TNT
At first, O'Brien just thought they wanted him to do a sketch where he played a tough female cop, to make it easier to promote him during lead-ins The Closer and Saving Grace, but it turns out the network wanted him to have Mark Paul Gosselar's hairstyle from Raising the Bar.

Spike
After briefly considering Spike's bid, which included a team of cheerleaders, Conan eventually realized that he was getting too old to do kegstands.

Discovery
Conan was initially thrilled about a Dirty Jobs-inspired segment, and was looking forward to interviewing the crabbers on Deadliest Catch, but then the network told him their plans for Shark Week.

Syfy
Conan balked at the network's insistence that he have one robot sidekick, preferably with the mind of a teenage girl, and that all guests would appear as holograms.

FX
FX withdrew its bid after they realized that Conan had not appeared in any movies they could buy the network rights to and air right before his program.

Cartoon Network
While Conan liked the idea of an eternally young animated Conan avatar hosting every show, he took issue with the requirement that every episode would have him facing off against a mythical creature with only a collectible card game to defend himself.

TLC
In a dealbreaking move, Conan had no desire to co-host a show with Kate Gosselin and her eight kids, let alone marry her.

Bravo
Immediately after every episode of Conan's talk show, Bravo wanted to air an episode of The Real Talk Show Hosts of Los Angeles County, where Conan, Jay Leno, George Lopez and Jimmy Kimmel went to the same social events and got into shouting matches in restaurants.

TeenNick
While executives were keen to see Conan play a Canadian high-schooler who puts on a public-access talk show from the gymnasium, and in every episode he learns something about tolerance, drugs or sexual development, Conan felt is was "not remotely believable."

Lifetime
Conan walked away from this offer after he found the fine print that said he would have to star in at least one made-for-TV movie per year in which he was on the run from an abusive husband.

Oxygen
Conan was more than willing to guest-star on Bad Girls Club, but he refused to have anything to do with a show called "Dance Your Ass Off."

AMC
AMC had an idea to set Conan's talk show in the 1960s, a la Mad Men, with plenty of drinking, womanizing and betrayal, but Conan said he wanted to do something different from his last show.

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