With this week’s news that 31 year-old hottie Trevor Donovan will be joining the cast of 90210 as a new (ahem!) high school student at West Beverly High, this TV Addict thought now would be as good a time as any ask: Would you rather…

(a) Watch really good looking albeit slightly older actors playing high school students on some of your favorites shows such as 90210 and GOSSIP GIRL. Or (b) watch more age-appropriate actors, more along the lines of the ‘DEGRASSI model,’ a show which has become famous for casting actual high school students to play fictional ones.

1. Cobie Smulders: Not only was Cobie Smulders responsible for one-half of television’s most unexpected and delightful relationships of this past season, elevating her will-they-or-won’t-they with one Barney Stinson to that of legendary status. Her Canadian heritage continues to be the gift that keeps on giving, as evidence by ever more Robin Sparkles, Murtaugh, and one really handy list of Canadian Sex Acts.

2. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: With 60% of “The Final Five” Canadian born (Rekha Sharma, Aaron Douglas and Michael Hogan) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has Canada to thank for their favorite crew’s happily ever after. Plus, we’re fairly certain your friends to the north deserve bonus points for being the birthplace of the eye candy that is Grace Park, Tricia Helfer and Tahmoh Penikett. We’re just sayin’

3. The CW: Little known fact: it’s not the Winchester Bros. talent for demon-hunting or Clark’s superpowers that have kept SUPERNATURAL and SMALLVILLE alive and well all these years. Rather, it’s a powerful yet rarely talked about ally known as the Canadian dollar. A dollar, whose low value in comparison to that of its American cousin has played a surprisingly large role in keeping both Vancouver based shows shooting all these years.

4. We’re Funny: Why are Canadians so funny? To paraphrase Nia Vardalos, who had this to say during her recent appearance on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, “We keep each-other laughing so that we don’t freeze.” Which probably accounts for why Canada is the home of Seth Rogen (FREAKS & GEEKS), Nia Vardalos (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING), Samantha Bee (THE DAILY SHOW), Will Arnett (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), Michael Cera (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), Nathan Fillion (CASTLE), Sarah Chalke (SCRUBS), Tom Cavanagh (ED) among others.

5. And Polite: Which is why we’re quick to apologize for Mike Meyers post-Austin Powers career, Celine Dion, Tom Green, Howie Mandel and Shenae Grimes among others.

“A machine that causes vomiting could have all kinds of implications for the military… and the fashion industry.” — Ted making the best of a Veridian Dynamics project that inadvertently causes vomiting.

File this under “you read it here first”, but don’t be surprised when the latest shocking details surrounding Michael Jackson’s life wind up as a LAW & ORDER episode. Just in case Dick Wolf & Company need help in coming up with an idea, here’s how we see it unfolding: A high-profile fertility specialist is found murdered. Among his clients? A superstar we’ll call Mitch Johnson who has several children via a surrogate was one of the doctor’s clients. Turns out the superstar wasn’t the biological father of the children and never formally adopted them, a fact the maliciously-minded MD used to his advantage in order to blackmail the superstar into handing over lots of cash to cover gambling debts. The superstar is arrested and things look bleak. But in the final moments — you know, where L&O always socks us with their patented twist? — it is revealed that the surrogate was an unbalanced fan of the star and, upon learning that the “gifts” she’d presented to her favorite celeb were being used against him, she killed the doc! Confessing, she clears the superstars name… although it becomes obvious to Jack McCoy and his underlings that the woman — putting the “fan” in fanatical — did the dastardly doc in at the request of her celebrity crush!

I’m sorry, what’s that? Yes, it’s true… we are brilliant! Thanks for noticing.