I think so. I hesitate to suggest that Paula Abdul is the mastermind of anything, even something as simple as picking out a song, but the judges' picks last night seem suspect to me. It's crazy that out of all the songs in the world to choose from, Adam got to sing a U2 anthem literally (literally!) everyone on the planet knows backwards and forwards, Kris got to sing one of last year's biggest, most widely played hits, and Gokey got stuck with "Dance Little Sister" by Terence Trent D'Arby -- a forgettable song I've honestly never even heard of. Maybe it's the biggest song in the history of music, I don't know. I do know that I'm a huge music fan and a devout follower of all things pop and I had never heard it before.

We've long thought that Paulina Porizkova was too good for America's Next Top Model, but now the show has decided that they don't need her. On Craig Ferguson's show last night, she was there in theory to promote the season finale of the show, but told him that she was really in Los Angeles because she was looking for a job. "I was fired by America's Next Top Model on my birthday. They timed it well," she said. "The reason I was told I was fired was because, it seemed, that America's Next Top Model has gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat and the fat was me." What?! "So I figured it was either that or my gigantic huge ego," she continued. "Which I wasn't aware of until I was told by the producers that I have an ego problem." We're guessing that it wasn't so much that she had a huge ego, but that someone else (namely Tyra Banks) had a huge ego and couldn't deal with the competition. It can't be a coincidence how frequently this show loses their ex-model judges. And how else do you really explain why the show would get rid of the most competent person on the panel? I guess competency isn't really a big concern on a series where judges coo their critiques in bird talk.

It's a hell of a news day! The American Gladiators are coming back, but not in the way you think, and Joan Rivers is coming back, not that we wanted her to. And Kevin Costner is saddling up! On TV! That's right, the Costnerlution will be televised!

Last week, the last girl on American Idol got voted off, leaving one awesome guy, one kinda-okay guy and Danny Gokey. (Bias! It's what's for dinner!) We listened in on Allison's exit interview to see what she had to say about going home, and how she and Adam traded styling tips.

M. Giant will have his full recap of TARCon and The Amazing Race finale up later this week. Until then, here's what happened at the CBS sponsored finale party/screening.

It seemed odd to me that they were having this shindig at the Residence Inn in Times Square, until I got there and found out that they'd helped sponsor Phil's Ride Across America. Then it made a little more sense, and the hotel was actually a pretty nice venue. Once there, teams from this season and seasons past started arriving about an hour before the show and there was a lot of talk about Phil's bike ride to raise money for MS.

Gather 'round, I have fantastic news! Heidi Montag's not the only Speidi member with an illustrious recording career anymore!

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just really don't get him. He's on SNL constantly, and everyone I know always acts really excited about that, but I'm not one of those people. And I can't even really put my finger on why, because he's really, really good at performing and he's more polished than half of the actual cast in his delivery, but it's just not my thing. It started with his furry Speedo guy sight gag in those God awful Love Guru trailers (admittedly more Mike Myers' fault than JT's but still -- he agreed to it and really went for it), and I guess the last straw was that stupid homophobic "Single Ladies" sketch from a few months ago that everyone loved for some reason surpassing logic. There's just something about him that reminds me of the guy from high school who got voted "Most Likely to Be on SNL One Day" who constantly put on "skits" at football rallies and was the self-proclaimed class clown. He's a ham, I guess, and while I tend to like super-hams (huge Hugh Jackman fan right here), he's an immature super-ham, and I just can't deal with that. I'd love it if he stuck to singing and dancing -- two things he also does very well but that don't bother me when he does them -- and stayed away from being a comedian, is what I'm saying. And I need him to stop making that dopey smirk. It drives me nuts.

There's bad news for Lily van der Woodsen: she might be dead! Figuratively, at least. It's complicated. Read on for specifics.

If you caught the second episode of the new season of Law & Order: Criminal intent, you got to see Zach Nichols (played by new cast member Jeff Goldblum) unleash his highly unorthodox detecting skills on New York City's criminal population. Yes, even more unorthodox than Vincent D'Onofrio's Det. Goren, whom he trades off episodes with. We're not quite sure Nichols totally knows what he's doing, but Goldblum is hypnotic to watch, as always, and we were lucky enough to get in on a conference call with him and ask him some questions about the cancellation of Raines and the existence of Sasquatch. (That last one wasn't ours, we swear, but it's included here for your entertainment.)

Normally Mother's Day is a time to celebrate television's great moms, like Tammy on Friday Night Lights or Marge Simpson, but where's the fun in that? Instead, we pulled together a list of the bad TV moms who are currently wreaking havoc on their offspring on a regular basis. Happy Mother's Day! Hopefully your mom doesn't suck as hard as these people.