For those getting ready to say goodbye to Heroes for the foreseeable future after tonight's "fall finale," my friend Brenda has taken her post of earlier this year -- about daddy issues on the show last season -- and updated it to run down some more iterations of daddy issues for Season 2.

The lovely and talented Brenda is one of my favourite pop-culture writers (and not just because the initial commonality we shared before our first meeting was a love of Clone High), and if you aren't familiar with her blog, Moot Point, you should definitely add it to your daily rounds. Hi, Brenda!

You know...I come back from a four-day weekend, and the TV news is all just bleak -- about the strike, and Leno and Conan laying off staff, and Elizabeth Berkley hosting a reality show about dancing -- so I feel like we could all use a little holiday cheer instead. Thank God for GoldenFiddle, which has helped me out with a link to a couple of online holiday greetings created by Arrested Development's Will Arnett and SNL's Amy Poehler for Gap. If nothing else, it will help you to preserve the illusion that they spend every minute of their married lives adorably goofing around like this.

Sorry to post this, like, two weeks after the issue came out, but I just read the interview with Chevy Chase in New York Magazine, and...man, that dude is a dick.  Forgets the interviewer's name; is pointedly apathetic about the strike and the current season of SNL; won't watch the Brothers & Sisters episodes he filmed except "to see what they cut"; talks about how the applause he got for his appearance on "Weekend Update" "took attention away from Seth and Amy," so he's not going to do the show again for a while; complains about how he took time off to raise his kids, and now it's hard to get work, like every actress with children, or other actor over 60, doesn't face the same issues, even if they're extremely talented, which, I love European Vacation but a thespian Chase ain't; and bags on the women on The View: "It's not that difficult to speak like a human being without a writer.  Aren't these women reasonably intelligent?"

Remind me...how'd your talk show do, Chevy?  Oh, that's right -- it bombed, because even with a writer, you were visibly uncomfortable and unable to connect with your guests.  It was so bad, in fact, that people still talk about how bad it was, and it was on for maybe 5 episodes.  Like 15 years ago.  So, you kind of don't get to talk shit about The View when your own attempt at that gig was a suckball. 

People in the TWoP bullpen are talking today about how bad your B&S appearance was, and how the editing seemed weird...almost like you didn't give them enough usable takes.  So if you're wondering "what they cut," I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's "most of what you filmed," because apparently you think you're above making an effort.  The entire character seemed phoned in and flat, and whatever you had done to your face, I hope you kept the receipt.

It doesn't seem that arrogant and unprofessional, written out this way, but go read the interview; he's so fucking full of himself that he's seriously this close to popping.  I ripped him a new one in the TWoP book, and I've wondered from time to time if I was too harsh, but...nope.  The guy's an ass and a half.  I mean, don't put me in the position of defending The View, a show I think is asinine.

I've never seen the absolute vapidity of The Hills exposed quite as expertly as it is here. It's not until you hear people speak these lines on purpose that you appreciate the hilarity of the fact that people "spontaneously" saying the same things makes such weirdly addictive and awful TV. James Franco in a Justin-Bobby wig is also my favorite visual of the week. It seems intended as a sort of "reality television is all so horrible that we need to support the writers," which is not my favorite argument on the site of the strike, but it's still funny.

There may come a day when I quit just linking to everything on Jezebel. Not today. Behold, the craziest fucking thing I've seen this week -- and best of all, it's totally safe for work!

Leaving aside the whole question of Stephen King's extremely lame column (which...you know, talk of who's cool and who isn't couldn't be less cool in general -- and is even more absurd when it's coming from "your old Uncle Stevie," GAH), but was I the only one who noticed in the latest issue's Hollywood Insider (there's also a blog, not that this item is on it, for whatever reason) that he's going to be doing a new series on ABC? It'll be loosely based on what the magazine describes as his "mystery novel The Colorado Kid" (never heard of it). King himself says it'll be "closer to The X-Files than Supernatural," adding, "[I]t's not something that keeps me up nights, the way Kingdom Hospital did."

