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For the Not My Job segment, the three questions were split out so that Laura Lorson, Sara Sorasohn and Rob Robinson would be asked a question each. Both Laura and Rob answered their questions correct, but Sara did not.

Charlie Pierce was asked nine questions during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment.

Roxanne Roberts and Roy Blount, Jr. started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3.5 and 2.5 points, respectively. Both answered three questions correct for a total of 9.5 and 8.5 points, respectively. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.

The clip of the shouting Finns made a return to replace the sound of the gong during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment. Roxanne Roberts and Adam Felber started the segment with 2.5 and 3.5 points, respectively. Both correctly answered three questions each for a respectively total of 8.5 and 9.5. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.

For Not My Job, there was a fourth option for "none of the above" for all three questions.

Instead of predicting headlines for the next week, the predictions were for a specific theme. Future Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! shows would replace "Predicting Next Week's Headlines" with "Panelist Predictions".

Roxanne Roberts started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3.5 points and had a total score of 9.5 points. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.

The show page on NPR.org did not list the Bluff the Listener segment, but listed a second Who's Carl This Time? segment that was not included in the show. The third Week in Review segment was listed as More News on the same page.

Adam Felber answered his last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question was "Sonny Bono's wife" and Charlie Pierce jumped in with "Cher". Neither Adam or Charlie got a bell ding for their answer. Up to that point, Adam had only answered five questions correct for 10 additional points and a total of 12. Carl Kasell noted that Adam had answered six correct for a total of 14 points. The score listed reflects the official record as stated by Carl.

The show ended with Panelist Predictions rather than the previous standard of Predicting Next Week's Headlines and Peter Sagal did not provide a prediction.

Joe Palca had been the first guest to answer one question correct. After that, a guest scoring one point would be referred to as scoring "a Palca". It was mentioned that a guest scoring only one point would, going forward, be referred to as scoring "an Inskeep" instead.

Towards the end of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment, Roy Blount, Jr. surmised that no man had won two games in a row before. Peter Sagal won five games in a row from 1998-02-28 through 1998-03-28 (no final scores were tabulated and announced for the 1998-04-04 show) and Adam Felber won two games in a row, 1998-09-19 and 1998-09-26.

John Burnett answered two Not My Job questions correct, which is now referred to as a "Palca" after Joe Palca answering two questions correct in the previous show. Before that, a "Palca" meant that the Not My Job guest had answered only one question correct as Joe did on his first appearance on the show.

The Bluff the Listener segment used a different format compared to previous Bluff the Listener segments. For this show's segment, they had Gerald Thomas on the line who invented a food product 45 years ago that the listener contestant had to guess. Instead of an elaborate story, the panelists only said the product name. The listener contestant was given a chance to ask Gerald a yes-or-no question before choosing which product Gerald had invented.

The clip of the shouting Finns replaced the sound of the gong for Roxanne Roberts.

During the Week in Review segment, Roxanne Roberts answered a question with "the voice of Wilma Flintstone" and got credit for the answer. Charlie Pierce said that Roxanne should have to provide the name of the voice actor to get the point; which, Peter Sagal said that Charlie Pierce could earn an extra point by providing the voice actor's name. Charlie did and got the extra point.

All three of the Not My Job questions had a fourth option, "D: All of the Above"

When Carl Kasell introduced Charlie Pierce at the beginning of the show, Carl also mentioned that Captain Cheap Laughs was sitting on Charlie's left shoulder. Carl would mention Captain Cheap Laughs again before the Bluff the Listener segment.

The listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment had previously met Adam Felber at Adam's bar mitzvah and the listener's dog had bitten Adam's face. Adam would continue to get razzed for that incident throughout the show.

This is the first time there has been a guest show host.

As a form of "revenge" for having a score of zero named after her, Susan Stamberg said that for each incorrect answer or each second someone doesn't know the answer would be called a "Sagal".

The third choice for all three Not My Job questions were "sniffing cocaine".

At the end of the show, Carl Kasell introduced new naming for scores: 0 points would be a "Flintoff", 1 point would be a "Rat Boy" (Steve Inskeep), 2 points would be a "New Palca", and 3 points would be a "Dan Schorr".

Roxanne Roberts was asked seven questions during Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment and answered four of them correct, for a total of 14 points. When Peter Sagal asked how Roxanne did, Carl Kasell stated that Roxanne answered five correct, for a total of 16 points. The scores entered reflect the scores Carl stated on the show.

Adam Felber wanted to be referred to as The Legendary Adam Felber.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi asked Roxanne Roberts as a hint for the third Not My Job question.

The show features the first edition of Who's Carl Race for the White House 2000. The show requested listeners to send in news limericks for the next several shows due to the show's limericist being out.

Instead of the Not My Job questions being multiple choice, Ira Glass had to correctly spell words from the 1999 National Spelling Bee. Charlie Pierce was able to correct spell the first and third words, Margo Kaufman was able to correct spell the second word, while Roxanne Roberts did not write down the correct spelling for the third word. The three words were: palimpsest, nociceptor, and logorrhea.

The limericks read during the Listener Limerick Challenge segment were sent in by listeners.

All three of the correct answers for the Not My Job segment were "C".

The Not My Job listener contestant was on the line for the segment and they wanted a t-shirt instead of Carl Kasell recording a greeting for their answering machine.

The NPR.org page for this show listed the topic of the Panelist Prediction segment was "Jerry Springer's senatorial campaign slogan" instead of Bob Smith's presidential campaign.

Paul Friedman, public announcer at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs, provided the listener contestants with the rules for both Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge and Bluff the Listener segments. Paul also announced that panelists should not interrupt each other too much or they could be ejected from the game or face fines.

