History Radio / TheKevinAndBeanShow

** The short-lived [[http://kroq.radio.com/the-armenian-comedian-podcast/ Armenian Comedian podcast]] that Sam recorded with Omar, which lasted precisely three episodes in the fall of 2013.

** For many years, whenever the show would discuss a child or teenager who performed a major accomplishment, someone would ask Kevin what he was doing at the same age, to which he would invariably reply, "I was throwing rocks at my neighbor Robbie Joyner." This has largely fallen by the wayside after [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Joyner / the real Robbie Joyner called into the show.]]

** In 2007, Ralph and Dave The King of Mexico would try to repeat this with a [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Drink+boxing/ "drink boxing" match]] for charity (it was intended to be set around St. Patrick's day that year). Ultimately, it never came together, seemingly due to lack of support from KROQ management.

* OnlyInFlorida: A recurring segment called [[http://kroq.cbslocal.com/tag/whats-up-with-florida/ What's Up With Florida]] covers a block of about five to eight strange news stories coming out of Florida.

** Jimmy Kimmel found himself challenged to a boxing match by Michael the Maintenance Man after making a perceived racial comment on-air (specifically, that black people don't ski). This challenge played out over several weeks (including Kevin and Bean going with Jimmy for his pre-fight physical to get audio), culminating in a live on-air boxing match dubbed "The Bleeda in Reseda." The match was called by broadcaster Pat O'Brien and there here were celebrity judges for the match as well: Tom Murray (then-sportscaster for KCAL channel 9 in Los Angeles), Creator/AdamSandler, and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt/ John Wayne Bobbitt]]''. This sequence would bring on notable changes to the show's cast: Creator/AdamCarolla cold-called the show to offer his services as a boxing trainer and spun the opportunity into a broadcasting career. When Corolla left the show, he recommended his roommate, Ralph Garman, who became the show's long-time third man.

** For many years, whenever the show would discuss a child or teenager who performed a major accomplishment, someone would ask Kevin what he was doing at the same age, to which he would invariably reply, "I was throwing rocks at my neighbor Robbie Joyner." This has largely fallen by the wayside after [[http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/audio.php?dir=audio&search=Joyner/ the real Robbie Joyner called into the show.]]

* HotBlooded: Petros Papadakis, longtime friend of the show, can run hot under the collar when it comes time for him to do his weekly reports on TheBachelor.

* Hot-Blooded: Petros Papadakis, longtime friend of the show, can run hot under the collar when it comes time for him to do his weekly reports on TheBachelor.

** Sometime in 2012, Alex Warren, who replaced Lightning as the show's producer and like others before her (including Lightning) also started as an intern, left the show with no notice. Up until her departure, she supplied voices for female characters on the show (including {{Britney Spears}}) and provided an alternate female perspective on the show alongside the also-departed Lisa May. In an episode of The B-Team podcast, Lightning subtly implies that Alex also left under acrimonious circumstances; so subtly, in fact, that Lightning refers to Alex by a pseudonym, longtime listeners can puzzle out who it is based on the timeline Lightning gives.

** Sometime in 2012, Alex Warren, who replaced Lightning as the show's producer and like others before her (including Lightning) also started as an intern, left the show with no notice. Up until her departure, she supplied voices for female characters on the show (including {{Britney Spears}}) and provided an alternate female perspective on the show alongside the also-departed Lisa May.

* CommutingOnABus: A number of former regulars continue to have active relationships with the show, all of whom departed the show on amicable terms. These include Creator/JimmyKimmel, Creator/AdamCarolla, former producer Lightning (who still works for KROQ in a different capacity), "Psycho Mike" Catherwood (former ''Radio/Loveline'' co-host) and former sports guy Matt "Money" Smith (now a sports radio host and NFL Network personality).

