Gratuitous Use of the Word Belgium

January 13-14, 2006

Answers to the TV Superbonus

Lost

1 wiggles his toes

2 five

3 Five

4 counts to five

5 He has a gold front tooth.

6 "You All Everybody" "You all everybody / you all everybody / acting like the stupid people / wearing expensive clothes."

7 These exact words were spoken by a Phil Donahue audience member some years ago, and it happened to unduly amuse J.J. Abrams and co.

8 He was in the Peace Corps.

9 She gives herself a pedicure.

10 A girls' soccer team - with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 on their jerseys.

11 Flight 815, from Gate 23

12 James Ford

13 "The Swan"

14 Tequila and tonic.

16 A pair of stones - one black, one white.

17 TV dinners and Twinkies

18 Her music box

19 Rom

20 FATE, and LATE

21 $83,000, for losing to him repeatedly at backgammon.

22 $23,000

23 4 8 15 16 23 42

24 Love will look orange.

25 He teaches her how to swaddle him.

26 CLUCK YOU," and stolen lawn gnomes.

27 The Dharma Initiative

28 In a hollowed-out Bible

29 Every 108 minutes.

Family Guy Names

1 Cross

2 Gilligan

3 Glen (also accept Glenwood)

4 Pewterschmidt

5 Brown

6 Buddy Cianci and James Woods

7 Bermuda Grass

8 Biscuit

9 Jasper

10 Bertram

11 Mittens

12 Jake

13 Pasqual and Santos

14 Maid Madeleine

15 Tricia Takanawa

16 Ollie Williams

17 Norm MacDonald and Adam Carolla

18 Herbert

19 Kevin

20 Adam West

Family Guy Trivia

1 $20

2 The Electric Company

3 "You're a Naughty Child and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You."

4 banana

5 Temple Beth Thupporting Actor

6 31 Spooner Street

7 Dust Mites

8 Stewie and the Cowtones

9 Bird calls

10 "Wake me up before you go go"

The West Wing

1 a crab puff; Alaska

2 "Crime. boy, I don't know"

3 Evelyn Lang, Christopher Mullready, Roberto Mendoza

4 A Goldfish; C.J. likes the food, not the animal

5 She thinks it's a bathroom; "I don't know" (but accepting anything about wanting to re-do her introduction to Bartlet in a less embarrassing way)

6 Europe in 1939

7 breasts

8 she discovers she was born in Canada

9 Rodney, a dress marine

10 In his files, under "A" for "Anal Retentive"

11 crazy glues C.J.'s phone receiver, revokes access for her I.D., and makes her desk collapse

12 Secretary of Labor

13 Molly; the Secret Service guard who gets shot during the kidnapping of Zoey Bartlet

14 He raises his arms and screams for rain to come, and it immediately downpours

15 He wanted to be a priest

16 "I love Zoey and I must have her back"

17 an opposing team's mascot, a goat

18 The Secretary General's illegally parked car has been towed

19 Ted McGinley; he's considered the patron saint of "Jump the Shark" forthe way his presence indicates that a show is losing its touch

20 Toby

Arrested Development

1 "DEAD DOVE - DO NOT EAT."

2 It was wearing a bow tie.

3 "Tobias, you blowhard!"

4 Some guy named "Hermano" - which, of course, means "brother."

5 The Cornballer

6 Cutoff jeans-shorts underneath his clothes, because he's a Never-Nude.

7 "Afternoon Delight"

8 Fünke. [Certain parties on the team wrote "The umlaut is absolutely essential. No credit without the umlaut!" on the answer key. I believe we were more lenient than that.]

9 He sells it to the army men who use the lemon grove as a training ground.

10 "Big Yellow Joint"

11 He blows it up.

12 Her hairstylist is called up from the reserves; it says "You Can Take Away Our Stylists. But You Can't Take Away Our Style!"; and it was originally to convince Michael to get cable.

13 Steve Holt!

14 Egg, Plant, Hog, Plain, and Yam.

15 Franklin

16 Mrs. Phlyddia Featherbottom - a lovable British housekeeper

17 "Les Cousins Dangereux"

18 "Girls With Low Self-Esteem."

19 He uses a giant fake rock as a shield - because, as we all know, rock beats scissors.

20 "Analrapist." It's Tobias's clever combination of "analyst" and "therapist," of course. What did you think it was?

Futurama

1 Bender Bending Rodriguez

2 No. It is the bad kind of puppy.

3 All My Circuits

4 Everybody Loves Hypnotoad

5 They got it from the Martians in exchange for a single bead, actually a gigantic diamond

6 Omicron Persei 8

7 I. C. Weiner

8 Ron Popeil

9 HedonismBot

10 Her mother has one eye and tentacles instead of arms. Her father has one eye and a vertically-oriented jaw

Monk

1 She's terrified of elephants.

2 Sierra Springs bottled water.

3 Singing Broadway showtunes to each other. Monk sings "If Ever I Would Leave You" over and over.

4 He hires a streaker to run past her.

5 The clarinet.

6 An extremely well-organized garage.

7 She keeps asking him the "Pete and Repeat" riddle. Being Monk, he can't stand not answering, even after the twentieth time she asks.

