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Yes, I watch a lot of TV. I'm well aware, and that's why I'm a TV writer, and not a writer of columns about politics, calculus, or eating anything that's not meat and potatoes.

Big Brother gave us a real Terence and Philip moment this week, which is what I call it when we get the extremely disappointing sidestep of an intended plotline payoff.

Once upon a time, "South Park" once gave us a two-part episode that promised a revelation of the identity of Cartman's mother. Instead, Trey Parker and Matt Stone gave us an April Fool's Day episode that was a full-length Terence and Phillip cartoon, and made us wait another week for the payoff.

So for example, when "Lost" ends with a big revelation, shocking moment, or cliffhanger, and I tune into the next show only to find it focuses entirely on some completely unrelated character and doesn't even mention it, I know I've had a T&P Moment. If I'm watching "The Sopranos," and we go from a shooting that leaves a character at the brink of death, and the next episode is an obvious dream sequence that makes no sense and adds nothing to the story, I've had a T&P Moment.

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