OF COURSE, NOTHING CAN KILL A SHOW LIKE TOO MUCH EXPOSITION: New York asks America -- why aren't you watching our Broadway shows when we send them to your town?

My attitude is that there's no such thing as a bad production of a good musical; if the book is good, no cast can ruin it badly enough as to make it not worth watching.

AND HANS WILL LEARN ABOUT ASIAN DAWN THREE DAYS SOONER: Time Magazine, believing itself to have fallen behind the news curve, will soon start publishing new issues on Fridays, not Mondays.

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO THINK OF ANY OTHER ACTOR WHO COULD HAVE PLAYED THIS PART WITH SUCH A STRAIGHT FACE. IT'S JUST AS HARD TO THINK OF AN EQUALLY RESPECTABLE ACTOR WHO WOULD HAVE WANTED TO: Dan Feinberg is among those critics who saw Snakes on a Plane last night.

O'MALLEY, STOP LOOKING AT MY VA-JAY-JAY: Tonight (sorry about the belated warning), ABC is re-airing the Shonda-penned Super Bowl episodes of Grey's Anatomy -- "It's The End Of The World" (your original comments here) and "(As We Know It)" (our thread here). Shonda's posts about the episodes, well worth your time, remain here.

Great episodes, or greatest episodes?

SEE, THERE'S SNAKES. AND THEY'RE ON A PLANE! In light of our discussion earlier this week about the brilliance that was Mansquito (OK, at least the title) and in honor of a movie about airborne slithering reptiles that opens tonight, I figure it's time to open the floor for discussion of movies with titles that are more awesome than the movie itself could hope to be. One that comes to mind is the recent Awesome...I __________ Shot That! Alternatively, we can always discuss movies with titles that make little or sense. The Squid and The Whale, anyone? Where was the squid? Where was the whale? I demand a Noah Baumbach movie about fighting aquatic creatures!

OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN: Britney Spears has announced to the public that her current pregnancy "just kind of happened." Other things that Britney asserts "just kind of happened:"

• The Slave 4 U video.
• The entirety of Britney & Kevin: Chaotic.
• Her guest-starring appearance on Will & Grace.
• The current cover of Harper's Bazzar.
• The "hands cupping breasts" dance move in the Toxic video.
• The war in Iraq.

DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA DOG ON FIRE: It is good and right that The Daily Show is celebrating 10 years on the air this year (the actual 10 year date was July 22, but the "Ten F**king Years" segments continue). However, one thing bugs. TDS didn't originate with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Steve Carrell. I don't think we've seen a single clip from the Kilborn years, which, while rather different, were still pretty darn funny. A related question--whatever happened to Beth Littleford? After leaving TDS, she kind of disappeared, which is a shame, because she was very funny.