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09-26-1983: Mr. Larry's Mystery Dinner makes its first broadcast promotion; it's replaced three months later with Mr. Larry's Toast on a Stick.
09-26-1984: Dave's Sentiment Shoppe includes Collector Vermin Thimbles and a Strawberry Shortcake Shrunken Head.
09-26-1985: Flunky the Clown makes his second appearance on Viewer Mail: "The prostate's on the blink again."
09-26-1990: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Cincinnati Maplethorpe Obscenity Trial - 1. No, no -- I said subpoena!
09-26-1991: Dave calls the NBC page outside the studio, Angela, but the line is busy. So he leaves the studio and goes into the hall to tell her to hang up the phone. Her assignment: to fetch the first person off the elevator. The winner: Al Roker.
09-26-1991: Top Ten Signs You're Watching Too Much Television - 2. Whenever there's a problem, you wonder, "What would Goober do?"
09-26-1994: Dave calls the corner pay phone in search of a co-host. Bonnie and her husband Randy from Oklahoma are invited inside, but Randy is sent out to bring back pizza.
09-26-1995: Top Ten Rejected Names For Ross Perot's Political Party - 2. Shorty And The Blowfish.
09-26-1996: "Dave's Video Collection" bit; also, Dave talks about the "Banjo Minnow" fishing lure.
09-26-1996: Dave wants something more romantic for the Top Ten List, so the "Top Ten Love Ballad" is performed by Florence Lacy, David Gainer, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
09-26-1996: Guest Donna Lewis sings a very poppy song.
09-26-1997: CBS Mailbag: Dave is asked what he knows about computers, so a camera goes into his "office," where on his computer screen is a photo of a shirtless and muscular Paul Shaffer.
09-26-1997: Dave watches water boil.
09-26-1997: Guest Kim Basinger talks about her movie "LA Confidential".
09-26-1997: Guest Ray Romano brings a home video of his family trying to sing "Silent Night".
09-26-1997: The entire "Late Show" audience consists of freshmen from NYU.
09-26-1997: Top Ten Ways Country Would Be Different if a College Student Were President (as presented by Candice Bergen) - 8. President buys State of the Union address from classified ad in back of Rolling Stone magazine.
09-26-2000: British rocker Ian Hunter (guitar) sits in with the band.
09-26-2000: Campaign 2000, sponsored by America's favorite Olympic event: synchronized diving (clip of a synchronized dive, twice, then "Just listen to what people like you are saying about synchronized diving", "it's just unbelievable" guy). Paul has nothing, Maria mentioned that Bush people wanted to have Bush on the show, but they picked a day when Late Show wasn't in production, so we're trying to reschedule now. Dave re-emphasizes that he's a registered voter and not a registered Republican. Ralph Nader will be there Thursday. Sponsors are Synchronized Diving and Firestone Exploding Tires. ("Put some excitement in your carpool. Firestone Tires: KABOOM. Now back to you, you giant sack of manure.")
09-26-2000: Dave gives the results of Olympic events before they air on NBC. Belgium seems to have won all of them except one (Finland)?
09-26-2000: Dave rants about the Olympic coverage and the inane NBC commentary ("he didn't stick it", "that's another tenth", etc.). Then there are the same 6 commercials over and over, then we get to see one competitor in one event, then to a profile (like the one about a swimmer who's afraid of water, or a pole vaulter afraid of heights?). Dave only cares about the high jump, and he missed it (if it was actually on).
09-26-2000: Late Show Watercooler Talk: Harold asks Pat if he saw the (Olympic gymnastics) men's all-around last night. Pat: "The Olympics are on?"
09-26-2000: Olympic Beat the Clock: Dave looks at the 6 guys at Joe G's sitting out front drinking beer, and he almost decides not to play. The left table has 3 guys from Holland; oddly enough, they don't win. There's a Holland flag graphic, though.
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