I was going to post deep thoughts about The Mentalist, and then Simon Baker stands in the rain and sticks his tongue out, and now I shall simply retire to my bed with happy shallow thoughts.

Well, dang it! I missed Bones last week and now House because my TiVo was set to record only 10 episodes. Why can't it drop the first one recorded, which is bottom of the list when that happens? Gah. Reset them for 25 episodes, but now I've got to go digging around FOX for the online episodes.

You missed Bones?

I thought that it wasn't on.

Hulu - has the Fox stuff.

Oh, and they still had Simon Baker voing about scenes from the next episode but there weren't any scenes from the next episode, what is up with that?

Nathan Fillion's show Castle has a start date!

"Castle" on Monday, March 9 at 10:00 p.m.; "Cupid" on Tuesday, March 24 at 10:00 p.m.; and "The Unusuals" on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00 p.m. In addition, ABC News' "Primetime: What Would You Do?" will return on Tuesday, January 6 at 10:00 p.m. (all times ET).

It looks like the Unusuals is also a procedural (or at least a mystery) and stars Amber Tamblyn as a dectective:

In "The Unusuals," it helps if a cop has a twisted sense of humor, because every moment could be your last. Just ask Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"), who started her day as an NYPD vice detective before unexpectedly being transferred to the homicide division. She quickly realizes that, not only does everyone in her new department have a distinct sense of humor, but also their own dirty little secrets.

From an ABC press release.

Could be cute, but Ms. Tamblyn is still too young to be murder police. She'd have to be one of those fanfic Mary Sues that leaves the academy at age twelve. I know...nobody cares but me.

I thought exactly the same thing, erika.

And I totally know she's not as young as Tibby, but late thirties is young on a detective squad, as Bayliss found out. As the old commercial said "I've done a little reading on my own" on this particular subject. It's not personal; I'm happy to see AT on TV again, but it's no wonder kids have no idea what careers look like from what they see in the media. Everything is not like professional sports or boy bands...in some fields, it's good to be a little seasoned, you know?

And I thought I was young to have that as a hot button...who knew?

Yeah, she would be young to be in Vice too, wouldn't she? (Or she would have to be the youngest.)

Yeah, and somehow my keen detective instincts tell me it'd be difficult to be young and cute on the Vice squad. I know times are changing; Joseph Wambaugh even included breast-pump humor in his latest, but there's still kind of a locker-room vibe.