""Viewer Mail;"" a less than talkative Cybill Shepherd talks about dating Elvis Presley; Larry ""Bud"" (in a bird suit) flies through a window; Elvis Costello performs.
Dave spoofs the final curtain call from "Family Ties" by bringing the Late Night staff onstage to say farewell. Included are Paul and the band, Biff, NBC Nurse Dennise Robinson, Hal, "Today" host Deborah Norville, and Larry Bud.
As Dave discusses the causes of Lyme Disease, a sandbag lands on his desk. Dave finds a guilty Tick Boy backstage.
Appearing this weekend in Atlantic City, it's "David Letterman's Amazing Monkeys." Also, in a rare American television appearance, XTC performed "King for a Day."
Dave rants about having his driver's license suspended; ""Viewer Mail"" features Paul torching a box of baby chicks, Chris Elliott in a dog food taste test and Hal Gurnee making out with staffer Deirdre Dod; Shelley Winters plugs her second book; ""Head of Homicide;"" future murderer O.J. Simpson talks about driving 170 MPH in his Ferrari Testarossa on the San Diego Freeway.
Bruce Willis shares his memories of ""Moonlighting"" and plays harmonica on ""10th Avenue Tango"" with the WMDB and guitarist Robben Ford; higlights of Dave's tour of the U.S. House of Representatives with Congressman Jack Buechner; Dave and Garry Kasparov begin their chess match.
Via satellite from Tulsa: Roy Clark washes his truck; Roseanne (Barr) plugs her book (My Life As A Woman) and movie (She-Devil); more long distance chess with Garry Kasparov; Phil Collins sings ""Another Day In Paradise.""
Paul does a commercial for new Late Night fragrances, ""Letterman,"" and ""Forever Biff.""
Dave chats with artist Reinhold Marxhausen, inventor of the ""Stardust"" sound sculpture (which puts Dave ""in the mind of fairies"").