It’s like the moon landing of expensive free things: Oprah Winfrey is about to have air her final Favorite Things episode ever.

It is now confirmed the show will air Friday, so set your DVRs and get ready to have your mind blown.

Though Oprah Winfrey is currently filming the final season of her syndicated talk show (she tapes the last episode, which will air on September 9, 2011, next May), the Queen of All Media will not go gentle into any good night. Her new TV network, OWN, is launching on January 1, 2011—and in addition to having complete creative control over the channel, Winfrey has committed to appearing on OWN for 70 hours each year.

In his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, Jay Leno told the host that “NBC could not have handled it worse, from 2004 onward,” while being interviewed for the first time about his return to The Tonight Show. Leno went on to say he was “devastated” when NBC honcho Jeff Zucker asked him to pass on The Tonight Show six years ago, and that he told “a little white lie” in sharing his support publicly for Conan O’Brien.

The forthcoming fifth season of The Tyra Banks Show will be its last, the host told People today. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years,” said Banks, who will now focus on her film production company Bankable Studios, but encouraged women to stay fierce.

Oprah Winfrey will inevitably be remembered in totality and not for specific highlights. But with that said, here’s a look at the top ten Oprah moments of the last 23 years, which was harder to come by than you might think mostly due to the fact YouTube has only been around for the last four of those years. Nevertheless! Here are some outstanding highlights.