I never thought I'd relate so well to 30 Rock's Kenneth, but his devotion to the sportsmanship of the Olympics and his fear of SpongeBob SquarePants rang true (It's that laugh. It's creepy.). I spent the better part of two weeks watching and writing about the good, bad and bizarre sporting events that make up the Olympics and I always kinda thought that some of those sports were a little fishy. Like water polo? Totally can't be real. Kenneth discovers that Women's Soccer isn't real either... which I'd always suspected. Anyway, the genius that is Jack Donaghy and the folks at Scheinhardt Wig Company created faux Olympic sports in order to boost the American spirit and win more medals. Yay, good sportsmanship.

Now that Sad Grampa and his sidekick ol' HMILF (that's Hockey Mom I'd Like To .... oh you know) are safely out of the picture and Obama's beginning his quest to right the wrongs of the past administration, I feel it's appropriate to train our focus on an insidious enemy that's set down deep roots in this fair nation of ours. You all know what I'm talking about right?

And I am eating my words. Ausiello is reporting that Jon Hamm is in "advanced talks to do a multi-episode arc on 30 Rock," and that he will be playing Lemon's neighbor and love interest. Oh my! After doing nothing but bitch incessantly to anyone who would listen about how much I hate this season's obsession with stuntcasting, I have to admit I'm totally checkmated by this news. Jon Hamm is perfect for 30 Rock, and the rest of you yahoo showrunners out there looking for guest stars, take note: this is how you do it. Oprah? No. Lindsay Lohan? Double no. Us loyal viewers will be perfectly fine with stuntcasting (or at least, we'll be more willing to adjust to it) as long as it's a legitimate actor who's going to show up and, oh I don't know, actually play a character and do so effectively, rather than just show up and phone it in in order to cash a paycheck and desperately cling to his or her fleeting fame. Just saying. Anyway, how do you feel about this? I can't imagine anybody wouldn't be excited for it, but maybe I'm wrong.

I knew if I could just get through yesterday and all of the baffling news about shows that I despise getting picked up, that today would bring me better things. And it has. Charlie, er, Dominic Monaghan, aka my favorite hobbit (sorry Samwise, I just love me some Merry) and the reason that I started watching Lost in the first place (not the reason that I've been banging my head into the wall and trying to figure out cryptic clues for the last four seasons and have watched this preview clip six times this morning, but definitely what sparked my initial interest in the show) is going to be on an episode of Chuck. I adore this show as I've mentioned just once or twice or three or four or more times before. Anyway, according to EW's Ausiello (who is in such trouble the next time I see him for not informing me that he would be talking to my favorite hobbit) Dominic is going to be playing a British rocker who is entangled with evildoers. Hmm... that sounds familiar. But there's no return of the Oasis wannabe band Drive Shaft. No feuding brothers, "You All (Everybody)" or drug addictions to be found on Chuck, just Dom as a good crazy metalhead. Swoon.

Last night my dorky dreams came true when Cory Matthews guest starred on Chuck. Little Ben Savage has grown up to be a slightly taller version of his Boy Meets World character (I don't know why I write about that show so much; I just can't help myself), but in this case way smarter. He's a nerd who married the most popular cheerleader in school (who is played by Nicole Richie, who isn't as terrible as one might think she would be as an actress, especially when she just has to play bitchy) and has used his big brain to develop some sort of weapon. I'm just so happy to see him have a job, and the fact that they made him hero worship Chuck, rather, Special Agent Charles Carmichael, was just too cute to stand. I want him on the show all the time! He could be their Marshall and make them awesome spy gear. That's exactly what this show has been missing.

Despite promises by Tim Kring (who, to steal a phrase from Demian, is a lying liar who lies) that there would be no time wasted on new characters this season, we're getting yet another new character this season. And don't kill me, but I'm actually excited about this one. I know, I know, heresy. The character is vaguely being called "The Hunter," and he will be played by Damages Emmy winner Zeljko Ivanek, who is awesome in every way, and certainly capable of being a very creepy bad guy. At least that's what it sounds like he will be because hunters scare me. I just hope he specializes in hunting down stupid time-traveling plot twists and shoots 'em dead! Or stupid time-traveling Peters and... shoots 'em dead! The character will appear for a multi-episode arc beginning with episode 14. What do you think? Bad guy? Good guy? Who needs to be hunted the most? Fire at will!

I kind of adore Andy Richter. I loved him on Conan. Andy Richter Controls the Universe was must-see TV for me, I even watched most of Andy Barker, P.I., and I thought he was sweet as a dopey divorcee on New Adventures of Old Christine ... though my love didn't extend enough to make me watch more than one episode of Quintuplets. Anyway, I'm excited now because he's going to be on an episode of Bones, which I watch weekly and end up blogging about a lot. I look for any excuse, really. EW's Ausiello says the Richter episode in January (or some other far off date) will be circus themed, and I'm still kind of freaked out by the creepy clowns on last week's Pushing Daisies, so I hope that since he's the ringmaster he keeps them under control. Or at least that one of the corpses is a clown. That would ease my irrational fear.

More 30 Rock stuntcasting news: Salma Hayek will appear in two episodes next season, but that's OK, because Page Six's "sources" assure us that she'll actually be playing a character and not just pulling a Jerry Seinfeld. As if that's any consolation. There are going to be so many guest-stars next season I couldn't even name them all off the top of my head. I had to look them all up, and I'm probably even missing a few: Jennifer Aniston, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, fricking Oprah, now Salma Hayek and God knows who else to come because you know we're not done with this yet. Tina Fey, we want to make it very clear that we love you and do not in any way doubt your genius, but no matter what NBC tells you, 30 Rock is not a variety show, and you are not Dean Martin. So stop it.

I was just feeling warm fuzzy thoughts about Grey's Anatomy.They are bringing on the super, amazing, wonderful, awesome, fantastic, incredible, insanely-talented Mary McDonnell and that makes me so happy. They had a whole episode where people just basically called Meredith on her whining, blabbing, sucking shit. Izzie got a haircut that makes her look fat and kind of ugly. So all was well. I was kinda thinking I might even like this season. Shocking, I know. But then. Then they had to go and cast Melissa George as like a bi-curious intern or something terrible like that. (Scoop credit to my pal Ausiello, aka the bearer of bad news.) This is killing me. I will never be able to think of Melissa George as anything but the girl who took down Alias with her irritating performance as Lauren Reed. She ruined all that was good about that show with her presence alone. This is awful. Making a miserable rainy day even more awful. Mindy agrees [Editor's Note: "I'm a-fumin'!" -- Mindy], and she doesn't even care about Grey's Anatomy.

My second favorite Mary on the planet (the first being Mary Tyler Moore -- there are few people I'd suffer through Lipstick Jungle for) is heading over to Grey's Anatomy for a three to five episode arc. Finally. Someone appreciates the brilliance of the amazing Mary McDonnell... even if those stupid old Emmy people don't see that Battlestar Galactica's madame president is one of the most talented actresses working today.