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    • Poor Lorimar demonstrates "karaoke elbow."Michelle Collins of Best Week Ever admits to watching "Wheel of Fortune" every night for relaxation, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (I relax with "Friends" reruns, myself.) Today, she posts a moment from earlier this week when a young woman named Lorimar illustrated her love of karaoke with a recognizable hand gesture that doesn't mean "karaoke" to most people. And then, poor thing, she blushes and has to try to pretend she didn't do it when Pat Sajak "innocently" asks her about it and mimes it himself. The best moment is probably this exchange, after Lorimar tries to sell Sajak on the idea that the move was a simulation of "karaoke elbow":

      Sajak: "You know medicine is making great advances in the solution to that problem."

      Lorimar, red-faced and clearly dying of embarrassment: "Okay, great."

      This is cringe-inducing television at its best:

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    • Coming soon! (John Lamparski/WireImage.com; Noel Vasquez/Getty Images; Victor Chavez/WireImage.com)Actors have day jobs, but with an eye on a paycheck, a fun day's work, or an Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy, they moonlight in TV guest roles, too. Here are a few performers (and one non-performer) who will soon provide their Guest Services.

      Actor: Chris Meloni
      Day Job: Star, until recently, of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"; fake star of "The Vigilogna."
      POSSIBLY Guest-Starring On: "True Blood"
      POSSIBLE Role: An "incredibly powerful vampire"
      Pros: Meloni doesn't get as many chances as he should to show off his comic chops. And "True Blood" is basically a comedy. (With porn.)
      Cons: He should be above this nonsense.

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    • Christmas comes early?With comic geniuses creating single-topic Tumblrs on what is probably a minute-by-minute basis, it can be difficult to know which ones are worth your time. We can't curate the entire platform for you, but we can bring to your attention the best television-themed sites in a feature we call TV Tumblr of the Week.

      Site: The Results Are In!

      TV Inspiration: "Maury"

      Site Production Values: If we can all agree that the animated GIF is the internet's greatest native art form — and I think we can — then this site made up of GIFs from "Maury" episodes about disputed paternity is a masterpiece.

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    • I had to watch this promo for Saturday's "SNL" with host Steve Buscemi twice to get what was happening, because I was so distracted by Steve Buscemi seeming to be some kind of animated character standing next to Bill Hader. Buscemi just seems to be from an entirely different world than the one "SNL" exists in, which is why Saturday's show should be interesting. Just seeing Buscemi interact with the iPhone's Siri seems wrong:

    • Oh, JODI. (Screen Shot)As I wrote Monday, this week marked the return of TLC's "What Not to Wear," with two episodes airing back to back last night, both featuring truly memorable moments.

      In that first episode, we met Jodi (above, in what hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly described as her "Tron's Hooker" look). Jodi is a classic "WNTW" type: a middle-aged single mother who dresses in a way that's inappropriate for her age, and can't figure out why she hasn't met a nice man when she's been out in her pink track pants from the Juniors department. Oh — and she's also way too attached to her out-of-date, too-long hairstyle and will only allow stylist Ted Gibson to make a tiny change.

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    • BriWi looks up at the thing pulling focus from him. (YouTube)Two questions about last night's fire drill at NBC's New York headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Plaza:

      1. What genius scheduled a fire drill at 6:30 PM, exactly when Brian Williams anchors the live broadcast of the "NBC Nightly News"?

      2. How long can said genius live on his or her savings now that he or she has almost certainly been fired for scheduling a fire drill at 6:30 PM, exactly when Brian Williams anchors the live broadcast of the "NBC Nightly News"?

      Here, via The Daily What, is video of the broadcast opening.

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