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Peter Sagal

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

If you get this last one, you win.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Skittles are known for their very weird commercials.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Which of these was a real Skittles commercial that was broadcast somewhere in the world?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Was it A,

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

a commercial with a huge anthropomorphic tube sock that generated static electricity by rubbing on the carpet and shocks an old man on the tongue?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Was it B, a man who milks Skittles from a giraffe which is eating a rainbow?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Or C, a mother who feeds her adult son Skittles through an umbilical cord?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

You're going to go with B, the man who milks Skittles from a giraffe that's eating a rainbow.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

That's right, but they were all real.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Those were all real Skittles commercials.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Bill, how did Michael Threatz do in our quiz?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Michael Threat's new book is I'm So Happy You're Here, A Celebration of Library Joy, and he is the host of the new edition of Reading Rainbow.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Michael Threat, thank you so much for joining us on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

What a pleasure to talk to you.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Thank you.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

In just a minute, because a smile is unavailable, we let something else be our umbrella in our Listener Limerick Challenge.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us in the air.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Thank you, Bill.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Thank you so much.