To celebrate her show’s 14th season, Ellen DeGeneres decided to give audience members some items from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” gift shop. The instructions were clear and courteous: “Please pick 1 item to commemorate your visit. Only 1 per person please.”
DeGeneres also set up a hidden camera by the giveaway table to see just how honest her audience was. (Trust, after all, is the most important factor in a relationship.) In a video posted to YouTube last week, we see that most turned out to be “very” honest, but one guest named Nancy had some sticky fingers.
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The host called out Nancy for grabbing too many goods.
“You’re the kind of person that, when you go trick-or-treating and nobody’s home, you don’t just take one piece of candy, you take the bowl,” she joked, and then made it a teaching moment.
“Let that be a lesson to you. You think nobody’s watching you, and you just need to be a good person ... You go sit in that Ellen chair right now.”
Pro tip for future guests: Ellen is always watching.
CORRECTION: This article has been changed to reflect that video of the thievery was shared last week, but the giveaway was staged to celebrate Season 14, which kicked off last year.
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