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* OlderThanTheyThink: This was not the first ''Tonight Show'' iteration that had the host and a guest sucking on helium and reveling in the hilarity of higher-pitched voices (as Jimmy did with Morgan Freeman). Johnny Carson did it with Roger Moore on his version.
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* HoYay: The “Bucky, Peggy, I love you!” line sung by Captain America in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse-themed “We Didn’t Start the Fire” rendition.

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* HoYay: The “Bucky, Peggy, I love you!” line sung by Captain America Jimmy and Creator/ChrisEvans in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse-themed “We Didn’t Start the Fire” rendition.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The game "Pictionary" used to be played the traditional way, with markers and paper, but in late 2016 Jimmy showcased a new technology that allowed you to play a virtual reality version. Fine, except the classic style is no longer played ''at all''. It doesn't help that the drawings in the virtual reality version are sometimes harder to see, due to the contestants moving around (which, in turn, moves the picture).

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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The game "Pictionary" "TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}" used to be played the traditional way, with markers and paper, but in late 2016 Jimmy showcased a new technology that allowed you to play a virtual reality version. Fine, except the classic style is no longer played ''at all''. It doesn't help that the drawings in the virtual reality version are sometimes harder to see, due to the contestants moving around (which, in turn, moves the picture).
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** It's become a running joke in the comments section of the show's [=YouTube=] page of calling Jimmy out on his [[{{Corpsing}} fake laugh]].

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** It's become a running joke in the comments section of the show's [=YouTube=] page of calling Jimmy out on his [[{{Corpsing}} fake laugh]].laugh.
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* Moe: Jimmy’s daughters when the show took place at his home.

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* SoBadItsGood: Invoked; the premise of the "Do Not Play List" segment.

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*Moe: Jimmy’s daughters when the show took place at his home.

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* MemeticMutation: It's become a running joke in the comments section of the show's [=YouTube=] page of calling Jimmy out on his [[{{Corpsing}} fake laugh]].

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It's become a running joke in the comments section of the show's [=YouTube=] page of calling Jimmy out on his [[{{Corpsing}} fake laugh]].laugh]].
** The segment where Creator/JackBlack plays a plastic saxophone has become memetic.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: A sketch on one of the 2016 L.A. shows featured Jimmy as Donald Trump, anxious about his presidential campaign. The cast of ''Series/FullHouse'' gave him advice, with the best being that someone's job as president should be about bringing people together, not tearing them apart (which is what he's been doing with his "ban all Muslims from temporarily entering the U.S." and "build a wall across the Southern border" rhetoric, among many other things).
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** Tousling Donald Trump's hair has quickly become this, and may have played a part in viewers abandoning the series in favor of ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', not helped at all by the fact ''The Late Show'' eventually embraced brand of mixing political comedy with political commentary of Creator/StephenColbert's previous show ''Series/TheColbertReport''. In a ''New York Times'' piece, Fallon himself [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html admitted]] that the Trump interview was a "setback," and that he didn't do enough to address the controversy at the time.

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** Tousling Donald Trump's hair has quickly become this, and may have played a part in viewers abandoning the series in favor of ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', not helped at all by the fact ''The Late Show'' eventually embraced the brand of mixing political comedy with political commentary of Creator/StephenColbert's previous show ''Series/TheColbertReport''. In a ''New York Times'' piece, Fallon himself [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html admitted]] that the Trump interview was a "setback," and that he didn't do enough to address the controversy at the time.
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** Tousling Donald Trump's hair has quickly become this, and may have played a part in viewers abandoning the series in favor of ''The Late Show'', not helped at all by the fact ''The Late Show'' eventually embraced ''The Colbert Report''[='s=] brand of mixing political comedy with political commentary. In a ''New York Times'' piece, Fallon himself [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html admitted]] that the Trump interview was a "setback," and that he didn't do enough to address the controversy at the time.

