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* June 6, 2014: Geoff Peterson owns Ricky Gervais.
-->'''Ricky:''' I can see he's a skeleton, he's a robot, his name's Geoff, but... what have you done that's ''gay?'' \\
'''Geoff:''' Why don't you come over here and I'll show ya? ''[Ricky collapses into flustered laughter, Craig can only shrug]''
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* [=Supermodel=] Creator/IrinaShayk [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BETkgQpN-ek/ appeared]] on the July 22, 2014 edition to promote her film debut in ''Film/Hercules2014''. Craig could barely speak at the start of the interview, as he was clearly DistractedByTheSexy. Craig and Geoff Peterson's comments deteriorated into GibberishOfLove.

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* [=Supermodel=] Creator/IrinaShayk [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BETkgQpN-ek/ appeared]] on the July 22, 2014 edition to promote her film debut in ''Film/Hercules2014''. Craig could barely speak at the start of the interview, as he was clearly DistractedByTheSexy. Craig and Geoff Peterson's comments deteriorated into GibberishOfLove.GibberishOfLove.
* After making a joke involving BlackComedyAnimalCruelty, Craig repeatedly assures the audience that he [[https://youtu.be/csPx12Lvld4 does not shoot cats]], then gives the camera a look that says "or ''do'' I?" every single time.
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* Sean William Scott failed to show up for an interview due to ''ridiculous'' Los Angeles traffic. So instead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqQ2ZWoKzg Craig drags out Lisa Ammerman,]] the producer who manages the guests, and asks ''her'' the questions he was going to ask Sean William Scott.

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* Sean William Scott Creator/SeannWilliamScott failed to show up for an interview due to ''ridiculous'' Los Angeles traffic. So instead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqQ2ZWoKzg Craig drags out Lisa Ammerman,]] the producer who manages the guests, and asks ''her'' the questions he was going to ask Sean William Scott.
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* The final segment of Craig's tenure on ''The Late Late Show'' goes straight towards the GainaxEnding route. It squeezes references to three other shows' finales into about three minutes, including [[spoiler: ''Series/StElsewhere, Series/{{Newhart}}'' (featuring a Bob Newhart cameo!), and ''Series/TheSopranos''. According to this skit, the whole show was just a terrible dream by ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow's'' Mr. Wick, who wakes up in hysterics next to ''Drew'' (in ''another'' cameo!). They finally get back to sleep as Music/{{Journey}}'s "Don't Stop Believing" plays, while the camera does a slow zoom into a snow globe, featuring a tiny Craig, Geoff and Secretariat - before the abrupt cut to black.]] It's a strange but oddly befitting way to finish up Craig's tenure with the show.

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* The final segment of Craig's tenure on ''The Late Late Show'' goes straight towards the GainaxEnding route. It squeezes references to three other shows' finales into about three minutes, including [[spoiler: ''Series/StElsewhere, Series/{{Newhart}}'' (featuring a Bob Newhart cameo!), and ''Series/TheSopranos''. According to this skit, the whole show was just a terrible dream by ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow's'' Mr. Wick, who wakes up in hysterics next to ''Drew'' (in ''another'' cameo!). They finally get back to sleep as Music/{{Journey}}'s Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Don't Stop Believing" plays, while the camera does a slow zoom into a snow globe, featuring a tiny Craig, Geoff and Secretariat - before the abrupt cut to black.]] It's a strange but oddly befitting way to finish up Craig's tenure with the show.
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* May 19, 2011: Craig asking Geoff if he's ever been to the places people are sending e-mails from. Geoff's response that he does and they throw beads at each other and swim naked beaks Craig by the end of the segment, and results in a running gag that would continue for years.

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* May 19, 2011: Craig asking Geoff if he's ever been to the places people are sending e-mails from. Geoff's response that he does and they throw beads at each other and swim naked beaks breaks Craig by the end of the segment, and results in a running gag that would continue for years.
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* May 25th, 2013: The ''entirety'' of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1xqg9hL80 his interview]] with Creator/VeraFarmiga. Highlights include Vera producing a carrot ''from under her skirt'' for Secretariat, and Vera explaining to Craig what exactly you have to do in order to get goats to produce milk...
-->'''Vera''': ....you see, that's how mammaries work.
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* May 19, 2011: Craig asking Geoff is he's ever been to the places people are sending e-mails from. Geoff's response that he does and they throw beads at each other and swim naked beaks Craig by the end of the segment, and results in a running gag that would continue for years.

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* May 19, 2011: Craig asking Geoff is if he's ever been to the places people are sending e-mails from. Geoff's response that he does and they throw beads at each other and swim naked beaks Craig by the end of the segment, and results in a running gag that would continue for years.
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* November 10, 2011: Creator\LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.

