The West Wing was good, a pleasant reminder of it’s glory days of high drama, pageantry, and multiple balls artfully juggled (there's also something to be said about seeing female series regulars in glitzy gowns and such); also, this week’s was not a Christmas episode- I was hoodwinked by the Christmas Nazis at NBC into thinking it was based on the promo from last week. Bastards. The logic and continuity of The West Wing is indeed intact. The Simpsons also passed muster (the return of Sideshow Bob, and Mister Teeny!). The real question is this: is America ready to truly embrace tv comedies not filmed before a live studio audience and without laugh tracks, or will NBC’s move to revive their Thursday night with the superlative My Name is Earl and The Office fail miserably? By publically pegging their once marquee Thursday night comedy cachet on these.… rather unorthodox programs we will indeed find out…

And what’s with that stoner Jesus from the promo for NBC’s upcoming midseason replacement comedy about Aidan Quinn the priest that seems to be part Father Dowling Mystery, part Weeds, and part The L Word? Criminy.