Spend all week in the kitchen perfecting your Buffalo wing recipe before the big game? Here's what you missed on TV.
Watch Veronica Mars Lose It
So it turns out that Kristen Bell likes sloths. Like, really really likes sloths. On Ellen, she recounted the story of her boyfriend Dax Shepherd's special gift for her 31st birthday last summer: a day-long visit from her favorite animal. She even brought a clip of herself melting down with the kind of joy that looks to outsiders like gut-wrenching emotional pain. It was both adorable and kind of disturbing.
Why I Never Had Roommates
New Girl continues its winning streak by further exploring the quirks of Jess' (Zooey Deschanel) roommates. This week, the increasingly neurotic Schmidt (Max Greenfield) went on an episode-long hissy fit due to the fact that his towel was always damp. It culminated in the hysterical final scene, when the germophobic Schmidt learned not only that he had accidentally been using Nick's (Jake Johnson) towel, but that Nick never washes his towel, under the mistaken theory that bath towels never get dirty.
Oh, That Joan
On Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?, the set-up is that Joan Rivers has been prescribed medical marijuana to deal with stress caused by her plastic surgeries. It's like the producers aren't even pretending that the show isn't scripted, though: every single thing about this storyline, from Joan deciding to blaze up in her friend Lynne's car to Melissa having to come and pick her stoned mother up, felt blatantly fake.
All The Whining, None Of The Ick
Saturday Night Live regulars Abby Elliott, Nasim Pedrad and Vanessa Bayer appeared on Watch What Happens Live. Host Andy Cohen gave the comedians a pop quiz about the Kardashians, which the comics had to answer using their note-perfect impersonations of the sisters. It's really astonishing how well they capture the sisters' vacuous whines.
Happy Anniversary, Dave!
On Wednesday, David Letterman marked 30 years as a late night TV host. To celebrate, Dave's very first guest, Bill Murray, made a rare TV appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman. With the retired but still ubiquitous Regis Philbin refereeing, Murray and Letterman went outside the theater and kicked field goals. Because really, why not? Happy anniversary, you old curmudgeon!
