In 2006, there were 17 This American Life episodes.
- Act 1: Luck of the Irish â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Taxation Without Inebriation
- Act 3: Bad Morning America â Davy Rothbart
- Act 4: Function of the Heart
- Act 1: Brooklyn Archipelago â Brett Martin
- Act 2: The Thin Gray Line â Cheryl Wagner
- Act 3: Yes, In My Backyard â Jorge Just
- Act 1: Prisoner of Love â Shant Kenderian
- Act 2: The Diary of Mrs. Sam Horrigan â Catalina Puente
- Act 3: So a Squirrel and a Chipmunk Walk Into a Bar â David Sedaris
- Act 1: El Gato Y El Ratoncito â James Spring
- Act 2: Hello Kitty â David Sedaris
- Act 3: Looking for Loveseats in all the Wrong Places â David Segal
- Act 4: Spray My Name, Spray My Name â Brian Thomas Gallagher
- Act 1: There's No U.S. in Habeas â Jack Hitt
- Act 2: September 11, 1660 â Jon Ronson
- Act 3: We Interrogate the Detainees â Jack Hitt
- Act 1: Mother of Invention â Karen Sosnoski
- Act 2: Everything Must Go â Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Act 3: What Would Fill-in-the-Blank Do? â Brett Martin
- Act 4: Squashing the Creative Spirit â Andy Raskin
- Show description: A return to two live shows from the TAL archive including show 36, "Letters" and show 66, "Tales from the Net".
- Act 1: Letters
- Act 2: Internet
- Act 1: Two Possibilities, Both Bad â Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Grandma Letters â Will Seymour, Mortified
- Act 3: My Angel's in the Centerfolds â Thea Chaloner
- Act 1: Who Takes the Class Out of Class Reunion â Jon Ronson
- Act 2: Life Without Leanne â Larry Doyle
- Act 3: Deal of a Lifetime â Sarah Koenig (rebroadcast from episode 162)
- Act 4: One Word: Timing â Tami Sagher
- Act 1: Parrot â Ira Glass, Alex Lane, and Erik Holm
- Act 2: Pig â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: Combo Platter â David Sedaris
- Act 1: Love Is A Battlefield â Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Hit Me With Your Best Shot â Dave Royko
- Act 1: Objects in Side View Mirror Are Truer Than They Appear â Alex Kotlowitz
- Act 2: Unwelcome Wagon â Ira Glass
- Music interlude: Dave Barker, I Got to Get Away
- Act 3: Waiting for Joe â Shalom Auslander
- Music interlude: Bettye LaVette, The High Road
- Show description: Scary stories that are all true.
- Prologue: Ira Glass and Albert Donnay read a ghost story from a 1921 medical journal.
- Act 1: The Hills Have Eyes â Alix Blumberg
- Music interlude: 45 Grave, Evil
- Act 2: The Hitcher â Ira Glass
- Act 3: And the Call Was Coming from ... the Listeners!
- Act 4: Graveyard Shift â David Sedaris
- Music interlude: Gnarls Barkley, The Boogie Monster
- Show description: Discussion about a new study by The Lancet about the number of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion.
- Prologue: Ira Glass talks with ordinary Iraqis about life after the invasion.
- Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth and Statistics â Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: Not Just a Number
- Act 3: The War This Time â Ira Glass
- Music interlude: The Roots, Somebody's Gotta Do It
- Prologue: a story about a German interpreter for Ford whose skills fail him
- Act 1: Mr. Central High
- Act 2: I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn
- Act 3: If This Ark Is A-Rockin', Don't Come A-Knockin â Jonathan Goldstein interprets the story of Noah's Ark
- Show description: Stories of Muslim and non-Muslim relations.
- Prologue: A depiction of Muhammad on display in the main courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Act 1: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?âÂÂWhy is it so hard for Muslims and non-Muslims to get along in the fourth grade?
- Act 2: America the Ad Campaign â Shalom Auslander
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