The first list in the series is the obvious one.  Without further ado, I present to you Ten From My TiVo: Hottest Women.

#10 Julie Bowen (Modern Family)

Sure, she plays a mom of three on Modern Family every week but Julie Bowen is smokin’.  Though Phil often steals the show with the laughs, Julie’s character, Claire, adds her own manic humor to the mix.  Julie Bowen is both hot and funny — double threat!

#9 Alison Brie (Community)

Perhaps one of the most under-utilized actresses on Community, Alison Brie manages to play her honor student character with glee.  If her big puppy dog eyes can melt Jeff Winger every week, then consider me melted.

#8 Parvati Shallow (Survivor)

In her third season as a contestant on Survivor, Parvati has been called a lot of things on the show.  Her victorious run in Fans Vs. Favorites earned her the ultimate title of Survivor’s Black Widow, and she most recently charmed the immunity idol out of Russell Hantz on Heroes Versus Villains.  It’s never been so fun to distrust someone this much.

#7 Erika Christensen (Parenthood)

Though a new show, Parenthood is a show that has it all.  And one of those great things is Erika Christensen.  She is superb as Julia Braverman-Graham, desperately trying to juggle a successful law career with attentive parenting, leading to both laughs and tears.

#6 Jessica Stroup (90210)

Just to be clear, Jessica Stroup is an adult despite playing a high schooler on the new 90210.  Despite being thrown into a show full of hotties, Jessica stands out as the queen of them all.  She’s also a refreshingly good actress, able to play the panic and angst of high school with ease.  Just don’t look into her eyes; you may become hypnotized.

#5 Sofía Vergara (Modern Family)

A true Colombian, Sofia draws you in with her looks and then slays you with her accent.  As the much younger wife of Ed O’Neill, Sofia excels as the awkward stepmother to a couple of kids who are her age.  There’s nothing like an exotic accent to draw you in.

#4 Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory)

Kaley Cuoco first caught my eye a few years ago in 8 Simple Rules, but now she graces my TiVo every week in The Big Bang Theory as the curiously last-nameless Penny.  Kaley’s genuine demeanor makes her the perfect choice to portray the hot girlfriend of a socially awkward physicist, but it’s her comic timing that keeps you hooked.

#3 Lauren Graham (Parenthood)

Sure I’m a dude, but I was an avid fan of Gilmore Girls.  Lorelai Gilmore was the role of a lifetime for Graham’s effervescent personality, and I was afraid we’d lose her forever after its cancellation.  Imagine my relief when Parenthood snagged her for yet another hot mom role.  I won’t complain — there’s no such thing as too much Lauren Graham.

#2 Stana Katic (Castle)

I came for Nathan Fillion in my usual blind Firefly loyalty, but I stayed on Castle for the adorable but stern Stana Katic.  Keeping up with Nathan Fillion is no easy task, but Stana Katic plays Detective Kate Beckett with a rapier wit that keeps Castle in check.  The facial expressions that she musters in exasperation are some of the best on television.

#1 Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck)

Of course #1 would go to Yvonne Strahovski by default — I do run a website dedicated to her afterall.  Every bit as sweet as she is hot, Yvonne Strahovski wows us every week with her amazing portrayal of Agent Sarah Walker.  Fresh from Australia, Strahovski has quickly made it clear that there’s no one on television hotter than her.

In an effort to be witty, I lovingly titled the post “WTB Luke Perry.”

Lo and behold, I flipped on my Amanda Bynes show and what did I see?

A guest appearance by Luke Perry as Valerie’s (played by Jennie Garth) high school fling.

They had an extrememly humorous 90210-themed flashback complete with really goofy 90s garb.

And people think God doesn’t listen…

I’ve recently started working out, and that has led me to seek out good television between the hours of 4 and 5pm.

For the record, good television does not exist during this time.

Still, I have settled on ABC Family to watch a long forgotten show called “What I Like About You.”

It’s really not very good, but Amanda Bynes has a lot of charisma and the show tickles me in that “Saved By the Bell” kind of way, so I watch it.

Aside from Amanda Bynes, “What I Like About You” also stars Jennie Garth from 90210 fame. She’s actually a lot less annoying in adulthood, and kind of cute despite her unnaturally little nose.

To add to Jennie Garth, I watched a show the other day with Jason Priestley in it. He is more annoying in adulthood, and he is not cute despite his perfect nose.

Then last night I was watching Terminator and what to my wondering eyes did appear? Why Brian Austin Green from the future so near.

Turns out little Green is playing the brother of Kyle Reese, John Connor’s father. That makes him John’s uncle in one of the more surprising and entertaining twists of the series.

So what can all this mean? Why are my airwaves being inundated with the actors from Beverly Hills, 90210? Why do I actually like them showing up on my television? Is it a sign of the coming apocalypse?

Only time will tell.

I talk about about her every week as I relate my review of each episode.

Well, the Technonaut and I have teamed up to start our own fansite about Yvonne Strahovski.

That’s right, no more searching the Internet for sporadic information about Ms. Strahovski.

Now you can find it all in one place at Strahotski.com.

We intended to be the only source for Yvonne Strahovski but there has been some competition crop up in the last few days. It seems there’s no such thing as an original idea.

So, visit Strahotski.com and make it your #1 source for Yvonne Strahovski information.

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Lowest on the list is Yvonne, but she’s on it at least! That’s something.

Other notable entries that I like are River (from Firefly) and Trinity (from the Matrix).

I don’t really see it, but supposedly it’s the phonetic spelling of how you should be pronouncing her real name.

Out of respect, I’d like to keep using her real name on the blog but frankly I get tired of looking up how to spell it, and Strahovski will probably get me more hits on Google.

Sorry, Yvonne. It’s the thought that counts, right?

