Topic: Conan - Weeknights @ 11pm (10 central) on TBS

[that Baby guy]

I wonder if Conan would receive additional royalties if said boxed set, or even a compilation, existed.  That would be an interesting matter, itself.

[BranDonk Kong]

I'm crazy enough of a Conan fanatic that I am hoping for and would immediately buy a DVD box set of every Tonight show he did in his seven months as host.

Let's see, there were 146 episodes, about 45 minutes each, if they went with an average of 120 minutes per disc (cut the credits maybe?), it would take up 49 DVDs.

[NWR_insanolord]

I've watched enough TV on DVD to know that you can fit 4 hour-long (45-minute-long) episodes on a disc, so it would take 25, not counting any special features they might add. I know it's not likely, but I'd love to see it. In the mean time I'm also holding out hope that some intrepid individual collects all of them and distributes them in one of the more disreputable areas of the Internet, though I doubt I have the hard drive space.

[UncleBob]

You haven't watched enough - you can fit five "Hour long" episodes onto a DVD.

[Stogi]

But you can on a Blu-ray

[Mop it up]

You haven't watched enough - you can fit five "Hour long" episodes onto a DVD.

What about if it is dual-layer and double-sided?

[that Baby guy]

Ten episodes, then.  He's considering it being dual-layered already.

[NWR_insanolord]

You haven't watched enough - you can fit five "Hour long" episodes onto a DVD.

I own at least a couple dozen seasons of hour-long shows on DVD and have watched many more through Netflix, and out of those not one disc had more than four episodes.

[UncleBob]

You haven't watched enough - you can fit five "Hour long" episodes onto a DVD.

I own at least a couple dozen seasons of hour-long shows on DVD and have watched many more through Netflix, and out of those not one disc had more than four episodes.

Weeds Season 3 Discs 1, 2, and 3.
Weeds Season 4 Disc 1
Weeds Season 5 Disc 1

:p

[NWR_insanolord]

It may be possible, but it's not at all common. I wonder why more shows don't do it that way; it could cut down on manufacturing costs without sacrificing content, thus allowing them to still charge the same price. Not to mention that it would be nice for Netflix users.

[BlackNMild2k1]

You haven't watched enough - you can fit five "Hour long" episodes onto a DVD.

I own at least a couple dozen seasons of hour-long shows on DVD and have watched many more through Netflix, and out of those not one disc had more than four episodes.

Weeds Season 3 Discs 1, 2, and 3.
Weeds Season 4 Disc 1
Weeds Season 5 Disc 1

:p

I know you just 'd and all, but Weeds is made up of a bunch of 30 minute episodes.

[UncleBob]

Oh, crap - you're right..

[NWR_insanolord]

Let that be a lesson to all of us: never listen to the mods, because they are wrong.

[EasyCure]

We listen to mods here? Who know..

Back to Conan.. When I went to the NWS this past Saturday for the Capcom event, I made my first ever pit stop into the NBC store to check out if they had any Conan stuff left (they had a few*) but I was saddened to see a sign telling you where to go to get tickets for their shows. I remember being in junior high wanting to one day be part of the Conan audience. Flash forward to the news that he'd be taking over the Tonight Show (which was like three years ago) and thinking they might fly him out to CA, i thought "ok, now i REALLY have to go see him 'live" but no.. never happened. My only regret in life..



*They had a sweet t-shirt with a cartoon depiction of conan's body doing the string dance, where the neck cuts off at the collar so it looks like you're doing the string dance. Sweet!

[NWR_insanolord]

I went on the NBC.com store the night of the final show after watching it and ordered a Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien T-Shirt. NBC must be making a lot of money off this; the t-shirts were back-ordered until mid-February, and I also saw another non-Conan shirt there that I liked and ordered that I wouldn't have otherwise.

[EasyCure]

Think the merch sales are part of the $45mil conan gets? lol that'd suck.

[vudu]

I saw this short article in Rolling Stone regarding Conan and Leno and thought it was pretty interesting.  I'm not saying it's correct, but it made me look at the whole situation in a new light.  I'd recommend checking it out.

[BlackNMild2k1]

So Jay is a snake and lives to slither?

[vudu]

Did you even read the article?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Did I read it? yeah.

