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It's tough being Tori Spelling. She's spent better than a decade living under the spotlight and having every mistake magnified. Granted, she brought a lot of it on herself, but I think she has probably taken more than her fair share. It's just so easy. But given all that, I think she gains a lot of points for being able to make fun of herself, because when you get right down to it, that's what so noTORIous is all about. Laughing at the absurdity that is her life.

I think that those years of bad press and bad jokes may have been the biggest problem that this show had. One that it faced before they ever shot a scene, and one that they were never really able to overcome. A lot of people simply dismissed the show for no other reason than it was starring Tori Spelling as herself. And that's too bad, because I'm here to tell you that they made a pretty funny sit-com.

(S03E07) Ah, Babu Bhatt. He's got to be one of my favorite Seinfeld side characters of all time. He only appeared in three episodes, one of which was the finale that brought back almost every peripheral character in the show's history. How can you not feel bad for the guy? He opens a restaurant that no one goes to. He takes Jerry's advice to remake it as a Pakistani restaurant. Still no one comes. Maybe his mistake was listening to Jerry in the first place. But he'll make that mistake again in the Season Four episode "The Visa", so fool me once, etc., etc.

This is one of those good four-plot episodes: Kramer is being chased by a former boyfriend of his mom's, all for a snazzy jacket; Elaine takes an IQ test for George, who's taking it for his current girlfriend and doesn't want to look like a moron. And, of course, there's Jerry and Babu.