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This Dave in History June 28

06-28-1982: Haircut Day: Throughout the show three student barbers cut the hair of audience participants.

06-28-1983: A Visit to the Museum of Weapons, as a "Celebrity-Seeking Missile" ignores Dick Cavett and instead chases Larry "Bud" Melman.

06-28-1988: Late Night returns on the air with new shows after sixteen weeks of a writers' strike. Pete Fatovich celebrates the moment by performing "Lady of Spain" on his accordion. It'll be another seven weeks before the writers return.

06-28-1989: Jerry Vale sings the theme to Supermarket Finds.

06-28-1990: Top Ten Bio-Engineering Projects in Development - 6. Super-intelligent dogs that really can play poker so you could just photograph them instead of buying one of those fancy novelty paintings.

06-28-1991: Top Ten Things Left Off the Original Declaration of Independence - 8. Gratuitous reference to King George as "wig-wearing crumpet monkey."

06-28-1994: Barbra Streisand walks on the set and gives Dave two tickets to her show at Radio City Music Hall; Dave gives them away to a woman in the audience.

06-28-1994: Dave does a Walter Cronkite imitation.

06-28-1994: Top Ten Signs The President Is About To Fire You - 4. Whenever he returns from McDonald's he brings you a job application.

06-28-1995: Dave and Larry King arrive at the Sullivan Theater in an ambulance.

06-28-1995: Introduced on the show: Wally, the CBS Page with the Fake Edible Mustache.

06-28-1995: Top Ten New Hugh Grant Movies - 3. The Backseats of Madison County.

06-28-1996: "Summer in New York" Quiz. Later, Dave gives a BBQ tip.

06-28-1996: During guest Michael Keaton's segment, "Creepy Dave" puts in another appearance.

06-28-1996: Mannie the Hippy reviews "Striptease." It's "Schwag."

06-28-1996: Paul plays Dave over to the desk with the lovely "20th Century Fox Theme".

06-28-1996: Top Ten Revelations in the New Tell-All Book About the White House.

06-28-1999: "Celebrity Summer Plans" bit (with an intro theme song done a capella).

06-28-1999: "Vinny" from Las Vegas gives odds on whether a joke will be funny or not.

06-28-1999: Paul plays Dave over to the desk with "Stars and Stripes Forever".

06-28-1999: Secret Word "bird" for 600 damn dollars (sponsor: US Women's World Cup Soccer Team). Later, Top Ten Slogans for the U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Team.

06-28-2000: "Elian Gonzalez" (looks to be age 25) stops by on his way to Cuba: "Goodbye, Yankee pigs!"

06-28-2000: "Summer Warning Labels" bit.

06-28-2000: A & E Biography on Ed McMahon is very brief: "For 30 years, Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on the Tonight Show."

06-28-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope, sponsored by Small Birds ("I Own Seven"). Dave rants about the grainy footage on the internet--the lame video quality. Maria just learned how to email? Clip of dog biting Dave again. Sponsor: Plastic Party Forks ("How did that make you feel?" "Like an animal"... "They're Bendable!")

06-28-2000: Dave claims that spending time on the internet is a rip-off. (He couldn't get to the Late Show website?) Later, the show is briefly done in "mpeg-type" format: a tiny, slow-moving picture.

06-28-2000: From Wimbledon, "Anna Kournikova Play of the Day" (wipes self with towel).

06-28-2000: Maria says they're talking to Daljit Dhaliwal.

06-28-2000: The "Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent (guitar) sits in with the band. Also, guest Martha Stewart rides in on a bike decorated with flags and red, white, and blue crepe paper. Later, she decorates Nugent's guitar case with pine cones?

06-28-2000: The CBS commisary apparently has been cited for health code violations.

06-28-2000: We see a clip of another dog biting incident (not Dave's), with an explanation by some guy: "John inadvertently put his hand in the wrong place." And the guy who explained is now the Late Show Official Spokesman?

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