THAT'S A TOTALLY DECENT QUESTION, I MUST SAY
Which other "SCTV" character(s) regularly appeared in live-action format on NBC's cartoon version of Martin Short's "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley"?
A) Count Floyd
B) Harry, the Guy with the Snake on his Face
C) Sammy Maudlin
D) Bob and Doug McKenzie
E) Edith Prickley
[Find the correct answer at the bottom of the column, if you can stop adoring Pat Sajak that long.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Monday, June 18, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7 p.m.
"Storm Hawks" (Cartoon)
7:30 p.m.
"The 5ive" (BET)
"Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl" (Cartoon)
8 p.m.
"Creature Comforts" (CBS) celebrates winter. Just think of that as all the New Yorkers with broken air conditioners and the annual brownouts will be wishing they could be within ten feet of the icy stare of Elisabeth Hasselback.
"Kyle XY" (ABC Family) hates keeping secrets. Particularly the one about Calgon water softener.
"Little People, Big World" (TLC; also 8:30)
"Deal or No Deal Will Launch Any Other Summer Show for Food" (NBC; season finale)
"Making News: Texas Style" (TV Guide): "Honk if You Love Hooters"
"Oil, Sweat and Rigs" (Discovery)
8:30 p.m.
"It's Me or the Dog" (Animal Planet)
9 p.m.
"The Closer" (TNT; marathon of previous two seasons starts at 1 a.m. for the viewers who are no longer camping out to get into "The Price Is Right") faces budget cuts. Unless the sponsors kick in another $20,000 per episode, it will be airing on the Oxygen channel.
"Hell's Kitchen" (Fox) serves its fancy and/or schmancy food to members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Great, "Shrimp on a Shingle."
Checks bounce, billboards are botched and lies are launched on "Big Love" (HBO).
TELE-GEBRA
"For Love or Money" x "Sunset Tan" + "The Golden Girls" = "Age of Love" (NBC), as a tennis phenom competes for a total cash prize of the added-up digits in either his potential fiancées' IQs or Social Security numbers.
The "Ex-Wives Club" (ABC) helps a breast-cancer survivor get rid of the giant lump sleeping next to her in her waterbed.
After she dies and her orphaned kids spout adorable clichés, I become "My Neighbor's Keeper" (Lifetime).
Transgendered Filipinos serve as caregivers while also performing a drag act nightly in Israel in the documentary "Paper Dolls" (Sundance). You liberals.
"WWE Monday Night RAW" (USA) reacts to the fake death of Vince McMahon. At least we assume he's still alive since we've not A) seen his obit in the New York Times or B) heard Journey's "Don't Stop Believing."
"Simon Schama's Power of Art" (PBS; premiere, see also 10): "Van Gogh Away!"
"BET Humanitarian Award Recipient Special" (BET; see also 9:30): Don Cheadle
"Big Medicine" (TLC)
"My Super Sweet 16" (MTV; season premiere)
"Cities of the Underworld" (History): "Beneath Vesuvius"
"High Stakes Poker" (GSN)
9:30 p.m.
"BET Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Special" (BET): Diana Ross
"Engaged & Underage" (MTV; season premiere)
10 p.m.
Princes William and Harry explain how their mother would have really loved a performance from Kanye West on "Dateline" (NBC). Well, I guess if it beats death by car accident. What? Too soon?
TELE-GEBRA (WWWWWWWWW!)
* "Standoff" x "ER" = "Heartland" (TNT), with Treat Williams as a doctor performing organ transplant surgery while his wife counsels the people whose innards he's just outed.
* "Into the Blue" x "Bound" = "Curl Girls" (Logo), Howard Stern's favorite new hot lesbian surfboarding reality series.
"Simon Schama's Power of Art" (PBS): "Picasso what?"
"Making the Band 4" (MTV; season premiere): "Uh, Making Them Do What, Exactly?"
"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" (Food): "House Specials"
"The Soup Presents: The Best of the Worst Dating Show Moments" (E!)
10:30 p.m.
"The Secret Life of ... Breakfast" (Food)
11 p.m.
"Noein" (Sci Fi)
"Daytime Emmys Unzipped" (SOAPnet)
11:30 p.m.
"Bad Blood: B.J. Penn vs. Jens Pulver" (Spike)
"Tokko" (Sci Fi)
midnight
"Macross Plus 1" (Sci Fi)
TALK TALK
* Rose: Sam Nunn, Steven Bach
* Steve Carell comes home to "The Daily Show With Craig Kilborn."
* Sen. Chris Dodd and Mandy Moore give Tavis all they have. More or less.
* Toby Keith serenades Stephen.
* Robin Williams, Chelsea Handler and Big & Rich make Jay wish he had more of what Robin Williams had before the broadcast.
* Téa Leoni, Tyrese Gibson and the White Stripes make an icky thump with or without Conan.
* Avril Lavigne and Ioan Gruffudd play Plinko with Craig.
THIS ANSWER IS AS DOOMED AS DOOMED CAN BE
The cult hit had Joe Flaherty hosting A) "Count Floyd's Scary Stories." Catherine O'Hara also appeared, as Ed's love interest Tina Malone.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
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