Bonus Episode - The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Hey, folks, it's David.

And it's Graham, and you're looking good.

Yeah.

Yeah, what are you doing?

Yeah, boy.

Ah.

New haircut or just muscles?

What's happening?

Did you put beer goggles on us?

Yeah, man.

You look good.

Anyway, hey, here's what's happening.

The Max Fun Drive is coming up very soon.

Yeah, I'm excited as hell.

And every year we have a couple weeks where we ask people to support the show.

And this year is just the same.

Absolutely.

And you may not know if you haven't joined that Dave and I are the kings of Boco.

And

it's bonus content for the Uniniti.

Yes, yeah.

And we put out a great amount of them, and they're so, so funny, the episodes.

You want to hear them.

And so we thought we would just let you have one of this year's many bonus content episodes for free as a little teaser to get you.

Prime your pump.

And this is like, yeah, this is like a Costco

in a little nibbling

sample.

Except you can have this whole episode.

Yeah, you would deserve it.

It's an episode where we watched old episodes of the Rosie O'Donnell show and tried to guess what her intro was going to be.

And you know what?

It was fun through.

At the beginning of the episode, we weren't sure if they did it every time.

So I thought we were going to be out of content so fast.

You're going to hear it.

And

keep an ear out for Max Fun Drive coming up very soon.

And you know what?

Whatever you're doing, keep doing it.

You look good.

Well, folks, thanks for listening.

And from all of us here.

Should we do another bonus episode?

It sounds like we're ending an episode.

It sounds like it's ending.

Like you just, that's this is you got what you paid for this month.

We uh well you enjoyed.

I just got an idea for another bonus episode.

It's we you hear like the last five seconds of an episode and then you just hear us muttering to ourselves for 45 minutes.

Yeah.

Well, if you're here, that means you're a member of Max Fun and we're glad to have you.

A lot of people say this and it doesn't, you know, it's never been more true that we're the kings of Boco.

And

so you're lucky, you know, it's you're playing, you're playing the game and you're coming up with all aces because here we are doing another episode, but this time it's a brand new style of show.

This Dave invented a format.

And I can't wait.

Take it it away, Dave.

Okay, so we got a few weeks ago.

Boy, who was our guest even?

Oh, wasn't it Christine?

I wanted to say that.

It was Bort Dog.

Yeah.

We were talking about the Rosie O'Donnell show.

And we...

If people out there don't know the Rosie O'Donnell show,

tell a brief synopsis.

Rosie O'Donnell was born in 1962 in Brooklyn.

I don't know.

Is that right?

How far do you think I am from the right age?

1962?

Yeah, I'd say that's probably the right.

You know what?

I'm going to go 1958.

58?

I don't know.

I'm going to guess.

That's my guess.

Oh, okay.

She was born in...

Oh, my God.

Why did I question myself?

March 21st, 1962.

Shit, in Brooklyn?

Comac.

Comac, C-O-M-M-A-C-K, New York.

Okay.

So she's a New York girl through and through.

Well, it depends where this place is.

Yeah, it's on Long Island.

Long Island, okay.

So boom, she comes into existence.

She comes into existence.

Now, her childhood, fraught.

Oh, really?

Tough?

I have an actual...

I picture her as being a real tomboy growing up.

That's how I picture her fishing and keeping a frog in her pocket.

Yeah, I mean, Tomboy, that's why she loved Tom Cruise so much, because they could both relate to the Tom stuff.

She only wears Toms of Maine.

She listens to the Tom Tom Club.

Etc.

And so she's a comedian.

Yeah.

And she started out as a stand-up comedian.

She, you know, rose to fame.

She played Rizzo in Greece on Broadway.

She played

a woman in bondage gear in Exit to Eden.

What's the one where she plays a developmentally challenged

piece?

It's called like the bus.

Riding the bus with my sister or something.

Yes, that's the one.

And she, of course, she was at her pinnacle, Rosie O'Donnellness, when she was in

a League of Their Own.

A League of Their Own, my favorite as well.

Yeah, her and Madonna made quite a duo.

They really do.

And they were friends off.

I don't know if that's how they became friends, but they were friends off air as well

uh honestly if they did a spin-off with just those two that went their further adventures in baseball i would have loved it i would have watched that at the very end when

that i when i ran the kid casting website uh oh yes they at the very end there's like all the people from the 40s 50 years later uh the the people they cast as old rosie o'donnell and madonna were perfect oh yeah so it wasn't them just wearing um

old makeup?

It was just.

No, it was two different actresses.

And also, the guy they got to play, there was the shitty little kid running around the team.

And the guy they got to play him at the end was

former Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart.

That's not true.

No, but he looks like him.

It's the guy

from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

Yeah.

What else was he in?

He was in Teen Wolf.

He was one of the.

Yes, he was on the basketball team.

He was on the basketball team, yeah.

And so the Rosie O'Donnell show was a thing that she hosted.

What years would you guess?

I would guess

either like the tail end of the 90s or the,

I would say in the 90s, like 97 is when it would have started.

It started on June 10th, 1996.

96, okay.

And then went until 2002, June 27th, 2002, when it was taken over by, in a hostile takeover, taken over by Ellen.

Remember?

No, Carolyn Ray.

Caroline Ray?

Oh, Carolyn Ray.

She's had an interesting career.

She's played a witch.

Well, that's for another episode.

Yeah, that's for a Carolyn Ray episode.

So, but when we were talking about the Rosie O'Donnell show, now this was like a

nighttime style talk show in the afternoon.

Yes.

Perhaps the first of its kind.

She was at a desk.

She had guests on, celebrity guests, not just like Donahue style guests.