** ''Feel the Warmth of Kevin & Bean’s Wonderful World of Christmas (The White Album)'' (12" vinyl disc, 1990)
** ''Bogus Christmas'' (audio cassette, 1991)
** ''We’ve Got Your Yule Logs Hangin’'' (audio cassette, 1992)
** ''Santa Claus, Schmanta Claus'' (audio cassette, 1993)
** ''No Toys for OJ'' (audio cassette, 1994)
** ''How the _____ Stole Christmas'' (audio cassette, 1995) The blank in the title is for the word "Juice", a reference to OJ Simpson.
** ''Christmastime in the LBC'' (audio cassette, 1996)
** ''A Family Christmas in Your Ass'' (CD, 1997)
** ''Santa’s Swingin’ Sack'' (CD, 1998)
** ''Kevin & Bean’s Last Christmas'' (CD, 1999)
** ''The Real Slim Santa'' (CD, 2000)
** ''Swallow My Eggnog'' (CD, 2001)
** ''Fo’ Shizzle St. Nizzle'' (CD, 2002)
** ''The Year They Recalled Santa Claus'' (CD, 2003)
** ''Kevin & Bean’s Christmastime In The 909'' (CD, 2004)
** ''Kevin & Bean’s Super Christmas'' (CD, 2006)

* AntiHumor: One of the longest-running regular guests on the show is the Armenian Comedian, a real Armenian-American hairdresser named Sam who fancies himself a comedian and entertainer, but is actually a delusional weirdo with a questionable grasp of both humor and the English language. The hosts of the show are so fascinated by his horribly unfunny jokes that they keep bringing him back.
** Sam achieved such a level of notoriety that he became the subject of a documentary called ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329319/ Born Hye: The Armenian Comedian Story]]'', a title playing on his Armenian heritage and his liberal use of marijuana.

* CommutingOnABus: A number of former regulars continue to have active relationships with the show, all of whom departed the show on amicable terms. These include {{Jimmy Kimmel}}, {{Adam Carolla}}, former producer Lightning (who still works for KROQ in a different capacity), "Psycho Mike" Catherwood (former ''Radio/Loveline'' co-host) and former sports guy Matt "Money" Smith (now a sports radio host and NFL Network personality).

* FalseConfession: "Confess Your Crime", an infamous segment from June 1990 where Kevin and Bean took calls where people confessed to minor crimes. Shaping up to be a lame segment, they had fellow DJ Doug "Sluggo" Roberts call in and (falsely) confess in a very roundabout way to killing his girlfriend. Somewhere along the way, someone made a connection between the bogus confession and the actual unsolved murder of a [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Angela_Cummings/ 19-year-old girl]]. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs' Department investigated the claim and despite Kevin's and Bean's repeated assertions that the call was real, [[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-11/entertainment/ca-80_1_murder-confession/ discovered the hoax]]. They were suspended without pay, forced to pay restitution to the Sheriffs' Department, and perform 149 hours of community service. The entire incident was the subject of [[http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/KROQ_Confession/ an episode]] of ''UnsolvedMysteries''.

** Sam has claimed that Kevin and Bean have held him back out of jealousy over his "popularity", when they are easily responsible for his prolonged exposure, including, due to their relationship with Jimmy Kimmel, Sam getting a national appearance on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live''.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Many of the things the show used to do in its' earlier days (various stunts, Psycho Mike's funny if very edgy song parodies, etc.) are no longer possible because of the influence of KROQ's corporate lawyers, especially when the station was owned by CBS. Even in the case of Mike's song parodies that would be legally covered by fair use would inevitably run afoul of the attorneys who would decide the songs weren't worth the potential trouble. In an episode of ''The B-Team'' podcast, Lightning remarked that the intrusion of lawyers for record labels and music publishers is what complicated and ultimately killed the yearly Christmas charity albums.

** Duaveed, a very strange man who came to the show's attention in 2009 when he wanted to marry a mannequin whom he named Clara. He would take the mannequin everywhere he went, pulling her around in a wagon. Duaveed ultimately married Clara in a ceremony officiated by Psycho Mike, and the show kept up with them for about a year of their "married life". Duaveed would reach out to the show again in 2014 when Clara was stolen while he was in the hospital during a brief stya in New York, as he was trying to find a replacement for her.

