[UPDATE: Yeah, the videos are gone. But they were totally cute, so you should get DVDs.]

I can’t imagine these will stay on YouTube for very long, but take a look at these blooper reels from The Office. Good clean fun.

Season 3 of The Office and season 1 of 30 Rock are out now. So you can buy them, if you want.

Look, everyone! It’s fellow blogger Liz from Glowy Box! I recommend checking out her site, which she runs with co-conspirator Lori, and incorporating it into your obsessive blog-checking rituals, as it is pretty consistently hilarious.

Vitals

Name: Liz
Location: DC
Web Site: http://www.glowybox.blogspot.com
What’s your story?: Having been denied television as a child, I became a full-blown TV addict in college and now use my blog to justify that addiction.
What do you do during the day?: Fight evil.
How do you know about TiFaux?: I followed the link from Televisionary.
Why are you so interesting?: Wait, you never said we had to be interesting to fill this out…

Favorites

Movie: Grease 2
Music: The Decemberists
Book: If I say Harry Potter 3, will you guys respect me less? [ed note: Liz, meet Cristin. Cristin, meet Liz.]
Food: Anything with soy cheese.
Web Site (besides TiFaux — don’t be a kissass): Right now I guess it’s passiveaggressivenotes.com. I mean, um, Glowy Box, totally.

Television

The best show currently on television is: I will take your use of the word “currently” literally, since it makes for a much easier decision: Flight of the Conchords. I also love Frisky Dingo on Adult Swim.
But my all-time favorite is: Dead heat between Arrested Development and The X-Files.
I’m pained to admit it, but the show I secretly love is: America’s Next Top Model.
Whose shit are you sick of?: Mark Feuerstein. Always.
Most cherished childhood television memory: Childhood? Television? I wish.
Which TV character/personality would you most like to have a tryst with?: I know it’s such an obvious, lame choice, but honestly? Mike from Desperate Housewives. James Denton is just too hot to pick anyone else over him.
Kill, boff, marry — Jack Shepherd (Lost), Peter Petrelli (Heroes), Michael Bluth (Arrested Development): Uh-oh, I don’t actually watch Lost (GASP!), so I’m going to have to say marry Michael Bluth, boff Jack Shepherd based on looks alone, and kill Peter Petrelli.
Kill, boff, marry — Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica), Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother): Hmm…I don’t really swing that way, but if I did, I’d most certainly marry Lily, boff Heidi Klum, and kill Starbuck, since I don’t watch BSG and thus lack emotional attachment to that character.

Welcome back to “I’m Sick of Your Shit.” It’s been a while since one of us got good and angry at a television personality. Sure, I want to push Pradeep on The Pick-Up Artist into traffic, but he’s so annoying he’s almost compelling. It’s too easy to rag on Pradeep. After all, he’s competing in VH1’s The Pick-Up Artist. No, I’ve got a bigger target in mind.
This may be my first season watching Top Chef, but I have a world of resentment built up already over head judge/co-host/meddler Tom Colicchio.

It’s probably blatantly obvious to those of you who’ve had several seasons to grow to despise Chef Colicchio’s irritating place in the Top Chef proceedings, but it seems clear that he demanded a more “important” role to the detriment of the way the show is run. Chef Colicchio rolls in on the chefs when they’re in the thick of their prep, silently judging them. Because, you see, unlike lovable Tim Gunn, Tom is not a mentor — he’s a judge (as he never lets anyone forget). He’s not there to give constructive advice. He’s just there to get in the way and undermine people’s confidence. He then takes his snide observations and brings them to the judge’s table, where he basically just stirs shit and gossips.

Here is the point in the post where I would normally say “I’m sure he’s a great chef and all,” but I don’t need to say that, because I have actually eaten in his flagship New York restaurant, Craft. The food was delicious. Simple dishes, mostly, and not a lot of flair in the presentation, but very good. My problem with the place was that it had the worst, most confusing menu I have ever seen in a restaurant (let alone a very fancy one). How many dishes should one person order? Which categories are you supposed to choose from? When do the sides come? How many people will each dish serve? None of these questions were answered satisfactorily and we ended up with way, way, way too much food. Best puree potatoes ever, but still.

God, now I want some puree potatoes. Where was I?

Oh right. It really bugs me how Tom can turn anything he sees in the kitchen — people getting along, people fighting, people in a hurry, people finishing early — into a flaw. Often, when we cut to his talking head after he’s done his kitchen rampage, he’s basically already decided who he thinks should win and who should lose. To see people making mistakes and to not offer a single word of advice? He wants them to embarrass themselves, to make him look better in comparison.

It’s like the confusing menu in his restaurant. It’s purposely obtuse, because if you can’t figure it out, you probably don’t deserve the delicious food in the first place. Everything has to be more difficult, because he’s not there to hold your hand. And I’m sick of it.

Sauteeing onions are the best smell in the world.

• Oh no! Jenna Fischer is breaking up with her husband.
• Rainn Wilson interviews Angela Kinsey.
• Two of the guys from Reno 911! are creating a Morrissey musical.
• Sheri Shepherd is joining The View.  Meh. She’s not Kathy Griffin… but maybe this is for the best.
• Anybody want a piece of flavored paper, courtesy of Cane.
• T.R. Knight is wisely keeping himself out of the Isaiah Washington debate.
• If you watch the new Tim Gunn show tonight, you can see the new Project Runway designers!
• The Hills was the highest-rated cable show last week.