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Sep. 24, 2005

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Liz Phair

This Week's Panelists:

Washington Post Style section reporter Roxanne Roberts
• TV Personality and author of the book All the President's Pets, Mo Rocca
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and half of Ebert and Roeper and the Movies, Richard Roeper

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Stam, Tammy, Vince and Wilma, a quartet we hope we'll never meet; Thrilling in-flight entertainment; One small step backward.

» Music Cue: "Star Wars Theme"
Artist: Meko
Composer: Williams/Meko
CD Title: Have A Nice Decade: 70's Collection
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Katrina takes the cannoli.

» Music Cue: "Main Title (The Godfather Waltz)"
Artist: Nino Rota
Composer: Nino Rota
CD Title: Godfather Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: MCA Records


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
Must Not See TV: Three proposals for new fall TV series that didn't make the prime time cut.

» Music Cue: "Lightly Latin"
Artist: Henry Mancini
Composer: Henry Mancini
CD Title: Martinis with Mancini
Label: RCA Records

Not My Job (Listen)
Singer Liz Phair plays a game we're calling "Cursing Through the Ages." Three questions about swearing taken from the book Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes.

» Music Cue: "Baby Got Going"
Artist: Liz Phair
Composer: Phair/Litt
CD Title: whitechocolatespaceegg
Label: Matador/Atlantic

Round 3

Panel Questions, Round Two (Listen)
The FDA alienates women, while cuddling up to kittens; Introducing the new firm of Goldman, Sachs and Lechter

» Music Cue: "Psycho: Theme from the Motion Picture"
Artist: The City of Prague Philharmonic
Composer: Bernard Hermann
CD Title: Hermann/Hitchcock: A Partnership in Terror
Label: Silva Treasurey

Limerick Challenge(Listen)
Where do the husky men shop now? What not to serve at Junior's birthday party; The surprising effects of late-night cheddar gorging.

» Music Cue: "Cheese Alarm"
Artist: Robyn Hitchcock
Composer: Robyn Hitchcock
CD Title: Jewels for Sophia
Label: Warner Bros. Records

Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank(Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Prediction (Listen)
Our panelists predict what we'll use instead of the Greek alphabet as a backup for when we use up all of this season's hurricane names.

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