Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: 2006
2006-01-07
- Multiple Panelists
2006-01-14
- First: Paula Poundstone 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke 10 (2 / 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 8 (2 / 3)
Listener, an English teacher at "Lick-Wilmerding High School", has problem with rhymes and limericks, while Paula has fun with the name "Lick-Wilmerding" and yells "... POINT LICK-WILMERDING!!!". Interestingly, the answer for the first limerick was "dumb".
2006-01-21
- First: Charlie Pierce 17 (3 / 7)
- Second Tied: Kyrie O'Connor 11 (1 / 5)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 11 (3 / 4)
2006-01-28
- First: Adam Felber 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 16 (2 / 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca 11 (3 / 4)
The first show to be made available as a podcast.
2006-02-04
- First: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett 14 (4 / 5)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 12 (2 / 5)
When the listener contestant for the Bluff the Listener round mentioned that she was playing the game as a wish list/gift for someone, the discussion devolved from there.
Peter messes up the retired Senator Gary Hart's introduction by stating Gary Hart served 8 years in the Senate instead of 12 years, as he forgot that each term is 6 years and not 4. One of Gary's retorts is "wait, wait... don't tell me." Peter also got under Gary's skin by calling him a "wise old man" instead of a "wise man".
The listener contestant for the second Who's Korva This Time? said that one of his boy-lesque names is "Brandon Vandermuffin".
2006-02-11
- First: Adam Felber 18 (2 / 8)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor 17 (3 / 7)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
After Sally Jesse Raphael bombed the Not My Job segment, Sally said that she's "the Paula Poundstone of (inaudible)".
Peter somewhat insults Kyrie stating that some thinking is required as it is an NPR show.
2006-02-18
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 17 (3 / 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13 (1 / 6)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 9 (3 / 3)
2006-02-25
- First: Adam Felber 13 (3 / 5)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca 11 (1 / 5)
After Adam won the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Paula said "There it is... Adam Felber: the Ken Jennings of the panel; going into his first night."
2006-03-04
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Adam Felber 14 (2 / 6)
2006-03-11
- First: Adam Felber 20 (4 / 8)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor 16 (2 / 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (1 / 7)
2006-03-18
- First: Adam Felber 19 (3 / 8)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 10 (2 / 4)
The listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? round was a bit picky with how "Salisbury" is pronounced. The same listener was a bit miffed that she had to say "Slobodan Milosevic", stating that it "doesn't roll off of the Southern tongue". She did say it properly nonetheless. Paula Poundstone thought that Andrew Jackson was on the $10 instead of the $20.
The listener contestant for the Bluff the Listener round is the co-owner of Portland's Three Square Grill and Picklopolis.
2006-03-25
- First Tied: Amy Dickinson 14 (2 / 6)
- First Tied: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 12 (2 / 5)
When the listener contestant for the Who's Carl This Time? round couldn't figure out the answer to a question about Condoleezza Rice and asked for a hint, Mo Rocca sang "Blank-a-roni, the Secretary of State" (in tune of "Rice-a-Roni, A San Francisco Treat!"). Huge kudos to @Ojoya for tracking this one down for me!
During the Listener Limerick Challenge round when Peter was discussing the soccer/football matches between Muslims and LGBTs, Mo sang "everybody fatwah" to the tune of "Everybody Dance Now".
2006-04-01
- First: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 12 (2 / 5)
2006-04-08
- First: Adam Felber 18 (2 / 8)
- Second: Amy Dickinson 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca 8 (2 / 3)
2006-04-15
- First: Kyrie O'Connor 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Tom Bodett 14 (4 / 5)
- Third: Adam Felber 13 (3 / 5)
After Carl announced that Kyrie O'Connor had won the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Kyrie stated that she doesn't think she has both won and beaten Adam before. In fact, Kyrie had done so three times prior to that show: 2005-02-19, 2005-06-04 and 2005-12-24.
2006-04-22
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 13 (1 / 6)
- Third: Aamer Haleem 8 (2 / 3)
Aamer Haleem used his "default" answers of "Herpes" and "Boutros Boutros-Ghali" during the panelist rounds and the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round. Paula tried to plead with Roy Blount, Jr. to punt it so that Paula would win; in which, Roy responded with "I will not fall off of the cross", which was what Aamer tried to get Carl and Peter to accept as a correct answer during his Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round.
2006-04-29
- First: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 12 (4 / 4)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott 12 (2 / 5)
2006-05-06
- First: Charlie Pierce 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Tom Bodett 10 (2 / 4)
2006-05-13
- First: Adam Felber 17 (3 / 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 13 (1 / 6)
Tom Hanks erupts at Peter when he misses the first question, Paula's knowledge of food vending in court cracks up the group
2006-05-20
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 16 (4 / 6)
- Second Tied: Kyrie O'Connor 14 (2 / 6)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
Fish puns
2006-05-27
- First: Roxanne Roberts 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Adam Felber 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke 7 (1 / 3)
2006-06-03
- First: Tom Bodett 18 (2 / 8)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 14 (2 / 6)
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 Bond's 715th home run baseball and Peter let out two Freudian slips by calling Barry Bond's home run baseballs as "his (Bond's) balls" being marked with special holographs and DNA, and said "Barry Bond's balls".
