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05-09-1983: It's "Bob Rooney Day" as Late Night's audio crew member is granted three wishes: #1: a cold beer; #2: bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, and #3: another beer. Slim Whitman sings a tribute to Bob, "You Are Beautiful."
05-09-1984: A new segment begins and ends tonight: "Dave's Fugitive Spotters," as the audience selects which pedestrians on the street look suspicious enough to be picked up and brought to the studio for a line-up.
05-09-1985: When this show is rerun three years later, Dave is seen watching it from his home, reviewing each segment.
05-09-1988: During the industry-wide writers' strike, Late Night hires as intern Jay Johnson, whose duties include getting onion loafs for the staff every day. Eleven years later, now co-producer of the Late Show web site, he's the lucky winner of the Secret Word Contest and wins $200.
05-09-1989: Jeff Stilson makes his Stand-Up debut on Late Night. He's hired as a Late Show writer four years later and reappears in another Stand-Up eight years after that..
05-09-1989: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Panamanian Elections - 3. "Sorry for the confusion, Miss Collins, but we're having big elections down here."
05-09-1990: Dan Quayle's Top Ten Complaints about France - 6. Snobby French won't elect their government officials unless they have qualifications of some kind.
05-09-1991: After months of mocking a home video on dieting, Dave welcomes Richard Simmons on the show. Amazingly, Richard returns again and again and again.
05-09-1991: Top Ten Keebler Elf Euphemisms for Death - 3. Super-fudge-a-riffically-dead.
05-09-1994: Dave takes his show to Los Angeles for the first time in nine years. Dave throws a pencil into a wading pool that's behind his desk, and a dog retrieves it. Dave then gets into the pool to give the pencil to the dog. Later, another pencil is retrieved from the pool by Billy Crystal.
05-09-1994: Top Ten Reasons We're Doing the Show in L.A. (brought out by Calvert posing as the mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan) - 3. I had to come out to clean Johnny Carson's pool.
05-09-1995: Jimmy Smits, a guest the night before, is seen in his hotel room naked, doing push-ups and watching TV in bed.
05-09-1995: Top Ten Dr. Kevorkian Pick-Up Lines - 2. Your place, or my van where I help people die?
05-09-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave's Mother's Day gifts were stolen from a Holiday Inn; (2) Dave in a tie-dyed suit; (3) people throw stuff down Filbert Street, the steepest street in San Francisco (see above); (4) Dave goes to the pier and tells the seals to shut up.
05-09-1996: Dave passes out cue cards to the audience.
05-09-1996: Day 4 in San Francisco: Dave finds one of the steepest hills in the city and has stuff roll down the street, including melons, super balls, marbles, and more marbles.
05-09-1996: Joe Satriani (guitar) sits in with the band.
05-09-1996: Paul Doherty (from the San Francisco Exploratorium) does science experiments.
05-09-1996: Top Ten Punchlines to Dirty Baseball Jokes (as told by the S.F. Giants) 6. "So his wife says, 'It's not a Ball Park Frank, but it plumps when I cook it'" -- Second Baseman Steve Scarsone.
05-09-1997: Cold Start: Minneapolis TV announces that the entire (461-person) audience is from Minneapolis. The Minneapolis skyline is in the background along with fake snow. Minneapolis Quiz. The news interrupts: the guy says he has a gopher in his pants.
05-09-1997: Paul does a Minneapolis song and dance with cheerleaders. In a taped bit, Calvert interviews Minneapolis folk. A map of Minneapolis includes "Ricki Lake" (who's a guest today). Tony Randall is in the audience.
05-09-1997: The entire audience is flown in from Minneapolis, as the city's sports hero Kirby Puckett is given a standing ovation for presenting the Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce his name: 2. There once was a man from Nantucket who Kirbied his very own Puckett. The Top Ten card is presented by Mayor Sharon Sales-Belton.
05-09-2000: "Would You Like To Win a Phony Check for $350 Million?" At Joe G's, Liz and Mike from Florida give 5 lottery numbers, and then a model picks 5 numbers, but this seems fixed. (Also, one of the balls flies out of the machine.) They do win the phony check.
05-09-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope: guest Rob Burnett presents Easter footage--his dressing up as the Easter Bunny didn't go well in 1997 or 1998, but this year it did. Sponsors are Janet Reno, Cigarettes ("Light 'em up and relax"), Maria Pope, and Richard Simmons.
05-09-2000: Clip: a guy sprays himself with gas in order to cool off. Also, the external camera shows that the bank temperature sign says 100 F.
05-09-2000: Fake clip: in "An Interview with the Next President of the United States", Barbara Walters interviews George W. Bush.
05-09-2000: For his upcoming jury duty, Dave lobbies to be on more than one jury.
05-09-2000: Top Ten Reasons John McCain Endorsed George W. Bush.
05-09-2002: Happy Birthday Ms. L.Y.
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