Oh, Jimmy. We appreciate your silly song stylings. We especially enjoy them when it means we get to wake up to you singing one of our favorite childhood theme songs in a changed-up style. Of course, we can never hear this song without thinking of this scene, but we’ll also be adding this one to our roster of favorite Reading Rainbow covers.

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While promoting her fitness initiative for kids, Let’s Move, First Lady Michelle Obama mentioned that it was time to get kids off the couch and away from the TV. Jimmy Fallon, who is from the TV, took umbrage at this remark, packed his finest spandex, and made a little trip to the White House to challenge the First Lady to a round of physical activities. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Have you not seen Michelle Obama’s arms? Did you really think you could beat her at push-ups? Either way, we are happy that this happened for entertainment purposes, so we’ll let you watch Obama and Fallon settle this like professionals.

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If the thing that bothers you the most about the holiday season is the neverending background music of songs we’ve heard over and over and over again (I’m looking at you, “Jingle Bells”), then Jimmy Fallon has solved your problem. He got some famous friends together — Patton Oswalt, Maya Rudolph, Jesse Eisenberg, Martin Short, T.I., Brian Williams, Jack McBrayer, Zac Efron, Howie Mandel, Jason Segel, and Walter the Muppet — to give the classic poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” the Mad Libs treatment to change things up a bit. And now it has nipples in it.

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Last night, Jimmy Fallon returned to his old stomping grounds on the stage of Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center to host Saturday Night Live. And basically everyone that Fallon has ever breathed on showed up for the last show of 2011 and the season’s semi-official holiday show, and it was pretty wonderful. Rachel Dratch was in the cold open to reprise the “Sully and Denise” sketch, along with Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, and a svelte Horatio Sanz, who showed up to perform their classic Christmas song. (That’s after the jump. Because how could I not, really?) But the most epic of reunions took place during Weekend Update, when first Amy Poehler and then Tina Fey re-teamed with their former co-anchors, Jimmy and current anchor Seth Meyers. This was an amazing show, you guys. There was even a sketch for the dorkestra and band geeks!

One of the best things that Jimmy Fallon (aka The Most Popular Boy in School Who Talked to Us That One Time) does on his late-night show is continue to play characters and do impressions, including musical ones. And when he does Jim Morrison (backed up by some excellent Doors impersonators), singing a badass version of the Reading Rainbow theme song, we pay attention. And then we realize what a great Doors song it might be. And how incredibly Gen-X-y this all is.

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Elmo took up a guest spot on last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, engaged in a bit of monologuing, and revealed that there’s definitely something strange between him and Andy Samberg.

Sesame Street’s 42nd consecutive season debuted this weekend, and focuses on a STEM curriculum (that’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), so as you might have noticed, that’s right up our alley. Or street.

This is the only way you will see this song performed on The Mary Sue — sung by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and Taylor Hicks. Throughout the week, Fallon has been threatening his BFFSM (Best Friend For Six Months) Colbert with the task of singing this song ever since Colbert donated $26,000 of Fallon’s money to DonorsChoose.org. Fallon gave his audience the chance to come up with the money, and if they did, he promised that Colbert would come sing Rebecca Black‘s “Friday” on his show. And it worked! Turns out people are very charitable when they want to see someone do something humiliating.

The beginning has an Annie Lennox feel to it, don’t you think?

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Whoa! Jimmy Fallon totally mentioned The Mary Sue in his monologue Monday night, (right around 2:10 in this video). We missed it the first time around because when it aired some of us were performing a dramatic reading of a pornographic TMNT fanfiction in Chinatown, then went home and watched Metalocalypse instead. And others of us just moved and have no television.

But there are so much more lady nerds than you think, Jimmy! Unless this is just payback for that time I chased you down the street …