But, you know, it's funny,
we were,
a way of when we prepare for an interview,
we look at some of the past appearances,
and we were looking at one of your past appearances
and you actually said, "Geez Louise,"
on the show. I did.
And we were thinking (Mandy laughs)
you must be one of the sweetest people in the world,
'cause there aren't many people around these days
that'll say something like, "Ah, geez, Louise."
Except for me.
Except for you.
I'm sort of an old woman.
I say, "Good gracious," and "Geez Louise."
I do cuss every so often so I'm trying to curb that
by saying, "Geez Louise," and "Good gracious,"
and "Sugarfoot,"
like trying to fight-- Sugarfoot?
I've never heard of (audience laughing)
Sugarfoot. Who says sugarfoot?
Well, instead of saying s-h.
Right, right.
Oh, I knew what you were-- I say, "Oh sugarfoot."
Right, but- Like in traffic
or something.
Well, that's surreal
that you're saying those things.
(audience laughing)
But, I'm trying to be a good young woman, I guess.
That's very nice, that's very nice.
So you have the soul of an old, proper woman.
I do, my friends make fun of me because I go to bed early
and I sort of dress like an old woman.
I like vintage clothes
and some of the styles that I sort of gravitate towards
are like giant sacks
and so they're old woman-y, but that's all right.
And you drive around in a Rascal, I'm told.
(everyone laughing)
That would be taking it a little bit too far.
"Can you help me up there?"
"All right, Mandy Moore."
(Mandy and audience laughing)
It's funny, too.
Okay, you're very nice person, we've established that.
You got to explain this Cosmo cover,
because it's so unfair what they did you here.
They have a photo of you
and then they put right next to you, Orgasms Unlimited.
(audience laughing and clapping)
And here's it's such a (indistinct)
Did you see this?
I did. Did you see this?
And I'm very flattered to be on a magazine cover
but the horrifying part is
my parents have framed every magazine that I've ever been on
from the beginning.
So there's a whole room in their house dedicated,
like a whole wall. Right.
And it starts off with me at 14, like,
"Mandy's favorite color is pink."
To like Cosmo now with my face and Orgasms
Unlimited. And the thing is,
it's nothing to- With my Dad
taking it to the framers to go get framed.
It's nothing to do with you.
They just-- Not at all.
They do that. It's just an article.
They do that sometimes.
I was on the cover of Time Magazine a few years ago
and right next to me, it was another story,
but it said, "Pedophile Captured."
(audience applauds)
It was so unfair.
(Mandy laughs)
I'm sorry. And they were like,
"We're sorry," and I'm like, "Oh, well."
(Mandy chuckles)
A cover is a cover. Exactly.
(everybody laughing)
Now, is it true?
I heard this.
And this is a good thing.
A lot of people, not just celebrities,
but a lot of people now are trying to find ways
to conserve gasoline and things like that.
And I heard somewhere
that you were actually
thinking of buying a car
or you actually have bought a car
that runs on vegetable oil.
I have, yeah I haven't picked it up yet,
I actually am going back home today
and I get to pick it up, but--
What? Is this like,
is this a car that anyone could get?
Is it-- Yeah.
I guess there's now a conversion kit
for all diesel cars that you can convert the engine
to run on biodiesel or soybean oil.
So I just bought this old vintage car
like an '80s vintage car,
and it's gonna run on soybean oil.
So I'm waiting for that paparazzi shot of me
at McDonald's, like at the end of the night
stealing their French fry oil like.
(Conan and Mandy laughing)
Like you looking horrified.
Like siphoning it into my car.
(Mandy chuckles)
"They're just like us."
Well, what's funny is that.
(everybody laughing)
Isn't that nice? Exactly.
Isn't that nice?
"She's just like me!"
So I've heard that, and it's amazing.
These cars really run just as well as any car
and you can pour fryolater oil into them.
You can. But then it ends
up smelling.
The exhaust smells like
the food that is-- And that's
what sold me on the car.
The guy it's like this really cool.
(audience laughing)
No, seriously.
It's this really cool company in Los Angeles
and I went and was looking at the cars
and the guy turned on,
turned the engine on one of the cars
and he's like, "Guess where we got the oil for this car?"
And it smelled like Mongolian barbecue.
And I was like, "I'll take it."
I wanted it.
