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* [[Are You Sure You Want to Do That?]]: If someone guesses the incorrect answer for their question, Peter Sagal will urge them to change it.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Peter Sagal was originally one of the show's regular contestants, before being promoted to host.
* [[Berserk Button]]: After a caller displayed doubts in a "Bluff-the-Listener" story of a alcoholic recovery/shooting camp, panelist P.J. O'Rourke got angry, saying that, as a Republican, his party is largely made up of drunks with guns.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mo Rocca is planted firmly in this territory.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Show announcer and judge Carl Kassel
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In 2006 [[The Simpsons (animation)|Harry Shearer]] did the "Not My Job" segment, which that week had questions about the infamous 1980 variety show ''[[Pink Lady
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The show started in January 1998, but was relaunched in May of that year with several changes: Peter Sagal took over hosting from Dan Coffey, they introduced the "Not My Job!" segment with guests, and so forth. Some other differences from the early years:
** For quite some time, scores in the Not My Job round were given nicknames after the first person to achieve that score. For instance, a Stamberg (named after the first guest), meant no points were scored.
** The round was also much harder to play since the questions had no central context and were instead based on quotes made during the week (closer to the interstitial questions between rounds).
** For the first few years, the guests were mainly NPR contributors since the show was done in-studio and those were the only people they could get. Their first major guest was John McCain back in 2000... at least two years after the show started.
** Carl's voice as a prize was more or less a placeholder since they really couldn't afford anything better. By the time they could, the message was such a beloved prize that they kept it that way (and it helped prevent any breaking of NPR's rules about contests.)
** In the earliest shows, the final round was either an "essay" question had each contestant make up a funny story (scored by Carl out of 10 points), or Lightning True-False, before being replaced with the current Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round.
* [[Funny Answering Machine]]: The prize offered to most contestants.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Subverted when the panelists realized that that they could say "hump" (as in dogs hump legs) and [[Refuge in Audacity|lampshaded it as much as possible]].
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* [[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 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.
{{quote|'''Son:''' Why are they upset?
'''Tom:''' Uh, he was off-sides.<ref>Which is not as bad as you might think; especially since soccer's offside rule can be incomprehensible to American viewers.</ref> }}
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{{quote|'''Son''':What's the yellow card for?
'''Tom''':Uh, he's special. }}
* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Mo Rocca got into a bit of trouble when he invoked this and had an online knitting group up in arms.
* [[I Am One of Those, Too]]: Hilariously, [[Kevin Smith]] had ''actually read'' the random book on which they based his Not My Job quiz. They even let him explain one of the ridiculous stories in it. (The book in question, incidentally, was a strange-science book called ''Elephants on Acid''.)
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Every week, to introduce the Listener Limerick Challenge.
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