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    • Last time, it looked like this. (Hulu)I've been to the future and brought back this sketch-by-sketch rundown of tomorrow's episode of "Saturday Night Live." Or is it just a series of very educated guesses? Read our "SNL" Sketch Predictor and judge for yourself.

      11:29 PM Barney Frank (Fred Armisen) addresses the camera to explain his reasons for retiring from Congress.

      11:34 PM Monologue: Host Steve Buscemi is interrupted by his famously erratic "Boardwalk Empire" co-star ... Michael Shannon (Bill Hader).

      11:39 PM Commercial parody: Lt. John Pike of UC Davis (Bobby Moynihan) runs through unconventional circumstances for which he recommends pepper spray — for instance, to secure a great deal at a Wal-Mart Black Friday sale.

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    • Last night's episode of "Community" was fantastic all around, and you should watch it, especially if you're one of the new viewers who watched the unfortunately-timed last episode and couldn't find an entry point. This one had entry points galore (what is more gettable than "Batman"?) It also had an entire plot that was meta-commentary on sitcom clichés, so today the Hulu show "The Morning After" has a pretty good supercut of the show's past TV references. They haven't totally mastered the supercut over at Hulu yet (Um, please do not play the show's theme music over the entire thing? What?) but it's still a very entertaining reminder of what "Community" does best: comment on television and itself. And at the very least, after watching this, you'll understand the popular Twitter hashtag #sixseasonsandamovie :

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    • Okay, sure! [NBC]NBC is promoting their special "A Michael Bublé Christmas," airing next Tuesday, December 6th, with short comedy bits featuring Ed Helms. Apparently, the special itself will include comedy shorts in addition to the crooning Bublé is known for. In this one, Helms is trapped in a box. I know this isn't a gossip site, but I just can't help thinking of the fact that Ed Helms's co-worker on "The Office," John Krasinski, is now married to the actress Emily Blunt, who was with Bublé for years. I wonder if the "Office" holiday party will be awkward this year, or what?

      But that's neither here nor there: here's the comedy short/promo (Via the awesome comedy news site Splitsider), as well as a reminder of Bublé's past comedy work, on "SNL," in the legendary sketch "Hamm and Bublé. "

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    • First off, yes, this is just an excuse to post a local news report about a dog shooting his owner (from a boat!), but it DID AIR ON TV and is part of the beautiful art form that is television, sort of. Also, it is notable that the newscaster used this story as a warning about "gun safety" as if this freak scenario could possibly happen again. The only disappointing thing about this report is the unexpected lack of an "asking random bystanders what they think about a dog shooting his owner" element. Leaving that out is just bad local news reporting (via Buzzfeed):

    • This is as happy as Chevy Chase ever looks. [TV Guide]This is a couple of days old (I kind of dismissed the TV Guide stunt before knowing there was a video involved) but even the most critical of "Community" fans will have their ice-cold pragmatic hearts warmed by the true excitement and genuine comfort the recently benched cast of "Community" takes in finding out they're TV Guide's fan favorite show. It takes this "Community" waverer back to those sweet innocent days of March 2010, when Dan Harmon faked out the cast before telling them on camera that they were renewed for a second season. Also, it's always nice to be reminded that Yvette Nicole Brown doesn't always have that voice she does on the show. Also: Alison Brie freestyle raps!

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    • Nico walks to school for the first time. [NBC/Hulu]It's not that "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is formulaic. It's that...uh...when a show's been on for this long, certain patterns start to emerge? Fine: It's formulaic. But that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. Here are the most basic facts you need to know about last night's episode: Special 3-Ripped-Headlines Edition, because of all the headlines they crammed in last night.

      First ripped-from-the headlines plot point: The initial setup: an adorable Romani (sometimes/formerly called Gypsy) boy named Nico disappears on the first day he's allowed to go to school on his own. It could be based on one of the most famous unsolved kidnappings in history, that of Etan Patz in Soho in 1972, but is more likely a reaction to the murder of an Orthodox Jewish boy in Brooklyn last summer on the first day he was allowed to walk to school, allegedly by a member of his own sect.

      How was the real story fictionalized?

      Instead of being a member of the insular Orthodox Hasidim in Brooklyn, who are often perceived as being distrusting of outsiders, Nico was a member of an insular Romani enclave in Brooklyn, who, in the episode, are distrusting of outsiders.

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