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* November 10, 2011: Creator\LarryKing Creator/LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.
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* November 10, 2011: LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.

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* November 10, 2011: LarryKing Creator\LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.
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* January 30, 2013: Craig is asked about his salsa preferences, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3aExw7wpRg and finds Secretariat's baffling.]]
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* November 11th, 2013: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPuzvw01RfU Craig pokes the fire.]]
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* May 19, 2011: Craig and Geoff's exchange in [[http://youtu.be/Wag4hFAiEEs this Tweetmail segment.]]

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* May 19, 2011: Craig and asking Geoff is he's ever been to the places people are sending e-mails from. Geoff's exchange response that he does and they throw beads at each other and swim naked beaks Craig by the end of the segment, and results in [[http://youtu.be/Wag4hFAiEEs this Tweetmail segment.]]a running gag that would continue for years.
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* December 3, 2010: Kristen Bell [[https://youtu.be/Qfn0Dt1vJg8?t=915 comes onstage riding Secretariat.]]
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* The very last Tweetmail ever read: ''[[spoiler: "Craig, I just started watching your show on Monday!"]]''

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* The very last Tweetmail ever read: ''[[spoiler: "Craig, I just started watching your show on Monday!"]]''Monday!"]]''
* [=Supermodel=] Creator/IrinaShayk [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BETkgQpN-ek/ appeared]] on the July 22, 2014 edition to promote her film debut in ''Film/Hercules2014''. Craig could barely speak at the start of the interview, as he was clearly DistractedByTheSexy. Craig and Geoff Peterson's comments deteriorated into GibberishOfLove.
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* Most of the monologue where he discusses his own alcoholism and near-suicide is [[CaptainObvious not a barrel of laughs]]...except for his account of sharing a room in rehab with a (former) Anglican vicar twice his age.
-->''[[IAmVeryBritish "Yes, well, the thing is, Craig,]] the parishioners were complaining that all the Communion wine was going missing. And also, an old lady said that there was a hobo sleeping in the church graveyard. I had to pretend to go and look for him, but it was me!"''
** He admits that "I'm not an expert on alcoholism or anything else, but I ''am'' an expert on my own story. I was there when it happened... [[VerbalBackspace Well, I was present.]] The tape recorder wasn't running."
** Finally, his discussion of how easy it could be to relapse.
--->''Last week, right, I find out that Guinness has 125 calories a pint, and I'm--without a word of a lie--I'm thinking, "Maybe I should go on a diet." THAT'S CLEARLY INSANE! What Guinness did to me, and I'm thinking "Well, it's only 125 calories? [[SarcasmMode What can possibly go wrong?!"]]''
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* Any of the "Craig writes a letter" segments, but the one he wrote to Music/KanyeWest (November 2006) deserves to be quoted in full.
-->'''Craig''': ''[in a very posh/"fussy" voice]'' Dear Kanye West,\\
''[[[{{Beat}} pause for laughter]]]''\\
I was reading in the newspaper that you got very upset during the MTV Europe Video Awards when you didn't get the award you wanted. You got up on stage and ranted and raved '''[[ColdHam like a madman!]]''' Kanye, you mustn't do this. [[SarcasmMode You're going to give rappers at awards ceremonies a bad name.]] Also-- ''[pause for laughter]'' it's best to wait. For example, I had an Emmy '''stolen''' from me by Music/BarryManilow--\\
'''Audience''': ''[loses it]''\\
'''Craig''': ''[normal voice]'' Excuse me, I'm trying to write a letter!\\
''[posh voice]'' --stolen from me by Barry Manilow, but I waited for my revenge, and tonight I have it, for I have [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment forced him to appear]] on my show! [[EvilLaugh Ha ha ha ha ha!]]\\
''[{{Beat}}, starts writing again]''\\
[[SoundingItOut Ha, ha, ha, ha... ha.]] Yours, TV's Craig Ferguson.
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* September 4, 2009: [[http://youtu.be/yNMxm-oMptw?t=16m27s This email]] from "Joe Bob" in Hicksville, Kentucky...and Craig's response to it.

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* September 4, 2009: [[http://youtu.be/yNMxm-oMptw?t=16m27s be/yNMxm-oMptw?t=18m41s This email]] from "Joe Bob" in Hicksville, Kentucky...and Craig's response to it.

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* Sean William Scott failed to show up for an interview due to ''ridiculous'' Los Angeles traffic. So instead,
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqQ2ZWoKzg Craig drags out Lisa Ammerman,]] the producer who manages the guests, and asks ''her'' the questions he was going to ask Sean William Scott.

