October 26, 2009 - October 29, 2009

Folige, Leafgold, Raken, Folia, and Leavesdon. It's autumn, and that means colorful trees. 

October 12, 2009 - October 15, 2009

Flucom, Fluker, Flussio, Fluh, and Fluberg.  The swine flu vaccine arrived.

October 5, 2009 - October 8, 2009

Octupilla, Octeville, Octahatchee, Oktoberbere, and Octonia.  October again.

September 28, 2009 - October 1, 2009

Autumn Acres, Autumn Ridge, Autumn Leaves, and Autumnwood.  Because it's Autumn. 

September 22, 2009 - September 24, 2009

Sevenheiken, and Sept Pagodes.  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won its seventh straight Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series. 

September 14, 2009 - September 17, 2009

Rockthrow, Rockville Centre, Rockingham, Rockcorry, and Rockmyrheden.  Rocks. 

August 17, 2009 - August 20, 2009

Corney, Maizal, Cornafulla, Cornucopia, and Cornamucklagh. Corn everywhere.

August 10, 2009 - August 13, 2009

Caliente Sands, Hat Chah, Boiling Point, Scaldasole, and Sizla. It was very hot in New York, at least on Monday.

Extra thanks to Katy for transcribing these.

August 3, 2009 - August 6, 2009

Eyemouth, Headwood, Mouthier, and Neck City. Body parts.

July 27, 2009 - July 30, 2009

Squatney, Nilford-On-Null, Cleveland, and Stonehenge. Spinal Tap performed this week.

July 20, 2009 - July 23, 2009

Lunah, Moonzie, Moonachie, Apollo Bay, and Moonglow. This week was the fortieth anniversary of the Moon Landing.

July 13, 2009 - July 16, 2009

Blueberry Hill, Gooseberry, and Raspberry Creek. Berries.

June 30, 2009 - July 2, 2009

Kani, Crabier, Crabb, and Krebs. All about crabs.

June 22, 2009 - June 25, 2009

Rainen, Puddletown, Dripsey, Dropmore, and Leaksville. New York had been inundated with rain recently.

June 15, 2009 - June 18, 2009

Lynchburg, Moscow, Dufftown, Jalisco, and Nassau. These were all distillery sites.

June 8, 2009 - June 11, 2009

Riyadh, Cairo, Dresden, Normandy, and Paris. These were all stops on President Obama's world tour. I didn't see it, but Giza might have been included.

June 1, 2009 - June 4, 2009

Irisburg, Hyacinthe, Lilach, Tulipina, and Violetville. These were all flower places.

May 18, 2009 - May 21, 2009

Springfield, Quahog, Bedrock, Orbit City, and South Park. These were all cartoon show towns.

May 11, 2009 - May 14, 2009

Motherwell, Sierra Madre, Momi, and Mere Solaille. This week was Mother's Day.

May 4, 2009 - May 7, 2009

Applerum and Peachland. These were fruity places.

April 27, 2009 - April 30, 2009

Swinemunde, Piggen, and Piggu. This week was porcine-themed. I don't know why.

EDIT: As Rich pointed out, this was Swine Flu season.

April 20, 2009 - April 23, 2009

Boston, Addis Ababa, Marathon, and Athens. This week was about the Boston Marathon.

April 14, 2009 - April 16, 2009

Hammerfest, Alert, Novyy Port, Shangri-La, Vancouver, and Halifax. These were all cities mentioned in articles from the April 2009 issue of National Geographic. See story here.

April 6, 2009 - April 9, 2009

Aprilia, Abril, Aprelova, April Meadows, and Avrilmont. It was April. They were lazy.

March 16, 2009 - March 19, 2009
March 30, 2009 - April 2, 2009

Storrs, Chapel Hill, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, East Lansing, and Louisville. This was still March Madness, but with different cities for this two weeks' worth of episodes.

March 9, 2009 - March 12, 2009

Morehead, Cedar Falls, Johnson City, Radford, Ithaca, and Queens. It's March Madness again.