Ladies and gentlemen! He did it! The one-millionth reference to the failure of Kingdom Hospital, apparently the biggest tragedy of Stephen King's life since he got run over by that guy in the van! I swear to God, it seems like he mentions it any time anyone talks about ABC, TV, hospitals, or kingdoms; if he were Jon Favreau, it would be his getting cut from Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle. Like, can someone please tell this goof that he's one of the bestselling authors alive, and that maybe he should just take some solace in that instead of chewing over this one failed TV series like it was the last straw that sent him from Easy Street to living in a fridge? God.

Big day for Jezebel! I mean, it's always a big day there; it's one of the raddest blogs out there. But the reason I had to link to it again today (after doing so just this morning) is that they've (kinda) settled one of our generation's most abiding mysteries: has Tyra Banks had a nose job? They've definitely convinced me that she has. And, I mean, she must have paid top dollar for a really great nose job and everything, but it's still not the equipment she was born with, so maybe she shouldn't be so snooty (heh) about all the people who think she's had a boob job, too.

One of mine is the annual "Oprah's Favorite Things" episode of...um, Oprah. Obviously. But in case you didn't catch the episode because you missed it in Tuesday's picks, you must check out Jezebel's recap.

Was I the only one who was really pissed last year when Oprah didn't do a Favorite Things episode? I remember complaining about it to Pam and she was like, "I think she was all busy with her school in Africa," and I was like, "Her school in Africa can suck it." One year later, who was right? Me.

If you like Omar G's Smallville recaps, you'll love him on today's edition of "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio.  He'll be discussing OS X Leopard. 

So in the great tradition of list-making for the sake of list-making, Entertainment Weekly brings you the 50 Greatest TV Icons Of All Time Ever Bar None No Matter What, or whatever they're calling it. It's not that I don't enjoy a good photo gallery as much as the next person, but damn, a list of 50 and the only way to see them is to click through every one individually? That is diabolical, man.

Anyway. A few questions:

1. Jimmy Smits is a bigger icon than Larry Hagman? Really? I mean...I guess so? But Jimmy Smits wasn't involved in the biggest television-changing event of all time, to be honest. He was good on L.A. Law and very good on NYPD Blue, but now he's in Cane, and in case you haven't noticed, nobody cares.

2. Enough with Lassie, TV nostalgia people. I'm serious.

3. Jon Stewart should be higher than #41. That's television-changing television he's involved with, and he is the face of it, no matter how hot Colbert is now. He invented what he does, really, or he at least perfected it, and before him, it was a show trying to do the same thing and doing it only one-tenth as well.

4. I was totally jazzed to see Heather Locklear at #25, because: absolutely. Absolutely. My best friend and I have discussed her as a great example of why you should always try to be great to work with. She's had a million chances to make "comebacks" she really doesn't need, and you can tell everybody loves to work with her. She's always funny, she's criminally underrated as a charismatic presence, and she overcame a totally insubstantial cheesecake image to turn into a lady I'm always happy to see on anything I watch. And I think it's completely adorable that she's dating Jack Wagner. Good for them. Go be happy together, '80s icons!

5. I continue to believe that some of the most famously "beloved" television comedy was not funny. The TWoP book is on record as anti-Lucy, and while I'm not exactly anti, I can certainly say I don't get what the fuss is about. Ditto Milton Berle, because Jesus, I'm not a person who laughs at just a man in a dress.

6. You can't have Simon Cowell and have no representation from Survivor. Shoulda had Hatch, I think.

7. I was all set to complain about the lack of anything remotely recent, but I'm prepared to admit that honestly, aging well is part of what being an icon is about. I'm sure there are people appearing right now who will one day be icons, but it's hard to say who they are. Patrick Dempsey? Conan O'Brien? Hayden Pannetiere? Kyle Chandler? No idea. But EW will be there with click-through pictures of every one of them.