10-19-1982: Chinese Food Delivery Race combines with the Chinese College Bowl: Hunan Wok University vs. Szechuan State College; Szechwan delivers first and wins the match.
10-19-1983: Museum of the Hard-to-Believe: A really dumb guy's gold: carrots.
10-19-1987: The week's reruns are titled "Barbara Sheehan Week," where staffer Barbara Sheehan appears in each rebroadcast.
10-19-1988: For no apparent reason, Phil Donahue is the show's cue-card holder. A segment on Dave's Indian Arrowheads is stopped as Dave steals the "T" from the Today Show set to pry waffle batter off his desk.
10-19-1988: Top Ten Least Popular Hotel/Motel Chains - 3. Bed and Bryant.
10-19-1989: "Amber Waves of Dave": A live remote in Eudorua, Kansas, in which Stan Herd, a field artist, plows through a wheatfield, forming the letters "D," "A," "V," and "E."
10-19-1989: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Letterman Family Reunion - 7. "Gee. Paul Shaffer albums for everybody. Thanks a lot."
10-19-1993: Paul is afflicted with too many baseball cliches, so Dave takes him "upstairs" to the CBS Nurse and smashes his head with a bat.
10-19-1993: Top Ten Signs You Have a Dumb Dog - 3. Voted for Fred Grandy, Love Boat's gopher, because he really thought he'd be a good congressman (cut to a shot of audience member Gavin McLeod).
10-19-1995: CBS Mailbag: Dave is asked what he does on his week off. A video clip shows Dave and Paul sailing with super leggy models on the S.S. Oprah, with castaway Bob Denver.
10-19-1995: Top Ten Other Ways O.J. Is Relaxing - 9. Putting bumper sticker on car: "Honk if you're the real killers."
10-19-1998: "Joe Whitworth" with the world's largest pumpkin.
10-19-1998: Guests Roberto Benigni, Bruce Hornsby, and Mark McGwire, who hits balls out on 53rd Street.
10-19-1998: Top Ten Ways the Country Would Be Different If Bob Dole Were President (read, taped, by Bob and Elizabeth Dole).
10-19-1998: We see Biff's taped report from the World Series.
10-19-2000: Although announced as a guest, James Brown ends up just sitting in with the band.
10-19-2000: Calvert wanders through during the monologue again, this time accompanied by 2 guys in suits (one is Bill DeLace).
10-19-2000: Guest George W. Bush gets 4 segments. He reads a Top Ten List from the home office in Crawford, TX: Changes I'll Make in the White House - 7. Make sure the White House library has lots of books with big print & pictures.
10-19-2000: Mike from Minnesota plays Know Your Items in the Current J Crew Catalog. Dave reimburses him $20 for his Late Show hat.
10-19-2000: The Secret Service checks the theater security; they even rip the head off a doll and pat down a dog. George Clarke has to put the guy in the bear suit in a closet.
10-19-2000: Today, the theater marquee says "David W. Letterman".
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