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This Dave in History October 11

10-11-1982: Paul's Point of View: A prototype of "Paul-Cam," the home viewer sees part of the show from Paul's vantage point. Also, guest Jay Leno displays The Late Night Home Game and a new book, "Davey, We Hardly Know You."

10-11-1983: Cold Close: Dave and Paul leave the studio in search of food. Bill Wendell leads them to a candy store, a clothes store, a magazine stand, and then downstairs, where he holds them up.

10-11-1984: Chris Elliott Comparison Test: Broiling vs. Frying. Chris puts his hand in a broiler, then a fryer, and can't tell the difference between the two.

10-11-1988: Mike Tyson's Top Ten Ways to Mend a Broken Heart - 10. Take a warm bath, sip a fine brandy, and toss a sofa through a plate glass window.

10-11-1989: Dr. Lou Arrone takes Dave's EKG, and the heart pulses serve as a rhythm meter for Paul and the band.

10-11-1989: Top Ten Things that Will Get You Kicked Out of Disney World - 10. Driving down Main Street USA with Bambi's mother strapped to your fender.

10-11-1990: Top Ten 20/20 Features Currently in Production - 8. Billy, Hitler's talking dog, who looks just like a person, but he's a dog. Really.

10-11-1991: Top Ten Surprises in the Barbara Walters Interview with the Quayles - 2. His shock at learning all those Dan Quayle jokes are about him.

10-11-1993: Dave gets a San Leone pizza employee to deliver a pie to the Flash Dancers bouncer.

10-11-1994: Dave instructs San Leone pizza employees to cut down the balloons in front of T.G.I. Fridays and bring them into the theater.

10-11-1994: Top Ten Signs You're Not Going to Win a Nobel Prize - 7. Despite all your brilliant ideas, the nurses won't let you have anything sharp to write them down.

10-11-1996: CBS Mailbag (done without the Ceremonial Presentation of the Letters) Letter #2: Paul Shaffer and Vanna White belong to the "TV Sidekicks Club."

10-11-1996: Guest George Foreman pulls a truck.

10-11-1996: Guest Tom Everett Scott promotes "That Thing You Do".

10-11-1996: Top Ten Reasons Bob Dole Should Be Elected President of the United States (presented by Elizabeth Dole) - 1. Read my lips: no more Macarena!

10-11-1999: Dave and guest Bruce Willis do a "stunt": a cab drives down the street and runs into a TV screen with them on it.

10-11-1999: Dave tells a story about a guy who wanted Dave to change his tire.

10-11-2000: "What Things Cost" bit: George Clarke tells us it costs $1500 to change a light bulb (he's wearing a "mink coat" that doesn't look like a mink coat at all); $450 for the bulletproof shield for Dave; $250 a show for Pat Farmer, $350 a show for Corky, while Dave Dorsett is paid in adult videos; George Plimpton is paid $5000 to explain the jokes to people in the balcony; $350 for bribing building inspectors; $10K for an open phone line to Leonard Nimoy, who can't talk because he's watching Leno; $200 on pest control (Regis is a pest); and Biff says "George Clooney is gay", prompting a $7 million lawsuit.

10-11-2000: For the Clintons' 25th anniversary, a C-SPAN tribute includes congrats to Bill & Gennifer Flowers on their 23rd anniversary, Bill & Paula Jones on their 9th, and Bill and Lewinsky on their 5th.

10-11-2000: For the Clintons' 25th anniversary, a C-SPAN tribute includes congratulations to Bill & Gennifer Flowers on their 23rd anniversary, Bill & Paula Jones on their 9th, and Bill and Lewinsky on their 5th.

10-11-2000: The Foo Fighters perform a song that's the theme song for the show "Ed", at least for a year.

10-11-2000: The Foo Fighters perform the theme song for "Ed" (for season 1 and season 3 to date).

10-11-2000: Today's Calvert walk-through includes him going to Dave's desk, getting a tissue, blowing his nose, and walking out.

10-11-2000: Warren sits in for Paul, who might have pneumonia?

10-11-2000: We get a still photo of GWB's "deer in the headlights" look. Also, it's Alan Kalter's Campaign Round-Up, again.

10-11-2001: "Baseball Playoffs Quiz" includes a fan who gets taunted because he looks like Dave.

10-11-2001: As the show goes to commercial in Act 6, the band is apparently playing Beethoven's Fur Elise.

10-11-2001: Desk chat: Dave has ringing in his head, is a hypochondriac, and would've been perfect for the Billy Bob Thornton role in "Bandits". Also, Dave shouts out to the New York State Troopers.

10-11-2001: Eight-year-old guest Cody Arens's first few answers are monosyllabic. We see a clip of him making faces at a girl on the Late Show's "Kids Tell Jokes" in 1997.

10-11-2001: The band plays Dave to the desk with "Stars and Stripes Forever".

10-11-2001: Top Ten Ways To Describe Bacon - 8. Cardiovascular Cement. Note: the audio for #4 appears on the screen as #2 and vice versa.

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