My good friend Scott once said, while we both worked at Ask.com in 1999, that he liked to think about moments from TV shows we watched together when he was at work to pass the time. Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I like to do the same.

Rock Star: INXS was an oddly watchable show featuring a bunch of people I didn’t care about competing to front a band I didn’t care about and judged by a bunch of people who ranged from aging rockers (INXS) to waxed chested rockers (Dave Navarro).

Watch as the idiocy/brilliance is captured.

Navarro’s writers must have been working overtime because he busts out with the most brilliant critique of a lame song: “I felt that it had a little Electric Company feel to it.”

J.D. (the eventual overall winner) has “Human” and “Being” tattoo’d on his arm so that he can tell someone they are a “Human Being” but they were also “Being Human.” Sure, that’s awesome on its own, but he violated the rules of the songwriting contest by not being a team player!!! Luckily his song was THAT good…and Dave Navarro was THAT curious about it (sure, I’ll bite) that INXS turned it into a hot hot single. Watch!

Gone Country, with its D-list celebrities, really let me down when it awarded the prize (a single cut with John Rich, he of the fur coat) to Julio Iglesias Jr. last night. Rich did say that country music had been looking for someone to tap into that big Latin market (first episode). The talent on that show made Rock Star INXS/Supernova look like a night at Carnegie Hall.

Although Rock of Love is total trash, I have to wonder, in the midst of a writers strike, how the producers and Bret were able to pull off the ultimate O’Henry-ish trick ending in the episode “Stroller Derby”.

Wherein it is revealed that Aubrey and not Christy Joe was set for elimination.

My hat is off to you, wise wizards of pointless television.

The staff of Rosstralia salutes the Oprah Winfrey Show set designers for their painstakingly accurate recreation of The Cosby Show set.