{"id":1080,"date":"2012-12-20T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:42:20","slug":"a-fan-takes-issue-with-conan-obriens-human-centipede-menorah-but-not-the-one-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/12\/a-fan-takes-issue-with-conan-obriens-human-centipede-menorah-but-not-the-one-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fan Takes Issue with Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s Human Centipede Menorah (But Not the One You Think)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This year, <strong>Conan O\u2019Brien<\/strong> brought back his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/12\/conan-obriens-hanukkah-offering-the-r2d2-menorah\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Human Centipede<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/12\/conan-obriens-hanukkah-offering-the-r2d2-menorah\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"> menorah<\/a>\u201d sketch for Hanukkah. However, one of the show\u2019s viewers thought that Conan was lighting the menorah the wrong way. (The fact that there were people connected face-to-butt, though? Apparently not as problematic.) Here\u2019s Alexander\u2019s video and Conan\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fan Correction: You Don&#039;t Light Menorahs That Way! | CONAN on TBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oOiHUKcAbpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Conan O\u2019Brien brought back his \u201cHuman Centipede menorah\u201d sketch for Hanukkah. However, one of the show\u2019s viewers thought that Conan was lighting the menorah the wrong way. (The fact that there were people connected face-to-butt, though? Apparently not as problematic.) Here\u2019s Alexander\u2019s video and Conan\u2019s response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,191,589,239,43],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptedtv","tag-conan-obrien","tag-hanukkah","tag-menorahs","tag-the-human-centipede","tag-videos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Fan Takes Issue with Conan O&#039;Brien&#039;s Human Centipede Menorah (But Not the One You Think)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This year, Conan O&#039;Brien brought back his &quot;Human Centipede menorah&quot; sketch for Hanukkah. 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