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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Bob Mould, of the bands Sugar and Hüsker Dü
This Week's Panelists:
• Adam Felber, writer, performer, and curator of the website FanaticalApathy at Felbers.net
• P.J. O'Rourke, humorist and author of CEO Of the Sofa
• Paula Poundstone, comedienne
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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America tells the spoiled millionaires and greedy billionaires, "who needs ya?"; An Oedipal drama in the nation's capital; Now it's the eye networks turn to try and land Bubba TV.
» Music Cue: "I Wanna Be A Dancin Man"
Artist: Fred Astaire
Composer: Warren/Mercer
CD Title: That's Entertainment Vol 3
Label: Rhino Entertainment
Opening Round
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Georgia voters take away two of our favorite members of Congress; What next? Argenbright workers with tarot cards?
» Music Cue: "If You Could Read My Mind"
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Composer: Gordon Lightfoot
CD Title: Gordon Lightfoot Songbook
Label: WB and Rhino
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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America loses a battle but don't worry, there's a reset button; well you'd stink too if you wore the same shirt for three days; One man's pet is another man's extermination project.
» Music Cue: "The Roach"
Artist: Gene and Wendell
Composer: Alonzo Willis/Kathie Venetoulis
CD Title: "Hairspray" soundtrack
Label: MCA Records
Not My Job!
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Musician Bob Mould plays a game called "Dahling, you look fabulous in those lizard skin mules, even with a fractured tibia." Three questions about renowned shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
» Music Cue: "The Receipt"
Artist: Bob Mould
Composer: Bob Mould
CD Title: Modulate
Label: Granary Music
Round Two
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Coke and Pepsi pick the largest canvas for their ads; science so obvious you wonder who gave these guys the grant money.
» Music Cue: "Take Me Out to The Ballgame"
Artist: King Curtis
Composer: Von Tilzer & Norworth
CD Title: Ken Burns Baseball
Label: Elektra Entertainment
Round 3
Who's Carl Part II
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George Bush downs the forest to save the trees; Rich Beem makes throwing up de riguer for golfers; an American icon gives us her kitchen.
» Music Cue: "If I knew You Were Comin I'd've Baked A Cake"
Artist: Bing Crosby/Bob Hope
Composer: Hoffman/Merrill/Watts
CD Title: Bing Crosby the Radio Years
Label: GNP Crescendo
Bluff The Listener
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It sounded great in the focus groups. Ad campaigns that just didn't quite make the sale.
» Music Cue: "Joy"
Artist: Apollo 100
Composer: Bach
CD Title: Have a Nice Decade, 70's box set
Label: Rhino Entertainment
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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How will baseball be saved from its labor strife?
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