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© FOX THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW KAREN WEBER, Production Designer JENNIFER MÖLLER, Art Director KELLEY PEARSE, Set Decorator PORTLANDIA SCHUYLER TELLEEN, Production Designer KATHERINE ISOM, Set Decorator AMERICAN GRIT MERCEDES YOUNGER, Production Designer CHRIS ROBERTS, Art Director J. PATRICK ADAIR, Assistant Art Director CHRISTOPHER PEREZ, Scenic Artist STEPHEN PAUL FACKRELL, SDSA, Set Decorator Top, left: Karen Weber's pencil sketch for a life-sized skeleton puppet, a key prop on the Halloween episode of THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW. Clockwise from top right: An interior photograph of the kitchen module inset into a photograph of the circus and bell for AMERICAN GRIT, taken from the top of the rope net. A digital model of the circus—eliminated competitors "ring out" using the bell, in the tradition of Navy SEAL trainees. A SketchUp ® model of the barracks-inspired housing complete with a kitchen, fitness setup and a hot tub, all with a killer view of the Cascade mountains just south of Seattle. © NBC