Conan (TV series): Difference between revisions

* [[Cool Sword]]: One of Steven Ho's segments featured him attacking Conan with a katana.

* [[Couch Gag]]: Each episode has a different title, reminiscent of murder mystery titles but involving some sort of wordplay. On Thursdays, something often happens to the car and/or the house and/or the city in the opening credits.

* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Well, the Masturbating Bear has shown up now...

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Welcome to Andy Richter's Sports Blast. I'm Andy Richter and this is Sports Blast. Welcome."

** Seems to be a favorite gag of Andy's. While he was driving cross-country to the New York shows: "Gonna check out Meteor Crater, which apparently is a crater that was made by a meteor."

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Steve Zampanides

** Conan will occasionally play with this to great effect when one of the monologue jokes bombs.

* [[News Parody]]: The segment "Local News Roundup", where Conan points out that to watch ''Conan'', you are missing your local news broadcast. But that's okay, because they're all pretty much the same anyways. Cue Conan and Andy's parody including generalized news stories, weather, sports, pet segments, and crazy local commercials.

* [[No Budget]]: Conan often complains that because they are on cable, they "don't have a lot of scratch". Particularly as the premise for "Basic Cable Name That Tune".

* [[Once Per Episode]]: As with ''Late Night'' and ''The Tonight Show'', at the top of every show, Conan scrunches his legs together and jumps forward on a trumpet sting. Conan then stands up and points to the band, as they wrap up the opening theme.

* [[One Head Taller]]: Conan (6'4"), and Andy (6'2") tower over most of their female guests (who are often wearing really high heels to compensate) and some of their male guests.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Two of Conan's writers and frequent sketch performers are Brian Stack and Brian McCann.

** Another writer's name is Matt O'Brien. He is ''not'' related to Conan.

** And now there's Andy with the [http://teamcoco.com/content/andy-rocks-skinny-jeans#photo=6073 skinny jeans]. What is it with these guys and tight pants?

* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]]: "Basic Cable Name That Tune" features audience members tasked with identifying [[Suspiciously Similar Song|knockoff versions]] of well-known songs. Since the sketch's humor is based around how poorly disguised the copying is, the bit falls flat whenever the audience member isn't familiar enough with the original song to identify it.

* [[Portmanteau]]: Leprekong, which combines a leprechaun with [[King Kong]]. It's as funny as it sounds.

* [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]: "Candy", for Conan/Andy. Invoked by Conan on the 05/11/11 episode while talking with Miranda Kerr, and a couple of times since.

** [[Tim Minchin]] played his anti-ginger-bashing song "[http://teamcoco.com/content/tim-minchin-prejudice Prejudice]" for his second appearance on the show, which made the already funny song extra funny.

* [[Retcon]]: The Fan Corrections segments, in which Conan responds to allegations of [[Did Not Do the Research]] with [[Implausible Deniability|implausible]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|(and bogus)]] [[Shown Their Work|"proof"]].

*** When [[Captain America the First Avenger]] was released, the sketch then used [[Rise of the Planet of The Apes]] for its jokes instead.

** For a couple weeks in early August 2011, someone named Steve Zampanides was announced as a guest. But he was continuously bumped in every episode due to running out of time, and each new episode listed him under a different specialty. Because of this, and also since there were few Google results for his name (aside from a Twitter account that was suspiciously created on August 9th and a website whose domain was owned by Team Coco), fans quickly caught on that this "Steve" wasn't a real person but actually a running gag created by the Conan staff. Probably as a result of this, the running gag abruptly ceased after a couple weeks.

{{quote| ''"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my second annual first show."''<br />

''"Next week, WikiLeaks is threatening to leak what channel TBS is on."'' }}

* [[Shoot the Money]]: When TBS sent out a blimp to promote the show, Conan declared on the air that they were obligated to get their money's worth for it, and did a series of sketches wherein the blimp was sent around LA to stalk Gary Busey. [[Axe Crazy|And it was]] [[Mugging the Monster|hilarious]].

* [[Showthe Forehead]]

* [[Sidekick]]: Andy Richter

* [[Single Tear]]: Conan often mimes this, then "drinks" the tear to make him strong.

{{quote| "Obama is appearing with Jay Leno to highlight the one job that was saved during his administration."}}

** Conan continues to razz [[Kirstie Alley]] on his new show.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Ever since [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Slash]] made a guest appearance with the band any written out URL has had the forward slashes replaced with his face.

* [[The Voiceless]]: A running gag is how LaBamba never seems to talk when Conan addresses him during sketches, instead using gestures.

{{quote| '''Conan''': OK, well just imagine that went a little further... before the computer crashed. Y'know what? I'm not gonna let it bother me. I'm just gonna take it like a man. Hehehe... (starts mock shouting into the camera)}}

* [[Weird Moon]]: The huge moon in the background of his TBS show can be controlled via remote, and possibly be used to crush Andy Richter. It even has "that lunar wobble"!

** The Fishtank underwear, which has a submarine to cover the buttcrack.

** Conan's superhero alter-ego, the Flaming C, with his weird steaming oven mitt of power. He was even animated and edited into an episode of ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]]''.