Ever notice how great things often happen when you're not trying quite so hard? Sports Night is one of those great things. Aaron Sorkin wasn't trying to wow us with social import (like on The West Wing) or culture commentary (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). He was just scripting sparkling dialogue for sparkling actors like Peter Krause (Dirty Sexy Money) and Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives). He was just showing authentic human behavior on a small scale in tight confines.

He was just creating an all-time gem.

Before there was Anna Torv kicking ass on Fringe, before Jennifer Garner was taking names on Alias, before Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess, even before The Bionic Woman and The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. , there was Honey West -- TV's original woman warrior.

Mary Tyler Moore's tube legend, launched decades ago with the '60s great The Dick Van Dyke Show and the '70s gem The Mary Tyler Moore Show, now comes current when MTM starts playing Brooke Shields' mother on the second season of NBC's soaperrific Lipstick Jungle (Wednesday at 10 PM ET starting Sept. 24).

But what shows did Mary do in between?

Oh, you'd be surprised. And you'd be surprised how many -- possibly none of which anybody can now recall.

Sorry, Ellen DeGeneres. No thanks, Conan O'Brien. The host-picking committee for this weekend's Emmy Awards has spoken: We don't need no stinkin' funny people!

Unless you think Ryan Seacrest is funny. (We hear you snickering.) Or Jeff Probst. (OK, it's getting out of hand.) Maybe Heidi Klum? (Stop with the guffaws already.)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for a fourth FX season Thursday night, September 18th. Of course it does. Sunny is a relative hit in the world of basic cable comedy -- a cult fave, a critic-pleaser, and an all-around apt addition to the annals of tube eccentricity. It takes place in a failing alley bar, features bulldog lunatic Danny DeVito, and builds plots around such inappropriate themes as finding a baby in a dumpster.

It made this long-time Mary Tyler Moore Show fan deliriously happy to see that the power of Oprah has been used for good. The powers that be over at 20th Century Fox have finally seen fit to appease the masses and release the final three seasons of the show on DVD. The first four sets became quickly available, but the final three had been stalled with no date in sight. But thanks to Oprah and her hour-long MTM lovefest this pat spring (in which she transformed her stage into WJM's newsroom and Mary's apartment and talked to the entire cast), the studio has taken notice and will put the last three sets on their DVD calendar (though an official date has yet to be set).