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(S04E13) Damn, that should have been my epiphany.

Tonight's episode of House made me wish it was 1995 and I was still living in the freshmen dorms at Trenton State College. If I were back in college, I would be able to wander out to the hallway right now and start a philosophical conversation about what is more important: your happiness or your health? I mean after all, bra, what's the point of being healthy if you're unable to enjoy it? I could then go on to question whether the color blue was the same for me as it is for everyone else. Deeeeeeeeep.

Well, I don't have a freshmen dorm at my disposal, but I do have TV Squad. Epiphanies, philosophy, and syphilis after the jump...

(S02E06) I always thought Roseanne Barr was funny, although I was never a big fan of her sitcom. She hasn't been too visible lately, but I was pleasantly surprised to see her be the latest in a long line of guest stars on My Name Is Earl. She didn't disappoint, IMHO.

Roseanne plays Millie Banks, the "Citation Queen" at Earl's trailer park. Whether you live in a trailer park, a condo/townhouse community, or a closed community of single-family homes, there's always someone who is a stickler for the rules who will look to cite you for not putting a top on your trashcan or parking your car outside of a designated area, and so on. Most of the time, these people are angry, and Millie Banks was no exception.

What, you thought she was going to be angry like Chris Rock? Let's just say nothing in this New York Times article, where Ellen DeGeneres talks about what she plans on doing during her Oscar hosting stint next year, surprised me at all. "I know what the job is," she tells writer Jacques Steinberg. "It's to honor movies and to honor people who worked hard. Those people take it seriously. I'm there to make them feel good and take their minds off it a little bit and make it a fun night." In other words, she won't be wondering why Jude Law has a career, like Rock did, or raising the ire of George Clooney, like Jon Stewart did this year (of course, Clooney was overreacting, but still...). Either way, given how well she's done at the Emmys, she should do fine here, even if she's not edgy.

The article goes on to talk about her talk show Ellen and contrasts her with fellow daytime talk show personality Rosie O'Donnell. It also discusses why Ellen doesn't mention her girlfriend, Arrested Development's Portia de Rossi, all that much during her show. To Ellen, it's not a big deal. Contrast that to when she came out almost ten years ago, and that observation shows how far things have come on TV.