List of 2001 This American Life episodes

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In 2001, there were twenty-seven This American Life episodes.

  • Episode 175 – Babysitting
    • Act 1: What Big Teeth You Have - Hillary Frank
    • Act 2: In the Event of an Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position - Susan Burton
    • Act 3: Yes There Is A Baby - Ira Glass
      • For their segment Yes There Is A Baby Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary
  • Episode 176 – Two Nations, One President
  • Episode 177 – American Limbo
    • Act 1: The Family That Flees Together, Trees Together - Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: What's French for 'Strike Three'? - Adam Gopnik
    • Act 3: It's Julie Andrews' World, Sylvia Just Lives In It - Sylvia Lemus and Ira Glass
  • Episode 178 – Superpowers
    • Act 1: Invisible Man vs. Hawkman - John Hodgman
    • Act 2: Wonder Woman - Kelly McEvers
    • Act 3: The Green Team of Boy Millionaires, Beppo The Amazing Supermonkey from Planet Krypton, and The Man from Sram - Ira Glass and Jonathan Morris
    • Act 4: The Wonder Twins - Ira Glass and Jason Bleibtreu
  • Episode 179 – Cicero
    • Act 1: Untouchables
    • Act 2: The Inevitable
    • Act 3: War By Other Means
    • Act 4: They Say Our Love is Here to Stay
  • Episode 180 – Return to Childhood
    • Act 1: Once More, With Feeling - Jonathan Katz
    • Act 2: Punk in a Grey Flannel Suit - David Philp
    • Act 3: Ich... Bin... Ein .. Mophead - Alex Blumberg
    • Act 4: Every Day I Forget Something Else - Nicholson Baker
  • Episode 181 – The Friendly Man
  • Episode 182 – Cringe
    • Act 1: What We Cringe About When We Cringe About Love - Nancy Updike
    • Act 2: The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe - Adam Sternberg
    • Act 3: M*A*S*H Notes - Ira Glass
    • Act 4: Cringe and Purge - Bruce Jay Friedman
  • Episode 183 – The Missing Parents Bureau
    • Act 1: Better Left to the Imagination - Alix Spiegel
    • Act 2: Tell it to the Void - Miriam Toews
    • Act 3: I'm an Orphan; Don't Tell My Mom - Starlee Kine
    • Act 4: Runaway Mom - Dan Savage
  • Episode 184 – Neighbors
  • Episode 185 – Golden Calf
    • Act 1: Bowing Before the Famous - Ann Hepperman
    • Act 2: Thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me - Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Don't Have a Golden Cow - Iggy Scam
  • Episode 186 – Prom
    • For her segment Tornado Prom Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
    • Act 1: Tornado Prom - Susan Burton
    • Act 2: Save the Last Dance for Me... Again - Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Only Two Things Are Certain in Life: Death and Tuxes
    • Act 4: Only One Thing Missing - Wendy Dorr - Prom in Racine, Wisconsin
  • Episode 187 – Father's Day '01
    • Act 1: Driving the Divorcemobile
    • Act 2: And If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine - Ian Brown
    • Act 3: Legend of a Bankrobber's Son - Nick Flynn
  • Episode 188 – Kid Logic
    • Act 1: Baby Scientists with Faulty Data
    • Act 2: The Game Ain't Over til the Fatso Man Sings - Howie Chackowicz
    • Act 3: Werewolves in Their Youth - Michael Chabon
    • Act 4: One Brain Shrinks, Another Brain Grows - Julie Hill
  • Episode 189 – Hitler's Yacht
    • Act 1: Part One - Alix Spiegel
    • Act 2: Part Two - Alix Spiegel
  • Episode 190 – Living the Dream
    • Act 1: Girls Girls Girls - Cris Beam
    • Act 2: Agent to the Stars - John Hodgman
    • Act 3: Airel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me! - Ira Glass and Adam Davidson
  • Episode 191 – I Know What You Did This Summer
  • Episode 192 – Meet the Pros
    • Act 1: Crispy with the Rock - Joel Lovell
    • Act 2: Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run - Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Martha My Dear - David Rakoff
  • Episode 193 – Stories of Loss
    • Act 1: The Disappearance - Genevieve Jurgensen
    • Act 2: Look for the Union Label - Adrian LeBlanc
    • Act 3: Ashes - David Sedaris
  • Episode 194 – Before and After
    • Act 1: In the After of Before and After - Lynn Simpson
    • Act 2: Watching from the River's Edge - David Rakoff
    • Act 3: Notes from the Underground - Haruki Murakami
    • Act 4: Far From Home - David Sedaris
    • Act 5: U.S.A., Me-S.A. - Ira Glass and Shirley Jahad
  • Episode 195 – War Stories
    • Act 1: The Situation in the Field - Ira Glass and Tom Gjelten
    • Act 2: Letters to Home - Andrew Carroll and Estelle Lynch
    • Act 3: What Peacetime Forgets About Wartime - Lee Sandlin
    • Act 4: Are You Ready? - Scott Carrier
  • Episode 196 – Rashomon
    • Act 1: 1001 Arabian Nightly Newscasts - Julie Snyder
    • Act 2: Bombs over Baghdad - Issam Shukri
    • Act 3: Toto, I don't Think We're in Vietnam Anymore - Alex Blumberg
  • Episode 197 – Before It Had a Name
    • Act 1: Mr. Boder Vanishes - Carl Marziali
    • Act 2: Of Course I Remember Your Name - Heather O'Neill
    • Act 3: A Bad Day for Plates - Laura Tangusso
    • Act 4: You Call That Love? - Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 198 – How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • Episode 199 – House on Loon Lake
    • Act 1: Part One - Adam Beckman
    • Act 2: Part Two - Adam Beckman
  • Episode 200 – Hearts and Minds
    • Act 1: Don't Believe Anything You Hear on the Radio - Nancy Updike
    • Act 2: Live on Stage by the Sword, Die on Stage by the Sword - Margy Rochlin
  • Episode 201 – Them
    • Act 1: My Friend the Extremist - Jon Ronson
    • Act 2: Don't They Know It's Christmas After All - David Sedaris
    • Act 3: Newfies - Chris Brookes
  • Episode 202 – Faith
    • Act 1: Adventures in Turning the Other Cheek - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Does Size Matter If You're Talking About a Cross? - Josh Noel and Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: The Epiphany Biz - Bill Lychak
    • Act 4: First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother, and Then Come and Offer Thy Gift - Susie Putz-Drury

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