Comments on: What TAL episode is this?

Question: What TAL episode is this?

laptolain — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:25:57 -0800

I'm looking for a This American Life episode about a bunch of adolescent geeks/nerds hanging out in NYC. They go around pulling simple scams and social engineering pranks. I tried searching all the titles and descriptions on the TAL website but nothing rings a bell. It might have been a short segment in one of their 3 part episodes

By: pazazygeek

pazazygeek — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:31:43 -0800

Search for "improv anywhere"... That is the group they were covering.

By: laptolain

laptolain — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:35:07 -0800

It's not improve everywhere. The story was from a long time ago, one of the '90s episodes. From what I remember the kids were a bunch of geeks/nobodies.

By: mrsshotglass

mrsshotglass — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:39:54 -0800

I think it's episode 78, How Bad is Bad. The kids in the episode were "hackers."

By: laptolain

laptolain — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:46:37 -0800

Yup that's it!

Thanks mrsshotglass.