Show Details: March 2013
2013-03-02
Legendary AnchormanGuest: Bill Kurtis
-
Rank:
First:
Jessi Klein
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Alonzo Bodden
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Jon Miller Score: 1
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a new foreign TV show, Not My Job about strange food, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will horses turn up next?
Mo Rocca was in great form for the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment, particularly after Peter asked Bill Kurtis if Mo did well enough to win. Bill Kurtis simply answered, "No." At which, Mo said that Bill should have built up the suspense and then said Carl would normally have said, though in a funny manner: "He needed five correct answers, but he only had four. So, the winner this week is Jessi Klein."
2013-03-09
Legendary AnchormanGuest: Bill Kurtis
-
Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Firoozeh Dumas
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Arne Duncan Score: 2
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about attempts to improve your commute, Not My Job about the education of secretaries, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next person to filibuster and why?
2013-03-16
-
Rank:
First:
Faith Salie
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Third:
Bobcat Goldthwait
Total: 4
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 1
- Huey Lewis Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people going on vacation and getting into trouble, Not My Job about mistakes in the news, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg try to ban next?
If Peter hadn't accepted Bobcat's answer of "Exacto Knife" during the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment, Bobcat would have repeated Paula's incredibly hilarious zero correct answers from 2008-03-29 and scoring two points.
2013-03-23
Legendary AnchormanGuest: Bill Kurtis
-
Rank:
First:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Apollo Robbins Score: 3
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about creative justice for criminals, Not My Job about Hot Pockets, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing scientists will try to bring back from extinction.
Another instance in which all three correct answers for the Not My Job segment were "B".
Bill Kurtis accepted Tom Bodett's answer of "statue of a car" during the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment when the proper answer was a full-scale snow sculpture of a VW Beetle after some questioning of "statue of a car" versus "snow sculpture".
2013-03-30
-
Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 8
-
Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Third:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Aaron Neville Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about someone's attempt to appear more popular, Not My Job about Jeopardy! champions, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will the 17 year old British programmer spend his $30 million he got from Yahoo!?
Carl Kasell introduced Tom Bodett as "filling in for Drew Carey, filling in for Peter Sagal". Tom Bodett went all folksy during the intro portion, with Carl trying to translate it into NPR-speak. Tom Bodett was bleeped twice while asking and explaining the second Not My Job question.
Tom Bodett followed Peter Sagal's bad punnage regarding the Listener Limerick Challenge segment at the beginning of the second panelist round. In this case, Tom based his puns on his famous Motel 6 ad line. At the beginning of the Listener Limerick Challenge, Tom said, "it's Rhyme Time" almost in the same manner he says "It's Mime Time" on The Animaniacs.