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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Voice of Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll
Spinney.
This Week's Panelists:
• PJ O'Rourke, writer and author
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
• Roy Blount Junior, Humorist and author of Robert E. Lee, a new biography from Penguin
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
President Bush's little bitty deal, "The Mimi" unveiled, and Keanu Reeves rocks your world.
» Music Cue: "Spybreak!"
Artist: Propellerheads
Composer: Gifford
CD Title: Matrix, Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Warner Brothers
Opening Round
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Unlikely Texas fugitives, and the soaring costs of extracurricular activities.
» Music Cue: "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)"
Artist: Jerry Reed
Composer: Tim Dubois
CD Title: Jerry Reed Superhits
Label: BMG Music
Round 2
Bluff the Listener
(Listen)
Caveat Emptor...Buyer Beware: Three stories of consumer
idiocy.
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Sesame Street's Caroll Spinney plays a game called "Once around the park, driver, and take it slow"...three questions about the early history of New York's Central Park,
from the book Central Park, an American Masterpiece by Abrams Publishing.
» Music Cue: "The Grouch Song"
Artist: Caroll Spinney
Composer: Jeff Moss
CD Title: Oscar's Trashy Songs
Label: Children's Television Workshop
Panel Round
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The New York Times exposes this week's story of lies, distortion, and plagiarism.
» Music Cue: "You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes"
Artist: Benny Goodman Orchestra
Composer: Ager, Newman, Mencher, Mundy
CD Title: Benny Goodman: More Greatest Hits
Label: BMG Music
Round 3
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
Panicking...but it's just practice, Tonight and Today switch places, and a 50 year-old extraordinary feat that is now commonplace.
» Music Cue: "The Sound of Music"
Artist: Julie Andrews
Composer: Rogers, Hammerstein
CD Title: The Best of Julie Andrews: Thoroughly Modern Julie
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Listener Limerick Challenge
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The ocean's tiniest stud, a dictionary's unlikely additions, and the formula for ultimate entertainment.
» Music Cue: "That's Entertainment"
Artist: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly
Composer: Nelson Riddle
CD Title: That's Entertainment: The Ultimate Anthology of MGM Musicals
Label: Turner 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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