
- Whoo!
- What's it gonna be?
- Whew.
I'm gonna go with
Holiday Movie Stars.
- Holiday Movie Stars.
- Whoo!
- All right, we'll see
if you made the right choice.
- Oh, gosh.
- Rise her up.
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- All right.
Get your hand on the button.
For $100,000.
Go.
- Will Ferrell.
Uh, Macaulay Culkin.
Um, pass.
Uh, Cameron Diaz.
Um, that--pass.
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Um, Charlie Brown.
Um, Tim Allen.
Um, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Um, Chevy Chase.
Um, ah!
Pass!
Uh, Hugh Grant.
Um, Tom Hanks.
[bells ringing]
[screaming]
[upbeat dance music]
- $100,000! That's crazy!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Congratulations! $100,000!
You're the winner of my
"Game of Games"!
Happy holidays to you!
I'll see you soon!
On January 8th.
Be kind to one another.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- [drumroll]
- You're about to witness
something amazing.
Something incredible.
Something unbelievable.
- [gasps]
- A 60-year-old woman
working in Hollywood.
[laughter]
- Tonight...
deck the halls
with spills and falls.
- Christmas is gonna
come early.
Would you like to see
what I got you?
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
- As we play Dizzy Dasher...
- ♪ Of the year ♪
- We'll play until you fall
on your rump-a-dump dumps.
- It's A Wonderful Wife...
- [screaming] Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
- Oh, she's so mad at you.
- I'm so sorry!
- Blindfolded Musical
Packages...
- You almost fell off
the entire thing.
- And Danger Word.
- I forgot to close my mouth.
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
♪ Of the year ♪
- Winners will move on
to the highest game
on television...
- I know who's been
bad and good,
so it's finally time to play
Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
[dramatic music]
I hate to say goodbye to you.
I really, really do.
- [screaming]
[laughter]
[shrieking]
- [chuckling]
- ♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
♪ It's the most
wonderful time ♪
- The final winner hoping
for an early Christmas
and a shot at $100,000.
- You won!
- ♪ Of the year ♪
- Let the holiday games...
begin.
- Cranberry!
- Please give a warm
holiday welcome
to your host, Ellen DeGeneres.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi!
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
Thank you very much!
I appreciate it, everybody!
Hello!
And have a seat.
tWitch, thank you so much,
even ugly Christmas sweaters
look good on you.
- [chuckling]
- This is a special
holiday edition
of my "Game of Games."
I've missed you all so much.
I've had my set decorated
for the holidays.
And I may have ordered you all
a little something.
[cheers and applause]
As you know, Walmart has
awesome gifts
for everyone, so...
would you like to see
what I got you?
[cheers and applause]
I've decided
I want you to wait.
Okay.
[laughter]
So does anybody
in this audience
want to win $100,000?
[cheers and applause]
All right, everybody ready?
♪ ♪
Holidays can test
your relationship,
but nothing tests it more
than this next game.
It's time to play
It's A Wonderful Wife.
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell,
jingle bell rock ♪
♪ Jingle bell chime ♪
- Hey, tWitch,
who's gonna play?
- Ellen, I found two men
who are fully committed
to winning this game:
Sam Spears
and Steve Trenkwald!
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Giddy-up jingle horse,
pick up your feet ♪
♪ Jingle around the clock ♪
- Hi!
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Good.
- Hi!
- Hi.
- Hi!
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell ♪
♪ Jingle bell rock ♪
Hi, you two.
- Hi.
- Who are you?
- I'm Steve.
Been married
to my beautiful wife
for five and a half years.
We have two
beautiful daughters,
London and Lila.
Hi, girls!
- Hello, girls.
It's wonderful to see your
daddy do this.
All right, wonderful.
And you are?
- I'm Sam,
and I'm married to my
wonderful wife, Dianna,
of seven years.
We have two beautiful kids,
Boston and Bennett.
And we actually met
in the Air Force
in the plains of Wyoming
where we were both
nuclear missileers.
- Wow.
- I know.
- Very nice.
- Yes.
- All right.
I'm sure that you both
think your wives
are angels, and that's why
we put them up in the heavens.
