Ellen's 12 Days of Giveaways

So earlier, I posted a picture from the street at Warner Brothers Studios around 1:00 AM. We had standby tickets for a taping for Ellen's show.

Check in time for standby guests was at 8 AM so we decided to arrive at 12:30 AM to give ourselves the best chance of getting into the taping. At 8 AM, they handed out priority numbers, and we got 255 and 256 (5th and 6th in standby) and then we were asked to come back at 1 PM. Around 2:30 PM, they began letting guaranteed ticket holders into the showing. I think there's about 250 guaranteed tickets per showing (since standby numbers started at 251).

Around 3:00 PM, they gave us the okay to cross the street and head over to the studio. As they were seating the guaranteed ticket holders, they informed us that they in fact had plenty of seats left for standby ticket holders, so we were in! I think in total, they probably allow somewhere between 250 and 275 people into the taping. Standby tickets seem to be sort of hit or miss. We talked to some people who had friends from previous tapings, and their taping only allowed in a few standbys. Our taping let in probably over 20 standbys.

Anyway, the reason for all this was Ellen's 12 Days of Giveaways! So today, each of us in the audience received:

5 Jane Fonda workout DVDs (she was the guest)
20th Century Fox 75th Anniversary DVD collection (worth about $500)
Just Beats headphones by Dr. Dre
Just Beats in ear headphones by Dr. Dre
Gift card for The Beatles complete box collection on Itunes
$200 Visa Gift Card
Vectron Wave toy
Nintendo Wii
uDraw Studio & Tablet for Wii
Wii game: Pictionary
Wii game: Dood's Big Adventure

and here's the craziest part,

a $1650 value Springfree trampoline

Well worth the wait!