(part 1)
I have the Letterman article in a .pdf. Dave didn’t think a show with David Hyde Pierce was good enough? Shaame. I mean, he talked to his dog:
DHP: Well, it’s just red-eye city. I’m… I have to get back, uh… today’s my dog’s birthday. [audience laughter]
DL: Congratulations to both you and your dog.
DHP: Thank you. Emma the dog is one year old today.
DL: Wow. [applause] What kind of dog is Emma?
DHP: Emma is a Wheaten Terrier which is like a cross between a sheep and a loaf of bread. [audience laughter]
DL: [laughs] That sounds just great! And…
DHP: She’s watching now.
DL: The dog is watching now?
DHP: She’s watching now. [Looks directly into the camera] Emma, Emma, off! Off! Emma, Emma, sit. Good. Emma, down. Stay. [audience laughter]
DL: Many of these commands apply to our audience as well.
DHP: [laughs]
DL: Now, will the dog know that you’re not even in the same city or state with her on her birthday?
DHP: Well, if she watches the show, she’ll get the idea, but see, that’s the idea. I get out of here, I go back. Hopefully, I’ll be home before the birthday’s over.
DL: No, no, no. Thank you very much. So now, you’re going to race right back to the airport and fly home.
DHP: Yes, I’m gonna race back, get back to… [stared into the camera] …Emma. [audience laughter]
DL: Oh, I don’t think the dog is still watching. [audience laughter]
DHP: The commercials are her favorite part. She’s sticking around.
DL: The dog may be with Mr. Koppel now.
DHP: [laughs]
DL: I have kind of that feeling about things. I can’t thank you enough for taking the trouble and the annoyance and the inconvenience to come out here and visit with us tonight…
Also, David mentions that he played Celebrity Jeopardy! with Markie Post from Night Court.
A 100 disc CD changer. Or as we call it today, our iPhone, iPod and iTunes.
George W. Bush (back then known as “George Bush Jr.”, which just sounds off) accidentally shot a endangered bird.
Speaking of bumbling, some guy back in ‘86 thought he understood the real reason why Dan Rather was beaten by two guys who said, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
“First, let me establish the motive. I’m reasonably certain that both of these well-dressed men were gay, a persuasion that is not unknown in that part of Manhattan.
"And one of them has a boyfriend named Kenneth who lived quite near the scene of the attack.
"This fellow suspected that Kenneth, on the sly, was seeing another man.
"He believed that because the second man had recently caught a glimpse of someone sneaking out of Kenneth’s apartment and had tipped the first man off.
"As I said, he had caught only a fleeting glimpse of Kenneth’s visitor. He did not actually see his face. But he did know that he was of medium height, had dark hair, and wore aviator glasses and casual clothes.
"So the jealous boyfriend and his tipster were waiting near Kenneth’s apartment, hoping to catch the rival making a visit to Kenneth.
"Now, along comes Dan Rather, who knows nothing of all this. But, because it is the weekend, and he has been with friends on Long Island, he is wearing jeans, a striped sport shirt and aviator glasses.
"As Rather approaches, the tipster mistakenly says to the suspicious lover: ‘That might be him.’
"The other man, consumed by his jealousy, says something to Rather. Rather doesn’t understand what the man is talking about and says: ‘You got the wrong guy.’
"The jealous lover, taking the denial to be a mere evasion, indeed, an admission of guilt, flies into a rage and pops Rather in the chops, knocking him down.
"He keeps repeating the same phrase, over and over, as the two of them keep punching and kicking Rather, who flees into the apartment building lobby.
"And, in their minds, that is even further proof of the man’s guilt, since it is the lobby of the very same building in which Kenneth lives. They assume that he is trying to reach the sanctuary of Kenneth’s apartment.
Rather believed that his attacker was William Tager, who later killed a Today show stagehand in 1994 because he thought the media had him under survellance.
I think Merry Go Round went out of business about a year later. I know the one at my local mall shut down at the beginning of ’96. I only knew what a Merry Go Round was back then because Mallory from Babysitters Club mentioned it once in the series. I think Mary Anne bought her cool new clothes from there after she got her cool new haircut too. Ha, I guess "hobo” was Merry Go Round’s reply to Ralph Lauren’s “polo”.
I can only imagine middle schoolers thinking that Rolling Stone clothes were cool. I mean, who would want a shirt with a giant Rolling Stone “R” on it?
A brighter place due to glow from our lit Virginia Slims.
Remember when chanting albums were a thing in 1993, 1994? Remember Blockbuster Music? I bought my first CDs there on the last day of school in 1995. Brandy’s self titled, and Mariah Carey’s “Emotions”.
I have several SciFi commercial breaks from this era. Back in 2006, I volunteered at my local library, and someone donated a bunch of tapes that they recorded the two am Planet of the Apes rerun on. Here are some commercial breaks from that era: (1) (2)
I work at the same library system now, I’ve been there since April and nobody has donated a huge box of tapes yet. I’m totally devastated.
I almost forgot about this. In the middle of this two week issue, there was also a Sony catalog. Most of these things were definitely on most young people’s Christmas lists, I’m sure.
Sony was still trying to get the public to buy LaserDiscs. It never suceeded.
Another 100 disc CD changer.
I’m still trying to understand this, but from the looks of it, Sony wanted us to buy 8mm movies and play them on our camcorders hooked up to our televisions. I can only make out The Big Chill.
Speaking of small things, Sony also tried to sell albums to play on MinDisc players. I can spot Indigo Girls. These are still hot collectables on eBay.
(from eBay seller “wizofoz244-half”)
I can’t believe I thought this was a 8mm camcorder+radio at first. No, its just a radio and a monocular (like a binocular, but just one view).
I’m going to end part 2 right here because I only have 15% battery, and its 10 till 1am, and I have work in a few hours.
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