Well, all good things must come to an end. Or, all bad things must come to an end. Either way, something is coming to an end here. Since we started covering 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated) on TV Squad, we've had a perfect, unbroken 100% success rate. Every single episode involved a deadbeat dad who claimed that he was not the father of a woman's child. Then, the dad would take a paternity test -- and every single time, it turned out that the man was the baby's father.

But no more! True, Wendell -- the guest on the latest episode -- seems like the perfect candidate to be a deadbeat dad. He slept with a woman a couple of times, and then she got pregnant. Next, he completely disappeared -- only returning once, on Mother's Day, when he ate all the food in the woman's house, including the baby snacks.

Like every other 'Maury' guest, Wendell says there's no way he could be the father. But then, the results of the paternity test come back, and ... he's actually not the father. Amazing! This has never happened before on 'Maury'! We feel like balloons and streamers should have come down from the ceiling.

Do you know what a "Dime Piece" means, slang-wise? Think about it for a second. We'll be back with the answer at the end of this column.

Anyhow, where were we? So here we are with the latest episode of 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated). On the new episode, host Maury Povich talks with a young woman whose man is cheating on her with a teenage girl. Michelle is very angry with her fiancée, and with the teenage girl who has been messing around with her fiancée. She is shocked! Very shocked! Michelle is stunned by the fact that anyone could ever reject her.

"He ain't gonna leave me for her!" Michelle says. Then she gets up and starts dancing. "Baby, look at you and look at me!"

While dancing in front of the suddenly hooting crowd, Michelle has this to say -- "Honey, I'm a 'dime piece,' baby!" Then she jiggles around on the stage some more.

So, what is a "Dime Piece"? It's kind of obvious if you think about it for a second. Or not. Anyway, your answer is coming right after the jump ...

It's mother versus mother on 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated). Of course, since this is an episode of 'Maury,' the conflict is entirely paternity suit-based. Settle back in your chair for a second while we explain.

First, a girl named Jasmine claims that she gave up her virginity to a man called "M-Dot." And naturally, M-Dot says that he is not the father of the child. But because this is 'Maury,' we're going to break down their claims as follows ... Chances that M-Dot is the dad: 100%. Chances that he's not the dad: 0%.

Sure enough, the results of the test come back, and M-Dot is the dad. But meanwhile, as the test results are coming out, Jasmine is busy getting in a fight with M-Dot's mom.

M-Dot's mother Tina has come on the show to defend the supposed "honor" of her son. So she screams clever things about Jasmine -- such as, for example, "She's a liar!" ... Good one! Then, Tina and Jasmine just start cursing at each other.

So far, this is all pretty much par for the course. But then, Jasmine attempts a flying jump-attack across the stage at Tina. It just sort of comes out of nowhere. Impressive! We're used to fighting on this show, but Jasmine shows some unexpected 'Matrix'-style kung fu skills.

Let us pause now to appreciate the mighty works of mankind. Man has built the enormous pyramids, scaled the heights of Mount Everest, even walked on the surface of the moon. But on the negative side of the equation, mankind has also created 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated) -- the daily talk show that exposes cheating fiancées to the jeers and boos of the audience.

And so, here we go again. Nicole thinks that her fiancée Josh is cheating on her. Josh vehemently denies that this is the case. Oh, simple, foolish Josh.

In order to test him, Maury sticks Josh in the green room, where he is approached by a sexy female "decoy." Josh not only instantly admits to cheating on Nicole, but then he starts hitting on the decoy. "You have pretty eyes," he says to her. Oh, Josh -- you idiot.

It gets worse from there. Josh then invites the decoy to join him in a hot tub. "What are you gonna wear in the hot tub?" she asks. " ... Nothing," he replies. Yuck!

On today's 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated), a young woman named Michelle faces the ultimate question. Did her boyfriend Terrill cheat on her or not? Good question! And haven't we all asked ourselves that question from time to time? Or, well, maybe we haven't.

Michelle says that she has come up with a foolproof way to tell if her man has been cheating on her. She makes him drop his trousers when he gets home -- and then she smells his private parts. Genius! Pure genius. No way that test could ever fail! Next, Michelle and Terrill sort of demonstrate the test, plus they curse at each other a lot.

Then, inevitably. we move on to finding out that Terrill has cheated on Michelle, as the audience screams and boos. It's all par for the course on 'Maury.'

There's a paternity test on 'Maury' (weekdays, syndicated). This should come as no surprise to anyone who's ever watched the show before, since basically the entire function of 'Maury' is to display televised paternity tests. In fact, the show may as well just be retitled 'Paternity Test! -- The Series.'

On the latest episode, Maury welcomes 14-year-old Naquita, one of the youngest teen mothers he's ever had on the air. Naquita is joined by highly displeased grandmother Michelle, and the potential 17-year-old father, whose name is Xavier. Of course, Xavier confidently predicts that there is "no way" that he is the baby's daddy. One quick smash-cut later, and it is just as obviously revealed that Xavier ... is the baby's father.

That sound you hear is the planet dying, just a little bit.

The syndicated talk shows (and I use that term very, very loosely) Jerry Springer and Maury have been renewed through the 2010 season. Yes, that's right, for three more seasons. Springer will start its 17th season this fall and Maury its 10th.

That means we'll have three more glorious seasons of actors ordinary citizens throwing chairs at each other and wrestling and three more intriguing years of morons ordinary citizens taking paternity tests to see if they're the father of a woman's baby.