Yeah.

And she would like, it would be celebrities, right?

It would be like big name.

Yeah, it wasn't like

Gigi Allen or something like that.

It was rarely GG Allen.

Although it's when I say it's the first of its kind, certainly Regis was doing the same.

Oh, sure.

I mean, Reg is, but you could say that about a lot of things.

Reg was at the

genesis of a lot of different things.

We love Regis.

I hope that he's up there just crooning with

the whole rat pack, which he was kind of friends with.

Yeah, he was known for his crooning.

Anyway, so in this Rosie O'Donnell show,

I loved it, by the way, when it started.

I did too.

Yeah.

Because I was trying to think, when did I watch this show?

It came out in June, started June 10th of 1996.

And I'm like, I bet that whole summer I watched it because I think I think it was probably on like at three o'clock so I couldn't catch the the beginning when I was in school but all summer long I was and she was

uh going right up against Oprah wasn't she

I don't know I can't that stuff with no is not in part of my

that's not a way

um

anyway so In every episode, we'll play the theme.

You know what?

Let's play the opening of an episode.

Yes.

And we'll get a handle on it.

I'm Melissa Shotlin from Block Island, Rhode Island, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Regis Philman meet Rosie's classmates and Scott Wolf.

Hit it, John.

So they just had some random person from the audience

announcing the guests.

And then they play this theme song, this animated intro.

Oh, Scott Wolfe was on this episode.

Yeah, it was a way to bury the lead, I say.

Well, she said it in the intro.

She did.

She said, Scott Wolfe.

I only heard the reach.

Yeah, well,

you got tunnel vision when you heard that.

Anyway, so they do this little intro.

It looks

animated, very silly kind of.

Yeah.

It looks and sounds like the nanny intro.

Yes, yes.

And it's all sorts of hilarious images going to space.

It's her as a kid.

But the thing that I always remembered was you hear who the guests are going to be, and then she does a little...

Well, she said right there, he's a man of prestige, prestige, my good buddy Rege.

Yeah,

which is a

classic, yeah.

I mean,

what do you mean?

I mean, it's uh

he's a classic, and I mean, to just the rhyme, it seems like it's probably been used before, but maybe not.

Maybe she invented it.

Do you think she wrote these things?

Well, here's the thing: on today's bonus episode, now that we're going to do a little backstory, Graham and I will watch a bunch of these intros and try to guess what her little rhyme is going to to be.

Okay, okay, yes, this is going to be good.

So, your question: Did she write these things?

Did she write them, or was there a writer that like she got a stack of them and kind of

I guarantee it was a writer, did a stack of them, and she would um

she would just go into the booth and

like pound out a week's worth in a minute.

Yeah, that's right, yeah.

It would be like when Krusty the Clown is in the recording studio,

Yeah, and so

you found several of these openings.

Well, I haven't watched them.

I just know that there's tons on

YouTube.

So

the one I always remembered from my childhood was

her name is Christine Lottie, and she's hot, hot, hottie.

Now, who is Christine Lottie?

Christine Lottie is an actress who's sort of hot, sort of a hottie.

Okay, okay.

No, Christine Lottie is,

boy, I would put her sort of

somewhere between Christine Boransky and the woman from the West Wing who played CJ.

Allison Janey.

She's sort of in that.

Well, Alison Janey, sure, yeah.

Sort of in that ballpark.

Christine Lottie is another actress.

I couldn't tell you what she was in.

But,

all right, so let's just

see how this goes.

Let's pick one.

Let's just pick this one here.

They're all on

okay this is uh

and i'm donna murphy and we're from new york city and this is the rosie o'donnell show on today's show judge judy author alice walker and vo wbc tv anchor scott wally hit it john okay so we've got judge judy yeah

i think this one writes itself as far as i'm all right what do you think it's gonna be uh she's a cutie patootie her name is judge judy okay that is so good

It feels like that's what it wants.

Everything's fun and Taylor ducks your arm.

What the hell is that?

A big high from the big apple, New York.

What the hell am I witnessing?

Didn't do one.

We're fucked.

Wait, did I dismiss it?

That's Judy.

And Vogue, WBC, and Vogue.

Scott Wally.

And some anchor, some news anchor.

Alice Walker.

Oh, we are screwed.

Did she not do this every episode?

Well, that was from October 2nd, 1998.

Maybe by then she had phased it out.

Okay.

It's another cartoon intro, but in this intro, there are like real life people that popped up and like it all.

Big eye from Big Apple.

Yeah.

As a

viewer in Vancouver, knowing that one day I might be able to ruin the intro of a TV show.

Okay, let's try another one.

Well, let's not do this one from the day before, but you were right.

It would have been cutie patootie.

Right?

I am Kelly Mary from Shirley Long Island, and this is a Rosie O'Donnell show.

Today's guests are Felicia Alicia Rashad, Gary Marshall, Phil Collins and a special Halloween kids segment.

Hit it, John.

Oh, that's good.

Okay, so by the way, she called her Rosie O'Donnell.

And who was it?

It was Phil Collins.

I already forget.

I know.

I am Kelly Mary from Shirley Long Islands, and this is a Rosie O'Donnell show.

Today's guests are Felicia Rashad, Gary Marshall, Phil Collins, and a special Halloween kids segment.

Okay, so Felicia Rashad, Gary Marshall,

and Phil Collins.

Okay.

I want to rhyme something with Gary Marshall, but I'm really

stuck here.

So this is a Halloween episode.

If it was a Christmas episode, she'd be saying, Felicia Navidad with Felicia Rashad.

Oh, that's really good.

Oh, do you think if she does the pun, do you think it's going to be a Halloween one?

