ABC Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View'

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Whoopi Goldberg on ‘The View’

Three years after Joy Behar took a tumble as the victim of a maniacal swivel chair, Whoopi Goldberg introduced a new gameplay obstacle to The View‘s virtual battle royale arena of a set.

The Oscar-winning actress transformed the show’s studio into a menacing minefield of paper in the final moments of Tuesday morning’s broadcast, when she dropped a bombshell of information for her colleagues to ponder during the last eight seconds of terror that closed the episode.

“Joy’s behind is Behind the Table on the podcast today,” Goldberg said, pleasantly enough. “We want you all to have a great day, everyone, take a little time to enjoy The View.”

Her fellow panelists, however, were next left hanging in daytime TV limbo to contemplate their mortality.

“And, watch your footing,” Goldberg warned. “Because I threw papers up. We’ll see you tomorrow!”

The camera then zoomed out to show a massive paper trail of note cards scattered on the floor behind Goldberg, with the show cutting to black to leave the fate of Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin unknown until tomorrow’s episode.

Earlier in the broadcast, Goldberg was seen ripping up one of her note cards during a Hot Topics segment, as she has regularly done in the past.

This isn’t the first time Goldberg has laid a potential trap for her colleagues. In February 2024, Goldberg revealed that she previously leaked fake gossip in the hopes of exposing a mole in The View family.

ABC Whoopi Goldberg throws papers on the floor of 'The View'

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Whoopi Goldberg throws papers on the floor of ‘The View’
“You know what I like to do? I like to try to catch a gossip. Because what you can do is you can plant false information and see if it makes its way around,” Griffin said at the time, clearly jogging Goldberg’s memory that she, too, once mounted an undercover mission.

“We have done that, we have done that,” Goldberg said to Behar. “We did that to see who was talking [to the press]. Yeah.”

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC — if the cohosts survived Goldberg’s war zone of paper.