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Show Details: December 2016

2016-12-03

NPR DB ID: 984
Scorekeeper
Don't worry about the Constitution, I'll be your Bill of Rights
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about revenge, Not My Job about bad wives, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will become America's next mortal enemy?
Notes

Listeners of Luke Burbank's podcast, "Too Beautiful to Live," podcast will instantly pick up on the names that Luke used in his Bluff the Listener story.

Peter Sagal accepted Adam Felber's answer of "Ecstasy" for Adam's sixth Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question. The correct answer was actually hallucinogenic mushrooms.

2016-12-10

NPR DB ID: 985
Scorekeeper
Pick up the phone, it's a Bill Kurtis-y call
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Peter Grosz
Correct: Peter Grosz
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a potato-related police report, Not My Job about KFC's Colonel Sanders, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be Amazon's next big innovation?
Notes

Paula Poundstone went with her take on an Irish accent when reading quotes in her Bluff the Listener story.

2016-12-17

NPR DB ID: 986
Scorekeeper
Hey, Nutcracker, let me be your Billerina
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Burke
Correct: Adam Burke
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a brilliant heist, Not My Job about a bored Dane, Hamlet, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will the CIA do to get back at Trump after he insulted them?
Notes

Peter Sagal accepted Tom Bodett's answer of "making sweet, sweet love" for a Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question regarding an Oregon Department of Transportation tweet telling people to "Netflix and Chill".

2016-12-24

NPR DB ID: 987
Scorekeeper
Jingle Bills, jingle Bills, jingle I'm
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Amy Dickinson
Correct: Amy Dickinson
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a new Christmas tradition, Not My Job about decomposition, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the hot Christmas toy for next year?
Notes

Peter Sagal accepted Amy Dickinson's answer of a blow-up doll dressed as an old lady for one of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions.

2016-12-31

Best Of NPR DB ID: 988
Scorekeeper
I'm the anchor in the relay team that passes the baton of truth
Description
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! taking a look back at fun moments from 2016