Because everybody's dressed in crazy costumes.

Oh, yeah.

We're going to be extra scary with my favorite Marshall, Gary.

There it is.

That's well done.

And then the show's really Balin's with my friend Phil Collins.

I don't think we used Balin back then.

Oh, really?

I thought she was on the cutting edge.

We're going to get scary with Felicia, Phil, and Gary.

Felicia, Phil, and Gary.

We're going to get scary.

Nice.

So she looped everybody in.

That's great.

Yeah.

And the cartoon visuals in each one that we've looked are different.

In this one, she's got a baby.

She's got a baby and she puts it in a carriage and like pushes it out out of the way.

She runs on stage.

I don't know if that's true, that they had

different

visuals every time.

Well, no, everyone that we've seen.

Like, I'm sure that they were a whole season's worth.

But go back up for a sec there.

You're scrolling.

Oh, she was dressed in a pumpkin costume that's what i wanted to know what she was oh yeah of course she was you know what i'm just gonna kind of i'm gonna mute this but kind of just go through it and see i wonder if she wore different costumes throughout the episode

oh no she's still oh there's somebody dressed as elmo talking to a big elmo felicia rashad is a pile of leaves

gary marshall is uh he looks to be wearing like a mechanics outfit or just yeah different jacket that i'm used to seeing him in yeah

Phil Collins is dressed as Phil Collins.

Oh, what song is he singing?

This is killing me.

I don't know what song.

This was like the peak era of a song like that.

It's, I wonder if that was from the

Tarzan soundtrack.

Yeah, I wonder that as well.

Okay, let's get this was one from July 2nd, 1996.

This was uploaded by Alan Funk.

Hi, I'm Pat Alexander from Brooklyn, New York.

And this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Cher

and from Multiplicity, six-year-old Katie Schwartzberg.

Music from Broadway's Bringing the Music, Bringing the Funk.

And from Caroline in the City, actor Malcolm Goetz.

Hit it, John.

Okay.

The fact that it went the step down of share to the kid from Multiplicity.

From Multiplicity, six-year-old, someone.

Wow.

And she does four guests every episode.

Oh, yeah.

She's a machine, this Rosie O'Donnell.

But, like, I guess there's no time for a skit.

But she does a monologue, right?

Oh, sure, she does yeah

i'm gonna say it's as good as it gets with my guest matt gets yeah i'm getting wet with my guest

gets okay uh and who is it share

okay uh

boy change your underwear for my good friend share yep or is there something i can't remember the kid's name but it's something about multiplicity

we're in the big city with the kid from multiplicity

Hi.

Pie.

She always has a baby.

No, the other one, she was rollerblading.

She's precious and she's rare.

It's the fabulous share.

She's precious and

she's rare.

It's the fabulous share.

These are good.

The weird thing about Multiplicity is I don't even remember there being a kid in that movie.

I feel like there was a kid kind of in the background, but I want to know this interview she did with this kid.

Why was this kid on the show?

Because she was, Graham, you know why she was on.

Was she an ugly but ugly?

No.

An ugly petugly.

Was she a homely patomely?

No.

No.

Can we see what one of her like monologue jokes is?

Because I'm staring.

Yeah.

We're doing a live show here you do the announce you're conferring with your friend.

What are you talking about?

She mostly was chastising the audience member who who did the intro

is actually called bring in the funk bring in the noise

But they may think of changing it to bring in the music

I can

do that way too Patrol

you know you have the right to improvise when doing the announce I think

that is wouldn't that be

horrifying for the average person to be corrected on live TV?

I would think the opposite.

I'd be like,

being in the kind of getting roasted by Rosie O'Donnell.

Roasted by the master.

Oh, darn it.

Okay.

Some of these YouTube clips aren't the actual episode.

So this is, here's one I can tell it's got the intro, although it looks like it's probably from a bad VHS.

It's from December 18th, 1996.

Oh, I'm kind of.

Let's see what this ad is for here.

For good.

The elves this year.

This week it's gifts under $15.

Haldor.

The recording of this is very cute.

Ladies' box slippers, $6.99.

Ladies' leather gloves, $13.99.

Wilson Fleece activewear for men, 30% off.

I mean, this stuff, if you showed up in these 90s clothes now, people would think you were the coolest person.

Yeah.

Where did you get it?

At Kaldor.

I got it at Kaldor 30 years ago.

From a camp.

Oh, it's a Thanksgiving scene.

Some people are a little hard to please.

From a box?

Yeah, it's just past potatoes.

Hurry up.

Get out of here.

I'm Matt Murphy from Atlanta, Georgia, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Albert Brooks, Kay Ballard, Natalie Merchant, and Kenneth Branagh.

Hit it, John.

Okay, Albert Brown.

I'm going to eat bananas with my good friend Kenneth Branagh.

I think it's going to be like, he's got style, he's got looks, is my friend Albert Brooks.

I think mine's right.

Okay.

You're trying to be funny.

I'm trying to nail it.

TV commercials, easy as pie.

Today, my top bananas, Mr.

Cannon Freddy.

What?

It was so close.

What did she say?

She said something banana.

She said something about it.

Today my top bananas, Mr.

Cannon Freddy.

Today, my top banana is Mr.

Cannon Frederick.

Oh, yeah.

She's really not enunciating.

She's trying to record as many as she can.

So I got it pretty well.

That was great.

I'm very proud of you.

Okay.

Proud of myself.

Now, this is one from 1999.

I'm worried that these ones post-98 don't have the little rhyme.

I think I'm for sure post-9-11.

It was

too heady a time.

America was wounded and just they weren't ready for

Osama bin Laden.

