Show Details: June 2006
2006-06-03
- First: Tom Bodett 18 (Start: 2 / Correct: 8)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the side effects of a drought in England, Not My Job about organ grinder Joe Bush, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the future of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby?
The first listener contestant had a last name of "Walkup", which lead to Peter and the panelists having fun with it; particularly, with Charlie Pierce responding with "yeah, right!". The same listener seemed to have been trying to search for the answer for the 2nd question online and Peter and Sue called the listener out on it. Peter said, in an exaggerated manner, "there's no Googling on Wait Wait!". The other panelists jumped on to poke fun of the (failed) attempt.
The first panelist round question dealt with a Greenpeace press release statement that had a really bad "Mad Lib" like fail.
While Peter Sagal was describing how someone caught Barry Bonds' 715th home run baseball and Peter let out two Freudian slips by calling Barry Bonds' home run baseballs as "his (Bonds') balls" being marked with special holographs and DNA, and said "Barry Bonds' balls".
2006-06-10
- First: Adam Felber 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be proclaimed as the most liberal rock song?
Interesting coincidence: Paul Provenza's project is for a film version of "Everybody Poops" while all of the Not My Job answers were "B" (or answer "number 2")
2006-06-17
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Mo Rocca 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
Who's Corey This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unusual spokespeople, Not My Job about Senator Robert Byrd, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what management changes will be made by the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq?
2006-06-24
- First: Sue Ellicott 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Aamer Haleem 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
Korva Coleman's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about inventive birthday parties, Not My Job about duct tape, Who's Korva This Time?, Panelist Predictions: how will the US will stop a North Korean missile?
Jim Lehrer is called "Jimmy-Jimmy Bobo" by a child