something that has been there for centuries, for thousands of years, suddenly is. no longer there. - he s a tremendous part of history, and that s lovely to major mark on an era like that. - johnny had told no one what he planned to do, and we weren t prepared. and that set off a game of musical chairs for who would get the throne. and there only was one late-night throne. - hi, you guys. - jay leno had been pretty much carson s regular substitute host when he went on vacation. - you know what s amazing? now, this is true. only six months ago, people were talking about donald trump as a presidential candidate. right? that s true. now, since then, he s had an affair, he s left his wife, he s run up a debt of several million dollars. so i guess he s gonna be running as a democrat, huh? - jay leno wanted to essentially just continue doing a johnny carson-type show. and david letterman was the show immediately following carson.
they were the only people on camera interacting with one another. and that sounds like, so? but as late as the 90s, that wasn t done on television. - when a cop shoots somebody, he stands by it. he picks up the radio mic and he calls it in. he stands by the body. if not, cops are no better than anybody else. - in the 90s, television was getting more complicated, stories were starting to become more episodic, characters were starting to develop and change. none of that happened on law & order. [ law & order dramatic sting] - this was a show that completely delivered on its formula every time. [siren wails] you d get a crime. - all right, let s roll. - you got the investigation into the crime. - you better be packing more than a dirty mouth. - you got an arrest. - what s the charge? hey, i m asking you a question. what s the charge? - ah, there s no charge. this one s on us. - and then you had a trial. - he s badgering, your honor. - sit down and shut up, mr. fineman.
- i was dropping my daughter off for sunday school at our temple, and literally, my rabbi stopped me and said, what s gonna happen with ross and rachel? - you look really pretty tonight. - oh, thanks. - the one with the prom video is one of my favorites. - you guys, we don t have to watch this. - oh, yeah, it s fun. - yeah, we do. - come on. - fun. where s chip? why isn t he here yet? - he ll be here, okay? take a chill pill. - this seemed like a really surprising way to get rachel to know how ross feels. - i can t go to my own prom without a date. - take her. you could wear my tux. - dad, she won t wanna go with me. - she s learning something new, and he thinks, oh, god, please don t let her see this. please don t let her see this. - rachel, ready or not, here comes your knight in shining oh, no. - bye! don t wait up! - okay. - chip! - oh, dear. - ross sees himself, and you see
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- think this is him right here. - oh. uh, is there a table ready? - the chinese restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of seinfeld. and truly, nothing happened in the episode. they were waiting for a table. - [sighs] i feel like just walking over there and taking some food off of somebody s plate. - we said to larry david, hey, like, nothing happens. and larry was offended. [laughs] he was, like, wildly offended. - nbc believed in the show so they said, we re committing to four episodes. - yes, yeah, right. four episodes. - 4 normally it s 13 or 8 or something. - yes, at least. so we didn t really think that they had too much confidence in the show. - we didn t think it would work. but we felt that they had to go through their process and they would learn. and ultimately, they knew better than we did. - my mother caught me. - caught you? doing what? - you know.