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* Sean William Scott failed to show up for an interview due to ''ridiculous'' Los Angeles traffic. So instead,
instead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqQ2ZWoKzg Craig drags out Lisa Ammerman,]] the producer who manages the guests, and asks ''her'' the questions he was going to ask Sean William Scott.
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* Sean William Scott failed to show up for an interview due to ''ridiculous'' Los Angeles traffic. So instead,
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqQ2ZWoKzg Craig drags out Lisa Ammerman,]] the producer who manages the guests, and asks ''her'' the questions he was going to ask Sean William Scott.
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* Early 2010: "Look, you try doing [[Series/TheLateLateShow my job]] and not talking about [[TheTonightShow all the crap]] that's going on at Creator/{{NBC}}!"

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* Early 2010: "Look, you try doing [[Series/TheLateLateShow my job]] and not talking about [[TheTonightShow [[Series/TheTonightShow all the crap]] that's going on at Creator/{{NBC}}!"
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* July 31, 2009: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgNW2woueE This sketch]], which is basically a storm of SeanConnery jokes but manages to get impossibly funny. "I'm STANDING on water and I got a HAT on top of my HAT!"

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* July 31, 2009: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgNW2woueE This sketch]], which is basically a storm of SeanConnery Creator/SeanConnery jokes but manages to get impossibly funny. "I'm STANDING on water and I got a HAT on top of my HAT!"
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When Creator/CraigFerguson said what's on his mind (which is frequently), it tended to go here.
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* December 7th, 2009: Craig finds out how highly he rates in a Canadian magazine's poll for "which late night talk show host would you sleep with" (he leads with a whopping ''74%''). Now normally, this would go in the Awesome section, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o726idYsV2c but then Craig does this at the end of the show.]]
** Also from March of that year, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKPs4l7S-c Craig seduces the viewer.]]
* July 31, 2009: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgNW2woueE This sketch]], which is basically a storm of SeanConnery jokes but manages to get impossibly funny. "I'm STANDING on water and I got a HAT on top of my HAT!"
* September 4, 2009: [[http://youtu.be/yNMxm-oMptw?t=16m27s This email]] from "Joe Bob" in Hicksville, Kentucky...and Craig's response to it.
* Early 2010: "Look, you try doing [[Series/TheLateLateShow my job]] and not talking about [[TheTonightShow all the crap]] that's going on at Creator/{{NBC}}!"
* Also in early 2010: You know how they'll have a clip from the show the guest is on to promote just before they bring out the guest? Well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOo_2GBaY5o this is the best clip Craig's ever seen.]]
* April 14, 2010: Somebody screws up the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdIxAAe_64w Angela Lansbury]] RunningGag.
* June 15, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0I2rhhcaM The Stan Lee interview.]]
* July 19, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO6Xl92Rl4 This Mary Lynn Rajskub interview, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the secondary chair.]] If ever there was a foursome fit to do a great show together, this grouping of Craig, Jeffrey, Mary Lynn, and Geoff might just be it.
* August 3, 2010: Somebody screws up the Angela Lansbury gag [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFxxGtgW1Q again.]]
* Fall 2010: During a Tweetmail segment, Secretariat comes out ''and the costume starts falling off the guys who are inside the thing''. So what does Craig do? He brings the thing out '''three more times!'''
* October 15, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCaxb2yB60 Craig and]] [[Series/DoctorWho a Dalek.]]
* January 6, 2011: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7e7_Uz4Fk interview]] with Creator/AlexKingston. Rabbits. Just...rabbits. Wow.
* May 19, 2011: Craig and Geoff's exchange in [[http://youtu.be/Wag4hFAiEEs this Tweetmail segment.]]
* July 19, 2011: Geoff's response when asked if he ever smoked.
-->"Actually I did smoke once...then I died. See? See? Creator/{{CBS}} cares."
* September 5, 2011: Geoff comes back from the Labor Day weekend a bit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qyByBFvgo tipsy.]]
--> '''Geoff''' (slurred): Did you see that horse, man? That was crazy!
* A recent episode featured a monologue discussing Dick Cheney's new book. Geoff claims that he's a big follower of politics, so Craig asks him if he's Republican or Democrat.
-->"I'm a gay robot skeleton."
* November 10, 2011: LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.
-->'''Larry King Geoff:''' I walked the streets of Manchester when I was a human, when I was a normal Jew, just walking the streets. I was not a robot.\\
'''Craig:''' This is either the worst or best idea I've ever had in my ['''[[SoundEffectBleep ¡AY CARAMBA!]]'''] life.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdSXtcHdMM Any Craig Ferguson]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1PSsA7i3I interview with]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POegaih8ijg Melina Kanakaredes]].
