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05-03-1983: Elizabeth Tashijian, curator of the Nut Museum, makes her first of two appearances on Late Night, gracing viewers with her song, "Nuts Are Beautiful."
05-03-1984: Dave and Paul compete in a "Rocket Chair Race" as they commemorate the 23rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's Mercury sub-orbital flight. Racing down the 6th-floor hallway on fire-extinguisher-ignited chairs, Dave wins at 11:03 seconds, and Paul crashes into a wall.
05-03-1989: Top Ten Chicago Cub Excuses for not Winning a World Series Since 1908 - 9. Mistakenly thought low score wins -- like in golf.
05-03-1990: Phil Donahue, Tom Brokaw, Marv Albert, Carol Burnett, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Jane Pauley, and Ben Savage suddenly appear one-by-one in place of Dave in his desk chair. Finally, NBC pages take away a remote control channel changer from someone in the audience.
05-03-1990: Top Ten Least Popular Supermarket Chains - 1. Bag This!
05-03-1991: Top Ten Ways NBC News Can Save Money - 5. Sell old reruns to Arts & Entertainment Cable Network. 1. Every night have Brokaw turn on portable TV and say, "Shall we watch the CBS news together?"
05-03-1994: Top Ten Signs Your Local 7-11 Manager Has Gone Nuts - 6. You come in wearing neither a shirt nor shoes and yet he gives you service.
05-03-1995: Top Ten Things That Will Get You Kicked Off The O.J. Jury - 2. Drop your pants and say, "dismiss this!"
05-03-1995: Who Asked For It includes "Tim Casper" (Jay Johnson), who wants to see what the view's like on the space shuttle but is instead offered footage of a monkey washing a cat; model Nadine Hennelly, who asks to kiss Paul (who obliges); "John from Jersey" (retired Associate Director Pete Fatovich), who also asks to kiss Paul; "Don Fees" (Paul's musical assistant Chris Schukei), who wants to fast-forward through the rest of the show (later, Paul throws him out and he gets run over by a cab); and "Crystal Parker" (assistant Caissie St. Onge), who acts like she's on Geraldo Rivera's gabfest, so Geraldo appears onstage and takes her out.
05-03-1996: Dave calls a pay phone and talks to Barney from San Diego, who ends up coming into the theater and smoking like Fonzie while the "Happy Days" theme plays, or something.
05-03-1996: Dave pretends to lose a blue card; he gets to the lobby and finds it in his coat pocket.
05-03-1996: The Home Office Contest is over: Wahoo is now the official home office of the Top Ten List and will remain so to this day.
05-03-1996: Top Ten Ways Bill Clinton Could Lose His Lead in the Polls - 5. Have his jogging shorts made at Kathie Lee Gifford's sweatshop.
05-03-1999: "Bad Career Moves" bit.
05-03-1999: Dave lets an audience guy sit in his chair briefly.
05-03-1999: Dave rants about production meetings during the show, and hints that this show might be out of order.
05-03-1999: Dave rants about the Surgeon General advising people not to watch TV, and says he's suing the Surgeon General for $100 million.
05-03-1999: Dave says Calista Flockhart cancelled, and we get the dancing baby again.
05-03-1999: Interesting disclaimer for the NBC mini-series "Noah's Ark".
05-03-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "thimble" for 200 dollars, and an "audience member" wins immediately and runs offstage.
05-03-1999: Top Ten Other Death-Defying Stunts Robbie Knievel Won't Perform.
05-03-2000: "Biff Henderson's Fun with a Stopwatch" bit.
05-03-2000: "Dave's Record Collection" includes a top-flight hand model.
05-03-2000: "Great Bald Men Throughout History" lists only Eisenhower and Phil Collins.
05-03-2000: The external camera shows us it's a nice spring day. Also, Top Ten Items on the Country Music Singer Application.
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