While the Howard Stern Show cast took the week off for Thanksgiving vacation, Sirius XM's Spider Harrison counted down the list of the 36 greatest Howard Stern Show moments of 2009. Friday morning, the top five moments of the year were announced. Check out the list of the top five 'Howard Stern Show Greatest Moments of 2009' below:

#5: Robin Quivers orders $800 bottles of wine: Back in January, Howard Stern made the grave mistake of allowing resident wine snob Robin Quivers order wine for the table when they were out to dinner one night. Robin ordered 3 bottles of 'special wine for a special occasion' that cost $800 a pop. Howard's on-air roasting of Robin's wino-spending-spree provoked Quivers into hissing: "Don't ever take me to dinner again!"

 

#4: Ron Howard interview: When Director Ron Howard stopped by the Howard Stern Show to promote 'Angels & Demons' back in May, the cast loved the inside scoop the former child star dished out on working with Hollywood's biggest movie stars and seeing his daughter act naked on stage. Best of all though, when Howard Stern showed Ron Howard a clip of Baba Booey throwing out the first pitch at the Mets' game, Ron Howard stated unapologetically: "He throws like a girl."

#3: Robin scores off the charts on 'Narcissism Test': When Dr. Drew Pinsky gave members of the Howard Stern Show cast a 'narcissism test,' everyone suspected that the King of All Media himself would score higher than average--and he did. Howard Stern scored an 18 on Dr. Drew's 'narcissism scale,' while most celebrities average a score of about 15. What no one anticipated was that Dr. Drew would report that Howard Stern Show news mistress Robin Quivers would score a 34--a score that Pinsky quantified as 'off the charts' and the highest score in the history of the test.

#2: Denise Richards interview: Howard Stern used to rip on the gorgeous actress-turned-reality star, until she showed up in the studio this June and told him everything he wanted to know about her messy divorce with Charlie Sheen, what Richie Sambora's like in bed and her own history of making sex tapes. What gave the Denise Richards interview the edge over other superstar interviews this past year? Maybe the fact that she didn't bat an eyelash when she was asked to talk about oral sex by Wack Packer 'Jeff the Drunk'.

 

And the Number One greatest moment of the Howard Stern Show for 2009:

#1: GARY'S FIRST PITCH: Any Howard Stern fan saw this title coming from a mile away.  Howard Stern Show producer Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate threw out the first pitch at the Mets' game back in May, an honor that he prepped for both physically and psychologically for weeks.  Booey even had a chat with a sports psychologist who tried to coach him through his performance anxiety. The pitch that resulted from Gary's blood, sweat and tears was the most flimsily flung pitch in MLB history--no--REALLY. A representative for Major League Baseball announced on Twitter this year that Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate's first pitch had officially garnered the honor of 'Worst First Pitch in MLB History' behind embarrassing performances by Mariah Carey, Serena Williams and the Mayor of Cincinnati.  Booey's pitch has continued to make the blooper reels of sportscasters across the nation.

 

The first episode of the Howard Stern Show after Gary's wild pitch was pandemonium--rebroadcasts of the pitch from every conceivable angle, piercing cascades of insults from co-host Artie Lange and a desperate series of pleas from Baba Booey for everyone to 'get it out of their system'.

 

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Gary's wild pitch has now become an iconic piece of Howard Stern Show history--immortalized in parody songs, YouTube video mock tributes and daily insults still being flung at the Howard Stern Show producer. The pitch was so bad that Howard Stern revealed it prompted his infinitely kind, caring and compassionate wife Beth O to blurt out: "He throws like a girl!"

 

The only thing that sucked about Gary's first pitch winning the title of Greatest Howard Stern Show Moment of 2009?  The ensuing lambasting of Ta-Ta-Toothie was so hilarious, many Howard Stern Show fans had to pull their cars over on the way to work to avoid driving the cars in front of them while they pissed themselves with laughter.
 

The Howard Stern Show returns live on Monday, November 30th on Sirius Channels 100 and 101.
 

 

Check out Baba Booey's infamous first pitch at the Mets' game back in May: