Wanda Sykes launched her late night show last night (Fox, 11 pm) and got down to being Wanda right away.

The show played to her strengths with a lot of stand up, giving plenty of opportunity for her in-your-face riffs, taped skits like she used to do on Chris Rock's HBO show, and most effectively, a Chelsea Lately style roundtable.

Lamest episode of "The Office" ever? It hasn't been brought to a vote by the Happiness is a Warm TV blog's high tribunal, but consider yourselves on notice, Office writers.

Your once great show has devolved into the weak link in NBC's Thursday night comedy lineup, fourth behind an inconsistent 'Community' show that would have you believe community colleges have dorms on campus for international students.

Thursday night's episode wraps up Michael's ill-fated relationship with Pam's mom.

Once again, the Happiness bloggers elected (begged) my mom to be our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

Last night was another dance-off and another double-elimination, which means the Dancing herd is thinning at a pretty quick rate right now. Maybe they better slow that down a little since the flu might have folks dropping like flies soon enough (Professional dancer Lacey missed Monday night's show with the flu, and Donny Osmond is under-the-weather. Marie Osmond, DWTS backstage correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight," also has the flu. I'm just sayin'...).

Here's my mom's recap of the show:

Once again, the WarmTV bloggers elected (begged) my mom to be our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

There were some interesting twists to last night's show. There was a special dance by the pros (which usually only happens on elimination night), Cloris Leachman returned to give crazy advice to the show's best dancer, and Aaron Carter designed his own terrible outfit.

Here's the full report.

Faithful viewers of "How I Met Your Mother" know that Barney Stinson loves the word "awesome" and everything it represents. Neil Patrick
Harris' suave man about town craves nothing more than to be awesome at whatever he pursues, whether it's laser tag, suiting up for a one-night stand or whatever the heck he does for Goliath National Bank in his corner office.

So it's no surprise that he thinks he's awesome now at relationships, boasting that he and Robin have supplanted Marshall and Lily as the best couple. Naturally, this leads to the introduction of another indispensable term in the How I Met Your Mother lexicon: New Relationship Smugness.

Add "upper body strength" to the list of things you might need to win the Race.

We're down to six teams. First, let's take a step back and marvel at
the wonder that is Dubai. The pit stop is a resort, a man-made island
shaped like a palm tree that is eight football fields big. On the one
hand, it's ridiculously over the top. On the other hand, I yearn to go
there.

Pity the costumed children of the Scranton Industrial Park Community who had to settle for a Halloween tour of what Michael Scott tried to convince them was the spookiest warehouse in the world.

Little did they know that Michael's "[Junk] in a Box" homage to Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake's classic Saturday Night Live video would be the highlight of Thursday's tepid episode of The Office. At least the kids got off easy with a ride on Darryl the Gangsta Pumpkin's pallet truck of doom.

Maybe they were scarred for life by Michael, giftwrapped box affixed to his crotch, swinging from a noose and reminding them that suicide is never the answer, but at least they got to go home. The rest of us were stuck enduring the rest of an episode that plunged into Yawnville after that promising opening.

Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.

Week 7 -- we are halfway through the season!

The show opens in the aftermath of Dina's departure last week. Liz doesn't buy the black team's emoting for one second. The alliance of Amanda/Abby/Shay/Daniel is too apparent.

Alison announces that this is "face-off week" and whoever wins the pop challenge will choose the pairings.. . .

Our guest blogger Lenni G. is back, reporting on the dance and the drama:

If last night is any indication, this is going to be a weird season.

First, we found out yesterday morning that Billy Bell, one of the best dancers, is out - we don't find out what's wrong with him, just that, "His doctor won't allow him to continue."

So the show brings in hip hop guy, Brandon to replace contemporary Billy - not exactly an even, or really fair, replacement.

Next, shortly after the show starts we see Noelle Marsh (our Sanford girl) with a huge brace on her knee - Nigel announces that they are not sure whether she will be able to continue but they are giving her a week to find out.

Once again, the WarmTV bloggers elected (begged) my mom to be our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

It was a double-elimination night on "Dancing with the Stars" last night, which can be considered both good and bad. The bad is that fewer dancers means fewer episodes (I would presume), but the good part is putting strike power in the hands of the judges once in awhile. That helps keep the show more focused on the dancing and less about who is more popular or who has the largest fan base furiously dialing in votes from home.