Late Show

Late Show
Premiere date	October 23, 1996
Run time	19:47
Music composed by	Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst
Writer(s)	Spike Feresten Steve O'Donnell
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker
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"Late Show" is the twelfth episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season three, and the thirtieth overall. It aired on October 23, 1996 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Spike Feresten and Steve O'Donnell.

To boost ratings, Space Ghost Coast to Coast reformats itself to become a Late Show with David Letterman rip-off. Good thing that they have two of their writers to give it some authenticity.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Announcer (voice only)	Gary Owens
Space Ghost	George Lowe
Zorak	C. Martin Croker
Moltar	C. Martin Croker
Jerry
Christy	N/A
John Popper	Himself
Bill Clinton	Unavailable
Larry King
Erma Bombeck
Janeane Garofalo	Herself
Urma Thurman
Oprah Winfrey
Catwoman
Pat Buchanan
Jay Leno
Hugh Grant
Space Ghost's mother	Penny Jones
Flip Orley	Himself
Tony Randall
Dave Grohl	Himself
Dave Grohl's mother
David Letterman
Terri Garr

Organizations

• The Original Way Outs
• Foo Fighters (mentioned)

Locations

• Ghost Planet
  • Studio
• Earth (indirectly mentioned)
  • United States (indirectly mentioned)
    • Indiana (mentioned)
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Los Angeles (indirectly mentioned)
        • Hollywood (mentioned)
      • Burger Town
  • Mexico (mentioned)
• Xeron

Objects

• Power bands

Vehicles

• None

Production

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1996.

Music

The music was composed by Sonny Sharrock and Eddie Horst. The musicians were Sharrock, Lance Carter, Horst, and Alfrieda Gerald.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 23, 1996 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• The series is given a new CGI opening, which apparently not everyone liked. It was explained in the audio commentary for "Cookout," that they probably reused it to make their money's worth, but was eventually removed by the next season as they knew Coast to Coast was its own identity and didn't need to "piggyback" on David Letterman.
• Keith Crofford, Spike Ferestein, Steve O'Donnell, and Janeane Garofalo provide audio commentary for this episode on DVD releases.

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 16, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Two on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • October 2, 2007: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Two on DVD.
  • November 28, 2012: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: All Talk Collection on DVD.