I'm with my friend the Gollum.

The Gollum.

California, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Vanessa Williams and Eurythmics.

Hit it, John.

Okay.

Today, my top pick is the Eurythmnix.

Eurythminics.

Yeah.

That's only two guests that they said.

Yeah, Vanessa Williams is going to sing too, probably with the arrhythmic.

What song was hers?

You saved the best for last?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was a jam.

What?

Vanessa Williams.

She's my top banana.

It's Vanessa Williams, I guess.

Oh, that sucks.

That did suck.

Let's give a big cheer.

The arrhythmics are here.

First of all, it's just your rhythmics.

And second of all, you could say that about anyone.

I feel like this episode, they would probably have to do a lot of sketches because they only have the two guests.

Even if Vanessa Williams does a song,

she's not going to interview the arrhythmics.

She might interview your arrhythmics.

Bottom part of my ensemble.

Half of my arrhythmics outfit because I'll be performing with them.

Do you think

one of the fun things about being a talk show host is signaling the band

when to stop when you walk out to do your monologue?

I feel like that's a big draw.

Yeah.

She's John McVeigh and the McVeigh LT, I think was the name of the band.

That's awesome.

Is that what it was called?

Mick V.

John McDaniel and the McDaniel

and the Cocker Spaniels

John McD.

John she his name was John McD McDaniel she called him John McD and the McDLTs

oh okay so she does it she does a bit of a monologue she mostly does chatting from the desk with those blue note cards and then uh

they're doing some kind of Plinkos oh this is oh this is Plinko bits called Nsinko Stacey shoe 14 years old from Balior

She's doing some kind of contest that's Plinko, but it's In Synco.

I guess this is November 11th, 1999, and In Sync is as big as it'll ever be.

Yeah.

And then who?

I forget.

Oh, it's Vanessa Williams.

Vanelli Williams comes out in a white suit.

Eurythmic Singh.

Yeah.

Oh, and she does talk to them for a while.

Yes, that's fun.

Oh, and they're dressed in military fatigue.

Well, they're actually like suits, but they're camo suits.

Camo suits.

Like, you know, like tailored clothing.

All right, now then Rosie is going to do a song with them, and we've got to hear this.

Yes, I will.

Oh, no, she's put on the outfit, too.

Oh, she's just singing background.

She's amongst their two background singers.

Let's see if she really improvises.

Dave Stewart playing a less called to lunch song.

Do you know this song?

No.

It's a missionary man.

Such a voice.

Oh, I do not need this long intro.

I do know this one.

They're not cutting to Rosie's singing at all.

No, they're not.

You know the songs about how she has her least favorite sexual position?

Is Missionary Man.

Yeah.

I prefer doggy dial marriage.

Okay, give me more Rosie.

Yeah.

Come on.

Give me one more.

One more taste.

One more.

We've got half an hour to film.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

Give me more tastes.

We might watch, you know,

the nanny theme song later.

Yeah, we could, we really could go through the view theme song.

Do they have a theme song or just an announcement?

Rosie O'Donnell,

December 19th, 1996, featuring Elmo.

Your rhyme ready.

Hey!

Oh!

It's Elmo from Sesame Street, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell show!

Today's guests are Roe Whoopi Goldberg!

Yeah!

Yes!

And the Dreshers!

What?

I don't know, the Dreshers?

So, okay.

Whoopi Goldberg.

Presumably Elmo will be there.

The Dreshers?

Was it Fran Dresher and friends?

Oh, maybe.

That'd be awesome.

And And what was the last one?

Crystal Bernard?

Yeah.

And I'm going to say that

it's not going to rhyme, but it's going to be like, today, Big Whoopee, it's my friend Whoopee.

Something like that.

Oh, sure.

This episode goes hard with Crystal Bernard.

This episode's got us in Helmo.

We're talking to my friend Elmo.

She acts, she sings, Crystal Bernard from Wings.

That's good.

I want to go back in time and get

a job on this show.

Yeah, me too.

Okay, this is a weird episode.

There's no, they don't do it.

She just goes up and talks to Elmo and there's no theme song.

Yeah, dude, that was the Christmas gift to us all was just

poor Elmo.

Okay, I bet.

I apologize.

It's also worth saying that Elmo is wearing like a collar and cuffs, like much like a Chippendale would wear.

Yeah, but like Christmas themed.

Christmas themed, yeah.

Like, if you're feeling festive and horny,

Thomas, and from Super Cop, kickbox some Michelle Khan.

Hit it, John.

Well, we don't get any of the other people.

Thomas, and from Super Cop, kickbox a Michelle Khan.

Oh, you know, we'll see in the theme song who the guests are.

Super

oh, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Yeah,

oh, life cannot be sweeter.

Oh, no, we're gonna find out.

I ruined it.

We got Davey, Mick, and Peter.

The monkeys.

The monkeys.

So Life Could Not Be Sweeter.

We got Davey, Mick, and Peter.

This was when Michael Nesmith was not involved.

That's right.

Yeah.

This was a weird time in America.

The monkeys are your top guests.

And Jonathan Taylor Thomas is third.

But the monkeys are going to be panel and singing, right?

They're going to do some funny monkeys-esque monkey shines, I guess.

Yeah, okay.

This is one from December 4th, 2001.

Christmas Eve.

Oh, Christmas Eve.

Holy shit.

Yeah.

I can see from the episode description that it's Maggie Smith and Sissy Spacek are the guests.

She couldn't get more basic.

It's my guest, Cissy Spacek.

Oh, she's

cute little Missy.

It's my friend, Sissy.

Both good.

Both good.

Let's try it.

Well, it ain't no myth.

