Photos: Let’s make a zonk!

Zonk meister Timothy “Jersey” Feimster gets inside the mouth of the “monster van” during a rehearsal for “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood on Sept. 18, 2014.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

“Let’s Make a Deal’s” Tiffany Coyne is amused by one of the show’s zonks: a half of a bedroom set. Move it around, and it becomes obvious it’s been cut in half.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Timothy “Jersey” Feimster checks the lighting on a zonk set featuring half a bedroom set, during a rehearsal for “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood. During the show, he was behind the zonk, manually moving it.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

“Jersey” Feimster demonstrates how he rotates the zonk prize on the Hollywood set of “Let’s Make a Deal.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Try to slip your feet into these. “Designer pumps” -- carved out of butter -- await their cue as a zonk prize on the game show “Let’s Make a Deal.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

“Let’s Make a Deal’s” zonk meisters love joke prizes involving plays on words, including these “Sunday shoes.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Jewelry made of cheese? Only on “Let’s Make a Deal.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

O DuZonk perfume is among the “prizes” created for the game show “Let’s Make a Deal.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

John Bevan suggests a chandelier idea for a zonk crate dining room set for “Let’s Make a Deal.” The team, known as the Dreamcrushers, will build this joke prize in one day. Often, the show’s zonks are far more complex.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Detail of the hutch for the crate dinning room set for “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood on Sept. 18, 2014.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Creating zonks for “Let’s Make a Deal” is a team effort. Max Webb, left, and Ricky Bartlett work on one of the “prizes.”  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Contestant Caleigh Wilson of Los Angeles and host Wayne Brady on “Let’s Make a Deal.”   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Contestant Lisa James of Riverside reacts to “Let’s Make a Deal” host Brady on the set of the game show in Hollywood.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Host Wayne Brady, right, drives contestant Chad Sano of Irvine in the helicopter car on the set of “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Members of the audience react during taping of “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)