Extreme Door Knock, the Baltimore Version
August 3rd, 2010 // 1:29 pm @ cindy
Ty Pennington getting ready to charge the stage to surprise the girls.
If you are familiar with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, then you know about the ‘door knock’ and in what part of the show it falls.
For those you who don’t know, it’s when Ty Pennington with the crew and the bus show up at the recipients’ home/makeover home to announce that they need to hit the road for a week so the crew can come in to demolish/renovate their current home.
It’s a huge deal and a very emotional moment for EVERYONE involved with the project.
This segment’s recipients are unlike any others since no prior home existed for Girls Hope, so the production team decided that there should be a staged event for the kids of Boys Hope Girls Hope at Harborplace. They would be told that they were going to be interviewed by the nice folks at ABC News 2 in Baltimore about a community service project they had just completed. Simple enough.
As I said, because there was no ‘house’ and no ‘door’ to knock upon, this elaborate scheme had to be concocted so that they were completely unsuspecting.
While the kids from Boys Hope Girls Hope were congregating and getting ready for their live shot on local TV on a stage set up by the Maryland Science Center and the south entrance of the visitors’ center, the volunteers, production crew, on-air staff, Baltimore City Police Department, Baltimore City Fire Department with the BUS itself, were pulling themselves together closer to the north entrance of the visitors’ center.
Once everything was ready on stage, the signal, through very sneaky ‘plants’ in the Channel 2 live shot audience, was given to us on the volunteer side to start to make our way down the promenade toward the stage.
Everyone was facing Light Street, NOT behind them closer to the water, where we were all approaching with a motorcycle police escort.
First came the motorcycles and behind that was the Extreme Makeover bus followed by the fire trucks/emergency equipment. We, the volunteers, already clad in our yellow and blue shirts, brought up the rear of this surprise parade.
Honestly, we had a tough time keeping up with the bus so we arrived ‘back stage’ a little later than we would have liked, but we did get to see the surprise, the hugging, the screaming, the crying and the profound enormity of what was about to happen in the lives of these wonderful girls from Girls Hope.
Ty Pennington, as you might suspect, riled up the entire crowd, both on stage and off, by running from the bus to the stage. It was a moment meant for the TV cameras and production crew, for sure. They needed to catch the incredulous faces of the girls, the boys and the girl’s moms who were also there for this press conference. To the best of my knowledge, no one, aside for the executive director of Boys Hope Girls Hope, had any idea that this was going to take place that morning.
And for anyone that knows me, yes, of course I was crying. It was a very moving experience to see this outpouring of emotion.
With a successful surprise at the harbor completed, the start of a whirlwind week of construction activity was now upon us, one like many will never experience again in our lives.
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