March 2, 2009 - March 5, 2009

Lambipati, Lion-Sur-Mer, Lioni, Lionsville, Lambs Corner, and Lamborn. Lambs and lions? Biblical references? Pretty odd for the Daily Show.

EDIT: As Rich pointed out, this is also a weather-related saying about March.

February 23, 2009 - February 26, 2009

Snowhill, Skieblewo, Schuss, and Mogulu. These were all about skiing.

February 9, 2009 - February 12, 2009

Heart Butte, Valentzikon, Heartville, Valentinovka, and Valentijn. This week was Valentine's Day.

February 2, 2009 - February 5, 2009

Steeleville, Pitzenberg, Pittsfield, Pittsburgh, and Steelpoort. Pittsburgh won the Super Bowl.

January 26, 2009 - January 29, 2009

Cowton, Oxbull, Cowes, Oxlip, Oxbow, and Cowcowing. This was bovine week, apparently. I don't know why.

EDIT: Ah, Chinese New Year. Duh.

January 19, 2009 - January 22, 2009

Obamla, Obamoro, and Obama. This was inauguration week.

January 12, 2009 - January 15, 2009

Bushgan, Bushi, Bushwick, and Bushfield. This was the last full week in office for President Bush.

January 5, 2009 - January 8, 2009

Newport, New Iloilo, Newville, Newcastle, and New Delhi. It was the new year.

December 8, 2008 - December 11, 2008

Pinamar and Hyams Beach. More beaches.

December 1, 2008 - December 4, 2008

Decevo, Decernillo, Dekemhare, and Dekembra. This was the first week of December.

November 17, 2008 - November 20, 2008

Stoffin, Yamyong, and Gooseneck. This was Thanksgiving season.

November 11, 2008 - November 13, 2008

Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, Ottawa, Boston, and Toronto. These were northeastern cities. I don't really understand the significance.

November 3, 2008 - November 6, 2008

Politika, Elektor, and Ballota. This was election week.

November 4 was election night, and there was a joint Daily Show-Colbert Report special. There was no globe. Things were back to normal the next evening.

October 27, 2008 - October 30, 2008

Trickem and Treaton. I only caught a couple this week, too. It was Halloween-themed.

October 20, 2008 - October 23, 2008

Paris, Utrecht, Ghent, Tordesillas, and Verdun. These were famous treaties.

October 13, 2008 - October 16, 2008

Cooperstown, Williamsport, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. It was baseball playoffs again.

October 6, 2008 - October 9, 2008

Octon and Octerville. I really couldn't catch any other places. It was an October theme, though.

September 29, 2008 - October 2, 2008

Banks, Paulson, Baileytown, Burbank, and Bailey. This was around the bailout.

September 23, 2008 - September 25, 2008

Emieville, Emylin, and Emialoi. The Daily Show won some Emmys this week.

September 15, 2008 - September 18, 2008

Homestead, Casablanca, Homedale, and Homewood. These were the first shows back home after the conventions.

September 2, 2008 - September 5, 2008

The Daily Show was on location for the Republican Convention. The globe didn't make this trip, either.

August 26, 2008 - August 29, 2008

The Daily Show was on location for the Democratic Convention. The globe stayed in New York.

August 11, 2008 - August 14, 2008

Hong Kong, Tianjin, Qinghao, Beijing, and Shanghai. This was Beijing Olympics time.

August 4, 2008 - August 7, 2008

Beijing, Toronto, Moscow, Paris, and Istanbul. I have no idea what was going on here.

July 28, 2008 - July 31, 2008

Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Lagos, Tokyo, and Mexico City. These were extremely populous cities. New York actually fits in here naturally.

July 21, 2008 - July 24, 2008

Coast City, Salem Center, Gotham City, Atlantis, and Sin City. These were comic book settings.

July 14, 2008 - July 17, 2008

McMurdo, Vostok, and Prospect Creek. These were cold places. This was a hot week.

June 23, 2008 - June 26, 2008

Summertown, Somerset, Summerhill, and Summersville. Summer began that weekend.

On June 25 they changed to Coldspring, Chilton, and Colchester. This was the night Coldplay was on. The next night they switched back.