8 He's an award-winning writer of instructional manuals [we did, however, accept the answer that detailed precisely how screwed-up Ambrose is without discussing his work on instructional manuals]

9 His mother is a quality-control operator for an airline, who overheard the culprits discussing the crime while they were on hold trying to get tickets to Costa Rica

10 Julie

Nickelodeon (and things that weren't on Nickelodeon but should have been)

1 There are three possible answers: "I hope we never part," "it makes me wanna fart," and "this thingy came apart."

2 The Hidden Temple

3 A glowing piece of the Aggro Crag

4 Wheeler: (North America, fire)
Linka: (Europe, wind)
Kwame: (Africa, earth)
Gi: (Asia, water)
Ma-Ti: (South America, heart)

5 Good Burger

6 Doug Funnie

7 Little Pete, "my little Viking"

8 The Bar None

9 The Midnight Society

10 The Loot, the Warrant, the Crook

Star Trek

1 "He got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker."

2 They mate at the speed of light.

3 Lore

4 Hugh

5 Lt. Worf

Seinfeld

1 The Bizarro-world Jerry, George, and Kramer

2 The movie was Schindler's List

3 Trivial Pursuit

4 John F. Kennedy, Jr.

5 They're real, and they're spectacular.

The Daily Show with John Stewart

1 turd farmer

2 "Dog on Fire"

3 John Edwards

4 Break into a dance to "Billie Jean"

5 Produce Pete, with Steve Carrell

Home Improvement

1 Lisa and Heidi

2 He didn't bother her during childbirth, but he bugged her a lot during conception

3 "NOEL"; "LEON"

4 He hits Vila on the head with a huge wooden board

5 Psychology

Chapelle's Show

1 Wayne Brady

2 A janitor on PCP [alternately, "a nigga who loves titties"]

3 Fear Factor

4 He's black

5 "Diarrhea"

The Office (BBC)

1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 Children's illustrator

3 Psychology

4 "If You Don't Know Me By Now"

5 "Free Love Freeway"

Floorplans

1 The Odd Couple

2 All in the Family

3 The Flinstones

4 Gilligan's Island

5 Happy Days

6 The Jetsons

7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer

8 Home Improvement

9 Will and Grace

10 The Office

Back to Contest Main Page

1	wiggles his toes
2	five
3	Five
4	counts to five
5	He has a gold front tooth.
6	"You All Everybody" "You all everybody / you all everybody / acting like the stupid people / wearing expensive clothes."
7	These exact words were spoken by a Phil Donahue audience member some years ago, and it happened to unduly amuse J.J. Abrams and co.
8	He was in the Peace Corps.
9	She gives herself a pedicure.
10	A girls' soccer team - with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 on their jerseys.
11	Flight 815, from Gate 23
12	James Ford
13	"The Swan"
14	Tequila and tonic.
16	A pair of stones - one black, one white.
17	TV dinners and Twinkies
18	Her music box
19	Rom
20	FATE, and LATE
21	$83,000, for losing to him repeatedly at backgammon.
22	$23,000
23	4 8 15 16 23 42
24	Love will look orange.
25	He teaches her how to swaddle him.
26	CLUCK YOU," and stolen lawn gnomes.
27	The Dharma Initiative
28	In a hollowed-out Bible
29	Every 108 minutes.

1	Cross
2	Gilligan
3	Glen (also accept Glenwood)
4	Pewterschmidt
5	Brown
6	Buddy Cianci and James Woods
7	Bermuda Grass
8	Biscuit
9	Jasper
10	Bertram
11	Mittens
12	Jake
13	Pasqual and Santos
14	Maid Madeleine
15	Tricia Takanawa
16	Ollie Williams
17	Norm MacDonald and Adam Carolla
18	Herbert
19	Kevin
20	Adam West

1	$20
2	The Electric Company
3	"You're a Naughty Child and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You."
4	banana
5	Temple Beth Thupporting Actor
6	31 Spooner Street
7	Dust Mites
8	Stewie and the Cowtones
9	Bird calls
10	"Wake me up before you go go"

