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A YouTube video featuring a "single frame" shot from a McDonald's ad in the middle of Food Network's Iron Chef has some convinced that the company is sneaking subliminal messages into the network's programming.

First of all, I think the offending image is more than one frame. It goes by quickly, but even at normal speed you can at least glimpse that something is there. Second, the practice of inserting one-frame ads goes back to the '50s when it was thought that such a gimmick would actually plant subliminal messages in people's brains. This was proved false almost as quickly when studies confirmed that the frames simply weren't long enough for anyone to truly register them.

Another fun list over at The Onion, and as usual they miss the mark as often as they hit it. It's their selections for the 17 Memorable Thanksgiving Television Moments.

I love the fact that they remembered to include the Bob Newhart episode "Over The River and Through The Woods," where the gang gets drunk on Thanksgiving night and try to order Chinese food over the phone ("More moo goo!"), and the choice of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Bewitched are good choices. But I'll take exception to their choice of the Friends episode "The One Where Ross Got High." It's certainly a good episode, with the whole "Rachel makes a dessert" plot, but Friends was famous for its Turkey Day episodes, and "The One With All The Thanksgivings" is even better. It's the flashback episode where we see Ross and Chandler go to Ross' home for Thanksgiving and we meet fat Monica and then thin Monica a year later, when she accidentally cuts off part of Chandler's toe. That's hysterical.

• FOX has NASCAR until 8pm, when there's a new Simpsons, The War At Home, Family Guy, and Free Ride.
• At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by a new Cold Case and the movie How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.
• ABC has two new eps of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition starting at 7, followed by new eps of Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
• NBC has a new Dateline at 7, followed by a new West Wing, a new Law and Order: CI, and a new Crossing Jordan.
• The WB has two repeats of Charmed at 8.
• ESPN2 has more coverage of baseball's World Classic. It's on at 8 too.
• Also at 8: The History Channel has a special called (and I'm not kidding) How William Shatner Changed The World.
• At 9, The Sopranos returns on HBO.  It's followed by the premiere of Big Love.
• For those of you who have been waiting years for a sequel to The Cutting Edge, you're in luck: The Cutting Edge 2 airs on ABC Family at 9.
• Also at 9: Food Network has a new Iron Chef America.
• At 10, E! has a new ep of Lisa Loeb's Number 1 Single.