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Show Details: March 2012
2012-03-03
- First Tied: Luke Burbank 13 (3 / 5)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 12 (2 / 5)
Alec Baldwin called Carl Kasell the "Marlon Brando of public radio".
2012-03-10
- First: Brian Babylon 16 (4 / 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 10 (2 / 4)
At the beginning of the show, Peter was lamenting about the show being ignored because it was on radio, Carl responded with "Peter, you slut!". Mostly done as reference to Rush Limbaugh's recent incidents of calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute".
One of Brian Babylon's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions was discussed during the Not My Job segment; to which, Brian Babylon answered the question correctly.
2012-03-17
- First: Faith Salie 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 8 (2 / 3)
Note: The show's page on NPR.org has the Bluff the Listener segment listed as "Panel Round Two" (the first of two listed).
The gang had fun with the Who's Carl This Time? listener contestant's name when she introduced herself.
2012-03-24
- First Tied: Jessi Klein 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Tom Bodett 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca 13 (3 / 5)
2012-03-31
- First: Paula Poundstone 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Maz Jobrani 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Brian Babylon 12 (4 / 4)
This show's panel consists of three comedians.
Brian Babylon was able to flex his impressions of President Obama several times during the show. There was a bleep in the transition song between the Listener Limerick Challenge and the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round (the song was Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue [Live]".
Paula finally has won a game outright for the first time since 2010-09-18. Between that time, Paula has tied for first four times: 2011-02-26, 2011-09-10, 2011-09-24 and 2011-10-08.