So while I did spend 45 minutes of my life watching this week's episode of Heroes (and it was actually kind of OK... surprisingly) I just discovered the two-minute recaps that NBC makes for their shows. This is hands down the best way I can think of to watch this show. It's all of the story and plot, most of the special effects with none of the Claire whining or Maya annoyingness! Given my recent disenchantment with the series, I think between this and our recaps, I may never need to watch this show again.

Since I've been stuck watching the same three episodes of The Office on my iPod since NBC and iTunes squabbled about money and NBC's shows were removed a while back, I'm pretty excited about the news that the NBC shows will finally be available for me to spend my hard earned cash on again via iTunes. I know... there are probably some smart people out there who know how to take the episodes off of a DVD and put them up there, but I just don't have that kind of patience. I like to plug in my iPod, download and then sit on the bus re-watching episodes of my favorite comedies and annoying all the people on the bus who usually annoy me by talking loudly on their cell phones. It's really a fair trade.

All right, I may have lured you in under some false pretenses. There will never, ever be Veronica Mars action figures. There are a few busts of Veronica and Logan Echolls, but manufacturing action figures is far too expensive a process for the few thousand they would likely sell. Heroes, on the other hand, is still on the air -- and still pretty popular, despite last season's meanderings -- which means the action figures are coming fast and furious. Hmm... What Veronica Mars cast member is on Heroes now? Let me think...

As a long time Kristin Chenoweth hater, it is with great anguish that I type this next sentence: Kristin Chenoweth's musical parody of A&E's Intervention over at Funny or Die is not only not annoying, it's also actually pretty funny, even though she's starring in it and singing a song with that elf soprano voice of hers. But then again, who isn't wildly entertaining while singing about gay prostitutes who find their johns through Craig's List to score meth? (Tip to all the hookers out there: Finding your john through Craig's List erases the need for an abusive, money-stealing pimp. Don't ask me how I know, I just know.) Delightful musical clip after the jump, Broadway and meth junkies!

Listen, webisodes are something that's been happening a lot lately, and I think we should all just get used to them. They're not going away any time soon, and while some of them may be terrible (The Heroes ones), others are actually pretty good (The Office ones). One web-only/minisode-only series I've come across that doesn't suck too bad is Gemini Division, which stars Rosario Dawson as a cop whose gay boyfriend's pacemaker programs him to kill. At least that's what I gathered from the first installment, which was released today. I could be proven wrong in subsequent episodes. It also may or may not be set in the future -- everyone in it wears current clothing (translation: no pointy shoulders or floor length robes, which defies Hollywood's strict vision of future fashion), but Dawson's character uses this webcam technology with all kinds of coding and activity on the sides like in The Matrix, so yeah, most likely the future. And to my knowledge, pacemakers do not currently program people to kill... yet, so there's another argument for the future setting.

Awww. The 16 tiny tots who played Aaron on Lost last season got together for a little reunion/picnic. I initially thought this was adorable, but then I got to thinking about what probably really went down: The now-unemployed toddlers sat around in the hot Hawaiian sun in black t-shirts that all said "baby Aaron," lamenting the fact that they now are too fat and old for their short-lived careers on TV. I'm sure the parents sat around contemplating other ways to pimp out their pre-verbal children without moving off the island. (Apparently one lucky lightweight baby was able to earn a return appearance in season five.) And I'm sitting here wondering: if you are on a TV show before you really know what is happening to you, can you still be considered a child star? Will Baby Aaron #5 be destined for a breakdown, blaming her parents for the fact that she's having a gender crisis because she was forced to play a boy when she was an infant? One can only hope. Anyway, if you live in the Honolulu area, first of all I kind of hate you right now as I sit here in overcast New York, and secondly if you happen to have a blonde-haired, blue eyed kid who you'd like to see get eaten by a smoke monster, they are now accepting applications.

I'm usually not one to get excited about special edition iPods, unless they are a really amazing color and then I'm tempted, but then I remember that I end up buying them and they are obsolete like a year later so don't spend my money on one that may still be cool and of my favorite band or whatever just to have it fall by the wayside when they invent a 160G one that holds entire libraries of CDs and all my videos and does my laundry too.

With that in mind, I'm still kind of tempted to get this Beverly Hills, 90210 Nano. At first I thought this was just a cheap ploy to get me to watch the new 90210 but when I saw it was old school 90210 I got excited. They are a bit more costly than your everyday ordinary iPods, but do your every day ordinary iPods have Brenda Walsh and Dylan McKay on them? I think not. Plus, you can get it engraved with things, which is nice if you wanted to give it as a gift. Like, "To the second biggest bitch ever" or "Peach Pit Forever" or something along those lines.

The good news: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting a new video game for the Nintendo DS. The bad news: right now it's only going to be available in Europe. The weird news: A TV show that went off the air over five years ago is getting a video game release on a major handheld system, and not even in its country of origin. Can they do that?

Like it or not, as long as networks will never be satisfied with having a modest but decent enough audience for a series, stuntcasting will always be with us. So like it or not, Christina Ricci will appear in three upcoming Saving Grace episodes this season. I don't really understand why, of all the shows in the world, Ricci chose that one to guest on, considering she's pretty famous and could probably get a spot on a much bigger show, but maybe she's a fan. And working with Holly Hunter is nothing to sneeze at, so that may be the reason as well.

Or webisodes... I'm not picky I'll take either. Between the strike and the normal summer hiatus, we've been chomping at the bit to see any little glimpse of our favorite shows. The Office, Heroes and Rescue Me have responded by giving us minisodes and webisodes to hold us over and keep our interest until they finally return. Here's our list of other shows currently on hiatus that should do the same... and stat.