SUE, DOUGH NYM!
Which TV character has "written" the most books that one could find in the Library of Congress?
A) the dog from "Frasier"
B) Laura Palmer
C) Morris the Cat
D) Me, the Pets.com/Bar None sock puppet
E) Roseanne Roseannadanna
F) Tabitha Lenox
[The answer that's left will be write down at the bottom of our card catalog/column.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Wednesday, June 27, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7 p.m.
"One Week to Save Your Marriage" (TLC)
"Camp Lazlo" (Cartoon)
7:30 p.m.
"The 5ive" (BET)
"Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl" (Cartoon)
"Fooled by Nature" (Animal Planet)
8 p.m.
Maria's affair causes sweaty "Hidden Palms" (CW; another episode at 9, finale next week).
UNNECESSARY DISNEY/PIXAR FILM PROMOTION
"Emeril Live" (Food): "Ratatouille Time" with Patton Oswalt
Ursa is the major topic of "National Geographic's Bear Island" (PBS), no relation to the 1979 thriller starring Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Widmark.
"So You Think You Can Do the Time Warp Again" (Fox): "It's Just a Jump to the Left"
"The Next Best Thing: Who Is Watching This Crap?" (ABC)
"Samantha Brown: Passport to Latin America" (Travel; also 8:30)
"American Heiress" (MyNetworkTV)
"Really Big Things" (Discovery)
"Honey We're Killing the Kids" (TLC)
"Most Shocking" (Court)
9 p.m.
"The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song" (PBS) loves Paul Simon like a rock.
Lesbianism makes the broadsheets on "Footballers Wives" (BBC America). Gasp! ... er, uh ... moan?
Theo has two dates on "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS; see also 9:30).
"Last Comic Standing" (NBC): "From London to Minnesota (and frankly, we preferred London)"
"City of Men" (Sundance): "Fatal Attraction"
"American Inventor: Chicago & NYC" (ABC)
"Forensic Files" (Court)
"Fake Ghost Hunters" (Sci Fi): "Toys of Terror"
"Saints & Sinners" (MyNetworkTV)
"World Poker Tour" (Travel)
9:30 p.m.
Eldin and Sandra get married on "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS).
"L.A. Forensics" (Court)
10 p.m.
Crabby contestants on "Top Chef" (Bravo) shellfishly flex their mussels. Will the judges be steamed and clam up, or go with the flow as the chums fish for compliments?
The correct answer in the "Cash Cab" (Discovery; see also 10:30) is Iron Eyes Cody.
Will "Traveler" (ABC) seeks revenge, Tyler and Jay seek Will, and the FBI seeks all of them.
Tommy tries to woo Colleen back home on "Rescue Me" (FX). How could that possibly go wrong? Oh, right. Never mind.
"Top 25 Fabulous Freaks" (BET)
"Destination Half-Truth" (Sci Fi): "Bigfoot and Nahuelito, down by the schoolyard."
"I'd Kill for a Baby" (TLC)
"Reunited: The Real World Vegas" (MTV)
"Dateline" (NBC): "Princess Diana, Still Room Temperature"
"Modern Marvels" (History): "Behold, the Power of Cheese"
"Fake Haunting Evidence" (Court)
"Business Nation" (CNBC): "Crazy Eddie"
10:30 p.m.
The correct answer in the "Cash Cab" (Discovery) is "Sledge Hammer!"
"Fake Psychic Detectives" (Court)
"Lil' Bush" (Comedy Central)
"The X Effect" (MTV)
TALK SOUP
* Rose: Nancy Pelosi
* Michael Moore just flu in from his doctors' office and boy is his tongue depressed on "The Daily Show."
* Brian Steidle and Eddie Levert groove with Tavis.
* Tom Blanton and Daniel Gilbert stumble by "The Colbert Report."
* Claire Danes, Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick and Ryan Adams visit Dave's So-Called Show.
* Josh Duhamel, David Willey and Jason Aldean break the bank at "The Tonight Show."
* It's the destiny of Debra Messing, Justin Long and Kelly Rowland to chat with Jimmy.
* Mandy Moore and David Steinberg stand Craig up.
MEOW
C) Morris the Cat is not finicky with his words, "writing" three books on pet care ("The Morris Approach," "The Morris Method" and "The Morris Prescription"), two more than any of the single-effort fictional authors of "My Life as a Dog" (by costar David Hyde Pierce's husband), "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" (by Jennifer Lynch), "Me by Me: The Pets.com Sock Puppet Book" (nobody willing to claim authorship), "Roseanne Roseannadanna's 'Hey, Get Back to Work' Book" (by Alan Zweibel), or "Hidden Passions: Secrets From the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox" (and Timmy the Doll, from ghostwriter Alice Alfonsi).
-- posted by Jon Delfin
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