As many Warming Glow readers know, one of my favorite pastimes is to single out the people who shriek about “spoilers” and then poke them with sticks. And now I’ve got Stephen Colbert on my side.

Earlier this week, Colbert based his popular segment “The Word” around a study that showed people actually enjoy stories more if they know the ending ahead of time. He then reveals several well-known twists to movies like The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game. He doesn’t even spoil anything recent that could cause serious dismay, like the shocking deaths of Khal Drogo and Ned Stark in the first season of “Game of Thrones.” See, THAT’S how you do a spoiler.

Here are the first pictures of Adrianne Palicki working on the set of the new “Wonder Woman” series, and SPOILER ALERT: Wonder Woman is going to be running! Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Aw, man! Why’d you have to spoil it for me? I was enjoying thinking about the different ways she might chase criminals — walking quickly, riding a Segway, flying her invisible jet — but now the show is ruined for me!” But that’s just how I roll. I’m not afraid to ruffle some feathers when it comes to revealing TV’s most closely guarded secrets.

Anyway, the ensuing pictures don’t exactly make Wonder Woman look very cool — Palicki looks too hard like she’s trying to do Harrison Ford’s signature angry run — but to be fair, not many people look cool in still pictures snapped during mid-run. I’m sure if you made a flip book of these photos and got an approximation of Palicki’s boobs jiggling, you might be more inclined to watch “Wonder Woman.” Of course, some short-shorts would also help, and I’d also recommend a bustier that lifts and pushes together (rather than lifts and separates), but I should probably save these opinions for the Wonder Woman fan forum I moderate, LassoEroticAsphyxiation.net.

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Last night, at the end of “Parks and Recreation,” NBC ran a promo for network’s website that encouraged viewers to check out Andy and April’s wedding registry. The problem is, even though Andy and April have had the “will they or won’t they?” buzz since last season, they’re not even dating yet. (On the NBC website, there’s only a wedding registry for Ron and Tammy.)

Now, if you’re me, you think to yourself, “Huh, that’s weird,” then you finish your bourbon and forget it happened. If you’re an obsessively annoying TV viewer you take to the Internet and throw around the S-word. Geekosystem ran its theories for the blunder under the headline “NBA Promo for Parks and Recreation Accidentally Releases HUGE Spoiler?” and fans are already up in arms about having the April-Andy wedding ruined.

On behalf of sane and reasonable people everywhere, I’m going to ask everyone to CALM THE F*CK DOWN. I’ll bet the folder containing all my corgi photos that April and Andy don’t get married this season. It’s either an idiotic mistake (entirely possible because it’s NBC) or a clever way to generate buzz among the reactionary Internet crowd (also possible because it’s “Parks and Rec”). Take a puff of your inhaler and go back to petting your cats; the PTA is not disbanding.

UPDATE: Per showrunner Michael Schur, it was supposed to be a promo for Ron and Tammy’s registry. NBC messed it up somehow. Man, it sure is easy to be right when you don’t flip out over trivial crap.

As we’ve seen in previous viral videos, Don Draper from “Mad Men” says “What?” a lot, while Hurley from “Lost” said “Dude” a lot. So what happens when they meet in a video? Well, Don Draper says “What?” a lot and Hurley says “Dude” a lot. I really don’t know what else you might have expected.

I don’t really have anything else to add to the subject of this video, but I figured that anyone who hasn’t finished watching “Lost” yet would like to know that the island serves as a stopper that keeps the Smoke Monster from unleashing its evil upon the world, and that the island’s protector brought the survivors to the island in order to name his successor, which was briefly Jack before he passed it on to Hurley before dying. Also, the entire Walt story line is abandoned and never revisited.

While I’m at it, Peggy gets fat during Season 1 of “Mad Men” because she’s pregnant with Pete’s love child, Don and Betty get divorced in Season 3, Bruce Willis was dead the entire movie, Kristin shot J.R., and everything that happened in Inception may or may not have been a dream. Watch sh*t when it happens or deal with it.

The Fine Brothers probably aren’t even brothers (one of ‘em looks too swarthy to me), but I still respect their work. You may remember previous videos they’ve done where they give out spoilers to various movies and TV shows — here’s the one they did before the Emmys last year — and this one is more of the same, as they rattle off the winners of 100 different reality shows in less than two minutes.

I will admit, though, that this one isn’t as fun as some of the others. Because there are still people who haven’t finished “The Wire” and don’t want to know what happens to Omar, but these reality TV cocks get paraded around different morning shows and Hollywood-centric shows like “Extra” as soon as they win, so it’s not like there’s anything to really spoil. I’d be impressed if there’s someone who was holding out and planning to watch a reality series later on. “Bastard! You ruined ‘Survivor’ for me! I was going to watch all twenty seasons on DVD! Now what am I going to do with these 400 hours?”

HUGE spoiler alert below…

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