** Dieu To, albeit in a more disturbing manner than the Armenian Comedian. Nothing about Dieu is terribly clear, except for his affection for German chocolate cake and his obsession with StevenSeagal. He has very particular tastes in women (Korean women 5'8" or 5'9" in height). Dieu seems to travel back and forth frequently between Asia and the US, and as such, is notoriously difficult to contact. He is very evasive about his personal life, dodging specific questions or giving extremely vague answers about himself. Once, when Psycho Mike visited Dieu's house to do a segment in the vein of MTV's ''Cribs'', Mike found [[HiddenWeapons knives hidden inside an air-conditioning vent]] and [[PantyThief a drawer full of womens' panties in Dieu's room]] that Dieu tried to explain away by saying, [[LameExcuse "It's not".]] Another time, Dieu wrote to the show asking about whether he should have someone beaten up who had made fun of him; when confronted on-air about it, Dieu tried to laugh it off, [[LameExcuse claiming it was just a joke.]]

* TheBoxingEpisode: Jimmy Kimmel found himself challenged to a boxing match by Michael the Maintenance Man after making a perceived racial comment on-air (specifically, that black people don't ski). This challenge played out over several weeks (including Kevin and Bean going with Jimmy for his pre-fight physical to get audio), culminating in a live on-air boxing match dubbed "The Bleeda in Reseda". The match was called by broadcaster Pat O'Brien and there here were celebrity judges for the match as well: Tom Murray (then-sportscaster for KCAL channel 9 in Los Angeles), AdamSandler, and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt/ John Wayne Bobbitt]]''.
** The most significant outcome of the fight was the changes it would bring to the show's cast. Needing a boxing trainer, producer Frank Murphy found himself being cold-called by a listener offering his services to Jimmy. Despite Murphy's attempts to stonewall him, said listener finally got to Jimmy and found their senses of humor meshed well, leading to the trainer becoming a regular on the show. His name? AdamCarolla. When Jimmy and Adam left to create ''Series/TheManShow'', Adam recommended his roommate to Kevin and Bean, [[HollywoodBabbleOn Ralph Garman]].

** The most significant outcome of the fight was the changes it would bring to the show's cast. Needing a boxing trainer, producer Frank Murphy found himself being cold-called by a listener offering his services to Jimmy. Despite Murphy's attempts to stonewall him, said listener finally got to Jimmy and found their senses of humor meshed well, leading to the trainer becoming a regular on the show. His name? AdamCarolla. When Jimmy and Adam left to create TheManShow, Adam recommended his roommate to Kevin and Bean, [[HollywoodBabbleOn Ralph Garman]].

** Dieu To, albeit in a more disturbing manner than the Armenian Comedian. Nothing about Dieu is terribly clear, expect for his affection for German chocolate cake and his obsession with StevenSeagal. He has very particular tastes in women (Korean women 5'8" or 5'9" in height). Dieu seems to travel back and forth frequently between Asia and the US, and as such, is notoriously difficult to contact. He is very evasive about his personal life, dodging specific questions or giving extremely vague answers about himself. Once, when Psycho Mike visited Dieu's house to do a segment in the vein of MTV's ''Cribs'', Mike found [[HiddenWeapons knives hidden inside an air-conditioning vent]] and [[PantyThief a drawer full of womens' panties in Dieu's room]] that Dieu tried to explain away by saying, [[LameExcuse "It's not".]] Another time, Dieu wrote to the show asking about whether he should have someone beaten up who had made fun of him; when confronted on-air about it, Dieu tried to laugh it off, [[LameExcuse claiming it was just a joke.]]

** The most significant outcome of the fight was the changes it would bring to the show's cast. Needing a boxing trainer, producer Frank Murphy found himself being cold-called by a listener offering his services to Jimmy. Despite Murphy's attempts to stonewall him, said listener finally got to Jimmy and found their senses of humor meshed well, leading to the trainer becoming a regular on the show. His name? AdamCarolla. When Jimmy and Adam left to create TheManShow, Adam recommended his roommate to Kevin and Bean, RalphGarman.

* CloudCuckoolander: Sam the Armenian Comedian, combined with a heavy dose of SmallNameBigEgo, ''big time''. With a combination of his own supreme overconfidence in his (lame) comedic and musical talents and a near-constant high, Sam claims that he is the funniest comedian and most talented musician on earth, and will not allow the point to be argued. He cannot (or will not) recognize the obstacles in his way, including his rather limited English skills, his misunderstanding of basic joke structure and inability to play any instrument more complicated than a recorder with any sense of skill or rhythm. Despite all this, and literally decades of largely spinning his wheels on the extreme fringes of show business, Sam still holds to the belief that breakout stardom is just around the corner.