07-22-1985: Brush with Stupidity: One audience member accidently locked a guy in a trunk; another backed out of her garage with the garage door closed.
07-22-1986: Guest Gilda Radner brings her Connecticut neighbors with her on the show.
07-22-1986: Super Slo-Motion Experiments: Included is a Frisbee thrown at a row of champagne glasses.
07-22-1987: Ask Larry "The Big Man" Melman: Larry, who hates heights, is 10 feet tall as he takes questions from the audience.
07-22-1987: Top Ten Offers G.E. Has Made to the Striking Technicians at NBC - 2. Manila Envelopes Filled with Alf-droppings.
07-22-1988: In the final day of "Dave Gets a New Suit": Tailor Joseph Ritorna offers his finished suit for $1,200; Chris Elliott fills up a writers-less segment by balancing his checkbook.
07-22-1992: Top Ten Things Overheard on the Clinton/Gore Campaign Bus - 9. "OK Hillary, you pretend you're the naive motorist and I'll be the angry state policeman." 4. "Tipper, are you crazy? You don't moon truckers."
07-22-1994: Dave feels overheated, so he steps outside as Paul uncorks a fire hydrant, the water pressure throwing Dave across the street. The bit was pretaped, but Dave nonetheless returns to the stage soaking wet. By the end of the show, Dave, Paul, and guest Thea Vidale are all soaked to the bone.
07-22-1994: Dave's adage for the night: "A man, a date, and a ham."
07-22-1994: Remote: Dave, a Nurse, and Barbara Gaines Eat Dumplings in Chinatown; Barbara eats 100 dumplings, then comes on stage and takes a bow.
07-22-1994: Top Ten Signs You're on a Bad Cruise - 3. Gopher is an actual gopher.
07-22-1995: Dave tells a panel of television critics in Pasadena that HBO's upcoming "Late Shift" movie will be "the single largest waste of film since my wedding photos." He also tells them that "I think that's a real likelihood" that the Top Ten List may be cut down to two or three times a week.
07-22-1997: In the winner-take-all third competition in "The King of Meat", the goal is a pound. Rupert does 0.90 pounds while Armando does 1.09 pounds and wins by 0.01 pounds.
07-22-1997: Kids Tell Jokes: (1) Dallas Cowboy joke, (2) Knock Knock joke involving "Lettuce", (3) country song backwards, (4) Tyson/Van Gogh joke.
07-22-1997: Rupert competes with Armando for the title of The King of Meat. Armando wins with a less-accurate scale.
07-22-1997: Top Ten Other Ways to Liven Up the Miss America Pageant - 8. Five finalists wrestle over a single tube of cookie dough.
07-22-1998: "Greeting Cards" bit. Also, Top Ten Classes at the New York City Police Academy.
07-22-1998: Biff outside, does a "melt-off" between a popsicle and a fudgesicle. The popsicle falls first, after 14:45.
07-22-1998: Dave turns the external hose on the sidewalk crowd, as does guest Tony Danza.
07-22-1998: Guest Peter Farrelly (a director and writer of "There's Something About Mary"): his brother Bob appears in his underwear as a "sumo wrestler"?
07-22-1999: Guest Buzz Aldrin talks about the moon shot (30 years ago). Later, "clip" of Dave at the original Woodstock (also 30 years ago).
07-22-1999: Know Your Current Events player Annie from Brigham Young University is a senior English major. She chooses Current Events over Cuts of Meat, Akron City Government Employees of the Month, Monkey Astronauts, and Watch and Calculator Batteries.
07-22-1999: The Secret Word is "Meenkhee" for 200 or 300 damn dollars (sponsors Larry King and Hillary).
07-22-1999: Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear from an Ice Cream Vendor, complete with clips from an "actual" vendor (Bill DeLace?).
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