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** The [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas 1979]] episode recently released on YouTube by Carson Productions featured a very funny opening segment of Johnny and Ed looking at popular toys of the time which lasted three segments and lasted about 26 minutes. The show settled into
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* AwardShow: Theshow settled into Sniveling Weasel Awards, where Johnny's lovely assistant would let loose a weasel to choose between five food bowls representing Academy Awards nominees. This sketch would find a SpiritualSuccessor on Jimmy Fallon's ''Tonight Show'' with "Puppy Predictions", about the Super Bowl.
* AwardShow: The
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* DescriptionPorn: The gag of "The Big Question", where Arthur sets up a really simple question like "Wassup?" with an overly long set-up. One example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQXb8PwRMk about Groundhog Day.]]
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And in all this history, there was the regular who didn't expect to be one — Lillian Miller (aka "Miss Miller") was an audience member on so many episodes of the Allen/Kovacs, Parr, and Carson versions that she was forced to join AFTRA. She also frequented {{Game Show}}s (including ''MatchGame'' and ''Series/WhatsMyLine''), ''The MervGriffin Show'', ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'', and even appeared on ''The Jack Paar Program'' in November 1962 as a guest alongside Liberace and [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Cassius Clay]].
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And in all this history, there was the regular who didn't expect to be one — Lillian Miller (aka "Miss Miller") was an audience member on so many episodes of the Allen/Kovacs, Parr, and Carson versions that she was forced to join AFTRA. She also frequented {{Game Show}}s (including ''MatchGame'' and ''Series/WhatsMyLine''), ''The MervGriffin Creator/MervGriffin Show'', ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'', and even appeared on ''The Jack Paar Program'' in November 1962 as a guest alongside Liberace and [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Cassius Clay]].
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* ShoutOut: The Matinee Lady as portrayed by Teresa Ganzel is virtually identical to her character in ''[[NationalLampoon National Lampoon's]] Movie Madness''.
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* ShoutOut: The Matinee Lady as portrayed by Teresa Ganzel is virtually identical to her character in ''[[NationalLampoon National Lampoon's]] ''Franchise/NationalLampoon's Movie Madness''.
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** One segment would have Johnny reading off real TV shows that are debuting in the fall or midseason, and Ed would reply in great length that those are the only new shows debuting, prompting Johnny to reply "WRONG, [insert noun] breath!" before reading the fake/comedic ones.
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** Art Fern had many phrases that he used in most every sketch: "Drive until you come to... the Fork in the Road!"; "Got no job? We don't care. Got a bad credit rating? We don't care. Got a prison record? We don't care. Don't expect to pay us? ''THAT'S'' when we care!"
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* TakeThat: When Creator/BetteDavis was interviewed in 1988, Johnny asked her if there's any actor who she'd never work with again. Without hesitation, she replied "Creator/FayeDunaway". She called Faye impossible, and claimed you could sit ''any actor'' in her chair and they'd say the same thing.
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** On September 7, 1973, the Mighty Carson Art Players performed a parody of /Film/LostHorizon. Ed introduces the segment by implying that it will be worse than the recent BoxOfficeBomb.
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** On September 7, 1973, the Mighty Carson Art Players performed a parody of /Film/LostHorizon.Film/LostHorizon. Ed introduces the segment by implying that it will be worse than the recent BoxOfficeBomb.
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** On September 7, 1973, the Mighty Carson Art Players performed a parody of LostHorizon. Ed introduces the segment by implying that it will be worse than the recent BoxOfficeBomb.
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** On September 2, 1973, the Mighty Carson Art Players performed a parody of LostHorizon. Ed introduces the segment by implying that it will be worse than the recent BoxOfficeBomb.
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** On September 2, 7, 1973, the Mighty Carson Art Players performed a parody of LostHorizon. Ed introduces the segment by implying that it will be worse than the recent BoxOfficeBomb.
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* {{PSA}}: Parodied in a recurring sketch where Johnny would record multiple [=PSAs=] for a variety of causes in a row. Just one example:
--> '''Johnny''': Johnny Carson here, to talk about a crime not often discussed in polite society. I'm talking about lumberjacks who use innocent woodland animals as a Frisbee. Next time you stroll through a forest and you spot men in plaid shirts tossing a furry creature, turn them in. Contact "Beaver Heavers, Tacoma, Washington."
--> '''Johnny''': Johnny Carson here, to talk about a crime not often discussed in polite society. I'm talking about lumberjacks who use innocent woodland animals as a Frisbee. Next time you stroll through a forest and you spot men in plaid shirts tossing a furry creature, turn them in. Contact "Beaver Heavers, Tacoma, Washington."
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** To complete the circle, Leno ended the week by swiping at Conan's ratings and hitting Letterman's sex scandal again. At one point, he said that "{{FOX}} is looking pretty good this time of year".
