Table of Contents
Prologue 3
Part I 7
1 Moxie 9
2 ABC News, May I Help You? 12
3 Let 'Em Know You're There 16
4 Chicken Noodle News 22
5 Binge, Purge, Repeat 25
6 Who Is That Girl? 30
7 The State of the Onion 33
8 Breast Size 37
9 Rainy Days and Mondays 41
10 Good Night, David! Good Night, Chet! 43
11 Hot, Hot, Hot 48
12 Nice Writing, Ms. Couric 52
13 Finding Ted 58
14 I Can Do This 64
15 The E-Ring 70
16 Velveeta 73
17 A Two-Bagger 78
18 Horny Toads 83
19 I Am Woman 87
20 Katherine or Katie 92
21 A Defiant Mop 94
22 It's a Girl! 98
23 Brains After Babies 101
24 Paging Mary Poppins 106
25 Perky 110
26 Florence and Normandie 119
27 The Coast of Casablanca 125
28 Movin' Out 130
29 Martha, Dear Martha 135
Part II 141
30 Jay 143
31 Mr. Katie Couric 148
32 "Shit." 151
33 The Worry Cup 154
34 "Katie's Private Pain" 157
35 Diana 161
36 A Pony for Ellie 164
37 Saturday Morning 168
38 Ashokan Farewell 171
39 From Hope to Hope 177
40 Safe, Sane, and Secure 182
41 The Aloneness 185
42 "There's Been a Shooting" 190
43 The Nicest Pal a Guy Could Have 196
Part III 199
44 The Way It Was 201
45 Affable Eva Braun 206
46 The Booking Wars 212
47 Tom-Tom 221
48 The Couric Effect 226
49 Emily 231
50 Churro'd 235
51 "TODAY, Tuesday, September 11th, 2001" 238
52 WWED? 244
53 Persona Non Grata 247
54 Dear Katie 251
55 Probing Colins 256
56 One Big-Ass Rabbit 261
57 Goodbye from Kansas! 270
Part IV 275
58 The Dairy Depot 277
59 Tick Tick Tick Tick 283
60 KC and the Sunshine Band 285
61 … And I'm Katie Couric 290
62 She's Toast 295
63 So Hawt 299
64 Lasagna Was Served 302
65 The Wisdom of Samantha 308
66 The Fall of Rome 312
67 Business Trip 317
68 The Twitter 323
69 Damned If You Do 329
70 If Jay Were Here 333
71 Hockey Mom 335
72 You Betcha 340
73 Over Un-Easy 347
74 Take This Job and Shove It 352
75 A Chap Named Parkinson 359
76 Family Feud 363
Part V 367
77 Nancy Knows 369
78 That Molner Guy 372
79 Are You Ready for This Day? 378
80 Flop Sweat 388
81 The Brady Bunch 395
82 Déjà Vu 399
83 "And YOU Get a Vacuum!" 404
84 I Will 407
85 Labor Day 411
86 #Ladydouchebag 417
87 Palooza on the Plaza 422
88 Fire! Fire! 425
Part VI 431
89 The Last Supper 433
90 No Bueno 438
91 Morning Has Broken 441
92 Hero to Zero 446
93 Addie 450
94 The Leon Trotsky of 30 Rock 453
95 I'm Gonna Miss This 456
96 The System 461
97 Bleeding Purple 465
98 Gone with the Wind 472
99 It's C-o-u-r-i-c 481
Epilogue 489
Acknowledgments 491
Index 497