We got Maggie Smith.

It ain't no myth.

We got Maggie Smith.

Well, that's all right.

It's not as good as what we came up with, but I know.

Christmas Eve episode, too.

Give me something festive.

Yeah.

The hell, who's watching Rosie on Christmas Eve?

I guess a lot of people, probably.

Yeah, everyone who's home,

which is almost everyone.

All right,

this is one that was during Stormwatch 96.

Okay.

Is the weather hotline being advertised?

Yeah, you can call 1-888-660-WARN to warn...

You're warning the...

Are you getting a warning?

You have to call to get a warning?

Anyway, it's free on Sprint.

6927-6.

We'll have cutouts or cut-ins throughout the afternoon.

Now we join Rosie O'Donnell.

O'Donnell, again.

Okay, Balthasar Getty, Isabella Rossellini, Greg Fitzsimmons,

Robin Mattson.

Was it Balthasargetti?

It was someone Getty.

You're going to get ready.

Was it Estelle Getty?

Estelle Getty?

Okay.

Throughout the afternoon, now we join Rosie O'Donnell.

Donald.

Estelle Getty, Isabella Rossellini,

Greg Fitzsimmons, Robin Matson.

Oh, you know what this means?

It means we missed it.

The fact that they're showing the names of the guests, we've missed her little rhyme.

Oh, don't we see the guests first and then we see the rhyme?

And she's like flying into the set.

Well, no, I think the guests come after she does the rhyme, but I mean, I'm sure it was everybody get ready for Estelle Getty.

Yeah, that weather watch really screwed us.

Weather watch.

Fucking weather watch storm 96.

Okay.

Where were you during Storm 96?

October 98.

Congress votes on an impeachment inquiry.

We'll have the details at noon.

That slick Willie.

So little things have changed.

Describe the next Rosie.

Friendly and hip-hop now.

Can actor Jeff Goldbloom keep up with Rosie?

I'm out of Rosie.

Leading lady Arlene Doll feels some old secrets.

Did you fall in love?

What?

Singer Edwin McCain and Rosie's cooking up infusion with the Rosie.

Edwin McCain.

She's just like identical twins separated at first or something.

Maybe not.

Look, look like Monica Louis.

Right now.

Old lady said she looks like Monica Lewis.

Henry Han from Smithville, Virginia, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Jeff O'Blunt, Edwin McCain, Arlene Dow, and cooking with the other Rosie O'Donnell.

Hit it, son.

Jeff Goldblum, Edwin McCain.

Not a moment too soon.

It's my friend Jeff Goldblum.

It's chunky.

It's chunky.

It's hard to get.

I don't know who that singer is.

Edwin McCain.

What was his song?

He had to have had a hit for sure.

Yeah, well, I mean, we could probably fast forward and hear it.

Edwin McCain,

he's going to take away your pain like a bullet to the brain.

It's Edwin McCain.

Living La Vita Loca.

Hey, lady, I got the pie.

We got to dance with you.

Oh, is this a...

He's looking at a pet shop there with the wolf.

She came out of a car wash on a surfboard.

This is the season they didn't do it.

Fuck.

Fuck.

This season, it's when they lost their way, if you ask me.

This is when I went to college and I stopped watching because I was so interested in higher learning.

Are we going to get Edwin McCain's tune?

No, we're just going to get the cooking.

Oh, no, there he is.

Oh, there he is.

There was still kind of an Eddie Redder trick going on.

Ready?

And I'll be

your crying shoulder.

I'll be the love to you.

That's Evan McCain.

And that is the time, the time of our lives when that kind of music was around.

Yeah, that was, yeah, that's when music was music.

Now that's what I call music.

Yeah.

Okay, Christmas episode 1999.

Well, I

I just can't wait to see the first lady.

Well,

people uploading these are really screwing us today.

This is a complete from WABC

TV7 in New York.

This is where that played

originally.

Somebody's there.

This is obviously like an old

VHS.

Yeah, I like it when you see sort of the tape tracking adjust.

Now that you know what you've been searching for.

It's amazing that some of these

videotapes are in great quality and some are total garbage.

Yeah, this is total garbage.

Hi, I'm Kathy.

Cass Mark, have you ever heard of that?

The audio is fine.

Recently, I've been showing people

beautiful kitchens like this for substantially.

I'm Stephen Brimberg from New York City, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Olympian Gary Hall Jr., Richard Simmons, Meatloaf, and comedian Vicki Vivret.

Hit it, John.

Vicki Vivret.

Who were the celebrities?

I don't remember.

And this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Olympian Gary Hall Jr., Richard Simmons, Meatloaf, and

Richard Simmons and Meatloaf.

We're going to get Slimmons with my friend Richard Simmons.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

We're going to to eat meatloaf with my friend Meatloaf.

He's a big dumb oaf.

His name's Meatloaf.

Meeting Vicky Simmons.

What the hell?

Mr.

Dela Meal?

Oh, that's Richard Simmons.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

That was a little bit

of a product.

Sure.

You know what?

Some of these.

You know what?

Dave.

As you scroll through, there's pictures of her current day.

I got to say, she looks great.

She's got gray hair.

She's got a kind of an up-do.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

There is, now we just got a weird, like,

this Felicia Rashad picture of her with a very busty push-up bra.

Yeah, what's that from?

The infamous scene that took the Cosby show off the air.

Whoa.

Do we want to push up?

It's an 18-minute video.

I don't think we want it.

Okay.

Oh, this is uploaded by the guy who did it, Justin Ward.

This is Justin Ward.

Oh, okay.

And this video is titled My Opening Announcement for the Rosie Adams.

