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===Giveaways=== On the season premiere of 2004, every person in Winfrey's show audience was given a new [[Pontiac G6]] that was donated by [[General Motors]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109510540642916497|title=Oprah's GM Giveaway Was Stroke of Luck For Agency, Audience|first=Sholnn|last=Freeman|date=September 14, 2004|access-date=January 7, 2021|website=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref> worth about $8 million in total.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/john-oliver-debt/485834/ |first=J. Weston |last= Phippen | title=John Oliver's $15 Million Debt Giveaway |website=[[The Atlantic]] | date=June 6, 2016 | access-date=June 6, 2016}}</ref> The giveaway was the genesis of the oft-satirized Oprah quote, "You get a car! You get a car! Everybody gets a car!" For the premiere of the show's farewell season, the studio audience of 300 "ultimate fans" were rewarded by being given a trip to Australia with Winfrey (donated by Australian tourism bodies).<ref>{{cite news | last = Quinn | first = Karl | title = When Oprah gives, someone else pays |work=The Age | date = January 22, 2011 | url = http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/when-oprah-gives-someone-else-pays-20110121-1a012.html | access-date = January 22, 2011 | location=Melbourne, Australia}}</ref> Other giveaway shows included the annual [[Oprah's Favorite Things]] show, in which the studio audience received products Winfrey considered good Christmas gifts.
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