There’s been more TV stuff than I can cover over the last two days, so let’s play a little catch-up, starting with the live TV interview with the drunk lady who admitted to mixing up the brake pedal and the… the.. what’s it called? GAS! The gas pedal. Well played, Florida. We eagerly await Ohio’s response.

Two beavers are better than one. Here’s the music video for “Two Beavers” performed by Robin Sparkles (Cobie Smulders) and Jessica Glitter (Nicole Scherzinger) during last night’s “How I Met Your Mother.” [NY Mag]

The new Teen Wolf is a lacrosse douche. The trailer for MTV’s “Teen Wolf.” Basically, it looks like someone held up a DVD of Teen Wolf and said, “I want this to look like ‘Vampire Diaries’.” [The Sun]

E! is BARELY blurring tits these days. This footage of window washers just “happening” upon a topless Kendra is one of the fakest reality scenes I’ve seen in a long time. On the plus side, her breasts are barely pixelated. [Guyism]

Easy Christmas gift. Sterling’s Gold — the faux memoirs of Roger Sterling (John Slattery) on “Mad Men” — is now  for sale. Full of witticisms like, “When God closes a door, He opens a dress.” I wish. [Brain Pickings]

One of the story lines from Season 4 of “Mad Men” dealt with the growing irrelevance of account executive Roger Sterling (John Slattery). When he wasn’t insulting Japanese clients, engaging in extramarital street sex, or losing the critical Lucky Strike account, Sterling was in his office by himself, recording his memoirs. And it seems as thoughSterling’s Gold will actually be published: it’s presently available for pre-order on Amazon. Here are some bon mots from the product description:

• When a man gets to a point in his life when his name’s on the building, he can get an unnatural sense of entitlement.
• The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
• Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face.
• When God closes a door, he opens a dress.

The publishing date from Grove/Atlantic says November 2010, so you can get it well in advance of Christmas. Personally, I want to read up on the flings that hellcat Miss Blankenship had. I heard she was one filthy astronaut.

[story via Kottke, screencap by bohemea]

Last night’s episode of “Mad Men” (“The Rejected”) was a delight to watch. Even as Don Draper continues his season-long slide into post-divorce darkness, the era is pulling other characters forward, such as Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss). “The Rejected” was filled with quips and sly visual levity, a credit to director John Slattery, who plays Roger Sterling. But enough of my chatter; let’s get to the badass parts already:

• Trudy Campbell (Alison Brie) is pregnant. This isn’t badass, but it needs to be addressed: the makeup artists better make her the sexy kind of pregnant, not the fat pregnant that Peggy got in Season 1.
• New copy writer Joey on Trudy: “I would get her SO pregnant.” Me too, Joey. Me too.
• Person in a bear suit at a weird-ass party in a Soho loft. Soho loft parties haven’t changed much in 45 years.
• Lesbian holding nude photos of women! Woo-hoo!
• Peggy: “I have a boyfriend.” Nancy: “He doesn’t own your vagina.” Peggy: “No… but he rents it.”
• In a delightful coincidence, “Mad Men” echoes last Thursday’s “Jersey Shore” when Ken confronts Pete about talking behind his back.
• Pete’s father-in-law: “You son of a bitch.” Pete:

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In my ongoing effort to get through the work week despite the summer doldrums, all this week I’m counting down to Sunday’s “Mad Men” Season 4 premiere. I’ll happily admit that it’s not the best show on television, but that doesn’t stop it from being my favorite.

Today’s honoree: Roger Sterling, played by John Slattery. Roger’s probably my favorite character, because he’s lived his life the way I would have liked to: drunk, well-dressed, and slaying amazing tail in between quick-witted quips. To wit: he had a heart attack in the middle of a threesome with twins, after which he was instructed to stop drinking and smoking (he didn’t). He had a long affair with Joan (Christina Hendricks). He ditched his mean old wife for a hot young secretary, and then sang to her in blackface. ROGER STERLING AIN’T CARE.

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Yup, that’s Roger Sterling (John Slattery) in blackface on last night’s episode of “Mad Men.”  Why?  Well, a bunch of rich white people went to the Hamptons for a Derby Day party, and when else are you gonna break out the blackface if not at a rich white people party in the Hamptons? (It’s a tradition that continues today, I believe.)  Anyway, inexcusable racial insensitivity aside, Slattery has a lovely baritone.  Suck on that, Al Jolson.

But that wasn’t all for the musical performances last night.  Not only did Paul Kinsey and his drug-dealing friend from Princeton get high and relive their a cappella days, but Joan (Christina Hendricks) and her dickbag fiancé husband hosted a dinner party, and the dickbag pressured Joan into performing.  “Play a little,” he said, and immediately every red-blooded male wanted to know what she played.  The clarinet?  The flute?  Something phallic!  Something she has to blow!  Yeah, high-five!

Nope:

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