Jimmy Fallon and Oprah Winfrey exhilarated pop culture watchers on Monday night's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" when they starred in the fake, '80s-style soap opera "Midnight Meadows," and played a married couple, whose quibbles were quite colorful thanks to effects that had them talk with chipmunk-style voices and a Darth Vader drawl.

"Even if you didn't get to hear Winfrey tell Fallon a new car in auto-tune, it would still be worth it for the cheesy fake opening credits of 'Midnight Meadows,'" USA Today reported. "We would totally watch this show if it were real."

By midday Tuesday, the video of skit had garnered more than 3,200 "likes" on YouTube.

Entertainment writers swooned the stars' "melodramatic memory lane," as Rolling Stone put it. The magazine took Fallon and Winfrey up on their joke and, tongue-in-cheek, reported on the "little-known, short-lived and pitch-shifted Eighties soap opera, 'Midnight Meadows.'"

Monday's show marked the second week Fallon was back on the job after he had taken a few days off in early December to be with his wife, Nancy Juvonen, and their newborn daughter, Frances Cole Fallon, according to the New York Daily News. The baby was born Dec. 3 via surrogate, a process the couple had already gone through with their first child, Winnie Rose, now 1.

Fallon took over the "The Tonight Show" from longtime host Jay Leno on Feb. 17. A frequent guest on the program, Winfrey serenaded Leno during the former host's sendoff with comical lyrics to the tune of "So Long, Farewell." Leno had hosted the NBC program for 22 years.

Earlier last night, meanwhile, Winfrey made headlines last night when she defended a Sony executive whose racially charged jokes had been made public in the recent hacking of vast swaths of the entertainment company's data, Mediaite noted.

"I would hope that we would not stand in judgement, in such harsh judgement, of a moment in time where somebody was hacked and their private conversations were put before the world," the talk-show legend told CNN's Don Lemon.

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