Ladies?
[cheers and applause]
[both screaming]
- Oh, my God.
- Oh!
♪ ♪
- Whoa!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Dianna!
- Sam, where are you?
- Hi, Dianna.
- Hi, Ellen!
- How you doing?
- It's so nice to meet you!
- It's wonderful to meet you,
and Chelsea, hi.
- [shrieking] Hi, Ellen!
- Hi, Chelsea.
All right, here's how
we play this game.
- ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell,
jingle bell rock ♪
- Here, two husbands
bet against each other
on how smart they think
their wives are.
The catch? There is no catch.
Three strikes,
and their wives fall
all the way down.
The winning couple
will then decide
who competes in Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
So...
I should mention that tonight
It's A Wonderful Wife
is brought to you
by hot cocoa.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
- Oh, my God.
- It looks great!
- You got it!
- Hot cocoa.
Sip it, splash in it,
it's always hotter with cocoa.
[twinkle chimes]
[laughter]
All right.
Here we go.
♪ ♪
Steve.
How many of Santa's reindeer
do you think she can name?
- I think she could name...
four reindeer.
- Four reindeer.
There's more than that.
- I...
I bet my wife can name...
five reindeer.
- Five, okay.
Do you think she can name
six reindeer?
- You know, Ellen, I think
I'm going to challenge.
- You're gonna challenge?
- Yes!
- All right.
- Whoo!
- All right, Dianna.
- I got it!
I got it.
- You got it.
- Of course, it's only
five of them.
In 30 seconds.
Start.
- Uh, Donner, Dasher,
Rudolph, Dancer,
Vixen.
[bell chimes]
- That's right.
- Yes!
- [screaming]
- Good job, Di!
- All right.
Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah, he had no faith
in you, Chelsea.
- Oh, my gosh, wait!
What does that mean?
- That...
[laughter]
- It means that you're about
to have some hot cocoa.
- [screaming] No!
- All right.
That is a strike for you.
[audience groans]
[lever whooshes]
- Oh!
all: Oh!
[cheers and applause]
- Oh!
Oh-ho-ho.
[laughter]
- Steve!
- I'm sorry!
- [screaming]
What were you thinking?
- She could have done it!
All right.
- [screaming]
- You're gonna pay for this!
- Oh, she's so mad at you.
- I'm so sorry!
- All right.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Sam.
- Yes.
- Things you put
on a Christmas tree.
How many can your wife name?
- I'm gonna bet
my wife can name
five things on
a Christmas tree.
- Five things to put
on a Christmas tree.
Be very careful, Steve.
[laughter]
- I think my wife can name
eight things
on a Christmas tree.
- Oh, my God.
[cheers and applause]
- I'm gonna challenge.
- Are you challenging?
All right.
All right.
Chelsea.
- [shrieks]
- Eight things in 30 seconds.
- Okay.
- Go.
- Okay!
You got lights,
you got ornaments,
you have pictures,
you have an angel,
you have presents,
you have, um...ah...
oh, my God!
I don't want to fall down!
- She's very dramatic.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Um, I can't think of anything!
- Three more things!
- Um...
Uh, a star!
- Yep. You got six.
- You got it.
- Okay--
[buzzer blares]
- [groans]
- [screaming]
- Whoo!
- [screaming]
- Oh, no.
- Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, no.
- All right.
That was two strikes.
- Oh, no. Oh, no.
- Well, you've experienced it,
so it's just more of the same.
- Not again!
Please don't, Ellen!
Please don't do it again!
- I'm sorry!
[lever whooshes]
- Ah!
- Oh!
- Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh.
- Are you okay?
- Oh, my God.
Ah!
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
Oh, my God.
- Whoo!
- Ah!
- You got it!
- [screaming]
- Okay.
Here's what's happening now.
That was your second drop.
- Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
- So one more drop,
and y'all lose the game.
- Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God.
- All right.
I am going to you, Sam.
- Okay.
- I'd be good at this.
Tequila brands.
How many types of tequila
brands can she name?
- I bet my wife can name
four tequila brands.
- Four tequila brands.
- Ellen, I think my wife
can name
five tequila brands.
