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[Between John and me we've both been very busy the last few weeks, but we should be back on track for continued "Best of" episodes from here on out. Here's the latest! --Stephen]

While you were watching America’s Got Talent (which is apparently trying to make that title an oxymoron) and the much more excellent So You Think You Can Dance (Twitch and Katie FTW, btw), I was watching everything there is to watch in the world of TiVo Video Downloads. Here’s a rundown of what I enjoyed this week.

1. For years, we’ve enjoyed watching ordinary people do extraordinarily stupid things, and now the Internet’s given us a perfect word for those actions: FAIL. And this week, nothing says “fail” like watching a kid with the bright idea of having his unmanned lawnmower pull him on his skateboard from Break.com. The skateboard gets away from this genius kid and an epic FAIL ensues.
2. After hearing one of my co-workers talk about how much they liked beYOU.tv, I gave it a closer look this week and you know what? She was right. beYOU.tv offers a great mix of holistic lifestyles and exercise routines designed to help you be a better you. This week’s stretching exercises were a definite help before a charity 10k that I attended on Saturday.
3. This week’s Ultra Kawaii Pets made me laugh and I don’t know whether or not to feel bad about it. The topic: Animals recovering from injuries. I know it doesn’t sound funny on the surface, but when you see a montage of cute animals wearing those cones they attach to keep them from messing with their stitches, you can’t help but laugh. This enjoyment was in stark contrast to one of my biggest pet peeves: Animals dressed as humans.
4. For some reason, I’ve had a bit of a dining affair with lamb this weekend. The summer started with an outdoor meal at a close-by German restaurant that serves amazing lamb shanks the size of my fist and continues with Greek lamb dishes from a local restaurant near TiVo Central. So when I saw that The Minimalist was preparing lamb this week, I was overjoyed. As always, it’s a simple dish that I’m sure I could pull off in my own kitchen given the chance which I think is truly the mark of a great cooking show. It’s nice to see fancy things, but it’s also nice to see something that I could actually make myself…especially if it’s lamb.
5. Finally this week, I have to highlight our newest channel: Nite Fite. Now if you missed The Meth Minute 39 (the thirty-nine cartoons from Dan Meth featured on Thursdays on Channel Frederator) then you missed the origins of Penalty and Lloyd. To say that they antagonize each other is a bit of an understatement. Nite Fite is an animated talk show that tackles a new topic each Thursday in the style of any talking head show on the 24 hour news networks. They’re loud, they’re obnoxious and they’re hilarious. Episode One dealt with the absolute selling out of The Who to the producers of the CSI franchise and almost made Diet Coke come out of my nose.

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