It was so cool, so--
Anyone passing by just sees Mandy Moore
sucking on a tailpipe.
(audience laughing)
You know why.
"What's she into?"
(audience applauds)
"Poor girl."
(Mandy and Conan chuckle)
Yeah I've heard about that.
And you just put French fry oil in your car
and drive around.
And the only downside is your car has an heart attack,
like after two years.
(everybody laughing)
Exactly.
Let's have a bypass. Have to watch out for that.
Now, of course, very successful acting career.
You even did a guest spot on "Scrubs".
Was that fun? I did, I did.
It was a lot of fun,
I'm such a big fan of the show.
I think it's really smart.
And I was going on, of course
and I was playing the love interest
to my boyfriend on the show
so I figured I would have to kiss him on the show.
And at the last second, they sprung on me
that I would have to kiss Sarah Chalke,
who is the female lead on the show
and I'm very good friends with Sarah,
and it was just a very last minute sort of thing
and we both were like,
"Well, all right, let's do it."
So I had my first girl-on-girl kiss on the show.
Wow.
Yeah.
Then you find out later they weren't even,
there was no film in the camera.
(audience laughs)
No film, all the guys just sitting there
like watching us. "Do it again!"
"One more time." "I've done it nine times."
"I know."
(Mandy and audience laughing)
"Where's the crew?"
"They had to go."
(everybody laughing)
But you had a good time,
'cause that's a really funny
cast, too. It's an amazing cast.
I had a great time, yeah. Seems they could be--
Now let's talk about "American Dreams".
This is a cool idea.
It's really is centered on an "American Idol" type show.
Basically patterned on "American Idol"
and you're playing one of those people
that's aspiring to be an American Idol
Yes. Contest winner.
And so I'm just guessing because all the cast members,
you have an amazing voice, you can really sing,
but that set, people must've been hanging out.
Everybody's singing, probably, backstage
the whole time you're shooting this thing.
You would think that,
but no, actually, none of us really sang
except all of the extras who were playing
the other contestants that were supposed to be
on this "American Idol" type show.
They were all waiting in the wings,
singing whenever they could,
hoping to be discovered,
but little did they know
that it was scripted
and they weren't really making it
on to the show,
further in the movie.
So I always found that to be funny
Right, it's,
(audience laughing)
They were totally into it. You laugh at them.
Singing and stuff and I felt bad 'cause I was like,
"Well, you guys aren't really making it on to the show."
Look on to page 42. I didn't know how to break
it to them. You're not.
You guys, aren't in the script, so,
I feel bad. Right, right.
Have you ever thought about what you would sing
if you were an "American Idol" contestant?
What songs you would choose?
I don't know what I would sing.
Maybe something like Carole King
and I probably, I don't know,
I probably would make it that far,
'cause it's not like jazzy enough
or something for the show.
Jazzy.
I'm such an old woman.
What am I talking about?
No, no, it's fine.
(Mandy laughs)
I'd sing something upbeat and fast
like a Kay Kyser song.
Yeah, but I think everybody watches that show,
anyone who turns on that show subliminally puts themself,
at one point or another.
They think about what they would do if they were there.
I haven't, but I just love watching people,
not doing a great job.
That's my favorite part of the show.
Well, you're a cruel, cruel person.
I am.
We're finding out a lot about you.
(chuckles)
I'm not a nice person after all,
no, I'm obsessed with the show in all honesty
but it is kind of fun to watch people.
That's a guilty pleasure a lot of people have.
It's a total guilty pleasure.
And that's why they show
all those clips of people coming on.
And totally.
That's the best part like the first couple of weeks
when it's not the actual competition,
it's just the audition reels of people.
Right.
That's my favorite.
Right. Yeah.
I like the way people work in all the vocal gymnastics
in songs that they don't really--
Don't really require.
It doesn't,
yeah, they're doing that Mariah Carey thing.
I don't know if there's a name for it
but they're singing like the Star-Spangled Banner,
like,
(Conan sings)
and you're like, what are you doing?
That's crazy-- I totally agree.
That's madness.
And they do that a lot,
I don't even know what that is.
With their hands, totally.
Totally.
I'm gonna start doing this on the show a lot.
Me too,
I like it. We got Mandy Moore
on the show and you're looking fine.
(audience applauds)
I'm gonna do that a lot.
I like it.
(audience claps)
I just tore something in my hip.