- Five tequila.
She's gonna have one
right after this,
I can tell you that.
[laughter]
- Yeah.
- Six tequila brands, Sam?
- I'm gonna challenge.
- Ooh, that's risky.
I'll tell you that.
- It is.
- All right, so five
tequila brands.
Chelsea?
- Okay.
- Go.
- Okay.
Uh, Don Julio,
Patron,
1800 Silver,
Jose Cuervo,
and, um, uh...
Patron, uh, gold?
Patron, um...
Uh...
Okay, so Don Julio,
1800 Silver, uh...
- Five seconds, hurry up.
- Bacardi?
No, Bacardi's not that, uh...
Oh, my God, I have to name
a fifth one!
Oh, my God!
[buzzer blares]
- Oh, no!
- Oh, my God!
- All right. Unfortunately,
that means this
is your third strike.
- Oh, my gosh, Ellen, no,
please don't!
Please don't, Ellen!
- [shrieking]
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- [screaming]
- I'm sorry!
[lever whooshes]
- [screaming]
- All right!
Oh, my gosh.
[screaming]
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- That means Dianna and Sam
are the winners.
- Whoo!
- You're going on Know or Go,
one step closer to $100,000!
- [shrieking]
- Yeah!
- But before we get to that,
I have to help you down.
[lever whooshes]
- No, no, no!
[screaming]
- Oh!
- We'll be back.
- Oh, my gosh!
Oh, my gosh.
- The next time
you see Dianna,
she'll be 30 feet in the air
on Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
Up next, Ellen serves up
a holiday feast.
- That is mashed potatoes
- It would be nice
if it was warm.
♪ ♪
.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to my
"Game of Games."
You know, there are a lot of
dangerous things you can say
this time of year, like,
"Put that all
on my credit card,"
or, "Sure, your whole family
can stay with us
over the holidays."
But this next game
can really get you in trouble
with just one word.
It's time to play Danger Word.
- ♪ Candles burning low ♪
♪ Lots of mistletoe ♪
♪ Lots of snow and ice ♪
- tWitch, who are my
holiday daredevils?
- All right, come on down,
Earl and Brittany Belt,
and Barb and Ryan Prince!
Let's go!
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Christmas means to me,
my love ♪
- Whoo!
- Hi, Barb and Ryan.
And how do you know each other?
- We're son and mother.
- Yes.
- Ah.
- We're from Michigan.
- Michigan.
- Yeah.
- Beautiful.
All right, and you are?
- I'm Brittany Belt,
and this is my dad, Earl Belt.
- Earl.
- We're from Wichita, Kansas.
- Wichita, Kansas.
- Wonderful.
- Yeah!
- I know!
- Here's how this game works.
[Stevie Wonder's
"What Christmas Means to Me"]
The object of the game
is to get your partner
to guess the winning word
using only one-word clues.
However, if they say
the danger word instead,
I'll blast them.
Take too long, get blasted.
Illegal clue? Get blasted.
If the other team guesses
the winning word,
that's right, you get blasted.
Three blasts
and the game is over.
Then the winning team
will send one player
on to Know or Go.
- Whoo!
- Yes, and this
is very exciting,
all of our cannons are filled
with Thanksgiving leftovers.
- Whoa!
- Ooh.
- Oh, I apologize in advance.
Here's my friend Kristen Bell
to tell the people at home
what the danger word is.
[funky music]
- The winning word is "ice."
The danger word is "frozen."
[cheers and applause]
- Ryan, you will go first.
[dramatic music]
- Cube.
♪ ♪
- Ice.
- Yes!
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
- Oh!
- Yes, Ryan!
- Yes!
- Oh, no, that was a good clue.
- Yes!
- That was a really good clue.
- All right, so that's
your first strike.
I am forced to push this,
uh, right here.
And, uh...
- Oh, no.
- And...
- Oh, no.
- I'm terribly sorry.
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
- Ah, oh!
- Oh, my goodness!
- Cranberry.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
Ah, oh!
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- All right, and now,
here is Sandra Bullock
with our next word.
♪ ♪
- The winning word is "cocoa,"
and the danger word
is "chocolate."
