The Broken Chair

Using the excuse that her husband died of colon cancer, Katie wanted to show us how simple and easy a colonoscopy exam can be. But she also wanted to show us something else. Fresh from a new personal trainer/guru's fitness program, the live on-air colon exam began with the camera panning to her removing her thong underwear and pulling it down her legs.

there were several things missing: clips of her bad attempts at hipness over the years, like using terms like "stoked" and other words and phrases better relegated to Jeff Spicoli and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." There was no clip of her pulling down her thong underwear as she prepared for her live on-air colonoscopy. That was one of the low points of The Today Show, and a moment that made even Jerry Springer blush. No clip of her exchange with Ann Coulter, which made for great TV, but not great Katie. In short, today's good-bye show was a lot of hype, pomp and circumstance over a girl they picked up from a local Virginia TV station.