# What's the deal with Conan (on TBS)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967 "2012-07-12T03:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/1 "2012-07-12T03:23:47Z")
Last couple of days, I’ve been watching the comedy rerun marathons on TBS (four or five episodes of _Family Guy_ last night; then the same with eps of _The Big Bang Theory_ this evening. At the end of those runs, Conan has been running, and it hasn’t been particularly worth the trouble to change the channel or turn off the TV. Here’s the thing: Last night’s show was apparently made when _The Hunger Games_ was riding high at the box office, and tonight’s is talking about the Disney movie _John Carter_. Is Conan usually this out of date? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/2 "2012-07-12T03:27:19Z")
He’s in reruns for the holiday. New shows return next week I believe. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/3 "2012-07-12T03:44:11Z")
Yeah, in TV land, the fourth of July is a two week affair. Colbert and Stewart are still in reruns, too. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/4 "2012-07-12T03:59:17Z")
Ah. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/5 "2012-07-12T04:06:14Z")
I thought the same thing for a bit. But at the same time, I think it would be hilarious if one of the late night talk show guys made that his schtick: incredibly dated monologue material. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/6 "2012-07-12T04:18:03Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > I thought the same thing for a bit. But at the same time, I think it would be hilarious if one of the late night talk show guys made that his schtick: incredibly dated monologue material. 😃 That’s Leno on NBC. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/7 "2012-07-12T11:53:51Z")
> [@kneadtoknow](#): > > that’s leno on nbc. heyoooo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/8 "2012-07-12T12:06:36Z")
This is _really_ mundane and pointless, but I gotta ask: **Smeghead** , why did **KneadToKnow** ’s post get de-capitalized when you quoted it? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/9 "2012-07-12T12:20:16Z")
As I recall, if you post a message in all capitals, the board lowercases it, since we like our peace and quiet here. But a bug in the implementation forces any quoted content to be lowercased as well. So I presume **Smeg** replied with “HEYOOOO!!!” which triggered the bug. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/10 "2012-07-12T12:48:43Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > as i recall, if you post a message in all capitals, the board lowercases it, since we like our peace and quiet here. But a bug in the implementation forces any quoted content to be lowercased as well. So i presume **smeg** replied with “heyoooo!!!” which triggered the bug. what, i don’t understand. why would writing “heyoo” in all lowercase trigger the bug?!!? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/11 "2012-07-12T15:56:14Z")
Do we have a new poster called **the minusculist**? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-conan-on-tbs/627967/12 "2012-07-12T16:22:27Z")
Smeghead didn’t write heyoooo!!!. He wrote HEYOOOO!!!. If a message is nothing but capital letters the board automatically turns all the uppercase letters to lower case and applied it to the text in the quote box because it’s just dumb software and can’t understand context.