[cheers and applause]
- All right, Brittany,
we're gonna go with you first.
- [chuckling]
Okay.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Um, hot.
- Cold.
[buzzer beeps]
- Butter.
- Popcorn.
[buzzer beeps]
- Powder.
- Chocolate.
- [groans]
[alarms blare]
No!
- That is the danger word.
Unfortunately it was "cocoa"
we were looking for.
- [shrieks]
- Oh, no.
[laughter]
- Sorry, Earl!
- I'm so sorry, Dad!
- Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
- Brittany is so sorry.
- Sorry, Earl.
- So that is your
second strike.
Let's see what is in
this next one, okay?
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
Oh, it's muffin mix.
Yeah, that's right.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, Dad.
[cannons boom]
[laughter]
- All right, one more
and you're out.
So be very, very careful.
And here is Jennifer Garner
to tell us the next word.
♪ ♪
- The winning word
is "gingerbread."
The danger word is "cookie."
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Ryan, we go to you.
♪ ♪
- Snickerdoodle.
- Cookies.
- Oh, no.
[alarms blare]
Yeah, I worried about that.
But yeah, it was gingerbread.
All right.
Now you're happy.
- Sorry, Mom.
- Earl's so happy.
Barb, that's your first strike.
- [giggling]
[beeping, sirens blaring]
- Hurry up!
- Oh, you want me to hurry?
All right, fine.
Okay.
[cannons boom]
[audience groans]
All right.
- Oh, oh.
- All right.
That, Barb, is mashed potatoes.
- Oh.
- Oh.
- It would be nice
if it was warm.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
[audience groans]
- Oh!
[laughter]
Oh!
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Jack Black, the danger word,
please.
♪ ♪
- The winning word is...
♪ Caroler! ♪
The danger word is...
♪ Singer ♪
[applause]
Was that what you had in mind?
[laughter]
Was I supposed to sing
the whole thing?
[cheers and applause]
- Brittany, we go to you.
Be very careful.
You do not want another strike,
or you're out.
- Um...
[suspenseful music]
Mom.
- Carol.
[bell chimes]
- Yes, carolers.
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
- Okay.
Is that your mom's name?
- My mom's name is Carol.
- So that is two strikes.
[audience groans]
Okay, Barb, here we go.
[beeping, sirens blaring]
[cannons boom]
Oh, it's muffin mix.
Muffin mix.
Oh, no.
- I forgot to close my mouth.
[laughter]
[cannons boom]
[laughter]
- [laughing]
- Oh, no.
Okay. It is tied up.
Two to two.
So whoever loses this one
is the loser,
and the other person
goes on to play Know or Go.
I hear Sandy has one more.
- The winning word is "gift."
The danger word is "present."
[cheers and applause]
- We are going to Ryan.
- Hmm.
Wrap.
- Style.
[buzzer beeps]
- Um...
Exchange.
- Presents.
- Oh!
[alarms blare]
Oh, no!
- [screaming]
- Yes, Mom!
- "Present"
was the danger word.
"Gift" was what we were
looking for.
And it looks like
sweet potato casserole
is headed your way.
[cannons boom]
Oh, no.
That means you are the winner!
- Whoo!
- [screaming]
- You are both going on
to play Know or Go.
And one step closer
to $100,000.
- ♪ Whoa ♪
[cannons boom]
- [screaming]
- I had to.
We'll be right back.
- Ellen!
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- Ryan joins Dianna,
getting him one step closer
to $100,000.
Coming up, the holiday
hijinks continues
with Blindfolded Musical
Packages.
- What?
.
[upbeat dance music]
- All right!
Welcome back to my
"Game of Games,"
you little Christmas angels.
Of course, the best part
of the holidays
is being together
with your family.
I'm kidding,
it's opening presents.
And this next game has gifts
for almost everybody.
It's time to play
one of my favorites,
Blindfolded Musical Packages.
- ♪ You're here
where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling
as the carolers sing ♪
♪ Alone on Christmas day ♪
- We found five audience
members to play,
and you are?
- My name is Omid Haakstorfad,
I'm from Washington D.C.,
and I'm striving to become
a dentist.
