It was Thursday evening, somewhere in America. A couple was watching The Late Show With David Letterman … and, after Dave’s extraordinary confession, a commercial break came on.

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Jill: “Was that for real?”

Jack: “You betcha. You’ve seen him like that before.”

Jill: “No. I haven’t. That’s why I asked if it was for real. He seemed … weird … about it.”

Jack: “You mean … he seemed serious while injecting bits and pieces of jibes and sarcasm here and there?”

Jill: “Yeah! That’s why I asked if it was for real.”

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Long-time commenter bsgfan2003 (or Rosie, if you prefer) is back guest clacking for us today….

Much of my spare time is spent in mystic contemplation in the bathtub, very similar to a Battlestar Galactica hybrid in a goo tank. I ponder many mysteries like: Why do men shave their legs? (No good epiphanies yet), what is better than a young Clint Eastwood? (That’s easy, an older Clint Eastwood.) Tonight, I was thinking about Romo Lamkin’s (BSG) assertion that Apollo is a serial contrarian because he always takes up for the other side, much to the aggravation of everyone else.

I, myself, suffer the agonies of a serial contrarian. For example, I used to visit Perez Hilton’s site until he wore a Halloween costume mocking Jesus. After I saw that, I never went back to his site. Then, when he was recently punched in the face, and it became cool to hate him, and enjoy his misery, I felt really sorry for him. I found myself hoping that Carrie Prejean would reach out to him, to show him that it is biblically correct to show love, mercy and compassion.

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CW

I’m sure it will come as no surprise that since I write about TV, I end up seeing a lot of it. Let’s face it, there’s a good amount of crap on the tube and I often find myself watching it and feeling myself getting dumber but unable to turn away. With that said, there’s also a lot of TV that makes me remember why I love it. Whether it’s funny, sweet, or hilariously stupid, these are the things that didn’t suck this week.

“I hate this stupid headband!” Serena and Blair finally throw down on Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is one of my guilty pleasures. It’s fun and silly and completely ridiculous. I can never keep track of whether or not Serena and Blair are friends or enemies. This week, they finally did what everyone saw coming: They made out. Okay, not really, but they had an awesome girl fight. It involved chucking a purse at Serena’s head, and it was amazing.

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NBC

(Season 34, Episode 5)

This week certainly wasn’t as tight as the Anne Hathaway episode, but it was better than some of the earlier eps. They had the cameos going (Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Sarah Palin, Oliver Stone, and Alec Baldwin), and they all hit the mark, but the whole last half of the show was painfully bad. Josh Brolin did a fine job, but I’m disappointed that we didn’t get any skits with him being George Bush. We got a small taste of it in his monologue, but this could have made a great sketch.

Let’s breakdown the episode, skit by skit…

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Donkeydish.com

I hate to say this, being that we could looking at the most important Presidential election since Pat Paulsen’s first run to the White House in 1968, but the scheduling of the Presidential debates has been a bit sucky. The first debate took place on a Friday night; a time when a good portion of the voting population was out doing other things. The last debate took place on a Tuesday, which seemed okay but probably had some loss of viewers due to ECW on the SciFi Channel.

The final debate on Wednesday? A safe night, sure, if baseball’s National League Championship Series wasn’t airing at the same time and didn’t feature two teams that haven’t been to the Big Show in a number of years. But the NLCS did air and it featured two teams who haven’t been to the World Series for awhile now (by the way…Yay, Phillies!). So, the result of the debate airing on Wednesday night: lower ratings, but not the lowest ratings. With a Nielsen rating of 38.3 the third presidential debate did better than the first (34.7) but worse than the second (42.1).

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NBC

For the past several weeks, Tina Fey has helped lead SNL to a creative and ratings resurgence with her freakishly spot-on impression of VP hopeful, Sarah Palin. Now, according to reports, there is serious talk in the McCain camp of preparing a response. One possibility? Palin may appear on Saturday Night Live, not as herself, but as her doppelganger, Tina Fey.

Word is that Palin may be doing a spoof of Fey’s American Express commercial, either on the next new Saturday broadcast airing on October 18, or the on one of the new SNL Weekend Update Thursdays. Ordinarily, I’m all for politicians appearing as themselves; I thought it was great that John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all appeared on SNL during the primary season. However, I can’t muster the same excitement over a possible Palin appearance, probably since, unlike the other three, she’s just so damn unlikeable.

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NBC

(Season 34, Episode 4)

Overall, I was fairly happy with this outing. I thought it was far and away the best episode of the season to date. Anne Hathaway hosted and The Killers were on to promote their upcoming album, Day & Age. Join me after the jump as I break down the show, skit by skit….

Cold Open (VP debate): We were promised more Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and we got it (along with a special appearance by Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill)! Fey’s impersonation is so good it’s scary. Watching the actual VP debate I thought that Palin was doing an impression of Fey doing an impression of Palin. SNL is always at it’s best when it’s parodying politics, and this skit was no exception. They highlighted all the ridiculous things from the debate, including Palin’s non-answers, Biden’s fondness for McCain and his penchant for repeating facts. The biggest laugh for me was when Palin thanked the third grade class for help with her debate prep. I would have loved to have seen them use Queen Latifah some more instead of just giving her one joke and some funny reaction shots. Clearly, they just needed a black woman to come on and play Ifill, which only illustrates the fact that the cast remains pretty white-washed. I find it hard to believe that there is no African American female comedian who could make this show better every week. Oh well…

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