1	a crab puff; Alaska
2	"Crime. boy, I don't know"
3	Evelyn Lang, Christopher Mullready, Roberto Mendoza
4	A Goldfish; C.J. likes the food, not the animal
5	She thinks it's a bathroom; "I don't know" (but accepting anything about wanting to re-do her introduction to Bartlet in a less embarrassing way)
6	Europe in 1939
7	breasts
8	she discovers she was born in Canada
9	Rodney, a dress marine
10	In his files, under "A" for "Anal Retentive"
11	crazy glues C.J.'s phone receiver, revokes access for her I.D., and makes her desk collapse
12	Secretary of Labor
13	Molly; the Secret Service guard who gets shot during the kidnapping of Zoey Bartlet
14	He raises his arms and screams for rain to come, and it immediately downpours
15	He wanted to be a priest
16	"I love Zoey and I must have her back"
17	an opposing team's mascot, a goat
18	The Secretary General's illegally parked car has been towed
19	Ted McGinley; he's considered the patron saint of "Jump the Shark" forthe way his presence indicates that a show is losing its touch
20	Toby

1	"DEAD DOVE - DO NOT EAT."
2	It was wearing a bow tie.
3	"Tobias, you blowhard!"
4	Some guy named "Hermano" - which, of course, means "brother."
5	The Cornballer
6	Cutoff jeans-shorts underneath his clothes, because he's a Never-Nude.
7	"Afternoon Delight"
8	Fünke. [Certain parties on the team wrote "The umlaut is absolutely essential. No credit without the umlaut!" on the answer key. I believe we were more lenient than that.]
9	He sells it to the army men who use the lemon grove as a training ground.
10	"Big Yellow Joint"
11	He blows it up.
12	Her hairstylist is called up from the reserves; it says "You Can Take Away Our Stylists. But You Can't Take Away Our Style!"; and it was originally to convince Michael to get cable.
13	Steve Holt!
14	Egg, Plant, Hog, Plain, and Yam.
15	Franklin
16	Mrs. Phlyddia Featherbottom - a lovable British housekeeper
17	"Les Cousins Dangereux"
18	"Girls With Low Self-Esteem."
19	He uses a giant fake rock as a shield - because, as we all know, rock beats scissors.
20	"Analrapist." It's Tobias's clever combination of "analyst" and "therapist," of course. What did you think it was?

1	Bender Bending Rodriguez
2	No. It is the bad kind of puppy.
3	All My Circuits
4	Everybody Loves Hypnotoad
5	They got it from the Martians in exchange for a single bead, actually a gigantic diamond
6	Omicron Persei 8
7	I. C. Weiner
8	Ron Popeil
9	HedonismBot
10	Her mother has one eye and tentacles instead of arms. Her father has one eye and a vertically-oriented jaw

1	She's terrified of elephants.
2	Sierra Springs bottled water.
3	Singing Broadway showtunes to each other. Monk sings "If Ever I Would Leave You" over and over.
4	He hires a streaker to run past her.
5	The clarinet.
6	An extremely well-organized garage.
7	She keeps asking him the "Pete and Repeat" riddle. Being Monk, he can't stand not answering, even after the twentieth time she asks.
8	He's an award-winning writer of instructional manuals [we did, however, accept the answer that detailed precisely how screwed-up Ambrose is without discussing his work on instructional manuals]
9	His mother is a quality-control operator for an airline, who overheard the culprits discussing the crime while they were on hold trying to get tickets to Costa Rica
10	Julie

1	There are three possible answers: "I hope we never part," "it makes me wanna fart," and "this thingy came apart."
2	The Hidden Temple
3	A glowing piece of the Aggro Crag
4	Wheeler: (North America, fire) Linka: (Europe, wind) Kwame: (Africa, earth) Gi: (Asia, water) Ma-Ti: (South America, heart)
5	Good Burger
6	Doug Funnie
7	Little Pete, "my little Viking"
8	The Bar None
9	The Midnight Society
10	The Loot, the Warrant, the Crook

1	"He got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker."
2	They mate at the speed of light.
3	Lore
4	Hugh
5	Lt. Worf

1	The Bizarro-world Jerry, George, and Kramer
2	The movie was Schindler's List
3	Trivial Pursuit
4	John F. Kennedy, Jr.
5	They're real, and they're spectacular.

1	turd farmer
2	"Dog on Fire"
3	John Edwards
4	Break into a dance to "Billie Jean"
5	Produce Pete, with Steve Carrell

1	Lisa and Heidi
2	He didn't bother her during childbirth, but he bugged her a lot during conception
3	"NOEL"; "LEON"
4	He hits Vila on the head with a huge wooden board
5	Psychology

1	Wayne Brady
2	A janitor on PCP [alternately, "a nigga who loves titties"]
3	Fear Factor
4	He's black
5	"Diarrhea"

1	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2	Children's illustrator
3	Psychology
4	"If You Don't Know Me By Now"
5	"Free Love Freeway"

1	The Odd Couple
2	All in the Family
3	The Flinstones
4	Gilligan's Island
5	Happy Days
6	The Jetsons
7	Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8	Home Improvement
9	Will and Grace
10	The Office