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This Dave in History for April 5

04-05-1982: A Dial-It-Services segment ends with "Dial-a-Sixties-Burnout" as Paul Shaffer answers the line. Also, 60 Minutes' Morley Safer appears to show his paintings of hotel rooms.

04-05-1983: Dave notices a woman in the audience, Helene Spencer, from Indiana, taking notes on the show. He asks cue-card boy Kevin Kay for the next joke, but Kevin is also taking notes.

04-05-1989: Biff interrupts Dave's Opening Remarks and asks for a subway token, which he then takes outside the studio and hands over to multi-millionaire Donald Trump.

04-05-1990: Top Ten Work-Related Injuries at the Whamm-O Factory - 10. Pulled Slinky.

04-05-1991: Dave notices that there's a steady drip on his desk that's coming from above. He leaves the studio, goes upstairs to investigate, and finds Marv Albert taking a bubble bath.

04-05-1991: Top Ten Ways To Tell You're Possessed - 6. You find yourself wondering what sex with Cher would be like.

04-05-1994: Dave and Nightline Anchor and Serious Newsboy Ted Koppel rollerblade down 53rd Street.

04-05-1994: Top Ten Ways Charles Kuralt Will Spend His Retirement - 5. 12 hours a day making macaroni and cheese, 12 hours a day eating macaroni and cheese.

04-05-1995: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reunite to perform "Murder Incorporated," "Tenth Avenue Freezout," and "Secret Garden." Hotdogs on 53rd St. spell out Dave's memorable line from the Academy Awards, "Oprah-Uma."

04-05-1995: Top Ten Signs Your Kid Is Addicted To Gambling - 10. Keeps asking if he can double down on some cookies.

04-05-1996: After a taped segment where Marshall Sylver has successfully hypnotised Matt Roberts and Biff Henderson, Dave mocks Sylver's "Sleeeeeep" instruction to Biff, who uncontrollably stumbles to a guest chair and promptly drops unconscious. During the break, the staff searches for Matt, who is found also asleep. Dave has to call Sylver in Las Vegas to help snap them both out of it. Yes, it really happened.

04-05-1996: Guests David Hyde Pierce, Scott Thompson, and "Pulp".

04-05-1996: The band plays Dave over to the desk with the 20th Century Fox theme.

04-05-1996: Top Ten Demands of the Freemen in Montana - 8. It sounds incredible, but they want Kraft Macaroni & Cheese to taste even cheesier.

04-05-1999: "Coming up on the Late Show"--we see a fake promo for Dave karate chopping ice.

04-05-1999: The Late Show is awarded "Official Late Night Talk Show of the Millennium".

04-05-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "flange" for 600 dollars.

04-05-1999: Top Ten Historical Inaccuracies in Peter Jennings's "The Century".

04-05-1999: We see another edition of Biff at the Yankees' spring training.

04-05-1999: Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and Kris Kristofferson do a song.

04-05-2000: "Late Show Watercooler Talk" features Pat and Kenny NOT talking about the new CBS show "Falcone".

04-05-2000: "Rejected Commercial Characters" bit.

04-05-2000: A fake ad claims Gore will be the sweatiest President ever.

04-05-2000: Campaign 2000 is briefly in letterbox format. Dave's gonna adopt Elian Gonzalez. McCain was seen in New York. Sponsors are Heart Bypass Surgery, the U.S. Census, Elian Gonzalez, and Gene Keady.

04-05-2000: Leonardo DiCaprio is to interview Clinton?

04-05-2000: Top Ten Surprises in "Falcone".

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