We have a joke around here at TiFaux, and that joke is the incessant commenting on the Soaring Flying High School Musical post. It’s not even that amusing of a post. I’m kind of embarrassed by it, frankly. But I’m more embarrassed — and fascinated — by the reaction it’s gotten.

I know drawing attention to it will only make it stronger, but I can’t help it. And admit it — aren’t you a little curious how big it can get? Will it reach a hundred comments? Two hundred? When will the madness stop?

Here’s the story: Apparently if you google the words “soaring flying,” lyrics from the big number from High School Musical, this post is the first thing that comes up. So we at TiFaux are graced with the nation’s — and the world’s — fairly stupid youth.

Am I being harsh? Hard to say. When I was ten years old there was no internet to speak of, and even when I was fourteen there was no such thing as “blogging” or “comments,” so it’s impossible to know what I would’ve been like as a kid in the internet age.

But honestly. There’s no way we were that stupid.

It’s one thing to believe that somehow, this little blog is in communication with actor Zac Efron. We as adults know that the world doesn’t work that way; maybe kids just want to believe that he’s out there, waiting for him. I guess I can understand that.

It’s another thing entirely to leave your phone number in a comment on a blog in the hopes that Zac Efron will now call you. Please, don’t do that. Just don’t.

[You will note that we x'd out the numbers. No matter how stupid they are, I'm not going to be held responsible for some kid getting kidnapped.]

Not all of them are native English speakers, which means that they may not be great at grammar. That doesn’t mean they’re stupid — it’s the content of the posts that worry me, not the spelling. Writing a comment that just lists the lyrics of the song: That’s stupid. Asking Zac Efron for his MSN: That’s stupid. Calling everyone else on the post stupid: Also stupid, even though that’s what I’m doing now. (The comment-observer has become that commenter!)

It almost makes you nostalgic. Ah, to be a kid again. Too impatient to bother spelling out whole words. Quick to anger. Eager to love. Full of opinions, and the conviction that the world wants to hear them. It’s almost touching, if it weren’t kind of also scary.

I’ll leave you with my favorite of all the comments. There are so many priceless gems, it was hard to choose one. But this one stood out — for its simplicity, for its directness, for the fact that it’s in all caps. Enjoy!

Anonymus [sic]: “EVRY1 IS GAY CEPT ME.” [sic]

Poetry, isn’t it?

Tonight’s Lost is a Sayid-centric one. It feels like forever since we’ve had a Sayid episode. Since they usually involve torture, and I’m already up to my ears in torture from 24 (read this if you want to feel really guilty about your 24 addiction — damn you, reality!), this isn’t particularly exciting.

South Park starts a new season tonight. All I know is what they put in the promos — Cartman running down the hall screaming “RACE WARS!” Which, okay: kind of funny.

And hey, it’s a new Mythbusters! Everybody’s favorite science-and-blowing-stuff-up show takes on the high-speed camera. I wonder how that will lead to blowing something up?

Remember in Season Two when Logan dated that Veronica look-alike so he could blackmail her father into not testifying against him, and then he really fell for her, and then her father shipped her away and she was never seen or mentioned again? She’s played by Jessy Schram, who plays a young Alison DuBois on Medium tonight, which she’s done before. This is not actually interesting, but we die-hard Veronica Marsians must take what scraps we can get. [Oh my god. She's also in American Pie 5. Look away before it burns your eyes!]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: If Mythbusters isn’t enough science-osity for you, the National Geographic Channel (which I’m not sure actually exists, but go with it) has a show called Naked Science. A new episode tonight takes on comets.

Jason Wahler was sentenced to two months in jail for punching a city worker and tow truck driver during an altercation last year.

Wahler, 20, star of MTV’s “The Hills” and “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” was also ordered to attend a one-day program at the Museum of Tolerance for uttering racial slurs during the September incident, authorities said.

link via Cousin Erin, who has her finger on the pulse of all things JWahl.

I'd rather wear a fez and bell bottoms than a suit and tie.

• Regis is out and Jerry Springer is in as the host of the next America's Got Talent.
• Andy Richter's latest stab at a TV series, Andy Barker PI, has six full episodes available on the NBC Web site. 
• On the Battlestar Galactica Web site, you can make your own four minute movie using an online toolbox.  One of them will be chosen to air during the show.
• And somebody called Starbuck does an interview. 
• Well, I guess that's that.  Isaiah Washington's going to keep his job, but he's not going to get a raise.  Poor kid.  I should send him a note.
• Zach Braff is going to be raking in $350,000 per episode on Scrubs.  Do you have any idea how many mix CDs you could make with that money? 
• The Geico cavemen are going to get their own series. 
• The Knights of Prosperity is gone.
• Everybody gets a pilot!  You get a pilot, Jerry O'Connell!  And so do you, Scott Wolf!  Comin' your way James Van Der Beek!
• Nerds try to connect Lost and Heroes. 
• Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose is going to be on that Parker Posey pilot. 
• The cast of The Office did a panel discussion.
• You can download an mp3 of "Muffin Top" from 30 Rock on Pitchfork.