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** To complete the circle, Leno ended the week by swiping at Conan's ratings and hitting Letterman's sex scandal again. At one point, he said that "{{FOX}} "{{Creator/FOX}} is looking pretty good this time of year".
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The Matinee Lady and "Diana".
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* ShoutOut: The Matinee Lady as portrayed by Teresa Ganzel is virtually identical to her character in ''[[NationalLampoon National Lampoon's]] Movie Madness''.
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** In the last week of shows, Conan did a series of sketches where he did something really expensive on NBC's dime before leaving, and on the final instance, he told the viewer, "There's been some outrage on the internet that we're wasting all this money... it's ''NOT REAL''! Okay, just wanted to make that clear."
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* SpiritualSuccessor: "Before Photoshop" is a successor to "What in the World?" from ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien''.
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* SexSells: The Matinee Lady, who appears in every Art Fern sketch.
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* TemptingFate: Carson has more than once made a point to never oversell a comedy sketch for this very reason:
--> '''Ed''': This is gonna be something hilarious, you're trying to tell us.\\
'''Johnny''': No, we don't say that. ''(Ed chuckles)'' We say this, possibly, ''could'' be amusing.
--> '''Ed''': This is gonna be something hilarious, you're trying to tell us.\\
'''Johnny''': No, we don't say that. ''(Ed chuckles)'' We say this, possibly, ''could'' be amusing.
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** When Jimmy interviewed Brian Williams in 2014, Jimmy and The Roots misheard "second deck" as "suckin' dick", largely because Brian didn't enunciate.
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* LongList: One of the Headlines involved a school that served nothing but spam. He showed the lunch calendar and read all the entries:
--> '''Jay''': Start with me on Monday: Barbeque spam. Tuesday: Nachos w/spam. Wednesday: Sloppy spam. Thursday: Country style spam. Friday: Grilled spam. Go down. Spam-a-cube. Spam hoagie. Baked spam. Spam nuggets. Spam n noodles. Go down to the next week! Spam pie! Spam burger! Vegetable spam soup! Spam steak! Not spam and cheese! Spam chops! It's unbelievable!
--> '''Jay''': Start with me on Monday: Barbeque spam. Tuesday: Nachos w/spam. Wednesday: Sloppy spam. Thursday: Country style spam. Friday: Grilled spam. Go down. Spam-a-cube. Spam hoagie. Baked spam. Spam nuggets. Spam n noodles. Go down to the next week! Spam pie! Spam burger! Vegetable spam soup! Spam steak! Not spam and cheese! Spam chops! It's unbelievable!
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* LighterAndSofter: Referenced when Jay interviewed Creator/PamelaAnderson about her film ''Blonde and Blonder'':
--> '''Jay''': This is your first PG-13 movie, isn't it?\\
'''Pamela''': ''(laughs)'' Yeah, good one.
--> '''Jay''': This is your first PG-13 movie, isn't it?\\
'''Pamela''': ''(laughs)'' Yeah, good one.
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* NoThemeTune: The episode that aired after the tragic events in Charlottesville had no intro sequence for obvious reasons. The same went for the episode after the Las Vegas shooting.
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* ByTheBookCop: A sketch from 1981, stemming from a court case that ruled taping TV shows illegal, parodied ''Series/TheUntouchables'' with Johnny as an Elliot Ness-esque character who went around busting down doors of households watching taped shows for their own personal use.
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--> '''Richard Dawson''': Name something you'd find on a farm. ''(Reagan buzzes in)'' Yes! Name something you'd find on a farm.\\
'''Ronald Reagan''': ...Well...\\
'''Richard Dawson''': Is there a well? ''(top answer)'' There's a well!
'''Ronald Reagan''': ...Well...\\
'''Richard Dawson''': Is there a well? ''(top answer)'' There's a well!
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Invoked: Nearly every time Robert Blake was on in the late '70s and early '80s, he complained that one of his movies, ''Second-Hand Hearts'', kept being delayed for release by the studio. Johnny agreed to show a different clip from the movie every time Robert was on, so that if he was a guest often enough, the audience would eventually see all of it.
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* HypocrisyNod: A 1991 episode had a monologue joke about Delta Burke wanting to get paid for an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'' she wasn't in. The punchline: "Can you ''imagine'' someone wanting to get paid for something they didn't do?"[[labelnote:Note]](a bit of SelfDeprecation at how Carson would frequently take Friday shows off)[[/labelnote]]
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* CouchGag: Ed's introduction of Carnac the Magnificent always has something different for one of Carnac's previous jobs.
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* NonindicativeName: Done for laughs with "In the Year 3000", which describes events that would "occur" in the near future, not ~1,000 years in the future.
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* ShapedLikeItself: 93-year old guest Florence Hodges said she was from Dothan, Alabama, leading to this exchange:
--> '''Johnny''': Where is that?\\
'''Florence''': It's in Alabama.
--> '''Johnny''': Where is that?\\
'''Florence''': It's in Alabama.
