The Best/Worst Moments of last night's show

[JesseFromVegas]

Mike asking "Whose drawers are these?"

Followed by Tom's dripping with disgust repetition of the word "Drawers."

[mostlymeat]

Hodgeman: "I used to race home from school just to listen to Terry Gross!"

LOL

[gravy boat]

That was a great show.  I almost want to have that be my last memory for a while and get to the very last show sometime next year when I'm better prepared.

Supercallers checking in hit the right notes--Erika, DFK, Karate Chop Jon from Maplewood. Greggulator. Even my guy--the guy I've defended against all you cranks--Michael K from the Cynics managed to pull off a brief (!) just-right call.  (Have I missed Paycheck from Toronto calling in?)

Two great highlights:

1. Jason's ordering pizzas and Tom immediately scrambling for a pen. 

2. Fred from Honolulu's very punk grudge against Bruno Mars.

I got choked up at the end when Patton and Julie (who you can tell are just as big of fans of the show as us nerds) were telling Tom how special this show has been.

And now that we're near the end, and we can start burning bridges behind us--I'm going to say what I've thought for a while. I'm glad that was the last Todd Barry call. 

[Greggulator]

You are not alone with the Michael K. love. That dude is great. Such a unique oddball.

I'm working on having Patton Oswalt saying "Classic Greggulator" as my ringtone. I played the clip for my mom. She's a huge fan of King of Queens and got such a kick out of it. (And no, she doesn't call me Greggulator.)

Last night's show was a total blast. There's nothing more to say -- just a great Best Show episode with two of the best guests and a lot of quality calls and a lot of fun.

I was thinking of going out in classic heel style but I thought better. Tom, Julie and Patton are professionals -- try and toss something up for them and let them handle the funny. And it's the end of the show. There's no need for me to rip on the guys from The Chateau or almost every caller from Chicago, who have long been targets of mine.

The Chateau folks haven't called in ages and they never called in during a show I was listening to live. My idea for them was that I would take them under my wing and transform them into quality callers but in exchange they would have to build a shrine to me in their facility.

[Trembling Eagle]

that pizza scam seems more something Oswald Loomis would pull off rather than The Joker

[daveB from Oakland]

BEST: Tom's Acapella renditions of the "Hot Dog" guitar solo and, later on, the flute part from "Thick as a Brick"

Julie's revival of "Whaazzzzuuup!"

Patton's "Raw Pop Tarts taste like divorce"

Gary getting praise from King of Comedy Patton Oswalt

Gary's amazingly incisive analysis of the ridiculous position of quote-unquote #NERDS in the 2010s

WORST: Spike big-timing the show ... and also WHERE IS VANCE??? I fear he's fallen into the prog-rock equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle.

[Matt from Halifax]

WHERE IS VANCE??? I fear he's fallen into the prog-rock equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle.

I will miss Vance most of all. He doesn't really post on twitter much anymore.

[Crusherkc]

I imagine talking to people over the air and taking their phone calls was a little too taxing for Vance.  I'm sure he'd prefer to sneak off into a dark corner with his pair of Bose™ and an early Genesis cd and leave the social stuff to Gary.

[paul from sacramento]

I'm listening to last nights show and I just I realized is that the guy who gave the kid a paper bag with an Mounds bar has to be the biggest jerk in the world. He could have just took the kids money and the kid would have never seen him again. He had to know that this kid was going to get perpetually more excited the longer he had that paper bag in his sock only to eventually have an enormous disappoint prolonged.

I'm also not going Mike being the guy who gave the kid the Mounds bar.

[bigoteetoe]

I'm working on having Patton Oswalt saying "Classic Greggulator" as my ringtone. I played the clip for my mom. She's a huge fan of King of Queens and got such a kick out of it. (And no, she doesn't call me Greggulator.)

When "That's so Greggulator" becomes a TV show, there should be a character who's catch phrase is "Smell you later, Greggulator"

[GhostDad]

I was in stitches at the Pete Holmes laugh supercut, the sound collage is one of the best things I have ev... OH GOOD LORD!  Ugghhh.

[JesseFromVegas]

Julie's comment that Tom is our generation's Letterman is completely and totally spot-on.  What Late Night was for me as a child is what the Best Show was for me in my late 20s/early 30s. 

Man, what a homerun of a show.  Thank God I got to listen to it while working from home today, I know I would have been super disruptive to my colleagues breaking up as much as I did.

And next week is the Christmas Party!  The FINAL Best Show Christmas Party!  Can't wait!

[Crusherkc]

I love Tom's take on Robert Plant coming over to those two "fans" to watch the opening band.  "Good, he laughed in your jerk friend's face"

Hated missing the first hour live b/c I missed "Stairway" in the music portion of the show.

[timmx]

Julie's comment that Tom is our generation's Letterman is completely and totally spot-on.  What Late Night was for me as a child is what the Best Show was for me in my late 20s/early 30s.

I wholeheartedly agree. When I first heard Tom and Jon bonded over "Get a Life" it made perfect sense to me on the continuum from staying up past my bedtime to see the Panicky Guy to realizing my kids have picked up my habit of saying "wait whuuut?".

[Steve of Bloomington]

You are not alone with the Michael K. love. That dude is great. Such a unique oddball.

I'm working on having Patton Oswalt saying "Classic Greggulator" as my ringtone. I played the clip for my mom. She's a huge fan of King of Queens and got such a kick out of it. (And no, she doesn't call me Greggulator.)

Last night's show was a total blast. There's nothing more to say -- just a great Best Show episode with two of the best guests and a lot of quality calls and a lot of fun.

I was thinking of going out in classic heel style but I thought better. Tom, Julie and Patton are professionals -- try and toss something up for them and let them handle the funny. And it's the end of the show. There's no need for me to rip on the guys from The Chateau or almost every caller from Chicago, who have long been targets of mine.

The Chateau folks haven't called in ages and they never called in during a show I was listening to live. My idea for them was that I would take them under my wing and transform them into quality callers but in exchange they would have to build a shrine to me in their facility.

'AP Mike magazines' had me laughing for quite a while.