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Here is a list of the one-hundred best things about “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” that I made because I was bored and because Conan’s “Tonight Show” is over. Many of these sound completely random when read out of context, so if you don’t have a firm grasp of the greatness that was “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” prepare to be confused. In no particular order:
Choco Taco, “Tonight Show” Tour-iffic Tram-taculars, In the Year 3000, recording for Anime, Norm MacDonald, sarcastic applause, Wax Tom Cruise, Wax Fonzie at a urinal, puppies dressed as Thanksgiving dinner, Bugatti Veyron dressed as a mouse while “Satisfaction” plays, stuntman Steven Ho, a bust of Conan made of white chocolate (or was it Swiss cheese? I can’t remember.), William Shatner, Twitter Tracker, Conan’s vampire assistant Cody Devereaux, Conan’s wolf-boy assistant, Conan’s Frankenstein assistant, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, velcro Christmas tree, Jordan Schlansky, Andy’ll Try It, Celebrity Survey, Celebrity Survey’s theme music, impatient scuba diver, puppies dressed as cats, reading Sarah Palin’s tweets, Wing Pang, Small Talk Moments, Deon Cole, Mike Merritt’s inner thoughts, Conan, Please Blow Up My Car, PeeWee Herman’s Thanksgiving play, Wax Conan, the International Symbol for Larry King, “Super Mario Bros.” backdrop, Aaron Bleyaert’s web game, Ed Helms, Christmas ornament bazooka, chanting “Circle”, NBC bootlickery (June 1, 2009-January 10, 2010), NBC bashing (January 10, 2010-present), Stillerstrong vs. Livestrong, that hair, shooting things/people out of cannons, nerd impressions, the concussion…, Stuart Wexler, Tom Hanks gets hit by a meteorite, Pierre Bernard, James Wormworth’s barefoot drumming, puppies dressed as Frankenst- The Interrupter, “The Tonight Show” for sale on Craigslist, the letter “D” from the Hollywood sign, Conan’s Tabloid Moment, Conan plays “Till There Was You” on a heavy metal double guitar, LaBamba, Conan and Andy on the Aisle, Andy Richter, the USC Marching Band annoys Jordan Schlansky, Max Weinberg’s brown suits, Conan’s father, The “Tonight Show” back row dancers/dog circus/Hamster 500, Noches de Pasion con Senor O’Brien, “Tonight Show” Traffic-copter, Audiencey Awards, Conan meets his neighbors, Conan vs. Newark, a message from Conan’s peers, Tiger Woods joke caddy, LaBamba’s mustache, slamming the microphone on the desk, new state quarters, “Tonight Show” Kiss-Cam, NASA lost the original moon landing footage in the ’80s, Comcast bootlicking, Dumbledore goes Hollywood, Domino’s Pizza employees fall like dominoes, Max Weinberg’s rare rim-shot, adding subtitles to foreign language footage, Andy schools Wolf Blitzer on “Celebrity Jeopardy!”, audience plugs, Blame It on LaBamba, smashing pumpkins with monster trucks, Checking in on Max in Europe, the Eisenhower mug, the heavyset Peruvian President Alan Garcia Pérez, stringdancing, Andy’s motorized podium, 1992 Ford Taurus, America’s New Oprah (including “Leprechaun in the Hood,” a calendar of extraordinary chickens, and “Killdozer” the movie about a bulldozer that comes to life and starts killing everything), A Holiday song for Mormons, how do you spell “shaba-shaba… hi!”?, Learning About the News While on the News, puppies dressed as the nativity scene, Mine That Bird dressed in a mink Snuggie watching restricted NFL Super Bowl footage, Neil Young’s completely ironic performance of “Long May You Run,” Will Ferrell’s completely incredible performance of “Free Bird,” the twelve-foot tall Jehova’s Witnesses, and LaBamba’s hat getting taken to the rafters by his “In the Year 3000″ prop.

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I got a new third generation 32GB iPod Touch. At my old 8GB iPod’s tightest point, it held the complete studio works of Simon & Garfunkel, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Traveling Wilburys, The Rutles, Cream, and The Beatles, not to mention your regular run of the mill albums by Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jethro Tull. Not bad for an 8GB iPod. With my eventual plans to purchase the Complete Bob Dylan ($200 on iTunes) I knew I would need a bigger iPod.

Here is a break-down of the amounts of different musical groups I have on my new iPod currently:

My new iPod holds the complete studio works of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream (it also houses the complete live works of Cream), Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors (minus the three post-Jim Morrison albums), The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Nirvana, The Rutles, Traveling Wilburys, and Blind Faith.
Longest song: “Dazed and Confused” (Live Version) – Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same – 29:18
Shortest song: “Charlie Watts’s Introduction of Marianne Faithfull” – The Rolling Stones Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus – six seconds

Music iPod Touch

Basically there are three types of Wikipedia editors: 1) Factual editors, who actually contribute to the educational merit of Wikipedia, 2) morons, who think it’s funny to edit Janis Joplin’s Wikipedia page to say that she ate cats, and 3) very clever editors, who are the true topic of this blog post… So, I recently heard Phish’s cover of the Who’s “My Generation” and I checked the song’s Wikipedia article to see if Phish was listed under the “Cover Versions” section. They already were; I read the section anyway, and came upon a very clever edit (pictured right).

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