Favorite on-air Tom moves

[herbie]

I like it when someone calls back, like Herbie last night and gets as far as:
"You hung up on me last ti..."

haha! can't believe i was foolish enough to do that. should have known better.

[Gregory]

Tom's fake promos for the next show are always great.

[Beth]

The "Highland Blvd" voice that he does when people from Staten Island call the show.

[Pete Velcro]

I'm really enjoying his a-capella singing and scatting and whatnot. Last night's little medley towards the end of the show was fabulous.

There was one improvised song about "The things I like to do..." that killed me. It had lines about eating sandwiches and going down the street "in my new sneakers"...etc. A hearing impaired caller had enlisted the help of a kind of operator service, and Tom was passing the time till it got set up. The caller ended up bailing, but that's beside the point.

I like it when Tom whispers stuff about Mike - stuff that Mike definitely hears. It always ends with "...he's so weird."

 

[moonshake]

Ughhh.. I don't even wanna know/talk about it.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

When he says something exaggerated, then immediately corrects himself.  As in:

"I got a new table from Ikea, it's beautiful.  It's not beautiful."

He did this last week but I forget what it was.  Omah?

[Regular Joe]

Something about showering with that guy, but not WITH him. Forgive my lack of total recall, but it was along those lines.

[dave from knoxville]

When the calls are dead and he starts griping about all the action the chat is getting

[yesno]

When he explains how email works.  He doesn't seem to do this anymore, but back in the day he went into a lot of detail all the time about the instantaneous nature of email and how it zipped through the wires.

[Jake from Memphis]

"That guy's running a little hot."

[theericcarr]

It's also great when Tom reminds the listening audience that his High School nick name was 'Tommy Too-Cool'.

[Pat K]

A hearing impaired caller had enlisted the help of a kind of operator service, and Tom was passing the time till it got set up.

I still wonder if this was real or not. How could a hearing-impaired person listen to the show?

[iAmBaronVonTito]

A hearing impaired caller had enlisted the help of a kind of operator service, and Tom was passing the time till it got set up.

I still wonder if this was real or not. How could a hearing-impaired person listen to the show?

chances are, it was real.  i used to be one of those operators and its possible that this person wasnt hearing impaired but speech impaired, in which they would need to enlist the help of the same phone operators the hearing-impaired do.  or they have hearing problems in which they have to listen to TBS at high volumes, but the impairment makes phone calls difficult.

theres a number of possibilities.

[ChronoMojo]

The way Tom asks, "Who's this?" when a person who hasn't identified themselves call.

I can only describe the way Tom says it as "slightly disgusted."

[Jake from Memphis]

I almost forgot---when Tom is talking about a less than quality movie, like Fred Clause, he'll say he tried to go see it in the theater over the weekend but it was sold out, sometimes throwing in a line about how much the scalpers were selling tickets for.