Present
The flashback clips end there. DeGeneres, in the present, updated the audience about their family story. “So this morning, Jeannie surprised them at their apartment in Hawthorne, California,” she said. “And this is what happened.” The show then cuts to correspondent Jeannie Klisiewicz waving at Ellen.
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“Hi, Ellen!” Jeannie greeted her, “I’m here in Hawthorne, C.A., about to surprise the Daniels family!” She knocked on the apartment door and found them inside. “I need you to listen up really carefully, okay? You have ten minutes to get ready because I am taking you somewhere. I cannot tell you where!”