June 16, 2008 - June 19, 2008

Sandy Spit, La Jolla, Calblanque, Manly, and Khao Lak. Beach places again.

June 9, 2008 - June 12, 2008

Aden, Timbuktu, Khartoum, and Madras. Muslim Cities? That's all I got.

June 2, 2008 - June 5, 2008

Juno Ridge, Juniata, Juneau, Juniper, and June Lake. It was the first week of June.

May 27, 2008 - May 29, 2008

Asbury Park, Lincoln, and Philadelphia. This week was all about Bruce Springsteen.

May 12, 2008 - May 15, 2008

Troy, Pompeii, Atlantis, Babylon, and Constantinople. These were all ancient cities that no longer exist.

May 5, 2008 - May 8, 2008

Squaw Peak, Squaw Valley, Squaw Lake, Squaw Park, Squaw Creek, and Squaw Village. This week was pretty lazy.

April 28, 2008 - May 1, 2008

Maytown, Mayberry, Mayfield, Cape May, Mayday, and Maysville. May began that week.

April 21, 2008 - April 24, 2008

Hershey, Parma, Tarragona, Chedoar, Dijon, Sandwich. More food stuff, it seems.

April 14, 2008 - April 17, 2008

Laws, Tollette, Uncle Sam, Billings, Prosper, and Sale City. This was during tax time.

April 7, 2008 - April 10, 2008

Blaubeuren, Lac Vert, Roodepoort, and Orange. These were places with colors in their names.

March 17, 2008 - March 20, 2008
March 31, 2008 - April 3, 2008

Chapel Hill, Westwood, Memphis, Lawrence, and Springfield. This was during March Madness, and these places last multiple weeks.

March 10, 2008 - March 13, 2008

Quito, Sorong, Kampala, Kisangani, Libreville, and Singapore. Cities near the equator. One of my favorites.

March 3, 2008 - March 6, 2008

San Antonio, Chillicothe, Providence, and Rutland. I have no idea what these have in common. I wish I caught more of the cities on the globe this week to clue me in.

February 26, 2008 - February 28, 2008

Aspen, Cortina, Vail, Gstaad, and Stowe. These were famous places for skiing.

February 11, 2008 - February 14, 2008

Ipanema, Guantanamera, San Jose, and Katmandu. These were places in song titles. That's why Katmandu was spelled without the "h."

February 13 was the first show with the writers back, and they abandoned the song title places. The only cities on the globe I could make our were Parchment and Reading. They stayed up there for the February 14 show, as well.

February 4, 2008 - February 7, 2008

Chianti, Bordeaux, Cava, Chablis, Asti, and Tokaj. Wine places.

January 28, 2008 - January 31, 2008

Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, St. Augustine, and Tavernier. Florida's disputed primary was a big deal.

January 21, 2008 - January 24, 2008

Moscow, Helsinki, Reyjavik, Ottawa, Tallinn, and Ulan Bator. These were capitals of cold places. It was cold at the time.

January 14, 2008 - January 17, 2008

Princeton, Smallville, Tree Hill, Dillon, Scranton, and Jericho. The settings for television shows without writers.

January 7, 2008 - January 10, 2008

Hollywood, Uniontown, Unionbridge, and Tenstrike. The 2007-2008 WGA strike was underway, and the Daily Show was one of the few programs to return sans writers.

On January 9 the strike theme was abandoned in favor of Manchester, Concord, and Dixville Notch. This was the night of the New Hampshire primary. The next night the strike theme returned.

October 29, 2007 - November 1, 2007

Cooperstown, Boston, Lowell, Cleveland, Anaheim, and Denver. This was baseball week. Those were playoff teams, and one playoff player. They used baseball week again the next year.

On October 31, they actually did away with the baseball cities, and had Frankenstein, Tombstone, and Transylvania for Halloween. They went back to baseball the next night (which happened to have David Wright as a guest). That November 1 show would be the last until January 7, 2008. Stupid strike.

October 15, 2007 - October 18, 2007

Walla Walla, Podunk, Peoria, and Cucamonga. These were go-to "random" places. Hicksville could have been on there.

