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To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before

play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:22repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser¹ to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: 

Let's check in with our contestants³. Jere, if you were a monster, what kind of monster would you be?

JERE HESTER: I guess I would be the 1970s Godzilla nemesis⁴ Rodan because he was - he was really cool. He spun⁵ around, but he was also a great sculptor⁶.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Corissa, if you were a monster, what kind of monster would you be?

CORISSA CARLSON: I would be the nemesis to the Keebler elves and be the Cookie Monster.

EISENBERG: (Laughter) Your next game is a music parody⁷ game called To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before. Jere, you won the first game. So win this, and you'll move on to the final round. Corissa, you need to win this, or your dissertation⁸ will be shredded⁹.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Jonathan Coulton, take it away.

JONATHAN COULTON: I sure will. We have rewritten the kind of creepy Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias song "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" to be either less creepy or more creepy...

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: ...Depending on your perspective because it is now about famous monsters. Are you ready?

CARLSON: Yes.

COULTON: OK.

(Singing) To all the ghouls I've loved before - cone-shaped hair I can't ignore. They built her just for me. Then electricity awoke her. She's alive, they swore.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Corissa?

CARLSON: Bride of Frankenstein?

COULTON: Indeed. Bride of Frankenstein is correct.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: Her name is Bernice, OK?

COULTON: (Laughter) She has a name.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: Actually, Mrs. Frankenstein was the wife of the scientist.

EISENBERG: Exactly.

COULTON: Just mansplained in a slightly more feminist¹⁰ way.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: But not that much more.

EISENBERG: I love that. I love that.

COULTON: (Singing) The winds of change are always blowing. There are times they smell like trash. This Muppet grump had no nose showing. His can was cramped¹¹. I had to dash.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Jere?

HESTER: Oscar the Grouch¹²?

COULTON: That's correct.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: Not the most horrifying¹³ monster...

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: ...In the history of monsters.

EISENBERG: Yeah. We've all had that apartment.

COULTON: Yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: Pretty standard.

EISENBERG: (Laughter).

COULTON: (Singing) There was this one manifestation¹⁴ - big, white thing in a sailor's hat. I felt a very strange sensation when the Ghostbusters made him splat.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: (Laughter) Corissa?

CARLSON: The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?

COULTON: (Laughter) Yeah, that's right.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: This is your last clue.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: (Singing) My latest ghoul - he does beguile¹⁵. He has a very pointy smile. A Transylvanian stud - likes to drink my blood. I think I'll let him suck a while.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Jere?

HESTER: Dracula?

COULTON: Yeah, you got it.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: Art Chung, how did our contestants do?

ART CHUNG: We have a tie. So here's your tiebreaker question - hands on your buzzers¹⁶. Name the hit Halloween song by Bobby Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers released in 1962.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

CHUNG: Corissa?

CARLSON: "Monster Mash¹⁷?"

CHUNG: That is correct. Well done.

(APPLAUSE)

CHUNG: So Corissa, with that, you've tried it up with one game apiece. And we're back to another tiebreaker round.

(LAUGHTER)

CHUNG: Doesn't get any easier. I'm going to give you a category. And you'll go back and forth¹⁸ naming things that fall in that category. The first contestant² to mess up by guessing incorrectly, repeating an answer or taking too long will be eliminated. You'll have to buzz in to answer first. Here's your category - periodic table elements with atomic numbers 1 through 10.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

CHUNG: Corissa, you start.

CARLSON: Carbon.

CHUNG: Carbon is number 6. Correct. Jere?

HESTER: Nitrogen.

CHUNG: Nitrogen is number 7.

CARLSON: Hydrogen.

CHUNG: Hydrogen is number 1, Corissa. Correct. Jere?

HESTER: Oxygen.

CHUNG: Oxygen is number 8. Back to Corissa.

CARLSON: Well...

(LAUGHTER)

CARLSON: I'm going to guess sodium¹⁹.

CHUNG: I'm sorry. Sodium is incorrect. So we're going to have to say goodbye. And congratulations to Jere. You're moving on to the final round.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: It's settled. Our finalists are Vanessa and Jere. They will face off in our final round at the end of the show. Coming up, "Stranger Things'" David Harbour has many sides. We'll roll with 20 of them in the nerdiest game you'll ever hear. I'm Ophira Eisenberg. And you're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

(APPLAUSE)

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 contestant   

n.竞争者，参加竞赛者

参考例句：

• The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
• The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。

3 contestants   

n.竞争者，参赛者( contestant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 nemesis   

n.给以报应者，复仇者，难以对付的敌手

参考例句：

• Uncritical trust is my nemesis.盲目的相信一切害了我自己。
• Inward suffering is the worst of Nemesis.内心的痛苦是最厉害的惩罚。

5 spun   

v.纺，杜撰，急转身

参考例句：

• His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
• Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。

6 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。

7 parody   

n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文

参考例句：

• The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
• North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

8 dissertation   

n.（博士学位）论文，学术演讲，专题论文

参考例句：

• He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.他目前正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。
• He was involved in writing his doctoral dissertation.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。

9 shredded   

shred的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶，再把鱼放上，就可以上桌了。
• I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

11 cramped   

a.狭窄的

参考例句：

• The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤，但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
• working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作

12 grouch   

n.牢骚，不满；v.抱怨

参考例句：

• He's always having a grouch about something.他总是发脾气抱怨这个抱怨那个。
• One of the biggest grouches is the new system of payment.人们抱怨最多的一点就是这种新的支付方式。

13 horrifying   

a.令人震惊的，使人毛骨悚然的

参考例句：

• He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was. 他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate. 战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。

14 manifestation   

n.表现形式；表明；现象

参考例句：

• Her smile is a manifestation of joy.她的微笑是她快乐的表现。
• What we call mass is only another manifestation of energy.我们称之为质量的东西只是能量的另一种表现形态。

15 beguile   

vt.欺骗，消遣

参考例句：

• They are playing cards to beguile the time.他们在打牌以消磨时间。
• He used his newspapers to beguile the readers into buying shares in his company.他利用他的报纸诱骗读者买他公司的股票。

16 buzzers   

n.门铃( buzzer的名词复数 )；蜂音器（的声音）；发嗡嗡声的东西或人；汽笛

参考例句：

• Scout in with Buzzers(Via The Swarm) or whatever fast unit you have. 用技能召唤的蜂群（或者任何你拥有的快速单位）探路。 来自互联网
• Buzzers have the ability to clear garrisoned structures. 蜂群拥有清除驻军建筑得能力。 来自互联网

17 mash   

n.麦芽浆，糊状物，土豆泥；v.把…捣成糊状，挑逗，调情

参考例句：

• He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃。
• Whiskey,originating in Scotland,is distilled from a mash of grains.威士忌源于苏格兰，是从一种大麦芽提纯出来的。

18 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

19 sodium   

n.（化）钠

参考例句：

• Out over the town the sodium lights were lit.在外面，全城的钠光灯都亮了。
• Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.食盐是钠和氯的复合物。