...is the name of the new animated Fox series by Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, featuring voice-work by many AD cast members and recent Saturday Night Live members. Unfortunately, it looks painfully unfunny, though one hopes that is the work of Fox executives dumbing it down for the up-fronts. The dense and brilliant comedy fugue that was Arrested Development couldn't be adequately summed up in 90 seconds, either. On the other hand, a random 75-second clip remains hilarious.

Separately, Fox seems to have hired a batch of manatees for The Cleveland Show, the Family Guy spin-off advertised by a bunch of Family Guy clips.

1) Tina Fey, as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock, wolfs down an entire Italian sandwich (clearly laden down with fatty meats and cheese and sauce) at a metal detector when the TSA won't let her take it through the airport rather than abandon it, chipmunking the entire last quarter of the sandwich.

2) Generic red-headed leggy model in a Wendy's ad, demonstrating its Chicken Go Wrap sandwich, can barely make herself nibble at the lettuce at the edge of the (250-calorie) sandwich in each of the two or three scenes where she's supposed to be demonstrating the ease of taking a bite while multi-tasking. Where have the Method actors gone?

When I had cable, my TiVo handily picked out the shows I wanted to watch, knowing when they would have new episodes.

Comcast jacked up my rates to $100/month, and I didn't want to pay that, so no more TiVo. Which is fine: there's nothing good on HBO any more, and I'll save lots of time not watching the NBA playoffs.

And look what I've learned! There are five or so shows that I watch, and they all put new episodes on the Internet. The problem is that they do it with weird schedules. Some post the same day; some wait a day or two; some wait two weeks. And I don't know when they're broadcasting new episodes. And they're all on different websites.

What I need is a TiVo-like Internet widget that I can tell it: fetch these shows, and then sends me an e-mail (or, better yet, a personalized RSS feed) telling me "The latest Simpsons episode is at Hulu." Anyone invent this gadget yet?

...and Slim can verify, that the minute the word "Atonement" was out of Jon Stewart's mouth, I turned to her and said "Here comes the Yom Kippur joke."

My brother is liveblogging, with all the obscure Red Buttons and Bruce Vilanch jokes you could ever want.

I'm very glad I started watching House this season, and then caught up through the DVDs; if I had started any other time, I would have been utterly fed up with the low quality of the episodes in the middle of Season 3, but knowing how good the Season 4 stuff is, I'm sticking with it.

I'm rather surprised that real-life Scranton is even more sterile than the "Office" version, as it is without a Chili's, a Hooters, or a Benihana. Not that I'd want to go to any of those places, but even Interlaken has a Hooters.

The inspiration for Omar is out of prison after 17 years and getting married.

WaPo reporting that David Chase wanted three minutes of black silence to end the episode.

Officially shut down. This season was meh between the shift in locale to college, a lame mystery arc, a weird budget that meant large swaths of the cast were absent every episode, the dissonant notes of the portrayal of college life, and an abortion-related episode that so offended Slim that we stopped watching the show entirely. The show jumped the shark for me in Season 2 because the utter lack of consequences from the appalling Duncan subplot (with the legal consequences threatened by powerful people to Veronica Mars disappearing for no particular or explained reason), and the unsatisfying mystery solution that made no sense didn't help.

Kristen Bell will return to tv on the CW, however, in Gossip Girl, where she wastefully plays the unseen eponymous blogger narrator. Teen soapers Josh Schwartz and Amy Sherman-Palladino are involved, though I was never an OC or Gilmore Girls fan, so couldn't tell you if that's a good thing or bad; it's unlikely I'll find the time to tune in.

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"Michael, how is your case proceeding?"
"Not bad. I could use more jurisprudence."

Yeah, that's just about why I can never watch legal procedurals on tv. (via Treacher)

Tom Poston died Monday. I was surprised to hear that his widow was Suzanne Pleshette, and was curious about the backstory to their 2001 marriage, which I completely missed, but the Internet answers everything (dated in 1959, married other people, reunited after each had been widowed). Though that Star story presents other unanswered questions, such as "If you're having a small wedding because you're afraid of offending people who aren't invited to a big one, why is a supermarket tabloid photographer there?"

My personal Tom Poston anecdote: I was defending a deposition in Los Angeles, and the opposing attorney sent the young associate helping her out of the room to fetch some documents. She turned to me, and said conspiratorially: "We just hired him. He's Tom Poston's son. Doesn't he look just like his dad?" And, yeah, he sort of did. The case settled not much later, and I never saw him again. Google answers that question with a one-week-old LA Times story that interviews him for a "trend" story about contract attorneys.

(Update: Adam Bonin reminds us that Poston was the voice of the Capital City Goofball. The Simpsons Curse continues!)