October 7, 2007 - October 11, 2007

Madras, Ningbo, Leeds, and Inchon. I can't really see what these places have in common. Sometimes these themes are topical, so it might have made more sense at the time.

October 1, 2007 - October 4, 2007

O'Fallon, Falls Church, Fallis, McFall, and Cuyahoga Falls. After the previous week, this looked almost lazy. It's seasonal, and has some unexpected use of "fall," though.

September 24, 2007 - September 27, 2007

Giza, Babylon, Alexandria, Olympia, Ephesus, and Halicarnassus. These were locations of the seven wonders of the ancient world. I didn't see Rhodes, but it might have been there. This was one of my favorites.

September 18, 2007 - September 20, 2007

Hamburg, Cayenne, Bologna, Corona Beach. These were things you eat/drink.

September 10, 2007 - September 13, 2007

Thermopylae, Hastings, Stalingrad, Gettysburg, Verdun, and Zama. These were famous battle sites. I went to one of the tapings this week, and I think there was at least one more city.

August 20, 2007 - August 23, 2007

St. Tropez, Cairns, Ipanema, Patong, Clifton, and Milos. These were beaches.

August 13, 2007 - August 16, 2007

Nakaunnayok, Bjelostock, Vladivastok, Gangtok, Woodstock, and Pitsanulok. Some of these were very difficult to transcribe.

August 7, 2007 - August 9, 2007

El Obeio, El Paso, El Alto, El Aaiun, and Elizabeth. Like the previous week with Monrovia, this one kind of included wordplay.

July 30, 2007 - August 2, 2007

Jackson, Madison, Washington, Cleveland, Lincoln, and Monrovia. I didn't see it, but I bet Jefferson City was in there, too. Very presidential.

July 23, 2007 - July 26, 2007

Bordeaux, Tacoma, Odessa, Wellington, Mumbai, and Vientiane. Maybe they went back to a random assortment of places.

July 16, 2007 - July 19, 2007

Kaduna, Belfast, Fukuoka, Montreal, and Rota. I can't see a theme among these. Rota and Fukuoka aren't major world cities. On July 18, when Matt Groening was a guest, the globe also included Springfield.

June 25, 2007 - June 28, 2007

As far as I can tell, this was our first "theme." After New York, there was New Fugumui, New Ilo, New Delhi, New Zia, and New Mirpur.

June 18, 2007 - June 21, 2007

Luanda, Sucre, Halifax, Tbilisi, Vaduz, Oaxaca, and Rome. If you looked Tbilisi up in Wikipedia around this time, you would've been better informed come the following summer.

June 11, 2007 - June 14, 2007

Riyadh, Irkutsk, Bangui, Havana, Paris, Kathmandu, and Tirana. The cities were piling up, but there's a pretty inexhaustible list from which to draw.

June 4, 2007 - June 7, 2007

Minsk, Canberra, Belmopan, Mangua, and Kigali. Some of these were good review for those who've slacked on geography.

May 21, 2007 - May 24, 2007

Portland, Manila, Damascus, Athens, Istanbul. Portland reminds me of Tucson.

May 15, 2007 - May 17, 2007

Shanghai, Havana, Florence, Honolulu, and Pretoria. If I had an HDTV, or were in the audience for every episode, I'd be able to catch more of these.

May 7, 2007 - May 10, 2007

Seville, Tucson, Jakarta, Caracas, Beirut, Kiev, Vienna, Lima, and Mecca. And New York, of course. Tucson is rather inexplicable.

April 30, 2007 - May 3, 2007

Christchurch, Harare, Quito, Berlin, Lima, Beijing, Auckland, Rome, and Seoul. New York stayed of course. New York is omnipresent. Chuck O'Neil was simply picking major world cities at this point.

April 9, 2007 was the first day of the Daily Show's new set. Above Jon's desk was a globe, and on this globe were cities. New York, Bangkok, Sydney, Atlanta, Hong Kong, Paris, Los Angeles, and Barcelona were among them. These cities stayed all week, through April 12. They were there the next week, from April 16 through April 19, and the following one, from April 23 through April 26. New York would stay always.