Finish that sentence! From the teaser for next week’s episode of Chuck, “Jill, if you hurt him, I swear… I’m going to kick your head off.” Emphasis mine. It’s what I’ve been hoping for since they introduced this love-triangle chick.

I sure do hate love triangles… and love Yvonne Strahovski.

Things to love about Chuck:

1. Cake for the opening credits.
2. Lead Zachary Levi and nearly all the supporting cast are great little-known actors and actresses.
3. Writers who cook up goofy spy action with a lot of laughs.
4. Adam Baldwin doing his hilarious badass thing.
5. Yvonne Strahovski.
6. Yvonne Strahovski.
7. Yvonne Strahovski.

It’s a silly show… and I love it.

A new round of TV shows has arrived, as the 17-hour Heroes season opener last night reminds us. (Side note: no, I didn’t watch it, and yes, I still wish they’d killed the bad guy and left Heroes at one season.) As a late bandwagon-boarding fan of The Office, I’m excited for Thursday and another season of my favorite show on TV. Another season, and no more after that.

Logic would dictate NBC wants to keep an established series going for as long as possible - even if it means watering down the characters, dragging out plot lines, and jumping various sharks to keep people watching. Producers and stars, don’t let that happen! Wrap things up in another 20-or-so great episodes, and move on to other things. The show is not Friends, thankfully, with a screenful of shallow characters whose personalities fluctuate as needed for whatever lame 22-minute story the writers think up. Let’s keep it that way!

I bought Season 4 soon after release and burned through the episodes over the following several days. It’s one of those rare series’ that replays well, with characters that feel authentic, little jokes you didn’t catch the first time, and bits of foreshadowing you don’t recognize until after you’ve seen later episodes. But as much as I’ve enjoyed The Office, count this as my vote for a series finale in the spring. Hopes: no high school drama with Jim & Pam; Ryan rejoins the branch on a prison release program; epic battle(s) between Andy and Dwight; Creed vanishes and is never heard from again.

If you aren’t in the Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog group on Facebook (woe unto ye), you might not have seen the teaser trailer! Get to it at doctorhorrible.net/doctor-horrible-teaser-video/80/. As anticipated, it looks like Joss Whedon continues to be awesome, Nathan Fillion continues to be one of history’s greatest Canadians (how do I say that and make it sound like the compliment it should be?), and Neil Patrick Harris continues to be all kinds of funny.

Have we mentioned the latest rendition of Mario Kart? It’s a reason to own a Wii, and a reason to buy a bunch of little plastic steering wheels like a goober. Far be it from me to complain about graphics, but the graphics turn downright N64-ish in four player split screen… you won’t much mind. You will mind the AI, which Nintendo has again programmed out of the purest hate, and which is another good reason to play games with humans.

And while I’m on the topic of games: Spore. Yes, that superhyped hype machine that Will Wright’s been working on is coming up fast, and the recently released Spore Creature Creator has done something I thought impossible: it made be care about Spore. If the whole huge game is as fun as the creature creator, aeons of the collective time of Earth’s nerd population will be lost to it. Try the Creature Creator free at the EA site I linked above - if you buy the full Creature Creator at Target it comes with a coupon for $5 off Spore itself, which is $5 you’re basically throwing away if you pay the same elsewhere.

A few quick things so I’m not horribly late for work: first, I will be listening to Chuck Berry this morning. Does every song sound alike? Sure. But it struck me a bit ago that it’s great Friday music, just the same.

Thing numero dos: My roomate just showed me a short and wonderful video from YouTube, everyone’s favorite (and least favorite) home of grainy video clips. Adjust your speakers to the appropriate level, and check “Birdtown” out!

Finally, please tell me you’ve been watching Reaper. My parents recommended it to me (let the record show that they also watch The Big Bang Theory - so, I don’t always agree with ‘em), and it’s the best thing going for the CW at the moment. Which, alright, may not be saying a lot…  still. The guy playing the Devil is spot-on: sharp and sly and of course, awful. All the cast is entertaining, but Sam especially. It’s fun to watch an actor go from being the dork in Grounded for Life to being the awesome dork in Reaper.

And I’m off — everyone have a decent Friday and a great weekend!

It has been over a week since the last cultural enrichment, and my partner in crime - the post’s normal author - is at work. Due to the information held in this post, I think it is necessary to get this up before he returns from work. That’s right, I’m taking over this week’s cultural enrichment post. Bwahahaha! This week, I am concentrating on Joss Whedon, obviously. There are three important bits of information that you need to know.

Jumping right into some of the best news I’ve heard in months. IMDB had a link to a post on io9 that went a little something like this…

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog will be a series of three 10-minute webisodes about “a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to,” Joss revealed on Whedonesque, his fansite. Neil Patrick Harris will play Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion will play Captain Hammer, and Felicia Day will play Penny. Plus “a cast of dozens!”

Next, second on my list of awesome Joss Whedon news is something also found on io9, which is good news for all of the Firefly followers. My only complaint is that it seems like something that would make for a good movie as opposed to comic book issues. We can only hope that a movie is around the corner for this 3-part story.

Pick of the week for the majority of io9 readers would probably be the first issue of Serenity: Better Days, a new three-issue series set between Firefly and Serenity

Last but not least is Dollhouse. A new television show that is to be launched in May. It stars Eliza Dushku as an amnesiac agent named Echo. It will be nice to have a new Joss Whedon series on tv, since all you can see any more are reruns of past Joss Whedon adventures.

I know that Joss Whedon has had more of a cult following in the past, but at this point he is becoming more of a household name in small - and big - screen entertainment. I, for one, hope he continues to put entertaining content out on all four of his most frequently chosen mediums (movies, tv shows, comics and the internet).

Preface and Moral of the Story: Never eat a whole pizza and watch three hours of The Science Channel before bed. I recommend, however, watching The Science Channel in general - How It’s Made and Build It Bigger in particular. Gah! I tried to find a link for Build It Bigger and it seems to have vanished at some point in the last 6 hours. This night keeps right on getting worse.

I had a dream just now that I’d purchased my sisters and I season tickets to… something. We were waiting in the gym of our high school to be called up to the stage to pick up our tickets. Only when I got to the stage did I notice I hadn’t been given the ticket I needed to claim my ticket. Which really, seems to me like something that the high school gymnasium season ticket distribution company is to blame for.

Apparently this ticket-claiming ticket was the only shred of evidence I had to prove that I’d bought my season tickets (to, again, something of indeterminate nature). The “powers that be” refuse to give me a ticket, and I throw a fit, and some guy from work figures out a loophole for me to claim my tickets. Isn’t it funny how idiotic things make sense in a dream? I can’t remember the details, so I’ll give my subconscious the benefit of the doubt. Which, in this context, I have to say it probably doesn’t deserve.

The dream ends with me making a fast getaway from who I’m pretty sure was Kathy Bates, and my sisters are with me in my car, and my door won’t shut. Not only that, I’ve lost control of the steering and the brakes! Yet somehow the accelerator still works, and I continue pressing it. It’s alarming the number of my dreams that end this way. This one, though, has a fun twist: we crash relatively unharmed, and I’m telling the OnStar rep we’re ok (does my car have OnStar? of course not), and then I’m out of the car listening to the OnStar rep say she might be able to get me hazard pay. Even in the dream this made no sense to me, but as she’s saying it I look back at the car and it starts smoking — except now, instead of a car, it’s a single-prop airplane. Made of cardboard. Last thing I remember, I’m pulling apart pieces of the plane so it doesn’t all burn up.. “for evidence.” And then I woke up face-down, with both of my arms asleep at the shoulder.