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List of 2011 This American Life episodes

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In 2011, there were 31 new This American Life episodes.

  • Episode 423 – "The Invention of Money"
  • Episode 424 – "Kid Politics"
  • Episode 425 – "Slow to React"
  • Episode 426 – "Tough Room 2011"
  • Episode 427 – "Original Recipe"
    • Act 1: Message in a Bottle – Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Ask Not What Your Handwriting Authenticator Can Do For You; Ask What You Can Do For Your Handwriting Authenticator – Jake Halpern
  • Episode 428 – "Oh You Shouldn't Have"
    • Act 1: Act One
    • Act 2: Act Two
    • Act 3: Act Three
    • Act 4: Act Four
  • Episode 429 – "Will They Know Me Back Home?"
    • Act 1: Act One
    • Act 2: Act Two
  • Episode 430 – "Very Tough Love"
    • Act 1: Act One
    • Act 2: Act Two
  • Episode 431 – "See No Evil"
    • Act 1: Blood Brothers
    • Act 2: Denying the Invisible
    • Act 3: I Worked at The Kennedy Center and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
  • Episode 432 – "Know When to Fold 'Em"
    • Act 1: Is This War or Is This Hearts?
    • Act 2: Kings Do Not Fold.
    • Act 3: Gin Rummy.
    • Act 4: Solitaire and Everything's Wild
  • Episode 433 – "Fine Print 2011"
    • Act 1: One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill
    • Act 2: Occupancy May Be Revoked Without Notice – David Rakoff
    • Act 3: Side Effects May Include... – Nancy Updike
    • Act 4: May Be Hazardous to Children
  • Episode 434 – "This Week"
    • Act 1: Sunday Night, State College PA
    • Act 2: Monday, Cairo, Egypt
    • Act 3: Monday, Tucson, AZ
    • Act 4: Saturday to Wednesday: CA, NY, WI, ME
    • Act 5: Wednesday, Tuscaloosa, AL
    • Act 6: Thursday, Greensvile, SC
    • Act 7: Saturday and Sunday, Gainesville and Coral Springs, FL
  • Episode 435 – "How To Create a Job"
    • Act 1: Can the Government Move My Cheese?
    • Act 2: This Story May Be Recorded For Training and Quality Assurance
    • Act 3: Job Fairies
    • Act 4: Be Cool, Stay in School
  • Episode 436 – "The Psychopath Test"
    • Act 1: Underachievement Test
    • Act 2: King of the Forest – Jon Ronson
    • Act 3: The Results Are In
  • Episode 437 – "Old Boys Network"
    • Act 1: Messing With the Bull
    • Act 2: Donkey See, Donkey Do
  • Episode 438 – "Father's Day 2011"
    • Act 1: Astro Boy Meet Robot Dad
    • Act 2: I Just Called to Say Something That's Hard to Say, That I Should Really Say More Often...
    • Act 3: Mister Baby Monitor
    • Act 4: Bring Your Child To Work Detail
  • Episode 439 – "A House Divided"
    • Act 1: War of Northern Aggression
    • Act 2: Split a Gut
    • Act 3: Don't Make Me Separate You
  • Episode 440 – "Game Changer"
    • Act 1: You've Got Shale
    • Act 2: Ground War
  • Episode 441 – "When Patents Attack!"
    • Act 1: Act One
    • Act 2: Act Two
  • Episode 442 – "Thugs"
    • Act 1: Thug Me? No, Thug You
    • Act 2: Lifers
  • Episode 443 – "Amusement Park"
    • Act 1: Gameboy Grows Up
    • Act 2: Great Adventures
    • Act 3: What I Didn't Do On My Summer Vacation—with Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 444 – "Gossip"
    • Act 1: Act One
    • Act 2: Act Two
  • Episode 445 – "Ten Years In"
    • Act 1: Kabul Kabul Kabul Kabul Chameleon
    • Act 2: In the Garden of the Unknown Unknowns
    • Act 3: Put on a Happy Face
    • Act 4: What's Arabic for Fjord?
    • Act 5: Bad Teacher
    • Act 6: Clutter
  • Episode 446 – "Living Without (2011)"
    • Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear?
    • Act 2: Yerrrrr Out!
    • Act 3: The Call of the Great Indoors
    • Act 4: Tin Man
  • Episode 447 – "The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms"
    • Act 1: A Pretty Dame Walks In
    • Act 2: His Partner Drops a Dime
  • Episode 448 – "Adventure!"
    • Act 1: Chinese Checkmate
    • Act 2: Oh, the Places We'll Go
  • Episode 449 – "Middle School"
    • Act 1: Life in the Hormonal Lane
    • Act 2: Stutter Step
    • Act 3: Mimis in the Middle
    • Act 4: Anchor Babies
    • Act 5: Blue Kid on the Block
    • Act 6: Grande with Sugar
  • Episode 450 – "So Crazy It Just Might Work"
    • Act 1: Mr. Holland's Opus
    • Act 2: Benny Takes A Jet
  • Episode 451 – "Back to Penn State"
    • Act 1: Say It Ain't So, Joe
    • Act 2: Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 2009
  • Episode 452 – "Poultry Slam 2011"
    • Act 1: Witness for the Barbecue-tion
    • Act 2: Murder Most Fowl
    • Act 3: Latin Liver
  • Episode 453 – "Nemeses"
    • Act 1: Solidarity for Never
    • Act 2: A Tale of Two Jerseys
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