Mariah knows this is being edited!Mariah Carey was back on the Home Shopping Network last night, selling jewelry, only now it's less fun (or just...different) because she knows how much bloggers love to, hmm, let's say, "showcase" her special HSN appearances. And it's not one of those usual things where a celebrity loudly proclaims that they don't look at the internet and then says something that makes it clear that they think the entire thing is just a place where people go to vaguely talk about them in "chat rooms" or something. No, Mariah is not vague: she not only knows her HSN gigs are being edited, she even doles out "edit points" to the sites and bloggers who cut videos of her trying to figure out where to look or who to listen to.

Foremost Carey video-editor (among many other pursuits) Rich Juzwiak (see his excellent Mariah/HSN editing work last Thanksgiving) took the bait, if you can call it taking the bait when his post both praises Mariah's sense of humor while bemoaning the loss of the "innocence" that made her HSN gigs so fun. Here's Mariah Carey at her most self-aware, and the poor Home Shopping Network hostess who seems totally bewildered by all the internet talk:

Much as I might like to defend every slur thrown at Canada, land of my birth, it's tough to stick up for the television industry. Half the time, it's painfully earnest ("Degrassi," "Due North"); when it's not, as in the cruise ship-set "Breaker High," it's going out of its way to pretend it's not Canadian at all. Nice try, guys, but our accent gives us away — even the accent Ryan Gosling, who starred in "Breaker High," is still trying to disguise. Here he is pre-"Drive," scheming to get on the hockey team, as all Canadians do at some point in their lives.

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All smiles. (Hulu)The "Tell Us Your Sob Story in Order to Be Showered with Material Goods" genre is almost as old as television itself, dating all the way back to "Queen for a Day" in the 1950s. On that show, women were fêted for overcoming obstacles in their lives, and lavished with prizes to compensate them for their struggles. The spirit of that show lives on today in "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"; and on "The Nate Berkus Show," the latter of which recently finished fulfilling the promise of Oprah Winfrey's late daytime show by building a custom house for Monica Jorge, who, after giving birth, developed an infection in the hospital that ended with the partial amputation of all four of her limbs. "You Deserve It," which premiered last night on ABC, wants to join this noble tradition, but its very structure makes it a much more cynical affair.