The NPR.org page for this show lists a Panelist Predictions segment, but one was not included in the version that aired.

The NPR.org page for this show listed the topic of the Panelist Prediction segment was "Jerry Springer's senatorial campaign slogan" instead of something terrible about beloved animals.

Margo Kaufman helped the listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment by answering the question. The listener contestant didn't get credit for the answer, though they had answered the other two questions correct to win.

Stephen Schwartz was the special guest rules reader for the first Who's Carl This Time? and the Listener Limerick Challenge segments.

The show page on NPR.org has an incorrect spelling of Vertamae Grosvenor's name. The knife attack sound effect from the movie "Psycho" was used in place of the bell ding normally used during Not My Job.

Roxanne Roberts cracked up several times while reading her Bluff the Listener story.

During the pre-news introduction and at the start of the Listener Limerick Challenge segment, Peter Sagal mentioned that the show's Limerick segment was the second ever "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge".

The Limerick segment for the 1999-06-12 was called "Listener Limerick Challenge: Listener Limerick Edition" as all three limericks were written and submitted by listeners. The Limerick segments for the 1999-06-19 and the 1999-07-17 shows were called "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge". This means that this show's Limerick segment would actually be the fourth all listener submitted Limerick segment and third segment officially called "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge".

The second Opening Round question, asked to Roy Blount, Jr., was a limerick that was submitted by a listener.

After the listener contestant for Bluff the Listener did not win, his daughter said something to the effect of "Made a fool", causing Peter Sagal and the panelists to crack up laughing. Peter asked if they could speak to the listener's daughter and chatted with her for a moment.

Unlike nearly all of the previous shows, Peter Sagal introduced the panelists as part of the first question of the Who's Carl This Time? segment. The first Who's Carl This Time? question was a multiple choice question, where each panelist stated a possible answer and the listener contestant had to choose the correct answer. The listener chose Roy Blount, Jr., but Roxanne Roberts had the correct answer.

The first question for the Who's Jean This Time? segment followed the same form as the first question for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment. The listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce, but Roxanne Roberts had the correct answer.

The show page on NPR.org has an incorrect spelling of Snigdha Prakash's name.

All three questions for the first Who's Corey This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. The listener contestant chose Sue Ellicott for the first question, but Roxanne Roberts had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Sue, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, who had the correct answer.

Carl Kasell did not mention the location where Peter Sagal was recording from during the show. A presumption is made that Peter is recording from WBEZ Studios, the usual location for shows from that time.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. The listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts for the first question, but Charlie Pierce had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Charlie, but Roxanne had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Charlie, but Adam Felber had the correct answer.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Roy Blount, Jr. had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Adam Felber, who had the correct answer.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, but Sue Ellicott had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Sue, but Roxanne had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, who had the correct answer.

The audio recording for the show that I received had a cut in the audio starting from Peter Sagal asking Adam Felber a question for the second Panel Question segment. The audio came back just before the start of the second Who's Carl This Time? segment.

At the start of Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, Carl Kasell said, "For the first time that I could remember, we have a three-way tie for first place." The first time there was a three-way tie at the start of Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank was on the 1998-11-21 show.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber, but Sue Ellicott had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Charlie Pierce, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Adam, who had the correct answer.

When Peter Sagal asked how Mara Liasson did on her Not My Job questions, Carl said that Mara scored a "Snigdha". Snigdha Prakash answered two questions correct when she was the Not My Job guest on the 1999-09-11 show.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Sue Ellicott, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Adam Felber had the correct answer.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Roy Blount, Jr. had the correct answer.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber, but Charlie Pierce had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Adam, who had the correct answer.

All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For both the second and third questions, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts, but Claudia Perry had the correct answer.

The three Not My Job guests were from NPR Audience Services. The first Not My Job question was asked to Rachel Basofin, the second question was asked to Erica Reid, and the third question was asked to Hershal Shevade.

The format of the first Who's Carl This Time? segment went back to the normal format where the questions are asked to the listener contestant without panelists providing multiple choice options.

Roy Blount, Jr. initially answered the last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question with "spit", then changed his answer to "cigarettes, tobacco... marijuana" but did not say "marijuana" until Peter Sagal started saying "wacky tobaccy". Carl Kasell gave Roy credit for his changed answer.

The gong sound did not play before or during Adam Felber's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question even though Peter Sagal said it was the last question. Adam said "But there's no gong!", then the gong sound was played.

This is show is a special "Wait Wait Are You Nuts?" edition featuring "Blunders, Bloopers and Bad Ideas".

The NPR.org site does not have a page for this show; though, the show page for the 1999-12-11 show has details for this show. Studs Terkel's name was not correctly spelled on that show page.

The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge and the second Who's Carl This Time? segment were read by the two stars for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's "Antony and Cleopatra".

Studs Terkel initially answered "B" for the third Not My Job question but changed his answer to "C" after Peter Sagal asked him what his second choice was. Carl Kasell gave Studs credit for the changed answer. Answering two Not My Job questions correctly will be known as scoring a "Studs".

Each of the panelists had themed Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions. Adam Felber's theme was bad publicity, Roxanne Roberts' theme was lame trends, fads and crazes. Charlie Pierce's theme was dumb sports maneuvers. Roxanne was asked nine Lightning questions instead of the typical, though not always standard, eight questions.

The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge were read by Scott Turow.

The listener contestant for the second Who's Carl This Time? segment was calling in from the South Pole, Antarctica.

The Bluff the Listener contestant was looking each of the Bluff the Listener stories online to see which panelist was telling the truth. Peter Sagal jokingly said that the listener was cheating.

The show page on NPR.org has details for the show that aired on 1999-11-27.

Year in Review edition of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!