Hi, I'm Justin Ward from Parisburg, Virginia, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Julia Louis Dreyfus and Ann Bancroft.

Hit it, John.

So,

Anne Bancroft and Julia Louis Dreyfus.

Trying to think of something about lifeless, but that's not.

Is Anne Bancroft was she married to Mel Brooks?

I don't know.

Well.

Okay, wait.

My friend.

We're going to be

something coolly with my friend Julie.

Yeah.

Julia?

Can't wait to see you, my friend.

Nope, that doesn't work.

You won't go soft with Anne Bancroft.

Will be kept aloft by Anne Bancroft.

Our spirits, that is.

Anyway, hit it, John.

The show is righteous, Julia Louis Dreyfus.

The show is righteous, Julia Louis Dreyfus.

Not great.

There's no way we could have called that.

But you know what?

We need to be better.

Yeah.

That's true.

I love that somebody uploaded their own thing.

That's so cool.

Okay, September 4th, 2001.

This is one week before 9-11.

Oh, Jesus.

Hi, I want to get a heart of stick from Habity Grace, Maryland, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, David Schwimmer, train, and a backstage pass to Madonna's Drowned World Tour.

Hit it, John.

David Schwimmer, train, and Madonna's World Tour.

Today's gone to simmer with my friend David Schwimmer.

Yeah,

boy,

they're going to take away your pain like a bullet to your brain.

It's train.

Back to old tricks with season six.

I didn't know it was season premiere.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Got off to a rough start that year.

Hoo boy.

This is going to be our best season ever.

Okay, this is the day before that.

Wait.

No, the day after that.

So this is September 5th, 2008.

9-11 inches closer with

Glenn Closer.

And this is the Rose O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Kelly Rippa, Rick Fox, and Mary J.

Blige.

Hit it, John.

Kelly Rippa.

Skip up, my friend Jane Rippa.

Jane Rippa.

Kelly Rippa's sister.

Happy to oblige.

It's Mary J.

Oblige.

Oh, that's good.

Feeling Chippa, we got Kelly Rippa.

That's not her best work.

Righteous Dreyfus was.

Yeah, she thought it's like the box for that one.

Okay, this one seems to be.

No, this is.

What does this woman have on her shirt?

We already saw her.

We already saw her race for the.

But we, yeah, this is the season they didn't have

the rhymes.

Someone must have been like, bring them, bring back the rhymes.

Yeah, quickly and rhymes.

Okay, so this one we didn't see the intro, but we can, I'm just going to mute it here so we can see who the guests are.

Okay.

Okay.

Super kid Paul Robinson, Robeson,

Elton John,

the Borges

quadruplets.

What a lineup.

Now you're going to be,

Mr.

John, you're going to be second belt to a super kid.

It's got to be Elton John.

Yeah, today's going to be.

Today's really on.

It's my friend Elton John.

Yeah, well, I'm happy to have him on.

It's Elton freaking John.

Got up at dawn just to see Elton John.

I do like that Super Kid was the lead, and then Elton John was the second, and then right after was some quadruplets.

Now, what do they eat?

That's her questions.

Now, what's their deal?

Rosie O'Donnell.

I wish I could, I'll probably just watch full episodes of this when this is done.

Well, I'll tell you what, there's not enough of them.

Charlie Sheen is back in court.

We'll hear his surprising request from the judge.

And Spring Fashion 2000, we'll see what'll be the rage.

All coming up at four after roasting.

9-11 will never happen.

Hi, I'm Felicia Colada from Macomb, Mississippi.

And this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Brooke Shields, Britney Spears, Rosie's Barbie Theater, and Jimmy at the Hardbody Contest.

Hit it, John.

That sounds so good.

And this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Brooke Shields, Britney Spears, Rosie's Barbie Theater.

Okay, Brooke Shields and Britney Spears.

I'm all ears for Britney Spears.

Yeah, it's got to be Britney Spears, right?

Well, it could be Brooke Shields.

What was Brooke Shields TV show?

Not Veronica's Closet.

No.

Oh, my God.

No, right?

Not Carolina City.

No.

Yeah, what the hell was it called?

I'm going to say,

have no fear.

We've got Britney Spears.

Yeah, that's good too.

But what was her show?

Was it something after her name?

Was it like Suddenly Brooke?

It was Suddenly Susan.

Suddenly Susan.

You won't be snoozing for Suddenly Susan.

So yeah, it could go either way.

And Jimmy at the Hardbody Contest.

I was a Jimmy at the Hardbody Contest.

Give three cheers for Miss Britney Spears.

You gotta.

That's pretty good.

That was a good one.

Yeah.

That's as good as it gets, I think.

Brooke Shields and Bobby Root.

And I mean that in a good way.

I mean, like, that's as good as it gets as a society.

That's.

That's what we'll leave behind for future generations.

They should have put the Rosie O'Donnell show on that big

golden record they sent to space

i'm francisna from sliaster new york and this is the rosie o'donnell show today's guests are madonna joseph cross and peter wilson hit it y'all madonna joseph cross

yeah

you know you're gonna want to my friend madonna i think is probably yeah that's my bet

Could be something like something involving the material girl.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

she's the material girl yeah that's

shit like that

oh what a nana

yeah that's not very good she she could even say she's my top banana

yeah that was weak that was a weak one.

We had better ones than her.

Yeah, I like, yeah.

Hi, I'm Michelle Stepnowski Dimitriu from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, an all-star tribute to one of Rosie's favorite friends, Penny Marshall.

Oh, my God, hit it, John.

Just a tribute to Penny Marshall today.

Oh, oh.

Did she die?

Is that why?

She may have died.

