I love that Conan's playing along with them. The animators are, of course, a small and zesty part of a truly enormous newsgathering enterprise. I love this quote from one of the stories out there:

The Taiwanese love Disneyland and all, but America is not the center of their universe. They don't watch everything we do. Americans think we're the center of the world -- this beautiful prom queen who thinks everyone is still looking at her years after high school.

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/08/31/nma-n…

I wouldn't call this ruthless mocking as much as very entertaining banter.

This should be a regular segment.

I'm in love with the Self-Pleasuring Bear and his monkey.

@5, it took me a moment to get that - he is "spanking the monkey", no?