It’s actually a little surprising that O’Brien is only now learning of, or at least talking about, Detective Conan.
In fact, to be specific, I think three trillion yen would be appropriate,” he decides, before flashing an address onscreen where the Detective Conan rights holders can mail him a check.
O’Brien isn’t happy about his second-place status, and during a recent episode of his TV show he directly addressed the issue.
But as the ‘90s went on, for English speakers the mental fill-in shifted to “O’Brien,” as Conan O’Brien’s late-night talk show hit it big.