This week in Chuck continued what looks to be a show with staying power. This is always going to be a hard show for me to review because it’s designed to be pretty much the same thing every week just like all comedies are.

Baldwin gets more Jayne-like which is always for the win. If they know what’s good for them, they’ll have him grow a goatee as part of his cover and then start naming his guns. I vote for Viera.

Fight scenes are fun as always. You wouldn’t expect fight scenes in a comedy to be such a draw, but they have thus far been quite inventive.

Chuck’s sis still can’t act. Seriously, did they even screen test her?

Captain Awesome likes to tango in his boxers. I’m sure the girls love that, but at least it’s funny to us guys.

And the part of the show that I’m starting to love more than any other is the romantic tension between Chuck and Sarah. I guess it’s an obvious ploy, but the chemistry between the two actors is phenomenal.

I read that Chuck is going to gain a love interest other than Sarah in subsequent episodes. That should provide for great hilarity.

Hell hath no fury like a woman super-spy scorned.

Okay, so maybe I should just start calling this post “Yvonne” instead of Chuck. /shrug

The only difference is a lot of nostalgia and possibly more charismatic actors. But only slightly.

Mark Hammill isn’t that far removed from Hayden Christensen on the horrible actor scale. Carrie Fisher isn’t even half the actress that Natalie Portman is.

Yet, they all sucked in Star Wars.

Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones — they all delivered poor acting performances in their respective Star Wars movies.

You may be cursing me right now, but it’s the awful honest truth.

All of the Star Wars movies have the worst display of acting ability in the entire universe, as well as galaxies far far away.

We could blame these great actors for phoning it in, but I think the real blame lies with one man — George Lucas.

George Lucas is quite simply devoid of directing talent. He couldn’t direct his way out of a seedy cantina on Tattooine, much less a blockbuster film.

Yet, Star Wars lives on as one of the greatest movie franchises of all time. But why?

Because for what George Lucas lacks in directing talent, he makes up for in great writing and character concepts.

Star Wars is one of the most familiar, yet unique, stories every told.

I watched Episode III recently and I realized that some of the plot devices that he’s trying so desperately to bring to the big screen are actually quite clever.

The angst, the anger, and the confusion of Anakin is all there in the viewer’s imagination. But never on screen. On screen, Anakin has one emotion — anger.

I hope that 40 years from now when Lucas has left his estate to his family and Star Wars is but a distant memory of the old folks, someone has the rights and the guts to remake the Star Wars movies.

It may sound like blasphemy, but there are some great stories and characters there that deserve to be brought to the big screen by a director who can really bring this stuff to life by more than just special effects.

There. I’ve said it. Star Wars sucks.

To frontload the good, Claire Danes can certainly act. She has never been in a role in which she uttered her lines like a zombie. She can express emotions fairly well and can draw the viewer in with her portrayals.

Unfortunately, she’s about as compelling as a dead goldfish on a sidewalk. And the goldfish may be more compelling if it’s begun to bloat.

I don’t know what it is about Claire Danes that repulses me. By traditional standards, I guess she’s not unattractive. Some would say she’s hot. To me, she’s not hot at all.

Although she can act adequately, I find nothing about her acting that makes me really appreciate her. She can convey her part, but in almost every case I can think of an actress who could have done it better.

She also always plays her parts with a little too much whine, which is a shame because the only cheese you can get in movie theaters to go with it is that gross liquid cheese that comes on stale nachos. And that’s exactly the kind of whine she brings — the gross liquid stale kind.

Looking over her filmography, I can’t find a single film that I loved. Of the ones I liked, I could easily peg her as my least favorite part. That’s just the deal — no matter what part you put her in she always feels like the second-best person for the job in my opinion.

I just don’t like Claire Danes. She’s probably a fine person in real life, but I would be happier if she fell out of the limelight and contributed to mankind in some other meaningful way.

On the upside, she does have a Governator number of 1.

For example, let’s take Megan Fox. Megan Fox recently starred in Transformers with Jamie McBride, and Jamie McBride starred in Beauty Shop with Kevin Bacon. So Megan Fox has a Bacon number of only 2.

Well, yesterday I came across something even more intriguing — the Erdős-Bacon Number.

This mishmash number is the sum of a person’s Bacon Number and their Erdős number. Paul Erdős is a Hungarian Mathematician who is used to determine a persons worth at writing mathematical papers. Interesting cross, eh?

More surprising is some of the people who actually have relatively low Erdős-Bacon numbers. Among them are Natalie Portman, Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper), and Mayim Bialik (aka Blossom).

So I got to thinking — who is the center of the Blogosphere? Kevin Bacon is actually not the center of the Hollywood circuit. In fact, analysis by the University of Virginia shows that Rod Steiger would actually be a better center.

So why Kevin Bacon? It’s really a mix of a lot of things I think. Kevin Bacon is prolific, famous, and also slightly infamous.

With those three criteria in mind, I hereby deem Wil Wheaton to be the center of the Blogosphere. Mr. Wheaton is definitely prolific, unquestionably famous, but also undeniably infamous.

I mean this as no offense to Mr. Wheaton, of course. He’s both a scholar and a gentleman in my book.

But how do you make the ties in a virtual world without the clear bounds of mathematical papers or big-budget movies?

I think it works like this. In order to have a Wheaton number, your blog has to have been linked from a post of someone who was linked from a post of Wil Wheaton’s, etc, etc.

As far as I know, I have no Wheaton number at this point in time but if I were to catch Mr. Wheaton’s attention with this (for example), then sites such as Cryptomundo, Screen Rant, and The Technonaut would all gain a Wheaton number of 2 (assuming they didn’t already have a Wheaton number of 1).

Let the games begin! Kudos to the first person who can post here who actually has a legitimate Wheaton number.