2006-06-10
- First: Adam Felber 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 13 (3 / 5)
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 (3 / 6)
- Second: Mo Rocca 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 8 (2 / 3)
2006-06-24
- First: Sue Ellicott 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Aamer Haleem 10 (2 / 4)
Jim Lehrer is called "Jimmy-Jimmy Bobo" by a child
2006-07-01
- First: Luke Burbank 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca 10 (2 / 4)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone 10 (2 / 4)
Another instance where Mo Rocca uses the surname "Bagnoli" in this Bluff the Listener story.
2006-07-08
- Multiple Panelists
2006-07-15
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 13 (3 / 5)
- Second Tied: Richard Roeper 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone 12 (2 / 5)
Janeane Garofalo uses SAT tips to answer the Not My Job questions and bombs humorously
2006-07-22
- First: Kyrie O'Connor 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 12 (2 / 5)
Regarding NPR's not censoring President Bush's swearing, Mo called NPR as "National Potty-Mouth Radio"
2006-07-29
- First: Roxanne Roberts 19 (3 / 8)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Luke Burbank 11 (1 / 5)
During the second panelist round, Roxanne Roberts made a pun with "Kurds and Whey" regarding Kurdish state in Iraq.
After Roxanne answered all of her Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions correctly, including a question about inflatable body in a car's glove box, Peter noted that Luke Burbank has been deflated and can be put back into the glove compartment. Luke's deflated response was "Thanks Peter, that's totally what I needed."
2006-08-05
- Barack Obama 2
- Tom Hanks 2
- Terry Gross 2
- Ken Jennings 3
2006-08-12
- First: Charlie Pierce 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Aamer Haleem 7 (1 / 3)
Tradition of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" begins, with Aamer explaining that the audience was not boo-ing Luke; Aamer comically crossed the line about large women carrying trays of food when discussing that a study showed that hungry men tended to favor more "curvaceous" women and Sue mentioned that hungry men should go after people carrying trays of food; Carl used the word "fart" in one of the Listener Limericks.
One of the panelist questions was about a Chorizo sausage mascot called "El Picante", who was let go after one game to be "re-seasoned" but could be interpreted as it having a "temporary work visa", Charlie jokingly said that it was really fast, but Luke made a slight about it being able to swim; which lead to the audience "boo-ing" Luke, but Luke commenting that all he could hear was "Luke".
2006-08-19
- First: Paula Poundstone 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett 10 (2 / 4)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 10 (2 / 4)
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke", in which Paula retorts Luke's comment of "...explaining that's people saying my name, not boo-ing" with "It's good that you think that... he's got an indomitable spirit, doesn't he? Little fella."; Paula stumbles on a question regarding NPR by not knowing who "Stamberg" is; the panelists and a listener ended up turning the beginning of Who's Carl This Time? Round II into "Beauty Chat" with more chanting of "Luuuuuuke".
Paula answered a Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question about a certain computer manufacturer's "exploding" laptop, which was mentioned in Who's Carl This Time?, Round II by Tom Bodett, which Paula enthusiastically answered with "Dell!!!"; in the same round, Paula was asked about Chicagoan's last chance to eat a certain food before a ban takes effect with "Ahh, heroin!", in which hilarity ensued.
2006-08-26
- First: Charlie Pierce 16 (2 / 7)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 11 (3 / 4)
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" with Luke retorting that half the people would complete it with "I'm your father". Charlie Pierce's Bluff the Listener refers to the "Dingoes Ate My Baby".
2006-09-02
- Multiple Panelists
2006-09-09
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone 11 (1 / 5)
2006-09-16
- First: Tom Bodett 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
Four words: Carl Kasell on helium
2006-09-23
- First: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Paul Provenza 10 (2 / 4)
Peter and the panelists have fun with George Allen's initial insistence that he is not Jewish, although he is
2006-09-30
- First: Sue Ellicott 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 14 (2 / 6)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett 14 (2 / 6)
The listener for the Listener Limerick Challenge round seemed either impatient or pressed for time and didn't want the guys to dilly dally too much and told the guys to move on to the next limerick twice.
2006-10-07
- First: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Kyrie O'Connor 12 (2 / 5)
2006-10-14
2006-10-21
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Mo Rocca 8 (2 / 3)
2006-10-28
- First: Tom Bodett 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Amy Dickinson 13 (1 / 6)
- Third: Angela Nissel 12 (2 / 5)
2006-11-04
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone 12 (2 / 5)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 12 (4 / 4)
- First Tied: P.J. O'Rourke 12 (2 / 5)
2006-11-11
- First: Kyrie O'Connor 14 (2 / 6)
- Second Tied: Aamer Haleem 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett 12 (2 / 5)
Peter throws around a bit of Yiddish after talking about George Allen losing
2006-11-18
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Paul Provenza 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 5 (1 / 2)
When Paula remarked that Harry Shearer must have had the "Pink Lady and Jeff" DVD set, Harry replied stating he does not think DVDs have been made of the show. At that point, Paula retorted he would have had the "Director's Cut". In fact, a DVD set of "Pink Lady" was released in 2001.
2006-11-25
- Multiple Panelists
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N/A
2006-12-02
- First: Charlie Pierce 16 (2 / 7)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson 14 (4 / 5)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
At the end of Amy Dickinson's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Mo Rocca asked if "panda porn" was in black and white.
2006-12-09
- First: Tom Bodett 13 (1 / 6)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone 11 (5 / 3)
- Second Tied: Angela Nissel 11 (3 / 4)
- Tina Fey 1
2006-12-16
- First: Adam Felber 19 (3 / 8)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor 17 (3 / 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca 12 (2 / 5)
2006-12-23
- First: Charlie Pierce 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 11 (1 / 5)
2006-12-30
- Multiple Panelists