The Office is airing a bunch of great repeat episodes tonight (Michael chooses a health plan, Michael injures his foot, etc), with introductions from the always-awesome Toby the HR guy.

There’s also a new Andy Barker, PI. This show’s second episode was even better than the first; the combination of Andy’s sweetly nerdy detecting and some outrageous but not “wacky” plot twists kept things entertaining. Catch it while you still can.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: In honor of the tournament (which I’m still upset about; something’s not right in the world when Dempsey is beating Clooney, and no one can convince me otherwise), I bring you Celebrity Eye Candy, some sort of something on VH1. In a similar vein, check out Joseph Gordon Levitt’s Pictures of Assholes. 

I walked into the house at 10:30 last night and my roommate was watching Lost. I glanced to the television and saw a body lying on the beach.

“That’s not who I think it is — is it?”

She replied, “It’s two of who you think it is.”

So, when I began to watch the show from the beginning, I folded my arms — as if I were challenging the producers to make me mourn Nikki and Paolo.

But no one was more surprised than me that I found last night’s episode actually very refreshing and one of the most enjoyable and satisfying of the season so far.

I’d like to hear what the Lost powers-that-be had in mind when they introduced these characters at the beginning of the season. Did they plan on having them just sort of pop in and out, appearing to be useless until they had their one big, showy episode? If so, well played. I’d have liked Nikki and Paolo to have been a bit more conspicuous, but still it was neat to see them digitally inserted into the pilot, mingling with Boone and Shannon, flirting with Arst, only to find out they were up to no good all along.

Their few, seemingly unremarkable, moments were given added significance once you got all the backstory. While we were sitting around, watching Jack and Kate and Sawyer run around, giving each other sexy/angry looks, they had their own world going on the whole time. It was a fun look back at season one (remember how different things were back then?).

Of course, there wasn’t much progress on any of the storylines (aside from Charlie’s confession and Sun — awesomely — giving Sawyer a knuckle sandwich), but I didn’t really mind. I actually liked taking a breather. At the end of the episode, I was digesting everything that was happening — I wasn’t full of the shrugging unfulfillment that I usually am.

What did everybody else think?

Also: next on Lost — girl fight! Woohoo!

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

• ABC’s new show Notes From the Underbelly is, weirdly, going to be put in the 10 p.m. slot after Grey’s Anatomy. They say it’s the first time a half-hour comedy’s done that since the early 90s. Meanwhile, I have low expectations for the show, but I hope it does well because it has Kissing Jessica Stein’s Jennifer Westfeldt.
• Different Strokes/Everybody Hates Chris star Todd Bridges joins Suzanne Sommers, Tony Blair, Alanis Morrissette, Stephen King, Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Tony Hawk in the long list of people who are not dead.
• For God’s sake.  Bravo’s casting a new edition of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
• Jeff Probst isn’t thrilled with this season’s rich tribe/poor tribe twist on Survivor. And they’re thinking about remote Canada for future seasons.
• As if they haven’t had enough failed experiments with Lost’s time slot — now they’re thinking about starting the fourth season in January 2008.
• Oprah’s going to do a reality show that seems to pretty much be in the same feel good-y vibe as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
• Jefferey Sebelia broke up with his girlfriend/mother of his baby.
• The Addison spin-off is tentatively called Private Practice.
• Rumor has it that Dexter’s coming to DVD in September.