BDC Now: ‘The Today Show’ Gets Soaked on ‘The Tonight Show’

By Doug Saffir

November 5, 2014

3 minutes to read

Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show’’ has come up with a cruel new twist on the classic trivia quiz. It involves cone hats, water balloons, and the hosts of “The Today Show,’’ but don’t let us spoil it. Watch it for yourself on today’s BDC Now, and read more about an 86 square foot micro-apartment, a terrifyingly fast grizzly bear, Baskin Robbins’ new camouflage flavor, and the award-winning photo of a monkey stealing an iPhone.

“The Tonight Show’’ Is a Circus

Every time one of these clips from “The Tonight Show’’ comes out, we wish we had been in on the meeting where Fallon and his writers came up with the idea. That meeting has to be the only place where you can look up suddenly from your notes and say, “what if we take the hosts of “The Today Show,’’ strap pointy cones to their heads, and threaten to soak them with water if they don’t answer our trivia questions?’’ And everyone nods his head and pats you on the back for coming up with the idea. “The Tonight Show’’ is basically what would happen if stoned college students were tasked with making a TV show about forcing celebrities to do ridiculous things. That’s the only way to explain Jimmy Fallon throwing water in Jake Gyllenhaal’s face and Emma Stone lip syncing Blues Traveler.

Don’t Poke the Bear

When your Boy or Girl Scout troop leader first told you that playing dead is the best way to survive a bear encounter, you probably laughed. Bears can be terrifying and it seems silly to consider any option other than running away as fast as you can. Well, your troop leader was spot on and now there’s video to prove it. This grizzly bear has wheels. Sadly, the people in the video and the description don’t tell us how fast the car is going, but it does not look slow and grizzlies have been known to reach speeds of 30 miles per hour. That’s insane for an animal that can top 800 pounds. It’s even crazier that this bear looks to be doing just that in totally effortless fashion. Do not run from bears, you will not get away.

Get On Board With Simple Living

We might just be saying this because we’ve seen so many micro-apartments recently, but we’re seriously starting to think we could live in one. Even this one, which comes in at only 86 square feet and used to be an attic and storage closet, seems totally liveable. Honestly, is it missing anything? You’ve got a bed, a bathroom, a kitchenette, a closet, bookshelves, a dinner table, and air conditioning. Sure, you’ve got to store everything you own, including your furniture, in your walls, and you would pretty much have to shower while standing over your toilet, but hey, it’s probably a pretty affordable way to live in Paris.

Baskin Robbins Got Bored

It’s kind of impressive that Baskin Robbins has run its ice cream chain on the same “31 flavors’’ marketing campaign for so long. But just like our ice cream flavors, people need a little variety in their advertising or else they start tuning it out. So what can Baskin Robbins do to get back in the public eye? Release a new camouflage ice cream just in time for Veterans Day! The chain’s new concoction is the flavor of the month for November and combines chocolate, salty caramel, and cake-flavored ice creams. We don’t really know how many people are celebrating our nation’s veterans with a bowl of ice cream, but we can still get on board with this. After all, there are no bad ideas when it comes to ice cream. And if you happen to be in the middle of the woods when you eat it, no one will know you’re eating ice cream!

Japanese Macaque Is More Powerful Than He Thinks

When a photo wins an award in the United Kingdom Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, you’re probably expecting an image of nature in all its uninterrupted beauty. In 2014, you don’t get what’s easy, you get a monkey with an iPhone. The photo comes from Marsel van Oosten, who was in Japan’s Jigokudani Monkey Park when a Japanese Macaque snagged some poor woman’s phone while she was taking pictures. So van Oosten took a photo of that. We feel bad for the woman, especially since the monkey probably ruined her phone when he dunked it underwater, but she has to think it was kind of worth it after seeing this photo, right?