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A segment with fitness guru Jillian Michaels goes off the rails when Al Roker flirts with her, then they debate the temperature of dishes from her new cookbook 'Master Your Metabolism' on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC).

First, Roker appreciatively takes in Michaels' tight outfit and asks her to "give us a little twirl." After Michaels obliges, Roker says, "Yeah! Nothing wrong with that."

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Al Roker and Ann Curry are caught dancing to Bobby Darin's 'Mack the Knife' during a commercial break on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC).

Roker shows off some surprisingly nimble dance moves, until he spins Curry and she falls back on the show couch. Unperturbed, Roker dances solo. But then, perhaps wanting payback, Curry interrupts Roker's groove by pulling him down beside her.

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During an appearance on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC), Nick Offerman of 'Parks and Recreation' discussed his hobby of woodworking and a nude New York magazine photo spread in which he appeared with wife Megan Mullally. Seeing an opportunity for a double entendre, Al Roker then commented on Offerman's "wood." You can probably guess how things went from there.

"Just missed showing the wood," Roker said, after viewing the naked photo.

"I'm sorry," Ann Curry apologized. "The show was fine until that moment."

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Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry surprise Al Roker with a YouTube parody of a Lady Gaga song called 'Al Roker Face' on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC).

In this send-up of Gaga's second single 'Poker Face,' a singer in a platinum wig sings a loving ode to the weatherman. "Okay, I think we've seen enough of that," said a mortified Roker. But, Vieira and Curry don't stop there; they then perform an impromptu dance around the weatherman complete with hand gestures.

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After Jane Krakowski of '30 Rock' jokes about having her wedding live on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC), Al Roker enthusiastically latches onto the idea and tries to persuade her to do just that.

"We've never done a celebrity wedding! You could be our first!" Roker said loudly. "Just pick a date and then show up." Krakowski agrees, but her expression tells us she doesn't mean it.

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Ann Curry is not only a respected TV journalist and news anchor, she's also an accomplished photographer who's taken many photos in her travels as a reporter. Curry spoke on how her hobby brings her inner peace, and shared an intimate photo of Al Roker and son Nick during a segment on 'Today' (weekdays, 9AM ET on NBC).

"I feel so lucky that I found something that has given me peace, even in the worst of circumstances. And it makes me know that all of us can find peace, even in the chaos of our own lives," Curry said. "If [only] we can find that one thing that we care so much about ... And, for me, it's taking pictures."

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During a segment on Spanx for men on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC), anchor Lester Holt uses a colloquial phrase to indicate that he's never heard of the popular undergarment, which is used for shaping and slimming. Holt's saying cracks up his co-anchors, including Al Roker, who congratulates Holt with a fist bump.

"If I'm lying, I'm flying, my mama's home crying," Holt said, promising that he has no idea what Spanx are.

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After being stabbed with a lightsaber during a toy segment on 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC), Al Roker gets revenge on Natalie Morales by dropping a Zhu Zhu pet down her blouse.

Watch closely early in the clip and you'll notice Roker grab a Zhu Zhu pet and hide it inconspicuously in his hand. Then, he later drops it down the back of Morales' blouse, sending her into a fit of creeped-out laughter.

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Of all the things that can ruin a happy marriage, toilet paper seems to figure most prominently for the anchors of 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC). Al Roker and Natalie Morales complained about their spouses and toilet paper during today's episode of the morning show.

When asked whether there's an issue in her marriage that needs addressing, Natalie Morales said, "The toilet paper roll. When it's done, my husband never replaces it," adding that she boycotted replacing toilet paper in her bathroom to no effect.

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Although I'm generally a 'Today' show loyalist, for the next two weeks, I'm going to be a 'Good Morning America' fan.

Why? Three words: The Winter Olympics.

Every two years, since NBC started carrying the Olympics, they turn their top-rated morning news show into essentially the Games' morning recap show. Sure, you still get that first half hour of pure news, but after that, the show becomes all-Olympics, all the time, from examining the personal stories of the athletes, to travelogues about whatever exotic locale the Games are in that year, to deep, 'SportsCenter'-like examination of the previous night's results.

But that's not the part that annoys me the most. When the hosts go out and try to do the Olympic sports themselves, the cringe factor goes up exponentially. Especially when Matt Lauer and Al Roker are involved.

Whether 'Access Hollywood' or any entertainment-news program is overly focused on Tiger Woods or other tabloid tales is for audiences to decide. But after 13 years of delivering the latest in Tinseltown news and interviews as co-host of the popular NBC show, Nancy O'Dell is leaving, two years before her current contract expires.

Who would have thought that America's happiest person in the morning could create such a diabolical series of grizzly murders?

Maybe that's because he has to work in the morning. I know if I had to get up every morning at the ass-crack of dawn, I'd be sharping my kitchen knives every night.

The Today show host and weatherman has written a mystery murder novel titled The Morning Show Murders about a morning show host who does cooking segments and is suspected of murdering his executive producer.

I'll bet the weatherman did it.

Here's a move that I'm surprised nobody thought of earlier. Iconic television weatherman Al Roker will be getting his own show on, get this, The Weather Channel. Wake Up With Al will air at 6 a.m. on weekday mornings and will be co-hosted by Stephanie Abrams. Al will be also continuing his duties on The Today Show.

In the standard workday, it's not unusual to find yourself discussing the weather with co-workers. It's a nice, harmless topic that everyone cares about to some degree. However, to dedicate an entire morning show to it seems excessive (mind you, I feel the same about an entire channel dedicated to it). On the other hand, if you're going to have a host of such a show, the natural choice is Al Roker.

Despite this achievement, I have no plans to consider Al as a serious journalist. Perhaps at some point he can get Mother Nature to appear on his show for an interview and discuss her infidelity with Father Time.

Seeing Brian Williams sitting next to Matt Lauer on Today was a bit disconcerting, wasn't it? I knew NBC was having some budget problems, but I didn't realize how thin of a bench they actually had. Williams subbed in for Meredith Vieira, but only stayed on the show for an hour, as I'd imagine he'd rather spend the 8:00 hour putting together tonight's Nightly News lineup than talk about ten ways to keep your car running or what Drew Peterson ate for breakfast.

Anyway, Williams was at times a bit too stuffy for the morning gig, but his famous sense of humor showed through a number of times, including the clips after the jump. The first one is a clip reel of some strangely homoerotic interplay between Williams and Lauer, which Al Roker called "a Whitman's Sampler of man candy." The second one is of Lauer, Williams, and Natalie Morales making their Oscar picks.

Willard Scott doesn't do much around the Today show these days; except for an occasional week where he subs for Al Roker, all the semi-retired weatherclown (hey, he was a clown once) really does is his periodic shout outs to the nation's centenarians.

But at this point, I'm starting to wonder if those centenarians are more with it than the man who's giving them the tributes.

Almost every time I've seen Scott lately, he seems to mumble his way through the birthdays. While he's always been known for wacky asides and nonsensical ad-libs, they seem to be getting wackier as time goes on. But worst of all, he often falls behind the rotating Smucker's jar graphic that serves up each centenarian's name, location and photo. I mean, if you're a guy who's survived 100 years, don't you at least deserve to not have your face smiling on national TV while the audience is being told that you love wearing frilly dresses to church?