- You're gonna be a dentist.
- Yes.
- So it doesn't
bother you that,
if people have bad breath
or anything,
and you're in their mouths?
- I love it.
- Really?
- I love it.
- Usually I brush before
to try to be polite,
but if you love it,
next time I know
my dentist probably enjoys it.
All right, you are?
- I am Donna Price.
I'm from Haslet, Texas.
They call me Hot Donna.
My girls are jealous because
I party more and dance more,
and they're jealous that I can
do it better than they can.
- Wow.
[cheers and applause]
All right, Hot Donna.
- Yeah.
- What is your name?
- I'm Daniel Gates.
I'm from a really small town
of 1,500 people
in southern Iowa.
- 1,500 people.
So that means
when you drive down
everybody waves at each other
when you pass each other?
- Oh, yeah, we know everybody's
family by the car.
- I know, I wish
we did that here.
I wish, but then you would
be like this constantly,
'cause there's...
a lot of people.
And you are?
- Hi! I'm Amber.
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
I am a pastry chef.
Um, and I'm obsessed
with sharks.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
- All right. You are?
- I am Caroline Howard,
I am a student at
Pepperdine University,
from Visalia, California,
and I've watched your show
every day for seven years.
- All right.
Caroline.
Here's how we play this game.
♪ ♪
Five contestants
will be blindfolded.
When I stop the music,
they'll race to find a seat.
Whoever can't find one
will be eliminated.
We'll play four rounds,
and the final player
in the game
will win and advance
to Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
And I will be controlling
all of the packages,
so you never know
where they're gonna
be popping up.
It could be popping up there,
maybe not, maybe over here,
maybe not.
And there's also
the spinning wheel of death
in the center;
be very, very careful.
No one has ever died.
We just like to call it that.
But it is a spinning wheel.
And we just added "of death."
All right.
[laughter]
tWitch will pass out
the blindfolds.
All right, so, everybody put
your blindfolds on.
Make sure you put them
on correctly.
All right.
Good luck.
Start dancing.
- ♪ You're all that I need ♪
- Oh, wow.
- ♪ Underneath the tree ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ I'm gonna hold you close ♪
♪ Make sure that you know ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
- Ooh.
Ooh.
[cheers and applause]
Ooh!
Ah.
[cheers and applause]
[bell chimes]
- [screaming] Yeah!
- Ooh.
Ooh!
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[laughter]
[bell chimes]
- Yes!
Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
- [shrieking]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
- There's only one more stool.
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
What?
- Oh!
[bell chimes]
- Yes!
[laughter]
- Okay. All right.
- Oh, boy.
- Good job. Good job.
- Oh, that was good.
[cheers and applause]
All right.
Good luck, everybody.
Start dancing.
- ♪ You're here
where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling
as the carolers sing ♪
♪ It just wasn't the same ♪
♪ Alone on Christmas ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- Whoo!
Yes!
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
[bell chimes]
- [laughing]
- [laughing]
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
[bell chimes]
- Okay, all right.
All right.
Oh, boy.
Hot Donna is really hot now.
[laughter]
All right,
down to three people.
Getting close
for that $100,000.
All right.
[cheers and applause]
Ready?
Start dancing.
- ♪ I found ♪
♪ What I was looking for ♪
♪ A love that's meant for me ♪
♪ A heart that's mine ♪
[laughter]
- [laughing]
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, gosh.
Oh, gosh.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[bell chimes]
- [laughing]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Dawg.
Dawg!
[cheering intensifies]
Dawg!
Go!
- Yeah!
[bell chimes]
Whoo!
Ah!
[laughter]
- Phew.
All right. All right.
Daniel, you almost fell off
the entire thing.
- Yeah!
[laughter]
Ah!
Ah!
- [laughing]
Be careful now.
I feel like this is the size
of your town or something,
and you're...
[laughter]
You're having a hard time
figuring out your boundaries.
I don't know what's happening.
- Whoo!
- All right.
Down to Omid and Daniel.
And I have a feeling this
is gonna be very aggressive.
[laughter]
There is gonna be a lot
of rolling
and lot of things going on.
