If you're one of the lucky few selected out of a crowd of giddy housewives and Spring Break college students to appear on a game show, you've got to be ready. You've got to have your hand ready to strike every buzzer the moment the host stops reading the question. You've got to know the suggested retail price of everything on the market from a 2010 Chevy Volt to a box of Low Sodium ...

Are you feeling too young? Has the constant exuberance of youth made you wish you could stop and take stock of the fragility of human mortality? Take a look at this video featuring a young(ish) Larry King hosting his first 'Larry King Live' and the shock alone will give you hip pains. Tonight marks the end of an era as King steps down to hand the reins of his show over to Piers Morgan, but CNN ...

['Leverage' - "The Ho, Ho, Ho Job"] Every December, our eyeballs are bombarded with holiday-themed episodes and specials. Usually, the only thing that is remotely special is a guy pretending to be Santa or some cranky curmudgeon learning the true meaning of Christmas. Bah humbag, how many times does a TV character have to learn that giving is better than getting before my TV realizes I ...

Some say The Stig fell to Earth from a speeding meteorite and landed behind the wheel of a Koenigsegg CCX before the producers of the successful BBC car show 'Top Gear' chose him to be their mute racing driver. Others said he was actually a clone combination of seven race car drivers, chemically and genetically designed to drive everything from a fully-tweaked Lamgorgini Murcelagio to a ...

['House' - 'Small Sacrifices'] Religion always makes a great foil for 'House.' Notice that I put House in quotation marks, referring to the show and not just Hugh Laurie's character. Of course, it can fall into the inevitable tiger trap of House using his medical prowess to prove to some pious dolt that religion is just a big scam designed to do whatever scam it really is (i.e. financial, ...

It's been said before (including by me) but it can't be said enough: America deserves its own version of 'Top Gear,' the BBC car show that dispenses global glee over supercars, sports monsters and other dream gear-grinders. We may not have created the concept of the car (depending on who you ask) and what you are willing to define as a car. We did, however, create one unmistakable and essential ...

['Futurama' - 'The Futurama Holiday Specatacular'] The last season of 'Futurama' left me wanting a lot more, an even more amazing feat considering it started on such rocky ground and ended up being one of the funniest and most touching season-enders in my lifetime. Try not to read that while thinking about the fact that the show literally came back from the dead, or you'll blow your brains ...

['House' - 'A Pox on Our House'] Everything about last night's episode felt like a set-up to the usual disappointment from weekly viewings of 'House.' It opened with a slightly meaningless intro that inevitably left a tiny clue about the patient's true condition. Then, Patient Zero pitted the team against each other in an endless stream of bizarre symptoms. Even the opening credits ...

When news landed a few weeks ago that Fox had optioned an animated series based on the quirky genius of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it wasn't much of a surprise. First of all, Fox has found the most success in the animation department and if they gave one more show to Seth MacFarlane, they'd have to just give him control of the entire network. It's cheaper that way. Most importantly, 'Napoleon ...

['House' - 'Office Politics'] 'House' is far from being the worst show on television. It has its occasional moments, but recently, it's felt tedious and worn. The show's need to drag out certain plots to was starting to rip holes in the fabric, like they were trying to stretch a queen-size sheet around a king-size season. As I went through the previous episodes in my head, I was starting to ...