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** Tousling Donald Trump's hair has quickly become this, and may have played a part in viewers abandoning the series in favor of ''The Late Show'', ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', not helped at all by the fact ''The Late Show'' eventually embraced ''The Colbert Report''[='s=] brand of mixing political comedy with political commentary.commentary of Creator/StephenColbert's previous show ''Series/TheColbertReport''. In a ''New York Times'' piece, Fallon himself [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html admitted]] that the Trump interview was a "setback," and that he didn't do enough to address the controversy at the time.
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* TearJerker: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAByKcPJ5NQ Jimmy's somber, choked-up monologue]] in the wake of Kobe Bryant's death - especially when he recalled how the two of them met before they became famous by going on a beer run, and then promising to go on a beer run with Kobe when he saw him on the other side again.
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* InternetBackdraft: His interview with Donald Trump wherein he tousles his hair inspired a lot of flack as to whether or not the show had a Pro-Trump agenda. Many other celebrities like Creator/SamanthaBee and director [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Ethan Coen]] have accused him of supporting Trump and humanizing him, with the latter even going so far as to say Fallon was one of the people responsible for Trump's election. The show saw a 20% year-over-year drop in ratings from 2016 to 2017, with many viewers abandoning it for ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert''.
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* InternetBackdraft: His interview with Donald Trump wherein he tousles his hair inspired a lot of flack as to whether or not the show had a Pro-Trump agenda. Many other celebrities like Creator/SamanthaBee and director [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Ethan Coen]] have accused him of supporting Trump and humanizing him, with the latter even going so far as to say Fallon was one of the people responsible for Trump's election.

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* InternetBackdraft: His interview with Donald Trump wherein he tousles his hair inspired a lot of flack as to whether or not the show had a Pro-Trump agenda. Many other celebrities like Creator/SamanthaBee and director [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Ethan Coen]] have accused him of supporting Trump and humanizing him, with the latter even going so far as to say Fallon was one of the people responsible for Trump's election. The show saw a 20% year-over-year drop in ratings from 2016 to 2017, with many viewers abandoning it for ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: On Jimmy's first night, Stephen Colbert (at the time host of Comedy Central's ''Series/TheColbertReport'', which aired opposite ''The Tonight Show'') was one of the many big stars to welcome him, dumping a small barrel's worth of pennies onto Fallon's desk and shouting, "Welcome to 11:30, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH]]!" It became a bit more amusing a few months later in 2014, when it announced that Colbert ''himself'' was moving to take over Creator/DavidLetterman's ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman'' on CBS to become ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert''. This meant that he was still airing at 11:30, but was now competing against Fallon on one of the main broadcast networks. Even better, Jimmy Fallon made a cameo on ''Colbert's'' first night on ''The Late Show'', bringing it full circle.
* InternetBackdraft: His interview with Donald Trump wherein he tousles his hair inspired a lot of flack as to whether or not the show had a Pro-Trump agenda. Many other celebrities like Creator/SamanthaBee and director [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Ethan Coen]] have accused him of supporting Trump and humanizing him, with the latter even going so far as to say Fallon was one of the people responsible for Trump's election.
* MemeticMutation: It's become a running joke in the comments section of the show's [=YouTube=] page of calling Jimmy out on his [[{{Corpsing}} fake laugh]].
* NeverLiveItDown:
** After learning that he had spectacularly bombed a blind date with Creator/NicoleKidman (in that he didn't even ''realize'' it was one), subsequent guests have reminded him of his EpicFail.
** Tousling Donald Trump's hair has quickly become this, and may have played a part in viewers abandoning the series in favor of ''The Late Show'', not helped at all by the fact ''The Late Show'' eventually embraced ''The Colbert Report''[='s=] brand of mixing political comedy with political commentary. In a ''New York Times'' piece, Fallon himself [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html admitted]] that the Trump interview was a "setback," and that he didn't do enough to address the controversy at the time.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: A sketch on one of the 2016 L.A. shows featured Jimmy as Donald Trump, anxious about his presidential campaign. The cast of ''Series/FullHouse'' gave him advice, with the best being that someone's job as president should be about bringing people together, not tearing them apart (which is what he's been doing with his "ban all Muslims from temporarily entering the U.S." and "build a wall across the Southern border" rhetoric, among many other things).
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music accompanying "Random Object Toss" sounds similar to "Sweet Georgia Brown".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The game "Pictionary" used to be played the traditional way, with markers and paper, but in late 2016 Jimmy showcased a new technology that allowed you to play a virtual reality version. Fine, except the classic style is no longer played ''at all''. It doesn't help that the drawings in the virtual reality version are sometimes harder to see, due to the contestants moving around (which, in turn, moves the picture).
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