List of 2005 This American Life episodes

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In 2005, there were twenty-six This American Life episodes.

  • Episode 280 – In Country
  • Episode 281 – My Big Break
    • Show description: On personal struggles leading to unexpected success or failure
    • Act 1: Take My Break, Please - David Segal
    • Act 2: What Happens in Baghdad, Stays in Baghadad - Jen Banbury
    • Act 3: Oedipus Hex - Shalom Auslander
  • Episode 282 – DIY
    • Show description: An entire episode of a story about the wrongful murder conviction of Collin Warner. After 21 years in prison, Warner's friends managed to prove Warner's innocence and free him from jail.
    • Act 1: Untitled - Anya Bourg
    • Act 2: The story of Collin Warner continues
  • Episode 283 – Remember Me
  • Episode 284 – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
    • Act 1: The Karachi kid
    • Act 2: Not far from the tree - Amy O'Leary
    • Act 3: Because I'm the mommy, that's why
  • Episode 285 – Know Your Enemy
    • Act 1: The Minister Meets the Martyr
    • Act 2: I Am Curious, Jello - David Segal
    • Act 3: Eight Percent of Nothing - Etgar Keret
  • Episode 286 – Mind Games
    • Act 1: Untitled - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: The Spy Who Loved Everyone - Jorge Just
    • Act 3: Invisible Girl - Scott Carrier
  • Episode 287 – Backed Into a Corner
    • Act 1: Working Class Hero Sandwich - Shirleen Holt
    • Act 2: Don't Drive Like My Brother - Jonathan Menjivar
    • Act 3: Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind - Brian Montopoli
  • Episode 288 – Not What I Meant
    • Act 1: Froggy Goes A-Courtin' - Gabrielle Galanek
    • Act 2: Cat Got Your Tongue - David Sedaris
    • Act 3: Romance Languages - Ben Karlin
  • Episode 289 – Go Ask Your Father
    • Act 1: Make Him Say Uncle - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: My Favorite Martian - Paul Tough
  • Episode 290 – Godless America
    • Act 1: The Substance of Things Hoped For
    • Act 2: God Said, Huh? - Julia Sweeney
  • Episode 291 – Reunited (and It Feels So Good)
    • Act 1: Not Your Parents' Parent Trap - Nazanin Rafsanjani
    • Act 2: If By Chance We Meet Again - Ira Glass
    • Act 3: French Kiss - Sarah Vowell
  • Episode 292 – The Arms Trader
  • Episode 293 – A Little Bit of Knowledge
    • Prologue: Ira Glass and Nancy Updike
    • Act 1: Small Thoughts in Big Brains - Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: And Daddy Makes Three - Dan Savage
    • Act 3: Sucker MC-Square - Robert Andrew Powell
    • Act 4: The Art of Adult Conversation - Alexa Junge
  • Episode 294 – Image Makers
    • Act 1: Dewey Decibel System - Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: Goldstein on Goldstein - Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 3: Hearth Shaped Box - Julie Hill
  • Episode 295 – Not What I Signed Up For
  • Episode 296 – After the Flood
    • Show description: Stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
    • Prologue: Ira Glass interviews William Nichelson about the role of state and federal authorities
    • Act 1: Middle of Somewhere - Ira Glass interviews Denise Moore, a hurricane survivor
    • Music interlude: Memphis Minnie, When the Levee Breaks
    • Act 2: Forgotten, But Not Lost - Alex Blumberg interviews Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Debbie Zelinsky about an occurrence at the Pontchartrain Expressway bridge
    • Music interlude: Fats Domino, Walking to New Orleans
    • Act 3: Social Studies Lesson - Alex Blumberg interviews Ashley Nelson
    • Ray Charles, Them That Got
    • Act 4: Diaspora - Cheryl Wagner
    • Act 5: Displaced Persons Camp - Lisa Pollak interviews survivors of Hurricane Charley in Florida
  • Episode 297 – This Is Not My Beautiful House
    • Show description: Stories from the Houston Astrodome and New Orleans about survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
    • Act 1: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow - Jane Feltes
    • Act 2: No Place Like Dome - Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Land Grab - Lisa Pollak
    • Act 4: The Long Way Home - Nick Spitzer
    • Act 5: Water Bed - Alex Kotlowitz
  • Episode 298 – Getting and Spending
    • Act 1: Mothers of Invention - Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Drozdowska-McGuire
    • Act 2: That Guy - Diane Cook
    • Act 3: Mall Rat - John Hodgman
  • Episode 299 – Back From The Dead
    • Act 1: In the Event of An Emergency - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: 'P' Is For Porta-Potty - Sarah Koenig
    • Act 3: Friday Night Floodlights - Lisa Pollak
  • Episode 300 – What's in a Number?
    • Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics - Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: Not Just a Number - Ryan Gist
    • Act 3: What do we do with these numbers anyway? - Ira Glass
  • Episode 301 – Settling the Score
    • Air date: November 11, 2005
    • Prologue - Ira Glass
    • Act 1: One Good Deed - Erin Einhorn
    • Act 2: The Things That Money Can Buy - Beau O'Reilly
  • Episode 302 – Strangers in a Strange Land
    • Air date: November 18, 2005
    • Prologue - Ira Glass
    • Act 1: Not Just Tourists, Tourists Who Care - Chris Tenove
    • Act 2: Johnny Get Your Mouse - Amy O'Leary
  • Episode 303 – David and Goliath
    • Act 1: Lab Rugrats - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Dreams of Distant Factories - Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Act 3: Adventures at Poo Corner - David Sedaris
  • Episode 304 – Heretics
    • Act 1: Rise - Russell Cobb
    • Act 2: Fall
  • Episode 305 – The "This American Life" Holiday Spectacular

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