Can you imagine being raised by his crazy mother and Johnny Horton, though? You'd probably wear aviator sunglasses 24 hours a day and take in Lonestar Beer via IV, too.

Though to be fair, the North didn't abolish slavery until the 1800s.

Say what you will about him, but he did write this song for Willie Nelson: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when his future children discover this video online.

Creationism usually just means that you believe humanity was fashioned directly by God without the aid of any sort of evolutionary process. There are "young-earth" creationists who believe that the earth is ~6,000 years old, but there are also "old-earth" creationists who agree with mainstream science that the earth…

(Beat to it.)

No one's gonna say something about Kenny G showing up?

I'm not sure the degree to which we can call How I Met Your Mother a "traditional" sitcom, though. It may have three cameras, but it plays so much with time and narrative that it's certainly not in the same arena as Friends or Whitney.

Castellaneta's character was a parody of KCRW's Michael Silverblatt, right? I felt so high-class getting that joke. Unless that's not the joke.

I've been laughing about "Male Whitney" intermittently all evening. I'm not sure if that means it's a well-done joke or that I've suffered some sort of mild brain damage, probably from watching the "Whitney" pilot.

I hate Whitney Cummings and wanted to watch her fail, so I tried to watch this show out of pure schadenfreude. But I gave up after three minutes because it was causing me nearly physical pain.

Doesn't she have to be Rachel Bilson's roommate and play the bass, among other things? I suppose those things could suddenly be true of Victoria.

I take back what I said earlier. I laughed at "Bow down to Beercules!"

See, the problem with the central conceit of "HIMYM" is that there's no dramatic tension in Victoria's return—we know she's not the mother, we know their relationship (if it reignites) is not going to last, and so it's hard to care. That was the problem with Zoey last season, too, although Victoria is a much less…

I didn't think either episode was very good at all. I don't remember laughing once the entire hour, and the dancing scene felt so unbelievably tacked on that I can't believe the studio audience didn't revolt. (Yes, I know they watch a video of it rather than a live taping.)

I ain't fer it, I'm agin' it!

I think she owes Henny Youngman royalties for that joke.

He must have said something about his girlfriend.

"no one was going to suddenly die and come back the next week as if nothing happened"

Can we all just admit now that Zooey Deschanel is attractive but vacant and has almost no talent as an actress?