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    • The three ages of guesting. (Jeffrey Mayer; Jeffrey Mayer; John Parra/all 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: Frances Sternhagen
      Day Job: Playing everyone's mother, from Cliff Clavin ("Cheers") to Trey MacDougal ("Sex & the City")
      Guest-Starring On: "Parenthood"
      Role: Mother (what else?) to Zeek (Craig T. Nelson)
      Pros: She can probably do this role in her sleep.
      Cons: By playing yet another stuntcast mom, she risks a beatdown from current record-holder Marion Ross.

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    • You know how in the movie "Beetlejuice," Beetlejuice is conjured by saying "Beetlejuice" three times? Well, a very obsessed fan of "Community" discovered that the word "Beetlejuice" has been uttered on "Community" three times (one time each season.) The third time was a couple of weeks ago during the Halloween episode, and something special happened in the background to commemorate it. This video shows all three instances—be sure to look behind Annie in the last one. The future of TV is this fan-rewarding and interactive, hopefully:

      [Via Reddit]

    • Next week, Maura Tierney will return to TV with a guest role on "The Office": She'll play Susan California, wife to Dunder Mifflin CEO Robert California (James Spader), who's anxious to return to the workforce, not knowing that her husband is sabotaging her efforts at the Scranton office. It's great to see Tierney looking so spectacular (after being treated for breast cancer in 2009), and to hear her mention "NewsRadio," a.k.a. one of the best workplace sitcoms in TV history.

    • Did ANYONE see this coming? (TV.com)Last night's Thanksgiving episode of "How I Met Your Mother" — which was written by series co-creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, which should have alerted me right up top that it was probably going to contain a major plot development that would reverberate throughout the season — found Lily (Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall (Jason Segel) considering a move from Manhattan to Long Island, and Ted (Josh Radnor) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) musing about becoming bro-parents: adopting a baby together, while maintaining their platonic friendship. But it wasn't until the last moment of the episode that we understood what made Robin (Cobie Smulders) — who'd spent the half-hour attempting, with increasing hysteria, to dissuade Marshall and Lily from moving — the pivot point for these two stories. If you haven't seen the episode and don't want to be spoiled, do not watch this clip.

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    • 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:

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    • 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.

      [Vulture]

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