MATT, HOW DID YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?  The George Clooney-Matt Damon prank war ropes in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

ALL THESE BREWERIES ARE YOURS, EXCEPT ANCHOR.  ATTEMPT NO DRINKING THERE:  Given the East Coast focus of our audience, I thought I'd share with you folks the good news that Sierra Nevada is opening a brewery in Mills River, North Carolina and Lagunitas is opening one in Chicago.  Sierra Nevada's Porter is one of my all time favorite beers.

TRIPLE AXEL TRIPLE LOOP .... TRIPLEAXELTRIPLELOOP! During Olympic season, we always welcome Gretchen's ALOTT5MA Award-winning coverage of the figure skating competition. We may not receive her commentary as often this year, but we are delighted to run it when we can:

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Skating Fans, the day is finally here! Yes, it's time for spangles, nude stockings, triple axels, twizzles, judging scandals, and thrillingly, the Return of Plushenko. There's lots of good stuff to watch for these Olympics, including the new team competition, the ice dance rivalry between Virtue & Moir and Davis & White, Jason Brown and his charismatic Riverdance program, and the lingering questions about whether Ashley Wagner deserves her place on the Olympic team. (For the record, I think she does.)

But today, I'm writing not to celebrate ice skating, but to gripe. As everyone knows, the old 6.0 scoring system was replaced by a code of points after the Salt Lake City vote-trading debacle. Each skating program now earns points on a rubric. If you have the most points, you win. Simple, right?

HOW MANY CHINS? In honor of Jay Leno's second "last ever Tonight Show," let's look back at the Dancing Itos!  Share your favorite memories below (if you have any).

BLOCK OUT SOME TIME THIS WEEKEND:I don't know if I've ever been more pleasantly surprised by early reviews for a movie than I am for this weekend's The Lego Movie, currently sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a fair number of those positive reviews being out and out raves.  As one of my friends observed, the film's description can sound like hanging out at one of Stefon's "New York's hottest clubs!" since it seems to have everything--a robot pilot named Metalbeard (voiced by Nick Offerman, naturally), a unicorn kitten, major members of the Justice League, a song called "Everything Is Awesome!," and Abraham Lincoln.  Who else is pumped?

YOU NEED A LITTLE LARCENY IN YOUR HEART TO GET A FILM MADE:  Behind the scenes of Swingers.

FOOTBALL NIGHT DONE RIGHT?  So, CBS has decided to spend a lot of money and bring Thursday Night Football onto its schedule for next season.  I'm fascinated by the scheduling challenge this creates for them--CBS has a fairly dominant Thursday lineup, which is all going to have to be shuffled about.  Do they just wait and launch after the football games end (it's only 8 weeks)?