In Glee's "Prom Queen" episode back at the end of Season 2, an unlikely character won the title of prom queen: resident homosexual bullying victim Kurt Hummel. After Principal Figgins called his name, Kurt fled the gymnasium, crying, with boyfriend Blaine on his heels. "We thought that because no one was teasing us or beating us up [for being gay], no one cared," Kurt said in the hallway, through tears. One drawn-out emotional scene later, Kurt finally got the resolve to enter the gymnasium and accept his crown and scepter, defiantly announcing: "Eat your heart out, Kate Middleton."

I'll be honest here: I was born the year Twin Peaks premiered, and I had never seen an episode, save for a clip of the famous Red Room scene. When I first saw the promos for American Horror Story, however, that creepy, surreal tableau was the first thing that came to my mind. The red backdrop in the ads was eerily reminiscent of the "waiting room" red curtains, and the rubber-suited mystery man coming from the ceiling towards a very pregnant woman just screamed David Lynch. So, naturally, I grabbed some coffee and donuts to watch both seasons of Twin Peaks and see what else they had in common.

At first glance, it might not seem that the new CBS medical drama A Gifted Man has much in common with The WB's family drama Everwood. After all, Everwood was a small-town saga and set in the mountains, while A Gifted Man thrives in the hustle and bustle of New York. But if you look more closely, you'll see that these two shows are remarkably similar. A Gifted Man just has fewer quirky neighbors with "personalities."

Today's the day that an entire universe dies... and gets reborn. With the heavily-hyped release of Justice League #1, DC Comics is re-starting each of its 52 superhero titles with new writers, new artists and a new continuity. Since the reboot was announced, the company has been subjected to endless fanboy slagging, but, as past experiences have shown (like, say, Chris Nolan's Batman films) sometimes there's a lot of potential in starting over from scratch. Following DC's bold example, we'd love to see reboots of the following small-screen superhero shows, some of which were pretty good the first time around, but we think could be made even better.

Over the years, and most recently with Awkward., MTV has tried its darndest to prove to the world that they "get" their teenage audience. It's no easy feat to capture the high school experience, but it shouldn't be rocket science, either. Let's take a look and see which of MTV's attempts at representing the four best years of our lives made the grade, and which were total failures.

Last night, ABC Family debuted a new series about a girl who gets super genetic powers on her sixteenth birthday and then ends up having to save her whole random race of genetic mutants from some other random enhanced beings who are chasing her down (or something like that). She also can die and come back to life (supposedly nine times... because her particular superpowers are cat-like). While we enjoyed the premiere of this summer romp for what it is, it definitely brought to mind more than a handful of other series that have come before it. (Keep in mind we're basing this on the pilot of the show, not anything from the book series.)

On Glee, Sue Sylvester plays the part of the big bad wolf at McKinley High. Will Schuester's greased hair quivers at the sound of Sue's footsteps. But, actually, all of Sue's antics have been done on TV before. In fact, she comes from a long line of obnoxiously self-absorbed women. Take a look at this line-up of outrageous older ladies and see the evolution for yourself:

If there is one thing I am looking forward to this season on Parks and Recreation, it has to be the return of Adam Scott as state auditor Ben Wyatt as a potential love interest for Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope. Scott might seem like a new face to most people, but his first appearance on Parks came at the end of his previous, much less watched comedy, Party Down on Starz. In it, Scott played Henry, a failed actor with only a beer commercial credit who was earning a living as a caterer in Los Angeles with coworkers who are all equally struggling to achieve their Hollywood dreams. While Party Down was loved by those who watched it, not many did, and so it got canceled. Of course, there are plenty of other reasons besides Adam Scott for anyone who loves Parks and Recreation to check out Party Down for the first time. In fact, here are six of them:

We've gotten so used to all of the classic TV reboots, from the on-the-air Hawaii 5-O to the in-the-works Munsters, that when somebody says they're making a new one, it's no longer a surprise. But when someone says they're doing the reverse of a classic show, well, that gets our attention. Fox has picked up the script to a show that's being called a "reverse Three's Company," and while we're not entirely sure that's an accurate description, given that it's about a Midwestern woman who moves in with three young dudes, it was enough to get us thinking about other classic shows that would stink as reboots, but could become fresh new TV if the scenarios are reversed.

While dinosaurs are still reasonably important to us, there was a time in our youth when they were the most fascinating things in the world. Director Steven Spielberg is looking to recapture a little of that excitement with his new TV series, Terra Nova, about a family from the future who time-travels back to the distant past, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. While that sounds awesome to us -- we've been digging the British dino-series Primeval, which will return to TV in 2011 -- we're worried that it won't catch on with today's video-game-obsessed youth. So here's some advice we've plucked from the time stream of some Mesozoic Era TV shows that might ensure Terra Nova doesn't face extinction.