* February 9, 2012: Craig finally gets to interview Music/WeirdAlYankovic. Craig expresses how much he's wanted to have him on, and Al replies "I wouldn't have known! Nobody called!" Upon hearing this, Craig turns to [[ButtMonkey his producer]] and says '''"You sack of [[[SoundEffectBleep TOOTSI FROOTSI]]]!!"''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsCoRB6cmM Honestly, the whole interview belongs here]].
* February 25, 2012: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xCnTWmtTM#t=6m00s "I JUST SAW MYSELF ON THE MONITOR."]]
* May 16, 2012: Craig visits his old school and comments on some graffiti. (See SoundEffectBleep on the main page.)
--> '''Craig:''' And it seems like the children enjoy the same style of artwork that we enjoyed when we were little, too. You see, this is a ''(haggis!)'', these are ''(whiskey!)'', this is ''(breenge!)'' flying ''(shortbread!)'' *{{beat}}* ''(Shut yer face!)'', this individual's ''(Dumbledore!)''
* June 27, 2012: Geoff and Craig do impressions of each other during the monologue.
* August 29, 2012: It's the third episode on Craig's new set at Studio 56 and in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYcFp__uIg Tweets and E-Mails]] segment, a person asks why Secretariat's barn area is shown with daylight and the city behind Craig's desk is nighttime.
* Whenever the audience seems to be getting a bit emotional over some of the remarks he makes towards his sidekicks, Craig will assert that they're merely conventions of the show to make everything funnier. Eventually reaches it's peak after a variant of the "What Did We Learn on the Show Tonight, Craig" intro didn't do well with a lot of people. It went roughly like this;
-->"We had to change that one. Because a lot of people didn't like the fact that the cat ascended to Heaven. ''It's not a real cat.'' It's a ''drawing'' of a cat. [Geoff] is an appliance, [Secretariat's] not a real [¡AY CARAMBA!] horse! '''''I DON'T EXIST!'''''"
* March 15, 2013: Before the show the producer, Michael, made a joke to the effect of "You know how yesterday was PiDay, well today's Friday", so Craig spends a third of monologue just shitting all over Michael for trying to be helpful.
* April 8, 2013: Craig has an epic {{corpsing}} episode when he tries to tell a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVWGvKhuhA cat joke during the monologue.]]
* September 9th, 2013: ''"Series/ThePriceIsRight and my penis are very different of course! One's been around for over 50 years but Drew Carey made it bigger than ever....."'' Craig doesn't even ''finish'' that joke.
** Followed up by a pseudo-ImagineSpot where Craig shows what ''The Late Late Show'' would look like if ''Secretariat'' hosted. Secretariat simply comes out from the entrance and makes a mockery of Craig's mannerisms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJQnjKrYU4 Should be seen to be fully appreciated.]]
* November 2, 2012: A cold open gets derailed when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbuHXR2O2XU SECRETARIAT starts corpsing!]]
--> '''Craig''': (laughing) I can hear the horse laughing!
* Anytime Cool Old Legends like Creator/BettyWhite, Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/DonRickles, or Creator/RobinWilliams visit the show. Every. Single. Time.
** Betty's appearance on Craig's third-to-last show, especially the climax: she dances with a someone in a pink baby hippo suit while a choir sings "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas".
* March 6, 2014: Josh Robert Thompson [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfEhESvpdU cracks Craig and himself up]] with his [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent bizarre voice]] for Philly Cheesesteak shop owner Serge.
* When Drew Carey hosted on April Fools Day 2014, one of the tweets asked where Drew first met Craig. Drew deadpanned "[=ChristianMingle=]".
* Anytime Craig makes a comment about the [[SarcasmMode high quality production and content of his show.....]] and immediately cracks up laughing.
* Craig gets irritated when the producer tries to flag him down for saying "vagina." Craig says words similar to slang terms for "penis" in the interview at least twice, then taunting the producer by saying, "It's a real word!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bdkGvHvbY]].
* The final segment of Craig's tenure on ''The Late Late Show'' goes straight towards the GainaxEnding route. It squeezes references to three other shows' finales into about three minutes, including [[spoiler: ''Series/StElsewhere, Series/{{Newhart}}'' (featuring a Bob Newhart cameo!), and ''Series/TheSopranos''. According to this skit, the whole show was just a terrible dream by ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow's'' Mr. Wick, who wakes up in hysterics next to ''Drew'' (in ''another'' cameo!). They finally get back to sleep as Music/{{Journey}}'s "Don't Stop Believing" plays, while the camera does a slow zoom into a snow globe, featuring a tiny Craig, Geoff and Secretariat - before the abrupt cut to black.]] It's a strange but oddly befitting way to finish up Craig's tenure with the show.
** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' had a remarkably similar ending, [[spoiler:revealing itself to be a 9-year-long ''[[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]]'' segment]]. This happened ''the day before'' Craig's final show. Whether this was an intentional shout-out or a total coincidence, it makes both endings funnier.
* The very last Tweetmail ever read: ''[[spoiler: "Craig, I just started watching your show on Monday!"]]''

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