Okay.
Don't hurt each other.
But start dancing, careful.
Go.
- ♪ You're here ♪
♪ Where you should be ♪
♪ Snow is falling as the
carolers sing ♪
♪ It just wasn't ♪
[music stops]
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
- [laughing]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
[cheering intensifies]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
So close!
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
[cheers and applause]
[laughing]
- Oh.
[laughter]
- Good job, man.
- Omid!
You are the winner!
[Kelly Clarkson's
"Underneath the Tree"]
[cheers and applause]
All right, congratulations!
You are going up
onto Know or Go
and you're one step closer
to $100,000!
[cheers and applause]
All right,
maybe it's a good time
that I give you your gift.
No matter...
[cheers and applause]
No matter who you're shopping
for this season,
Walmart has gifts
for the whole family.
They even have my new
apparel line, EV1.
[cheers and applause]
And if you're
a last-minute shopper,
and then pick up your gifts
in the store
that same day.
And why am I telling you this,
you wonder?
Because I want all of you
to experience the joy
of giving great gifts
at great prices
with this $500 Walmart
gift card.
[cheers and applause]
Happy holidays, everybody!
We'll be back!
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Let's do it.
We are gonna play a game
with a special Santa spin.
It's time to play Dizzy Dasher.
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Run, run, Rudolph ♪
♪ Santa's got to
make it to town ♪
- tWitch, who are my
dizzy dashers?
- Ellen, I found
two contestants
who are ready to play
your reindeer games.
Come on down, Conisha Hernandez
and Amber Hildreth!
[both screaming]
- ♪ Run, run, Rudolph ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm reeling
like a merry-go-round ♪
- [shrieking]
- [shrieking]
- Hi!
Hi. Nice to meet you, Conisha.
- Yes.
- Tell me about yourself.
Where do you live,
what do you do?
- I'm from Detroit,
I'm a diesel mechanic
in the Navy,
and I'm a mom of three
beautiful children.
- Aw.
- And a wonderful husband.
- They're gonna have so much
fun watching you do this.
- Yes they are.
- That's wonderful.
And you are Amber.
- Yes.
- Hi, Amber.
- Hi.
- What do you do,
where do you live?
- I live in San Diego,
and I am a pediatrician.
- Aw, that's great.
Lots of little babies
that you take care of.
- Lots of little babies.
- All right.
I appreciate your enthusiasm,
so would you mind
dressing up for us?
Just because it's a Christmas--
- Yes!
- It's a holiday theme.
- Always!
- While we get you dressed,
here's how we play.
[Chuck Berry's
"Run Run Rudolph"]
After spinning,
two contestants
will race to answer
my questions correctly.
The first person to get
three questions right
moves on to Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
All right, here we go.
[cheers and applause]
Keep your antlers
against the dot.
We'll play until someone
has three points,
or until you fall on your
rump-a-dump dumps.
Okay.
[laughter]
Let's play Dizzy Dasher.
[cheers and applause]
The weather can get very cold
during Christmas.
[machine beeping]
[both screaming]
[wacky music]
[both screaming]
- Ah!
- Whoo!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Amber, yes.
- F-R-A-C-S.
- That's right.
[cheers and applause]
- [laughing]
[laughter]
- Whoo.
- Antlers against the dot.
You're about to spin
like a dreidel.
Spin 'em.
[machine beeping]
[wacky music]
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
- Ah!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Fin!
- Fin is right.
It rhymes...
with spin.
All right.
Amber has two.
You're one away from winning.
Conisha, you got to get
this next one, all right?
Ready?
Santa likes colors
red and white.
Red and white mixed together
is pink.
Finish this Pink lyric:
"I'm coming up,
so you better..." what?
Spin 'em.
[machine beeping]
[wacky music]
- Ah!
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
Whoo!
♪ ♪
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
- Get this party started!
- Get this party started
is right, Amber!
And you are the winner!
Congratulations!
- ♪ Santa's got to
make it to town ♪
♪ Santa, make him hurry ♪
- Congratulations.
- Thank you!
- Hopefully your head
will stop spinning.
You're gonna go up
on Know or Go
and you're one step closer
to $100,000.
