Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (trope=>work) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
* '''Who's Carl This Time?''': Carl reads quotes from the news and the caller must identify who said them. |
* '''Who's Carl This Time?''': Carl reads quotes from the news and the caller must identify who said them. |
||
* '''Bluff The Listener''': The panelists each read an odd "news story". Only one panelist has a true story, and the listener guesses who. |
* '''Bluff The Listener''': The panelists each read an odd "news story". Only one panelist has a true story, and the listener guesses who. |
||
* '''Not My Job''': At the midpoint of every episode, a celebrity call-in guest is brought in and quizzed about a topic far outside their expertise (except when they had [[The Areas of My Expertise|John Hodgman]] on, of course; [[Jeopardy |
* '''Not My Job''': At the midpoint of every episode, a celebrity call-in guest is brought in and quizzed about a topic far outside their expertise (except when they had [[The Areas of My Expertise|John Hodgman]] on, of course; [[Jeopardy!|Ken Jennings]] also confounded them). [[Stephen King]], for instance, got questions about [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Teletubbies and the like]], while [[Lewis Black]] stumbled through three questions on Miss Manners. And, more recently, [[Leonard Nimoy]] had to answer questions about not being the ''other'' Spock (Dr. Benjamin, child care specialist) either. |
||
* '''Listener Limerick Challenge''': Carl reads most of a news-inspired limerick; the caller has to complete it. |
* '''Listener Limerick Challenge''': Carl reads most of a news-inspired limerick; the caller has to complete it. |
||
* '''Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank''': The final "speed round" in which panelists quickly go through questions on the rest of the week's news. |
* '''Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank''': The final "speed round" in which panelists quickly go through questions on the rest of the week's news. |
||
Line 34: | Line 34: | ||
'''Carl Kasell''': Damn straight, Peter! }} |
'''Carl Kasell''': Damn straight, Peter! }} |
||
* [[Golden Snitch]]: There are only seven to nine points available before the speed round; in Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank each panelist has eight questions worth two points each. |
* [[Golden Snitch]]: There are only seven to nine points available before the speed round; in Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank each panelist has eight questions worth two points each. |
||
* [[A Good Name for |
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: After a story about a lack of good names for new rock bands, Peter Sagal suggests some names based on the week's news, including: The Joe Lieberman Experience, Bart Stupak Shakur, Mega-Death Panel, and Joe Biden and the Big Folk-ing Deals. |
||
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: During the 2010 World Cup, panelist Tom Bodett admitted that he knows nothing about Soccer, which becomes a problem when his son asks him about the game. |
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: During the 2010 World Cup, panelist Tom Bodett admitted that he knows nothing about Soccer, which becomes a problem when his son asks him about the game. |
||
{{quote| '''Son:''' Why are they upset?<br /> |
{{quote| '''Son:''' Why are they upset?<br /> |
||
Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "Visit [http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ our blog] which has been called 'sophomoric', 'a threat to NPR's integrity', and 'reason to review our intern hiring process.'" |
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "Visit [http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ our blog] which has been called 'sophomoric', 'a threat to NPR's integrity', and 'reason to review our intern hiring process.'" |
||
** When teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson played Not My Job she was asked questions about "stuff old people like". One of them was about NPR. |
** When teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson played Not My Job she was asked questions about "stuff old people like". One of them was about NPR. |
||
* [[Shout |
* [[Shout-Out]]: One week after their somewhat unflattering portrayal of fans of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''<ref>[[Fox News Channel]]'s ''Red Eye'' segment the same week was actually less mean, if also pretty boring.</ref>, they brought on a fan and former ''Wait, Wait'' intern for a brief interview, and used the show as the basis for that week's "Not My Job" questions... for guest contestant [[Bill Clinton]] (who got them all right, but they weren't very hard either). |
||
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted, naturally -- this ''is'' NPR, after all. |
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted, naturally -- this ''is'' NPR, after all. |
||
* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]: [[CBS]] ordered a pilot for a television version. |
* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]: [[CBS]] ordered a pilot for a television version. |