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11-03-1982: It's Autumn in New England, so Dave calls residents in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to have them describe the colors of the leaves. Dave illustrates with carpet samples.
11-03-1983: Viewer Mail: Technician's Corner, with Jimmy Fitzgerald, on submachine gun advise: "When in doubt, shoot it out."
11-03-1986: Paul Shaffer does an impression of Jim Morrison singing an ad for "The Energizer" battery.
11-03-1987: The Technician's strike (NABET) finally ends, but Al Frisch has disappeared from the show. Meanwhile, the Prancing Fluids display their final sprinkling as the crew takes it away, sending it to Louisiana.
11-03-1988: Top Ten Things that Would Keep Dave from Doing the Show - 6. Any serious job offer. 2. When there is no longer a single cameraman, a single studio audience member, or a single television set on the face of the Earth; then and only then will I cease my endless strivings to educate, to illuminate, to entertain.
11-03-1989: Top Ten Rejected NBA Promotional Slogans - 9. A couple of white guys sitting around the bench talking.
11-03-1993: As of tonight, Paul plays Dave over, instead of saying "hello."
11-03-1993: Mike Wallace shows a 1974 clip of naked fat ladies in a German spa.
11-03-1993: Top Ten Good Things About Being Mayor of New York City - 8. Every single day: Your weight in quarters from the Lincoln toll booth.
11-03-1994: Dave needs to freshen up, so he goes outside and gets run over by a street-sweeper vehicle, returning quite refreshed.
11-03-1994: Top Ten Signs the Guy Hijacking Your Plane Has Never Hijacked Before - 2. Introduced to the captain, he demands to meet Tennille.
11-03-1995: "Pants Across America": Tonight, Casey Kasem is in Las Vegas, listening to an Elvis impersonator perform "Burning Love."
11-03-1996: Top Ten Lines You'll Never Hear Me, Mel Gibson, Say in a Movie - 1. That Letterman fella sure is one good-lookin'son-of-a-bitch. (1996 was a Sunday)
11-03-1997: Dave and Rupert annoy people again (Rupert does whatever Dave tells him to through a hidden earpiece/mike, etc.); this time, it's trick-or-treating, first as a marshall, then as Superman.
11-03-1997: Martin Short is "The 30-Second Guest," mastering talk-show banalities in the time allotted. Meanwhile, The Kusznetsun Troupe of Acrobats perform on 53rd St.
11-03-1997: The NYC Marathon winner (from Kenya) runs through the theater.
11-03-1997: Top Ten Things Overheard During the New York City Marathon - 5. According to my new $10 Rolex, I just ran the marathon in 21 minutes.
11-03-1998: Dave rants about too-old trick-or-treaters.
11-03-1998: Election results, real and fake. Also, Top Ten Jesse "The Body" Ventura Campaign Slogans.
11-03-1998: From Joe G's Pizza, a guy named Will actually wins at "Stop Calling me Debbie".
11-03-1998: Guest Ellie Lammer, a 12-year-old parking meter timer from Berkeley. [With any luck, she'll end up writing a "This Day in History" series of articles for some TV newsgroup when she's older. :) ]
11-03-1999: "Paul's World Series Memory Clip" is lame. Then we get Martin Scorcese's version of it, then Ricky Martin's version of it.
11-03-1999: In "Where Can I Get a Decent Meal in this Town?", Mujibur and Sirajul visit "Ranch One"; it's "very good". The Ranch One guy claimed they don't sell fried chicken, so Biff gets Dave some fried chicken from Ranch One.
11-03-1999: Shannon Curfman (14-year-old guitarist/singer) sits in with the band. Also, another "clip" of a mishap at "The Early Show".
11-03-1999: Top Ten Ways George W. Bush Can Squander His Lead.
11-03-2000: CBS Mailbag Letter #2 is a favorite: Stephanie Simon of New York asks, "Have you noticed how crowded this city is getting?" Biff tells us that there are 7.3 million people in NYC, and if stacked end to end, they'd reach the moon. So Dave arranges to test this, and Biff turns out to be barely wrong (music: "Moonlight Sonata").
11-03-2000: Guest is Madonna. This time, it's Mitch Hedberg who's bumped. She's on for four segments. Apparently she had a rebellious phase in her life but not till her 30s, hence the "Sex" book. She voted for Gore. She's re-learning guitar, and she plays a (lame) guitar song with her teacher. (Her battery pack falls out again; she swears a few times.)
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