Dancing With The Stars

Have any of you seen the lineup for this season's Dancing With The Stars? It's an instant gotta-watch. Heather Mills is competing. She's only got one leg!

There's Ian Ziering, Billy Ray Cyrus, Laila Ali, Leeza Gibbons, Joey Fatone, Clyde Drexler (6'7"!), and a bunch of others as well, but Paul McCartney's ex-wife with her prosthetic leg makes it worth it, without anyone else in the lineup. I'm no fan of her politics, but she managed really good foxtrot and mambo routines, and there's such an added thrill to seeing her dance... will her fake leg fall off?

It's on tonight at 8pm, with the results show tomorrow at 9pm.

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

Have any of y'all see this show? Russ and I caught a few episodes of it last week, and it was absolutely hilarious. It's a game show modeled after Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but the contestants are answering elementary school level questions, and their cheats come from a group of 10 year olds sitting on stage, answering the same questions the contestants are. Jeff Foxworthy hosts, and the contestants have the option of 'dropping out' and taking their current winnings at any time; they just have to say "I am not smarter than a 5th grader" when they do.

The questions are stupid-simple. But how many people still use what they learned in elementary school? So you get to sit on the couch and feel superior for how many elementary school level trivia questions you can answer, and laugh at the adults writhing in embarrassment on stage, because they can't remember how many states share a border with the Pacific ocean. ... or how many sides there are on a trapezoid. ... or whether or not walruses are native to the arctic. Funny stuff.

Bless You, NBC

Woo hoo! Our new DVR still has some bugs in it to work out, and as a consequence, for some reason Heroes was never picked up last night.

But not to worry, NBC has the full episode available online. Wasn't that nice?