Inspired by this first video posted on another blog that I hadn’t seen in years. Feel free to add any I may have missed.

I was going to write a list of the best things I’ve watched in 2008, but soon realized that’s impossible. The inexorable ease of Netflix ensures I’m not rushing out to see movies when they premiere and television can always wait until it’s plucked off DVDs in great, heaping gobs. Plus, my friends and I seem to seek out crap with the passion of flies and that doesn’t always lend itself to seeing finer fare like Milk, Rachel Getting Married, and Harold & Kumar 2. Did I mention that I’m one of those jerks that barely watches TV?

So with that said, hit the jump and add your opinions to a rambling, free-wheeling highlight of the most interesting stuff our eyeballs experienced in 2008. This is an incomplete and erratic list that demands your input!

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The rumor going around is that NBC is going to put Jay Leno on at 10pm instead of letting him “retire”.

Also, Jimmy Fallon announced his house band for his late night show…yeah it’s The Roots.

the Chairman is one of the most batshit insane fucking characters i have ever seen on tv, including Captain James Tiberius Kirk. i love this guy. having been in “Double Dragon” doesn’t hurt, either.

also, please Alton Brown, this is a public plea – cut your fucking hair.

Did anyone catch this last night?

Tonight on Mythbusters the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax.

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Hulu is NBC and News Corp’s joint online venture to put up TV programming online. Up until this point, it’s been fairly worthless. Not much programming anyone would actually want to go online to view. But just last week, they started adding full episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, free and “with limited commercial interruption.”

Apparently they’ll be adding some PBS content later this month, including Nova and Wired Science, so that should be cool as well.

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The third season of The Venture Bros. kicked off last night.

Their summer season is supplemented by a weekly, episode-specific t-shirt club. They look pretty expensive, but I’m offering up the link to anyone who grasps for new, higher levels of ultimate nerdery.

It was the same questions-getting-answered progress as most of the season, except for that last half-hour. Hooo weeee!

Apparently PBS is airing a new show called YourWeek in cooperation with the social news site reddit.com. So at long last, XKCD comics, Ron Paul, lolcats, and telling Clintons states to go fuck themselves will finally have a place on national television.

So excited for Parts 2 & 3. It will be TV’s greatest moment.

Someone created a Family Guy + Matrix mashup…check out the video

...LOST returns tonight!

ABC, 10p.m.

Episode title: “The Shape of Things to Come”. Sounds like a HUGE episode, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it?!

WOOOOO! I had no idea it was coming back.

I don’t know if any of you saw this, or are interested, but the PBS FRONTLINE two part special Bush’s War is available in whole (plus extras!) online here.

I’m watching it now, and it’s pretty good.

Because the world outside my door is a frightening place full of things like “The Sun,” and “Fresh Air.”

There’s this show called Bleach which is apparently all the rage these days… anyone (else) know it?

Do you, the people, think that the discovery channel and the history channel have the same or similar demographic audiences?

I need your opinions!

Ooops. At least I didn’t jump the gun. But anyway, meh, not bad. The entire episode was one big answer to…

Premature post. I have thoughts and I am posting them.