Fan Request: Dave Steals TGI Friday's Balloons | Letterman

Fan Friday Request:
"How about finding the video where Dave sent his goons over, across and down broadway to Fridays and stole their balloon rainbow and then tormented them on the phone for the rest of the show. 'We’ve got your balloons, punk!'"
Mike Myers
Denton, TX
(From "Late Show," air date: 10/11/94)

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[czerge]

Only Dave can orchestrate a balloon-napping. 😂 Great stuff! 🎉

[kstepko]

That balloon arch adds a festive touch to the studio set!

[elizabethlarson]

"They're taking this balloon caper kinda hard." LOL. Dave and Bruce together was always a recipe for silliness and merriment.

[ClockwiseCat]

Frat-boy humor meets Dada absurdism. That right there encapsulates Dave Letterman

[TimothyATaylor]

Bruce and Dave, there’s a buddy cop movie I’d pay to see!

[caesandraseawell]

Of course Dave knows to call and rub it in! BRILLIANT

[JoshColletta]

What's a little larceny between neighbors? 🤣

[SESteve]

And of course Paul and the band played "Up, Up and Away".

[kstepko]

TGIFriday’s Dave got really tough on the phone, not realizing that he was talking to Bruce Willis: “Five minutes - be there!” I notice that his voice got a lot deeper too!

[kstepko]

How could Dave forget the guy’s name?
IT WAS HIS OWN NAME!

[BluesJammer]

I still miss Dave and the kind of things like this he would do!

[MichelleUS]

Google Maps shows that thirty years after this was filmed, of the four businesses seen here, only the strip joint remains (albeit with a new name)…

[angelovalentin]

I really needed those balloons. Thanks, Dave.

[kstepko]

I would have liked to see footage of the TGIFridays employees going outside after Dave’s initial call only to discover that the balloon arch is missing. 🎈

[goaheadmakemyday]

What Dave should have said to the pizza place was "We are holding your balloons hostage and the only way of getting them back is for you to deliver 20 fresh pizza pies over to my building and we are watching you don't do any funny business".

[BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

[nylesglynn]

This is truly great Letterman! He's only recently got his feet under the desk at CBS and is still youthful. Great stunt.

[KungEMuller]

Dave is the modern Robin Hood. That's why.

[nancylk]

That's clearly Howard Stern's old sidekick Artie Lange taking $$ off Bruce down at TGIF. Too funny!! Lol...

[amichels]

Check out Barbara and John walking in Friday’s…