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* [[Cut a Slice, Take the Rest]]: A staple. When it was used in a live segment, the character doing so remarked that he'd "learned this from the Spellbinder [Letterman's animated foe]." |
* [[Cut a Slice, Take the Rest]]: A staple. When it was used in a live segment, the character doing so remarked that he'd "learned this from the Spellbinder [Letterman's animated foe]." |
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* [[Educational Song]] |
* [[Educational Song]] |
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Letterman's foe the Spellbinder, a diminutive wizard in a turban who would play malicious pranks by switching letters in words, like turning a farmer's "rake" into a "snake". Fortunately, the hero was wearing his "C" shirt that day and turned it into a "cake". (Which the sneaky villain promptly stole while the hero and farmer were occupied eating it.) |
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* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Paul the Gorilla. |
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Paul the Gorilla. |
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: Fargo North may qualify. |
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Fargo North may qualify. |
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* [[Tom Lehrer]]: He wrote a few songs for the show, all quite a change from his previous satirical work. Not surprising, however, as he was close friends with Joe Raposo, who served as the program's music director for the first three seasons. |
* [[Tom Lehrer]]: He wrote a few songs for the show, all quite a change from his previous satirical work. Not surprising, however, as he was close friends with Joe Raposo, who served as the program's music director for the first three seasons. |
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* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: Morgan Freeman's Vincent the Vegetable Vampire, of course (though [[Word of God]] says that he was originally supposed to be [[Dracula]]). |
* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: Morgan Freeman's Vincent the Vegetable Vampire, of course (though [[Word of God]] says that he was originally supposed to be [[Dracula]]). |
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* [[Villain Episode]]: A few of the Letterman shorts were this for the Spellbinder, like the one where he broke out of jail by slipping his broken wand between the letters F and I in "fiend" and creating an monstrous "friend". |
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* [[With Catlike Tread]]: In "O-U (The Hound Song)", a hound sings very loudly about how he dare not make a sound. |
* [[With Catlike Tread]]: In "O-U (The Hound Song)", a hound sings very loudly about how he dare not make a sound. |
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