12-30-1983: Dave guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for the first time in almost two years.
12-30-1988: Dave watches a re-run at home, reacting to jokes and guests while eating popcorn.
12-30-1993: Dave shows a "live feed" from his home, as he's watching the show as it's being broadcast hours later. It doesn't have to make sense.
12-30-1993: Top Ten Signs You're Not Getting A Year-End Bonus - 2. You're the only Connecticut State Trooper who hasn't written Letterman a ticket.
12-30-1994: Dave says goodnight too soon and splits; Paul leaves the studio and finds him asking a question on the Rickie Lake Show.
12-30-1994: Top Ten Signs You're at a Bad New Year's Eve Party [Presented from Times Square by Dick Clark] - 2. Everyone's gathered around the TV watching that geezer from American Bandstand.
12-30-1996: Dave calls Samantha Jaffone; Dick Clark visits her office and gives her a fake check and flowers.
12-30-1996: Dave's plan: drop the New Year's ball from space.
12-30-1996: Guests Mary Tyler Moore (who turned 60 yesterday), Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry McGuire"), Oseola McCarty (88-year-old philanthropist who'll drop the ball on New Year's Eve), and country singer Deana Carter.
12-30-1996: Taped bit: Calvert talks to people on the street about New Year's.
12-30-1996: Top Ten Dave Letterman's New Year's Resolutions - 6. Limit myself to four hours per night of internet sex.
12-30-1997: "Late Show Chair of Mystery". Is it Harrison Ford? No, Dick Clark.
12-30-1997: Dave doesn't know what to do without "Seinfeld". (Join the club.)
12-30-1997: Dave, Paul, and Biff make New Year's Resolutions, as do Inky, the Christmas Tree, Alan, an audience guy with an axe in his head, Anton, and Pat Farmer.
12-30-1997: Top Ten Signs You've Eaten Too Much During The Holidays - 2. No matter what you say, you get an argument from Gene Siskel.
12-30-1998: "Last Time in 1998" bit includes the dancing baby graphic, naked Alan Kalter, Wheel of Fortune, Late Show Town Crier, and Off-Screen Celebrity Cameo.
12-30-1998: Maceo Parker sits in with the band, while the Chicago Bulls announcer sits in with Alan.
12-30-1998: The Late Show QB Challenge is done with guests Vinny Testaverde and Jay Thomas. Jay wins.
12-30-1998: Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce Vinny Testaverde.
12-30-1999: Cameraman Joe DiBonis works his last day after 11 years.
12-30-1999: Campaign 2000: We see a clip of a reporter at the CBS Albany affiliate asking Hillary if she will be on the Late Show: "Maybe."
12-30-1999: Guests Dick Clark (who has a new game show and does a practice New Year's countdown) and Ralph Charles (a 100-year-old who still flies planes). Also, Top Ten Dumb Guy New Year's Resolutions.
12-30-1999: Know Your Current Events contestant Jimmie from Arkansas sounds kind of like Dolly Parton, according to Dave; Dave lets her husband (a former announcer) read the questions. The second player (Graham from Sydney, Australia) plays Know Your Flaming Desserts.
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