There are four completely unrelated reasons for me to write about Andy Richter Controls the Universe today. 1.) The complete 19-episode series is finally coming out on DVD tomorrow. 2.) Andy Richter is re-teaming with Conan O'Brien on the new Tonight Show starting next month. 3.) Show creator Victor Fresco recently debuted his new office comedy, Better Off Ted. 4.) ARCTU may very well be the best TV show that has ever aired on television. Ever. Better than Airwolf, even! ARCTU is like a perfect storm in a bottle, if that's even a metaphor. This kind of magic could only have happened once, with all of the right factors in place, and of course, no one watched it. Fresco would go on to create the awful series Life on a Stick, and Andy Richter would go on to star in the execrable Quintuplets and the mediocre Andy Barker, P.I., the latter of which lasted all of four episodes before getting rightly canceled. But for one glorious moment, the two teamed up, and with a highly talented cast of regulars and guest stars, they created TV gold. Let's look at that cast, shall we?

The Party Down premiere (Friday, March 20 at 10PM on Starz) looks like it has a lot going for it: a good premise (aspiring actors and writers passing time in LA as cater-waiters), a very funny cast (with plenty of Judd Apatow heavies -- Jane Lynch and Martin Starr, anyone?), and veteran creators and writing staff. But it also has something else going for it, something that to a certain segment of the television-fan population will be like Bacardi 151 to a drunk: approximately half the cast and crew of Veronica Mars! That might be a slight exaggeration, but keep reading to discover just exactly how many intersections these two shows can boast.

The Season 2 premiere of AMC's award-winning drama Breaking Bad is fast approaching, and with it comes a remarkable amount of publicity about leading man Bryan Cranston. Last year he won an Emmy for his role of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and must turn to cooking and dealing methamphetamines in order to make big money for his young family before he dies, but Cranston's been gracing the small screen ever since he showed up on an episode of ChiPs in 1982. You probably know him as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle (for which he was nominated for multiple Emmys), or as Dr. Tim Whatley the questionable dentist from Seinfeld, or even as Buzz Aldrin on the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. But there's one series Cranston appeared on early in his career that may surprise you...