The Paula Poundstone Show
ABC (ended 1993)
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Season 1
11/6/93Olympic athlete Carl Lewis, newscaster Sam Donaldson and Senator Paul Simon are the guests. In remote segments, Paula chats with a movie theater popcorn popper in Bosie, Idaho; She sends a group of economists to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and asks them business questions while they're spinning in the teacup ride. By a fireplace, Sam Donaldson reads Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are" in its entirety, while an enraptured Paula listens on.moreless
10/30/93Lily Tomlin is the guest. In this opening episode, Paula explains TV ratings using Oreo cookies to represent audience shares. She dispatches a live camera crew to find one of the elusive "Nielsen families". They have no success and end up broadcasting from outside Leslie Nielsen's house. (He wasn't home.) There's also a spoof of the show's NBC competition, Nurses.moreless
