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• Henry Rollins wants to know what's up with Carrot Top.
• Ben Stein loves the women of the FBN.
• Time.com's James Poniewozik has some questions about Lost while we wait for new episodes.
• Speaking of Lost, check out this funny postcard (and the one that features Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
• Simon Baker (The Guardian/Smith) is returning to CBS as The Mentalist.
• I'm so glad I don't watch Celebrity Fit Club.
• Ken Jennings interviews a former Jeopardy writer.
• What if everyone died in the finale of Battlestar Galactica?

There are very few times that I wish I lived in Los Angeles (I'm a cold weather guy). This is one of them.

The annual William S. Paley Television Festival kicks off on March 14 (at its new home at Hollywood's Cinerama Dome) and runs through the 27th, and it looks like a lot of great shows are going to be celebrated during those two weeks. Already announced are panels that will reunite the cast from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, as well as nights devoted to Chuck, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Elvis Presley, and Judd Apatow. And there are still more events to be announced next week.

What are you going to do? The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and even new shows like Pushing Daisies and Chuck are either out of fresh episodes or quickly running out. Well, you don't need to spend the "strike season" curled up in the corner of your bedroom crying through a pile of TV Guides, remembering the good old days when you didn't already know what was going to happen this week on House.

Television is alive and well, and even growing ... just somewhere else. Want to know what happened to Jack Bauer before Season One of 24? How about Buffy and the Scooby Gang after the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? More and more shows are expanding their horizons by telling prequels, sequels and even in-between-quels in comic books, or graphic novels.

So let's say you had an extra $900 lying around and you really loved science fiction shows. What DVDs would you buy?

Amazon is making your decision a little bit easier for you. They have a special bundle for sale, nine different FOX/MGM shows at 49% off. OK, it's still a little pricey at $900 (you could probably put that money toward your rent), but look at what you get: the Buffy, The Vampire Slayer Collector's Set, The Angel Collector's Set, The X-Files Ultimate Collection, all ten Stargate: SG-1 seasons and all three Stargate Atlantis seasons, all four seasons of The Pretender (plus the movies), all three seasons of Roswell, both seasons of Dark Angel, and Firefly: The Complete Series. Holy crap!

• So Rick Springfield's character was supposed to perform on General Hospital but got injured, so his identical twin sang instead? Huh?
• TV Newser has five questions for CNN's John Roberts. On a related note, here's video of Roberts in the 80s as MacGyver-ish VJ, interviewing Stan Ridgway.
• Yes, this really is Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
• New Mexico is investigating Kid Nation, but CBS says it didn't break any laws.
• Did an HBO show convince a football star to sign his contract?
• Tim Goodman wonders, what are the best TV shows about school?
• On the CSI shows, sex = death.

Long before he was turning into a werewolf on Buffy or creating puppets on Robot Chicken, Seth Green had a really bad haircut.

After the jump is a video of a 1992 commercial for a Nerf slingshot. It features Green and Cracked.com editor Jack O'Brien as two kids going to the mall, trying to pick up chicks. They decide to use their Nerf slingshots to shoot the girls in the face, which I guess was the most effective flirting technique back in the day. In the process, they also kill a mime.

Judging from the hair and the clothing, the video looks like it's from the 80s, but it's not. The youngest I've ever seen Green was in a mid-80s episode of Spenser: For Hire. He had normal hair then.

[via Cracked.com]