February 4, 2021. A weary world was still emerging from the shadows of the pandemic. Late

night with Seth Meyers had returned to production at NBC, boldly creating comedy in the lafeless

vacuum of a television studio with no live audience. On this day, Seth Meyers' life would

forever be changed by a single word.

Even after he's left office, Republicans are competing to prove their loyalty to Trump. Take,

for example, Florida Congressman Matt Gates, one of the seditionists who spread lies about

election fraud and tried to overthrow the results and who looks like someone tried to make

Tom Cruise out of Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. A word associated with the innocent

joy of childhood creativity was poisoned by invested viewers all too keen on pointing

out Seth's apparent misuse of the plural of Lego and who posted their comments on the

late night YouTube channel. Five days later, Seth Meyers addressed viewers' responses

on air.

I do have a quick thing I would respond to every now and then people online very politely,

I should say, correct me on something I said incorrectly. And recently we've mentioned

Legos. We referred to Congressman Matt Gates as looking like someone tried to build Tom

Cruise out of Legos.

Point being, as I did then, I've been saying Legos is the plural of Lego and a bunch of

people have told me actually the plural of Lego is Lego. And to those people, I want

to say, it's too late for me. That's never going to happen for me. I'm not saying you're

wrong, I'm saying you're right, but I'm not going to walk home until my kids clean

up your Lego. I'm sorry, I appreciate everything you've tried to do. It's too late for me.

In that very same show, Seth once again stirred the hornet's nest when he referred to a

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