And that's a lot of "doe."
You get it?
'Cause you're dressed
like a reindeer.
[laughter]
We'll be back.
[upbeat dance music]
[cheers and applause]
- So Amber earned
the final spot
on Know or Go-Ho-Ho,
and Ellen's finger
is on the button.
- I have to send you down!
- [screaming]
- [yelps]
- Ay-yai-yai.
- Love you.
- Say "bye-bye"!
[cheers and applause]
.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- Well, I've been watching
all of my contestants.
I know who's been bad and good,
so it's finally time to play
Know or Go-Ho-Ho.
- ♪ Santa Claus, Santa Claus ♪
♪ Happy ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ In the morning ♪
♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ In the evening ♪
♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
- All right.
tWitch, bring out
the contestants, please.
[drumming]
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
[all cheering]
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
- Hey, everybody!
Hi!
All right, welcome back.
Let's remind everybody
how we got here.
Amber, no amount of spinning
could stop you from blitzing
past the competition
in Dizzy Dasher.
Dianna, you became
a human marshmallow
in It's A Wonderful Wife.
Ryan, you were one smart cookie
playing Danger Word.
Unfortunately your mother
still guessed "cookie."
- Ah!
- And finally,
Omid,
a pretty, pretty ballerina
who loves bad, bad breath.
All right, you've all managed
to reach the top,
and if you can stay there,
you'll get a chance
to play for $100,000.
[cheers and applause]
The game is simple.
If you know, you stay,
if you don't, you go.
If you miss a question
or take too long to answer,
I'm gonna be forced
to push this button,
and you'll know
what it feels to be
Santa going down a chimney.
All right, let's play
Know or Go.
[cheers and applause]
[all cheering]
[dramatic music]
Amber, I'm gonna
start with you.
- Kay.
- If you have seven
swans a-swimming
and six geese a-laying,
what is 7 times 6?
- Seven times six is 42.
- That is correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Dianna.
I had to remove myself
from Thanksgiving dinner
because Britney Spears
wouldn't stop talking
about her umbilicus.
What was she talking about?
- Her umbilicus.
She was talking about...
her...
belly button.
- You're right.
[bell chimes]
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
- Ryan.
- Eight.
- That's correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Omid.
Answer me this.
Where was the coldest
temperature
ever recorded on Earth?
♪ ♪
- North Pole.
♪ ♪
Final answer.
- It is Antarctica.
[buzzer blares]
And it was minus
135 Fahrenheit.
[audience groans]
So sorry.
- [yelps]
[laughter]
[audience exclaiming]
[all exclaim]
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
Ah!
[laughter]
- Oh, boy,
it's getting real now.
- It's getting real!
- All right.
Amber.
"Hola" means "hello"
in Spanish.
- Merry Christmas!
- That's right.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Dianna.
Some people put angels
on tops of their trees.
- That is...
Bette Midler.
- That is correct.
[bell chimes]
[cheers and applause]
Ryan, here's a fun fact.
Taylor Swift spent
part of her childhood
on a Pennsylvania
Christmas tree farm.
- Oh, Ellen.
- I know.
- Uh...
I'll say...
Philadelphia.
- Oh.
All right.
It's Harrisburg.
- Oh.
- I am so sorry.
- But maybe I could stay
for one...more.
- Well...
[laughter]
What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna send you
down and think about it.
Okay?
[laughter]
All right, Ryan, it was very
nice meeting you.
- You too.
Love you.
[all screaming]
[cheers and applause]
Love you.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God.
- All right.
Here's what happens now.
- Oh, my gosh.
- This is called Sudden Drop.
[audience groans]
If you miss an answer,
you don't automatically
lose and drop.
Your opponent
has a chance to steal.
If they get it right,
they win;
if they don't,
we go back to the questions,
okay?
- Okay.
- Here we go.
[cheers and applause]
Amber.
"Bah, humbug" is Scrooge's
catchphrase
in "A Christmas Carol."
Who's the author of that book?
- Author of
"A Christmas Carol"...
is not Ebenezer Scrooge.
He's in it.
Um...
Lewis Carroll?
[buzzer blares]
- Dianna.
You have a chance to steal.
- Oh, gosh. Is it, um...
it's Carroll.
I know it's Carroll something.
Um...
Carroll's not enough?
- Do you want it to be enough?
- Yes.
- It's got nothing
to do with Carroll.
It's, uh, Charles Dickens.
[both groaning]
All right.
Uh, Dianna.
Finish this lyric.
- Oh, dreidel, dreidel,
dreidel, I made you out of...
wood.
Clay.
I'm going with wood.
- You're gonna go with wood?
- I'm gonna go with clay.
I don't know!
[shrieking]
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know!
Oh, gosh.
I'm gonna go with clay.
- It is clay.
[bell chimes]
- [screaming]
[shrieking]
- All right, Amber.
The holiday season is known
as the most wonderful time
of the year.
- It was...
Ah!
Um...
This is, uh, Chevy Chase!
That's not right,
but that's a name
in a holiday movie!
- All right, you going
with Chevy Chase?
- I, yeah, I know, I...yeah.
- I have a feeling
you're gonna steal this
and you're gonna win the game.
- Yes.
Yes.
- Who is it?
- Jimmy Stewart!
- That's right!
It's Jimmy Stewart!
- Yeah!
- Amber, you're saying bye-bye!
- [screaming]
[cheers and applause]
- Ah!
[cheers and applause]
Ah!
- You are the winner!
- [screaming]
- Congratulations,
you're gonna play
for $100,000!
- [screaming]
[screaming]
- I have to send you down!
- No! No!
- I have to!
- [screaming]
- We'll be back.
- ♪ Ho-ho-ho to you ♪
♪ By the ho-ho-ho to you ♪
- Coming up...
- You're one step away
from $100,000!
- [screaming]
- Will Dianna's fingers
be fast enough?
- Ooh, that's gonna be good.
.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- All right.
We're here with Dianna,
and she's one step away
from $100,000!
- [screaming]
[cheers and applause]
- So have you played
the app before?
- Yes, all the time.
- You're good at it?
- I wish I could say
I was really good at it.
- Okay.
- I'm okay at it.
- Okay, well, maybe you'll
be really good at it now.
- I'm gonna be really
good at it today.
- Today you should be.
- Yes.
- Okay.
This is the moment
we have been waiting for.
Let's play Hot Hands.
[dramatic music]
- Whoo!
Oh, my gosh!
[drumroll]
Oh, my gosh.
[drum beating]
- All right.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Here is what is gonna happen.
We're gonna show you
a series of celebrities.
As soon as you say their name,
you hit the button
to lock in your answer.
It'll go right
to the next picture.
If you're wrong or if you take
too long to answer,
the picture will change
automatically.
You've got three seconds,
so you gotta think fast,
all right?
The more people you name
the more money you win.
If you name ten celebrities
in 30 seconds
you're gonna go home
with $100,000.
- Whoo!
- All right?
[cheers and applause]
That's a lot of
stocking stuffers.
All right.
You get to pick your category,
and they are:
Holiday Movie Stars...
Holiday Song Singers...
- Nope.
- And Christmas Carol
Song Writers
of the Early 1800s.
- Whoo!
- What's it gonna be?
- Whew.
I'm gonna go with
Holiday Movie Stars.
- Holiday Movie Stars.
- Whoo!
- All right, we'll see
if you made the right choice.
- Oh, gosh.
- Rise her up.
- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- All right.
Get your hand on the button.
For $100,000.
Go.
- Will Ferrell.
Uh, Macaulay Culkin.
Um, pass.
Uh, Cameron Diaz.
Um, that--pass.
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Um, Charlie Brown.
Um, Tim Allen.
Um, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Um, Chevy Chase.
Um, ah!
Pass!
Uh, Hugh Grant.
Um, Tom Hanks.
[bells ringing]
[screaming]
[upbeat dance music]
- $100,000! That's crazy!
[cheers and applause]
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Congratulations! $100,000!
You're the winner of my
"Game of Games"!
Happy holidays to you!
I'll see you soon!
On January 8th.
Be kind to one another.
[cheers and applause]
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