Hey, do you guys watch The Soup? I don't mention it often (or ever — we're on a blog that talks about TV talking about a TV show that talks about TV, and now I'm dizzy), but I kind of love it. Even when the jokes fall flat, it's got such a plucky, do-it-yourself, let's-not-take-this-too-seriously vibe I can't help but enjoy myself. Charming Joel McHale probably has a lot to do with that, and the audience that is clearly 90% interns, 10% the one camera operator. (Math humor alert!)

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss hosts Saturday Night Live. Though I've never seen an episode to confirm this, she actually was on Saturday Night Live in the 80s. SNL in the 80s. Shudder.

I think my brief love affair with the BBC's Robin Hood is over. There's just not enough there to sustain my interest. In the middle of last week's episode I became so engrossed with the history of the Robin Hood legend I stopped watching entirely. 

On the flipside, I'll never give up on Battlestar Galactica, even if they keep haphazardly killing people's favorite characters and blathering on about a trial. These are people that are on the run from killer robots. A drawn-out, public spectacle of a trial? Not much to get excited about. I mean, there are only two ways this can go: they kill Baltar like they always wanted to, or through Baltar's incredible (some may say super-human) self-preservation ability he manages to change everyone's mind. I'm betting on the latter. Also, I did enjoy the introduction of Romo Lampkin (aka Badger from Firefly), even if he has an unbearably absurd fakey sci-fi precious name.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: Learn to love your furry nemesis in Animal Planet's Mouse: A Secret Life on Sunday night. If that's too creepy, Magnolia and Boogie Nights are on IFC that same night. ABC has a show on Saturday called Celebrity A-List Bloopers. I think the title is self-explanatory. Then VH1 has the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony, but who am I kidding, you'll be out drinking for St. Patrick's Day.

In the days when I watched American Idol (I haven't seen a single episode this season!  Are you proud?), I used to fantasize that one day the contestants would actually sing good songs.  Songs that I would have on my iPod.  It would just be deliciously subversive for someone to croak out Joanna Newsom's "Sadie" after a hundred awkward versions of "Crocodile Rock."

Via Stereogum, I found out that respectable songs are best left unmolested by the AI kids.  Below, you'll find them doing one of the weirdo commercial songs to the tune of Modest Mouse's "Float On."

It's totally gross.

(PS - The first couple seconds of the Joanna Newsom song are kinda harsh, but give it a minute.) 

I mean, whatever. 

• The guy who played Lisa Bonet's husband on The Cosby Show is a republican of the gay-hatin' variety.
• Katherine Heigl, Sandra Oh and Kate Walsh look saucy in their respective photo shoots. 
• A Democratic lawmaker is telling people to avoid Stephen Colbert. 
• The LA Times profiles the regulars on the Real World/Road Rules Challenges. 
• Christiane Amanpour will guest star on the (series?) finale of Gilmore Girls. 
• A-listers like Geraldo, Nancy Sinatra and Daniel Baldwin will all guest star on the final episodes of The Sopranos. 
• Apparently, something weird and awesome will happen on Jeopardy tonight, but they're not saying what.  My guess?  A three-way tie. 
• Ricki Lake is going to star in a new series. 
• And, finally, I hate to report this, but Kristin from E! says it's looking like Veronica Mars is done. [UPDATE: Veronica might not be cancelled.  They just might, uh, ruin it.]