But I did and still do feel some connection with him, since he was always my late-night host. It just so happens that I haven’t watched any late-night shows religiously for a long, long time. I watched Late Night through my prepubescent and adolescent years if I was up that late. Some point along there I started watching The Daily Show as well — even before Jon Stewart was the host. Remember Craig Kilborn? Sure you don’t.

But once I hit college, those TV viewing habits fell to the wayside. It wasn’t just late-night shows, it was practically all television. In the years that followed, I got into The Colbert Report for a little while, but even that interest quickly faded.

And this was how it went until it was announced that Conan would get The Tonight Show. Conan! It was what all his fans had been waiting for. I naturally watched the last few weeks of his awesome show and eagerly waited for his new gig. Little did I know it wouldn’t last a year.

And maybe it was my fault. Maybe it was all our faults. His fans didn’t watch his show nearly as much as they did years ago, and the people who loved Leno weren’t about to warm up to Conan. My parents are probably not indicative of their age group, as they actually love Conan, but it’s not like they stay up to watch late-night shows. So we all failed. Sure, it was really Jay Leno’s fault, but Conan was made expendable by his ratings.

And for being part of the problem, I do not deserve to display his banner.

This post has been sponsored by the Not-Sure-If-Serious Blog-Filler Organization.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQ0bqsJSJ8

If you need visual aid to prove just how perfectly this video matches up with the original, hit the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWd1L4fmTI

I can only imagine how many hours this shit took to piece together.

Venturing Down Ballot Once Again, Part I and Part II – 3:10ToJoba examines the biggest screwjobs in MVP voting history, with Cal Ripken Jr. taking the prize as most royally screwed. Let’s remember, he wasn’t “The Iron Man” yet!

New York Post Mets Back Pages – Amazin’ Avenue reminds you why the Post is the most entertaining paper in the city — even though it’s barely a legitimate newspaper.

Official Brett Favre Depreciation Thread – Easily one of the best threads on GAF. Every time Brett Favre ends his career with a team with an interception, it gets bumped. Every time he retires or un-retires, it’s bumped. It will never die.

The Dogs Who Ride Trains – In Soviet Russia, dog rides you! No really, though, how goddamn cool is this? Dogs are the absolute fucking best.

The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes – I don’t even find some of these cheesy, but there’s enough greatness here to warrant the full 10 minutes. It’s no THE WIRE – 100 Greatest Quotes, though (by the same guy). Perhaps I should have given this it’s own post, since it’s a video, but I told myself I need at least five links.

Late Addition: NBC Will Regret Appeasing Leno – The Wall Street Journal compares NBC to Neville Chamberlain and Jay Leno to Adolf Hitler. That leaves Conan as Czechoslovakia. You won’t read anything more awesome this week.

This is how I watched it. Yes, I missed the final Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien after making multiple posts about the whole NBC trainwreck the past two weeks; I am officially part of the problem. I chose a girl over Conan. I chose wrong. For penance, I will watch at least a whole month of Conan’s late-night show on FOX — and if not that, whatever he does next.

There’s not much I can say about this final show — you just need to watch it. You need to watch the montage and Steve Carell’s exit interview and Neil Young’s performance and Conan’s farewell speech and the closing Freebird rockout. Only Conan would end his show that way.

The following is an AMAZING video compiling great moments from Conan rallies.

And an amazing GIF to go along with it:

This is me not even trying to write anything in this post and just filling up space with videos and GIFs, it seems, because now I’m going to post a YouTube video that will forever be the definite history of this NBC fiasco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9m1an-pQ8

Andddd I’m done.

Jay Leno was embarrassed by Jimmy Kimmel on his OWN SHOW tonight. It was glorious. Check it out.

But yeah, seems next week will be Conan’s last week hosting The Tonight Show, if NBC doesn’t decide to cut it off even sooner. I doubt that will happen though, seeing as the ratings have gone up immensely this week. It’s just fucking bullshit.

Oh hey, right as I was about to publish this post, someone uploads the ownage of the night on YouTube so I can embed it.

Edit: New video, since the other one seemed to be shitting up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwO6BkCtIo

So amazing.

I’ll just link to this post on Gawker.tv, since they have EVERYTHING covered. But so there’s actually something in this post, I’ll embed two YouTube videos of Kimmel doing Leno; between Kimmel’s ridiculous impersonation, the band, and the Kevin Eubanks stand-in, this is television perfection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMgPPJZfsCM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qor5512Dyg0

I HIGHLY recommend clicking on the link and watching the Letterman and Conan clips, though.

Why am I talking about Magnum P.I.? Because the following is an attempt to emulate its opening credits, only with Star Wars scenes. Now, I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan, but I think we can all agree Han Solo is the coolest guy in the entire series. Han Solo P.I. would be a pretty sweet show, if Harrison Ford grew the prerequisite mustache. (Side note: Just found out that my usual spelling — moustache — is the predominant British spelling, while mustache is the American one. So I obviously need to go with the latter from now on. U-S-A)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYntjR4-pY4

If you are not familiar with Magnum’s credit sequence, hit the jump to have your mind blown. And not just by a side-by-side comparison of this mashup and the original, but also by something from The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Oh yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEigvdbzia8

And now the Conan awesomeness, courtesy of Serious Lunch.