Outside of the fact that they both recorded songs called “Hot Mess,” nothing. Until now. Deadline reports that Ashley Tisdale, best known as one of Disney’s dancing puppets in the “High School Musical” series, has been cast as the lead in Louis C.K./Spike Feresten’s CBS sitcom about an “ensemble of young people trying to achieve their creative dreams in these tough financial times.”

Tisdale will play Petra, the beautiful and sarcastic assistant to a vintage clothing designer struggling to carve out her niche in New York. Louis C.K. and Spike Feresten wrote the pilot, an update of a script the two originally penned 13 years ago. (Deadline)

A week ago, I would have laughed off the idea of Ashley Tisdale starring in Louis C.K.’s CBS sitcom (that feels weird to write), dismissing it as an elaborate joke staged by a jaded “Hellcats” fan. But after watching last week’s excellent “Raising Hope,” my opinion of the actress has slightly changed — she had good comedic timing and showed impressive range as a theater nerd who kept slipping in and out of character. That being said, if this show is eventually titled “The Devil Wears Petra,” I’m DONE.

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Move over, all other TV news: “COMMUNITY” IS COMING BACK.

Creator Dan Harmon took to Twitter to tell the non-Nielsen masses that “Community” will return to NBC on March 15 at 8 p.m. I have so many questions for Mr. Harmon – Will it be an Ides of March-themed episode? What happens to “30 Rock”? Have you received my Last Tango in Greendale parody script, starring Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs as Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando – but none of that matters right now because: GO GREENDALE, GO GREENDALE, GO GREENDALE, GO! So this is what happiness feels like.

But seriously, Dan, lemme know if you like what you’ve read. (Via Splitsider)

UPDATE: According to EW, “30 Rock” will slide to 8:30, and be followed by “The Office” and “Up All Night.” “Parks and Rec” will go on a five week break, and then come back at 9:30 following “The Office.” This kinda sucks because, well, no “Parks and Rec” for five weeks, but hopefully it will be good for the show’s ratings to catch the post-”Office” bump.

It all makes sense now. Ron Swanson began his career not as a politician in Indiana, but as a Hollywood paid-for-hire screenwriter. BuzzFeed came across Swanson’s IMDb page, which begins in 1995, when he wrote the Chuck Norris classic Top Dog, followed by another Chuck Norris classic, Overkill, which he also appeared in. (Honestly, they’re all classics.) His career REALLY took off in 1996, though, when he worked on the screenplay for Forest Warrior, AFI’s 65th Greatest Movie of All-Time. The first time I watched it, I broke down and cried, as if my tears were soaring out of me, not unlike when Norris turned into an eagle in the film.

Swanson felt he was getting too big for his britches after the success of the straight-to-video film, however. So, after penning the genre-defining season five episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “Plague,” in which Walker has to fight an evil corporation to save the Cherokee nation, he quit writing, moved to Pawnee, and became the Libertarian we love today.

Either that, or someone made a fictional IMDb page because they really like Ron Swanson and Chuck Norris. (Is there slash fiction out there? I bet there’s slash fiction out there.) Full page below.

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Back in March 2011, Conan O’Brien won a walk-on role on “How I Met Your Mother” after donating to a charity auction in support of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Last night, he made his cameo, not as Barney’s red-haired wing man or The Mother, but as a background extra during a scene set in MacLaren’s Pub. According to “How I Met” co-creator Carter Bays:

“When we heard Conan had won the auction, we started going through all these ideas for what he could play. But then we heard back: ‘He just wants to be an extra.’ And we realized this was really the funniest version [of a cameo].” It was also perhaps the most realistic. “In New York, every now and then you’ll see somebody famous at a bar, but nobody really makes a big deal out of it.” (Vulture)

Truth. I once saw Craig Kilborn in a bar, and didn’t make a big deal out of it. In fact, I made such a not big deal out of it that I didn’t even notice it was him until someone pointed him out to me, and even then he had to be described to me as, “Y’know, that guy who isn’t Jon Stewart or Craig Ferguson.” True story. Anyways, be sure to tune into next week’s “Hawaii Five-0″ to see Jay Leno as a beached whale who LOVES vintage cars.

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Oy vey!

2 Broke Girls (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) — The 2 broke girls “pretend their cupcakes are kosher when they serve them at a bar mitzvah.” HAHAHA won’t those Jews be surprised when they realize they’ve been duped into not following the rules of the Torah. In next week’s episode: Max and Caroline kill a cow in front of a Hindu!

Top 50 Videos of the 2000′s (GAC, 8 p.m.) — SPOILER ALERT: At least 47 of the 50 videos will feature someone wearing a cowboy hat.

Two and a Half Men (CBS, 9 p.m.) — What are “Two and a Half Men” fans, the most passionate TV fans of them all, saying about tonight’s episode? “Stop this sh*t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!cancel the two and half not fanny idiots!!!!” Indeed.

Alcatraz (Fox, 9 p.m.) — I spent President’s Day catching up on episodes of “Alcatraz” and doing laundry. That’s the kind of TV insight you won’t get ANYWHERE ELSE.

Khloe and Lamar (E!, 10 p.m.) — Mondays are the worst.

LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Letterman; Taylor Swift and Michael Clarke Duncan on Leno; Jayma Mays on Ferguson; Anjelica Huston, Hugh Dancy, and Todd Glass on Kimmel; Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian on Stewart; and Ann Patchett on Colbert.