She may have directed movies posthumously.

Penny Marshall, of course, directed League of Their Own.

Let's see.

She played Laverne.

Is there a rhyme there?

Today

it's not going to burn.

It's my friend Laverne.

Surely that is.

Laverne, surely she is.

Let's see.

Penny, something Penny.

She's as bright as a penny.

It's my friend Penny.

That's true.

The guests are many and it's all about Penny.

A tribute to Penny Marshall.

That sounds like a fun episode.

I mean, if you're producing this show, you're like, I got...

This one's going to

stop you in your boots.

Yeah.

Ellen DeGeneres.

Oh, this is...

Yeah, this could be the.

Everybody will be.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey.

Hey, hey hey hey hey let's see

yeah let's see who the guests are we'll mute this Ellen DeGeneres I'm assuming it's a thing about Ellen

today I'm really yelling it's my friend Ellen Ellen yeah that's that's got to be it I'm yelling I'm not I'm you know what I'm yelling like Magellan is my best friend Ellen

Yep, there we go.

We could have done this.

We could have worked on the Rosie O'Donnell show.

You'll be be yelling.

No, everybody will be yelling.

Yeah, that's

a super kid first, then Elton John.

So you've done the most pogo ball bounces of any kid in the United States.

That's right.

I'm a super kid.

Oh, my God.

Look at this commercial.

Fabulous for milk and ice cream.

Hershey's chocolate syrup.

As always, a fat free food.

And when it comes to chocolate taste, still as big as ever.

Listen,

they're telling you Hershey's chocolate syrup is a non-fat food.

Oh, so it's like healthy?

Oh, God, no.

Just doesn't have any fat in it.

Like I should put it on

a salad.

You should put it on your toothbrush, man.

And yeah, it was a cartoon skinny cow.

Yeah, this was before skinny cows.

You're watching ABC 33 Youngstown.

Hi, I'm Carol Murphy from Moline, Illinois, and this is a Rosie O'Donnell show.

Today's guests are Penny Marshall, comedian Bill Ingvall,

on Broadway's Titanic.

Hit it, John.

So we have not talking Hispanic.

It's my friend, the Titanic.

It's Penny Marshall is back.

And

Bill Engvall.

Is he, here's your sign?

Uh,

Bing Envol is he's one of the blue-collar comedy guys.

That's uh, that's what I know him from.

Yeah.

Um,

Bill, we're gonna get silly with my friend Billy.

That's good, or the laughs will be many with my friend Penny.

Let's see if it happens again.

The laughs are plenty.

The cheers were many last time.

That was good.

That was a good one.

It would be sad to be Bill Angville, you know, not no mention.

I wonder if the people who didn't get the mention felt like, fuck.

Like, I got this far in my career, but I didn't quite get to the top where I was going to get to the point.

I didn't get to the pinnacle, you know, having Rosie O'Donnell do a thing for me.

Okay, so this one seems to be a per this is a person in a Hansen shirt.

Hi, I'm Alyssa Lederer from Hicksville, New York, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Mike Douglas, Rob Estes, and my favorite group of all time, Hansen!

Mike Douglas, Rob Estes,

and Hansen.

Try to keep your pants on.

It's our band Hansen, something like that.

Keep your pants on, Hansen.

That's what I'm going with.

Okay, and the Rob Estes, Mike Wallace.

60 Minutes?

Yeah, Mike Wallace.

Yeah,

you'll be spending all your dollars to watch Mike Wallace.

There you go.

Yeah.

Hey, guys!

I'll be dancing to the super group Hansen.

Yeah.

I was close, pants on.

You were good, yeah.

Pants on, dancing.

They, uh,

I always forget how huge Hansen was when they were

kicking around.

They were they were gigantic.

Yeah, they were sort of the

well, they were their own thing, is what they were.

Yeah, and they

had more than one hit.

They had, I know, umbop was like the hero.

They had Where's the Love was their sort of follow-up?

Where's the love?

That's right, yeah.

And I will, on that album, it was like

I will come to you.

Oh, yeah, it was called?

When the new year was that?

Dark and stormy.

You won't have to reach out for me.

I will come to you.

Oh,

come to you.

What year was that?

That was 1998.

So 1998 was the year that if my brothers and I went anywhere in public together, we were called Hanson.

Oh, right.

That was that year.

It was the year of Hansen and being called Hans.

That's why you started growing a beard.

Yeah.

I got to distance myself from this whole Hansen

Debacle.

Well, we won't do too many more of these because we're running out of time.

And this one is from.

Oh, no, we already watched this one.

Robert Zimmerman on the Rosie O'Donnell show.

Is that Bob Dylan?

I'm Robert Zimmerman from Great Neck, New York, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Sarah Jessica Parker, the cast of Broadway's The Beauty Queen of Lanan, author Sebastian Younger, Broadway's The Sound of Music, and Dave Chappelle hit it.

Oh my god, that is such a wow-stacked show.

Holy shit!

That we got that part down the line, and then, like, arguably the most famous of the entire group.

Sarah Jessica Parker.

At the time, Sarah Jessica,

she was huge.

Yeah.

When is Just Like That coming back?

Can't come back fast enough as far as I know.

Soon.

It's coming soon.

Is it?

Yeah.

Thank God.

Okay, so Sarah Jessica Parker or.

Oh, Dave Chappelle.

This won't age well with Dave Chappelle.

I'm not even a try.

That was fantastic.

He's funny and swell.

It's the funny Dave Chappelle.

He's funny and swell.

It's the funny Dave Chappelle.

