Impressively, someone was paying close enough attention to CSPAN 3 during a congressional hearing about the arctic wildlife refuge and whether or not some professor had camped there enough times (or something?) to catch one young aide making several kinds of faces ranging from "bored," "angry," and "insane" directly at the camera. Watching this (the camera moves for a bit, but she starts up again at the 1:27 mark), it's hard to imagine her knowing there was a camera there, so to what was she making those faces? Is there a mirror on the camera? Is she friends with the camera operator, and doing the classic "Get me out of here!" faces that everyone makes to their co-workers in corporate meetings? If the camera had lingered longer, would she have done that slow pretending-to-shoot-one's-self-with-one's-finger-and-then-slump-over gag that's so popular in the boardrooms of America? We might never know, but if I had to sit in on this immaturely conducted debate, I would make faces like this, too.

Watch what happens!With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

We didn't even want to have Taylor be the most awful and uncomfortable housewife of the episode. And she had serious competish this week. But despite our mixed emotions about what Camille said at the tea party (more on that in a second), Taylor's enthusiasm about shutting Camille out was just unseemly. Like Taylor was so happy to have the moral upper hand over someone that she was really enjoying twisting the knife.

New bro! (Hulu)"Why is Tara Ariano of Yahoo's great new blog The Set always going on and on about this Cupid's Arrow segment from 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'?" you have probably asked yourself. "Granted, I've never watched any of the clips she's embedded, but how funny can a sketch about an '80s-era video dating service that used to occupy Studio 8H possibly be?" Guys, I get it. So here are a few teaser lines from last night's installment (which also featured a new bachelor, Rod Rory, played by Jimmy Fallon in a long mullet wig and jumpsuit).

"I'm not one to try new foods; I mostly stick to bread, water, and sauerkraut." - Brustin Pouch

"I've grown into my liver, which means there's no problem with the size of my organs." - James Spadge

"I sleep on a cot, so if you have a bad back, you might want to consider bringing your own bed." - Todd O.

Watch it and you will never doubt me again.

Jay Leno got EDGY last night when he introduced the segment "What Planet Do These People Live On?" to spotlight a Cottonelle commercial campaign that makes no sense on so many levels. I think this is about as edgy and (heh) "alternative" as Jay Leno gets, actually, and, having seen the commercial before, I found myself actually laughing the laugh of recognition. But even in Jay's seeming 360-degree Cottonelle takedown, he forgot one important reason why this commercial is messed up, which I'll mention after the video:

Jay forgot to mention the commercial's entire premise! Don't most houses come with a thingy on the wall for the toilet paper? Or is Cottonelle saying that their respectful toilet paper cover is intended to protect the dignity of an extra, back-of-the-toilet roll? Maybe Jay can have the advertising geniuses behind this campaign on as guests and ask them the hard questions.