Some things are obvious; others considerably less so.

"Anything that Flavor Flav does," McHale said. "We cover all the big reality shows. We cover all the shows that people watch, like 'American Idol,' 'The Bachelor.' This summer we've got 'America's Got Talent' and stuff like that.

"But it's when we find shows like 'Dutch Oven"' and "really great little shows like 'Pants Off Dance Off' ... or like 'Groomer Has It.' I mean, an entire show about washing dogs!"

They're not worried about running out of material.

"Unless the power grids fail, then there will never be a shortage," McHale said.

"So far history and the World Wide Web are on our side," Anderson said.

There's so much to make fun of in television these days, isn't there enough to do the show more than once a week? Why not strip it five nights a week?

"We're phenomenally lazy people," Anderson said.

"Once a week is hard enough," McHale added.

Actually, the idea of expanding the show to five nights a week has been bandied about, but it's never gone anywhere.

"There's a leave-them-wanting-more element to what we do right now that we're comfortable with," Anderson said.

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