| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $600: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $200: Nicknamed "Taz", this voracious Warner Bros. character is named for a real creature off Australia's coast the Tasmanian Devil |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | SHOE GAZING $800: On March 10, 2023, the Nintendo New York flagship store displayed a real-life version of the shoes worn by this character (Super) Mario |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: (I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $1600: Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play Uncle Vanya |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $800: Annie is the real name of this Henry James title character who goes by a flowery nickname Daisy Miller |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $400: Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character Indiana Jones |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | REAL-DEAL RHYME TIME $1000: George Carlin had a character named Al Sleet, this type of weatherman Hippy Dippy |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $1000: Rachel Dratch came up with this buzzkill character while on vacation with a real-life one Debbie Downer |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $200: Estragon & Vladimir meet up with Lucky & Pozzo but not the title character of this play, a real Beckett of laughs Waiting for Godot |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | BRITISH SPYCRAFT $1000: This alliterative author served in MI6 & used his real code number for a character in "Our Man in Havana" Graham Greene |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | TRIAL MIX $400: A minor character in "The Crucible", the real Martha Corey was tried, excommunicated & hanged for this in 1692 witchcraft |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | HIP-HOP MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $400: A "Peanuts" character is the source of this stage name that Calvin Broadus uses Snoop Dogg |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $2000: A character on "Black Sails", this real-life pirate escaped execution by hanging when it was discovered that she was pregnant Anne Bonny |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $600: A N.Y. Times review said this Stephen King title character "runs psychically amok" & things go south for her & everyone Carrie (White) |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1600: Daniel Boone was a basis for this character in the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper Natty Bumppo |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $400: In 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street" Edmund Gwenn plays a character called this who claims to be the real Santa Kris Kringle |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | HEY, SLIM $1600: His real name is John Burstein, but he bares his insides for everyone as this character Slim Goodbody |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SHORT STORIES $400: This Washington Irving character had a real booze problem--after getting blasted, he slept for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $600: (RuPaul presents the clue.) The makeup team won an Oscar for its work--4 1/2 hours each day--transforming Robin Williams into this character, whom he based on his real childhood nanny Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $2000: This Union Secretary of State is a character in "Lincoln" William Seward |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $1200: The title character from this 1995 film was a composite of 48 real Yorkshire pigs & an animatronic double Babe |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER $200: Beaker,
Fozzie,
Gumbo Gumbo |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER $400: Waldorf,
Statler,
Belleview Belleview |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER $600: Dr. Strangepork,
Dr. Oss-a-Lot,
Dr. Honeydew Dr. Oss-a-Lot |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER $800: Pretzels,
Sweetums,
Foo Foo Pretzels |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | NOT A REAL MUPPET OR SESAME STREET CHARACTER $1000: Owl Jolson,
Placido Flamingo,
Polly Darton Owl Jolson |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | THAT'S A REAL HORROR STORY $800: This character says, "Billy thinks he wants to change. He's making himself a girl suit out of real girls" Hannibal Lecter |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $400: Here's Snoopy as a World War I flying ace in the new "Peanuts" movie, still pursuing this nemesis--"Curse you!" the Red Baron |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $800: Michelle Pfeiffer & Halle Berry have both played this transformed character with heightened powers Catwoman |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $1200: (Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, delivers the clue.) I said, "No matter what nuclear holocaust or plague may occur, this Bob Odenkirk character will "wind up scurrying out into the sunlight after everybody else is gone" Saul Goodman |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $1600: In the cartoon "Deduce, You Say", this character plays Dorlock Homes to Porky's Watkins Daffy Duck |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $2000: This boy, voiced by John Morris, owns most of the "Toy Story" toys Andy |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada Uncle Tom |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | COMIC BOOKS $800: Real name Harleen Quinzel, this gal fell in love with the Joker Harley Quinn |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith (George) Babbitt |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS $400: "Fes" was a foreign exchange student with a real name too hard to say on this sitcom set in Wisconsin a few decades ago That '70s Show |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | CLASSIC CARTOONS $800: Walter Lantz' wife voiced this cartoon character that was inspired by a real bird Woody Woodpecker |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $1200: Alban Berg's 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character Lulu |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: This central character of "The Three Musketeers" was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs D'Artagnan |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | TV & FILM FOOD $800: It's the nickname for "Seinfeld" character Yev Kasem, a role based on a real NYC cook the "Soup Nazi" |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $2000: Hardcore fans of "Gilligan's Island" known that this character's real name is Roy Hinkley the Professor |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $800: Sam Spade was a real bird brain when introduced to the world in this 1930 classic The Maltese Falcon |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "CAT" GOT YOUR ANSWER $400: A saying or expression popularized through repeated use by a real person or character a catchphrase |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | WHAT A BROADWAY CHARACTER! $1600: This musical features vaudeville cutie Baby June, who, in real life, grew up to be actress June Havoc Gypsy |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | OPERAS BY CHARACTER $400: Dick Deadeye, a sailor;
Admiral Sir Joseph Porter;
Captain Corcoran H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | GET REAL $200: From a character in an 18th century play, to be genuine you're not Alvin-pure or Theodore-pure, but this Simon-pure |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | HODGEPODGE $100: In 1991, his character of Jesse married a Rebecca; in 1998, in real life, he married a Rebecca, Rebecca Romijn John Stamos |
| #3350, aired 1999-03-12 | A REAL PRINCE $200: In the "Continued" story of this fairy tale character, the Princess tells him, "Stop sticking your tongue out like that" "The Frog Prince" |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Harry Bratsburg is the real name of this character actor who played Colonel Potter on "M*A*S*H" Harry Morgan |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | POTPOURRI $400: Edward Bear is the real name of this A.A. Milne character Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | NAME'S THE SAME $200: A fictional Charles Dickens character, or a real illusionist-magician David Copperfield |
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