Jay Leno — he played this one beautifully. Five years ago,when NBC turned Leno into a time bomb by promising his job to ConanO'Brien, he ticked quietly, keeping his rage to himself —but, oh, how it must have burned. Now he gets to taste the sweetnectar of vengeance. By sucking so bad that NBC could no longertolerate him in prime time, he sucked his way right back into hisold job. The tragedy of all this is that NBC has somehow turned twowinning hands into a lose-the-farm fold.

Leno and O'Brien seem like nice Catholic boys, most comfortable when everyone's getting along. Yet behind Leno's Guy Smiley-Muppet mask, he's a killing machine — the Terminator of late-night comedians.

Jay got The Tonight Show after getting up in front of hostile drunks in countless shitty late-night dives around the country, year in and year out, and making those assholes laugh. [...] Jay has always been tougher and darker than people realize.

Leno doesn't need TV. He could just go to Vegas and make more money doing what he loves best, which is stand-up. Last year he told Rolling Stone he banked his Tonight Show money and lived on his stand-up earnings.

So why did he hang around NBC long enough to bring the whole network down in flames? Maybe he just felt pushed around. Leno's got the stomach for fights.  [...] Jay made his bones in the sleaziest, nastiest showbiz shark pools on earth. He plays nice for the old ladies, but his street-fighting instincts are off the charts. He's left plenty of carrion on the late-night highway. Arsenio Hall, Chevy Chase, Magic Johnson — Jay knocked them all off the air, and you can bet he still savors the memory of their death cries.

Conan has shown he's shrewd and confident enough to move on, and wherever he goes, he'll be funnier than he was on NBC. Jay could have walked away from the whole brawl before it began — but then, he's in it for the fight, not the funny.

did you?

[vudu]

I don't see how that's being a snake.  I haven't looked into it too much, but was Leno happy to give up his job at host of The Tonight Show?  If it wasn't his call then he's just taking back what's rightfully his.  If he feels like he's been slighted then he has every right to fight to get it back.

Don't look at this as "oh, I like Conan better than Leno so I'm automatically going to side with him".  The situation doesn't appear to be as cut and dry as that.  I don't think very much of the blame falls on Conan, but it remains to be seen how much is Leno and how much is NBC.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Jay agreed to give the job to Conan. If he didn't want to give it up, then he shouldn't have agreed to it in the first place.

How would you feel if I guaranteed you a promotion up to the job you've been patiently waiting for for a long time and the person that currently has it agreed to give it up to you and even said he would retire in 5 years so that you could have it.

5 years goes by, the change of jobs takes place, you move into the big corner office with the view and you couldn't be happier. Now the old guy decides retirement isn't for him and comes in to your place of work and start undermining you and sabotaging your efforts to be the boss, but there is nothing you can do since the higher ups act like they owe the old guy everything and you aren't deserving of the promotion that they just gave you even though they like you for the job.

So they say you can keep the promotion but the old guy is gonna take your office and we are gonna move you to the basement where you can keep doing what you're doing only now you answer to the Old Guy too.

How is that not a snake move?

[vudu]

Why did Jay agree to give Conan the job 5 years ago?  If you can't answer that question you have no business pretending like you know what's going on.  Did NBC force him to because they didn't think he'd have it in him to continue?  Did they predict Conan would fit in better with the "mass audience" in 5 years?

I agree that if Leno announced on his own that he was going to retire and then changed his mind it's a snake more.  (But why the Hell would he announce his retirement 5 years before it happened?  That's just stupid.)  But what if NBC went to Leno and told him you have two choices--you can announce your pending retirement and save some face or we can announce that you'll be fired in 5 years; your call?  What would you do if you were Leno? 

[BlackNMild2k1]

NBC told Jay that they wanted to give The Tonight Show to Conan and asked Jay when would be a good time to do that. Jay agreed on 5 years and said that's when he would retire.

[It's very common for people to plan out their retirement many years in advance of actually doing it. Nobody just wakes up one day and says "Hey, I'm gonna retire today" and then makes it happen.]

If I were Jay I would have said I will retire on 20 years of The Tonight Show and that happens in 2012. He could have a big 20th Anniversary and Retire on a good note.
Then I would get a daytime show (on NBC) about cars(interviewing celebrities about their cars and checking out custom and classic builds) and go do some stand-up in my free time(booking clubs that follow the travel itinerary of my new show).
Besides, I'm Rich Biotch!! I could just retire and write a book.

[vudu]

You still don't know what went on at NBC behind closed doors.  Like I said, both Leno and NBC are at fault, but you don't know if the split's 20%/80% or 80%/20%.