Money for nothing and the kids for free.

I hated the Outsourced pilot and felt similarly about its second episode, but since by that point the ratings had settled down into numbers low enough to be considered pretty irrelevant (even though the show has been renewed for an entire season), I decided to stop watching for a while. But last night, while I was waiting for Grey's and Nikita to finish recording in the other room, and the World Series game was beginning to look like the shut-out (go Giants!) it ultimately became, I decided to revisit the show to see why a few of you have defended it so passionately. And I guess I'm glad that I did, because even though it definitely wasted twenty minutes of my time, it did reinforce my confidence that I have not been unfair to this show. Here are the two biggest ongoing issues with Outsourced then and now.

There are so many folks in the reality TV spectrum who haunt our worst nightmares -- just say the name Kody Brown and we get chills down our spines. But there are plenty of scripted characters who have also been terrifying this season. Some of them are quite overt (nothing's more overt than baring fangs), while others are a little subtler in their creepy approach. In the spirit of Halloween, here's who's been frightening us the most lately:

It's a damn shame, people throwing away a perfectly good robot show like that.

You will pry the Masturbating Bear from Conan's cold, dead hands, NBC!

She's baaa-aaaaaack.

This week's Glee takes on the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show with a typical Glee spin, and while the show has done songs from famed musicals before (as well as artist-themed episodes), this is the first time it's lifted all of an episode's tunes from one single movie. So that got us thinking about all of the other movie musicals (not just stage ones, though we'd love to see Lea Michele reprise her Spring Awakening role, or see Rachel and Quinn do "Popular" from Wicked) that would potentially make excellent fodder for the New Directions gang. Here's our wish list:

If you didn't know Jack before, here's your opportunity.

OMG more Hellcats!

Embroiled in yet another disappointing fall season, with both new and old shows performing abysmally in the ratings, NBC has taken a unique approach to repairing its situation, and is really knocking it out of the park with terrible new show ideas right now. There's that Munsters remake. And that Survivor/Bachelor hybrid. And that show about Kristin Davis Eat, Pray, Love-ing through NYC. All bad ideas that no one will watch, sure, but today they topped themselves and announced the king of bad ideas -- Tommy's Little Girl, a show Jamie Foxx came up with about Selma Blair playing a lawyer by day, deadly assassin by night, co-starring Paulie Walnuts, described as La Femme Nikita meets The Sopranos. I mean, honestly. I couldn't come up with a more risible idea for a show if I tried, which is why I'm imploring NBC to make this trainwreck happen.