What are your favorite This American Life episodes?

This is possibly the best show on any medium, of all time, in my opinion. There are over ten years' worth of archives; which shows do you love the most?
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MacGyver

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Mad invention in tough situations.

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Heretics

featuring Bishop Carlton Pearson.

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Superpowers

Zora's story inspires me at least once every other day.

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Godless America

The Julia Sweeney bit at the end is brilliant.

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Fiasco!

http://www.thislife....ns/97/61.html The Peter Pan production story is one of the greatest in radio (the portio... [show more]

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Classifieds

A This American Life Band is assembled from the want ads.

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A Little Bit of Knowledge

Fortunately thrust the phrase "Modern Jackass" into my lexicon.

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Testosterone

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Time to Save the World

The Rundown! Brilliant!

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Who's Canadian

The first episode I ever heard. http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97
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First Day

featuring "Squirrel Cop"

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In the Shadow of the City

Brooklyn Archipelago gets me every time...

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Notes on Camp

Camp people explained in this undercover expose, ok well they're not undercover, but it does give non camp people and insight. St... [show more]

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24 Hours at The Golden Apple

A show dedicated to 24 hours at a diner. A diner that, coincidentally, used to be my hangout in Chicago.

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Invisible Worlds

Alex Bloomberg Visits Phone Phreaks, Abandoned Building Themed Zines and David Sedaris.

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The Super

Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or their buildings have on them.

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holotone holotone: 45,709 points   2 years ago

Excellent topic!

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famousperson famousperson: 16,126 points   2 years ago

You know, you can download episodes from audible.com for a buck apiece (USD).

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holotone holotone: 45,709 points   2 years ago

Or, podcast it for free!
http://www.thisameri...podcasts.html

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This topic was started by famousperson famousperson: 16,126 points on November 14th, 2006. 25 grupies have voted on one or more of the 18 answers.

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