Hi, everybody? How's it going? This week, we're going to talk abou... MOM!!!For the love of God, I'm trying to do my column right now! JEEZ! Yes, I'll do the dishes... Yes, I'll pick up my clothes... AND YES, I'll swab the toilet. I know it's disgusting, Mom! I like it that way! Now will you puh-leeze just leave me alone! My friends are watching! (SLAM!)
Oh... my... God. This is the worst week of my life! Mom decided to pay me a visit, and because it's Mother's Day I can't say a goddamn thing about it. Who came up with this BS holiday anyway? Probably the matriarchal industrial complex, which is always trying to keep me down! Regardless of whose decision it was, I now have to suffer an entire week of my mom telling me what a disgusting pig I am, and asking when I'm going to get a "real" job.
TV CRITICISM IS A "REAL" JOB, MOTHER!
And even though she'd rather have a doctor than a TV critic for a son, that doesn't stop her from constantly reminding me that her taste in television far exceeds my own. "Son, Battlestar Galactica is for lonely nerds who have no concept of a woman's nethers," she says. To which I reply, "First of all... uhh... GROSS! And secondly, I've seen more woman nethers than you have and... WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION?!?"
Anyway, here's the point: If I like it? She hates it. And that includes Lost, Heroes, Smallville, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, AND Stargate Atlantis. And for inexplicable reasons, she calls me a nerd! BUT GET A LOAD OF THE SHOWS SHE LIKES!
• Ghost Whisperer (CBS, Fri 8 pm). Okay, so get this! Jennifer Love Hewitt stars as a person who whispers to ghosts. And my mom loves it! I think it's sappy, derivative, and has a serious intrinsic flaw: One doesn't whisper to ghosts, one BUSTS ghosts. Why? "'Cause bustin' makes me feel good!"
• Gilmore Girls (CW, Tues 8 pm). I'll admit it: I used to kinda sorta like this show about a snappy-talkin' mom/daughter duo. But do you know why I stopped watching it, and why it just got canceled? Because these gals are too much like my mom—always with the "NAG! NAG! NAG!" But unlike my mom, they're super-hot. Not that I ever look at my mom in a sexual way, because that's gross. On the other hand, that's not to say my mom isn't sexy, it's just that... Okay, I think I'll shut up now.
• America's Next Top Model (CW, Wed 8 pm). Even the most disparate people can find the smallest slice of common ground, and this show fills that void for my mom and me. The season finale for this Tyra Banks—fueled unintentional comedy is this week, and Mom and I both agree that Dionne is lazy, Renee is a b-word, Natasha is a commie, and Jaslene is a slut. Natasha will win, proving there is no God, and... Oh, for the love of... MOM!! Stop examining my underpants for "racing stripes." Yes, I washed them!! 
Call your mom this Sunday.