That's amazing that they listed him last in the opening but then he's like he's the guy he's the guy he's got to be the guy

um

wow imagine doing

a stand-up show at like what would probably be noon to a crowd of almost exclusively uh middle-aged women uh

what would they what would they like you know what kind of gags would they enjoy have you ever see norm mcdonald on the view

And he doesn't care what they like.

And he also pretended that he didn't know.

pretended he didn't know Saddam Hussein or something like that.

I forget.

Oh, another Halloween special.

Halloween special.

We'll do one or two more of these and then we'll get you on your way.

I'm Cruella Deville from Eastern Connecticut, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Bette Middler, Mark Wahlberg, and Village People.

Hey, John!

Bet Middler, Mark Wahlberg, and Village People.

What year?

I mean, that's a great Halloween.

Are the guests going to be in costume like they did last time?

Is Felicia Rashad going to be a pile of leaves?

Well, who's the first one?

I already forgot.

I already forgot as well.

I'm Corona McDonald from Eastern Connecticut, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Bette Middler, Mark Wahlberg, Bet Middler, Mark Wahlberg, and the village people.

The village people are a perfect

Halloween guest because they're already in

costume.

They're coming in costumes.

What?

Something about.

She's as good as it gets.

It's my best friend Bet.

Oh, that's really good.

I'm still trying to do Middler.

No, she's.

She starred in Fiddler.

Yeah, right in front of

Fiddler.

It's my friend Bette Midler.

Oh, what do they call her?

What's her?

Oh, she's the rose, the

pearl.

She's the

grand, the great Miss The Divine Miss M.

Divine Miss Miller.

Yeah, Miss M.

You're going to want to see him.

It's my friend, Divine Miss Ian.

She's

funny.

She's divine.

No, she's funny.

She's fine.

She's Miss M, she's divine.

I don't know, man.

Oh, that's really good.

I bet you that's close to it.

No, I think it's.

She's as good as it gets.

She's my best friend, Pet.

She's divine.

She's a dream.

That meddler is the queen.

Nice.

Sticks to landing.

Not quite, but.

But we're in the right.

We're certainly in the right.

Oh, we're in the right.

All right.

Let's do one more, and then we'll watch the nanny theme song.

Here's a question, just a very random.

Do you think Bill Murray was ever on the Rosie O'Donnell show?

Boy, only if she knew that 1-800 number.

Because I just wonder what type of

relationship they would have in an interview.

Oh, probably sexually charged.

Yeah, I'm glad she got to have Tom Cruise on her show

while it was happening.

Hi, I'm Ashley Bieger from Mad Sign in New York, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Today's guests are Minnie Driver, author Jesse Lee Brown Fovo, and Natalie Portman.

Hit it, John!

Minnie Driver, Natalie Portman, and author Jesse Brown.

She's one you're gonna see.

It's my friend Natalie.

I mean

with Natalie Portman.

Yeah, uh,

okay.

Diver, Fiverr,

Miver,

Piver.

Today, you're gonna

winnie with my friend Minnie.

Yeah, Minnie's a pretty cute name.

You're gonna want to rhyme it.

Yeah, I feel like that might win over over Portman, but

prove me wrong.

Prove me wrong.

Rosie O'Donnell show.

Yeah, I don't know.

She's not Maria Shriver.

She's Minnie Freaking Driver, dude.

Dude.

Well, here's a high fiver.

We got Minnie Driver.

Here's a high fiver.

High fiver.

We are overthinking them.

You need to think of the stupidest thing possible.

Well, that doesn't work.

Well, we're doing it anyway.

That's right.

We'll just do one more.

Okay, this is Jimmy Snoola.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Snogula from Lynnhurst, New Jersey, and this is the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On today's show, Tim McGraw, behind the scenes at Will and Grace, and Tim Russert.

Hit a job!

Okay, so Tim McGraw, behind the scenes at Will and Grace, and Tim Russert.

I think she's going to do do a double Tim thing.

Oh, yeah.

They're not twins, but they're both named Tim.

Yeah, we got both the Tims.

Or you'll be in awe.

It's my friend Tim McGraw.

That's good.

Well, I'm shouting Yeehaw for Tim McGraw.

Shouting.

Shouting Yeehaw for Tim McGraw.

And that works because he's a country.

He is a country kind of guy.

And we'll just watch one more, and it goes a little something

like this.

She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing Queens, till her boyfriend picked her up in one of those crushing.

Where did she need to go?

She was out on her fanny.

So over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield's door, she was there to sell makeup,

she was there.

She became the nanny.

And the kids are actually smiling.

Some joie

with everybody else is wearing tan.

The pleasure girl from the family.

Flashing

friend

ruled.

That show ruled.

That ruled.

The theme song ruled.

The theme song.

I thought the theme song might be,

you know I thought the theme song might have more sort of

I thought the voice would be similar to the Rosie O'Donnell one but I think the animation was pretty similar and yeah the animation was similar

and for that

I like a theme song that explains you up to the current point that you're watching like okay this is

setting the stage okay yeah

well That is a format of the show of the bonus episodes that we will never do again.

yeah this was a one and done unless

you know somebody out there has a bunch of VHS tapes of the Rosie O'Donnell yeah keep uploading your Rosie O'Donnell intros um

I can't promise

we're not promising anything I don't think we were very good at coming up with the things I think we were I think we were average I think we were right yeah I think our the I guess what I mean is like we didn't nail what she said but I think we were pretty good at like getting the vibe of them.

And,

you know, the vibe of Rosie O'Donnell, wherever you are now, Rosie,

we had a really good time with you and your show.

So thanks for bringing that to us.

Yes, and thanks everyone for listening.

And,

you know, may God have mercy on your soul.

The nanny named Fran.