Some of the funnier TV shows that aren't.
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The Dunham Group
PBS
11:00 a.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. CDT
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham discusses the week's political developments with panelists Peanut, Bubba J, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and Pat Buchanan.
$lapping $trangers
MTV
9:00 p.m. EST/8:00 p.m. CST
Contestants must slap as many unsuspecting passersby as they can for a chance to win $300.
News Team 9 Adventures
Cartoon
3:00 p.m. EST/2:00 p.m. CST
Adam, Sarah, Skip, and the rest of the team at the Boise-area NBC affiliate investigate property tax allocations in this all-new animated series.
Inadvertent Ice Road Truckers
History
9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST
After taking a wrong turn out of Calgary, trucker Dale Bronson eventually realizes he's hauled his load of Lady Jordache sporting apparel much too far north.
Nancy Grace's Kidnap Countdown
Headline
9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST
Nancy recounts her favorite kidnappings from 2011.
America's Great Interstate Rest Stops
A&E
9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST
It's just north of Milwaukee on I-94, where the brochures are plentiful and the fountain water is cold.
Pop Goes the Wiesel
History
9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT
You never know where Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel might show up! This week it's a PartyLite event in a St. Louis suburb and 10-cent wing night at Rhino's Union Pub in West Seneca, NY.
House Haunters
HGTV
10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT
A pair of newly-deads are looking to haunt their first house in the Dallas area, but must choose between a quaint raised ranch, a modern end-unit condo, and a spacious colonial fixer-upper.
Ancient Mysteries
History
8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT
Where did Mount Rushmore come from? When was it built? What does it mean? Were aliens involved?
I Shouldn't Be Alive
Animal
10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT
David Duke and whoever came up with those fucking electric hand dryers.
Rick Steves' Asia
PBS
9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT
In his first foray outside Europe, Rick is taken for all he's got and left for dead on a Manila roadside.
Chasers Of Storm Chasers
Discovery
10:30 p.m. EDT/ 9:30 p.m. CDT
Still hoping to finally meet their idols, aspiring storm chasers Kyle and Sean follow Reed and Joel, who follow a deadly West Texas tornado.
Now's Not The Time For Spiders!
Disc
7 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. CDT
The pranksters of the Spider Squad use their heaving sacks of arachnids to crash a lakeside marriage proposal and surprise a doctor's office where a patient is receiving a terminal diagnosis.
Conga Line
ABC
8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT
The conga line gets tense this week when Kate tells Jason who tells Ryan who tells Allison who tells Rob who tells Trisha who tells Adam that she is in love with him.
Off-Season Christmas Tree Lot
CBS
8 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. CST
The sales team sits around and tells the occasional passerby that it's not that time of the year yet.
Joe Biden's Delaware
TLC
10 p.m. EST / 9 p.m. CST
Tonight: Uncle Joe shows off the place where he gets his ink, his favorite parking lots for doing doughnuts, and the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk where you can always spot some prime-grade tail.
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PBS
11:30 a.m. EDT / 10:30 a.m. CST
The breakout hit letter from Sesame Street finally receives its own spin-off. Nick Nolte and Nine Inch Nails guest star.
Actual Science
DISC
7:35 p.m. EDT/6:35 p.m. CDT
This week, the chemical equations governing the interactions of H1-receptor proteins and antihistamines.
DHiPs
NBC
8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT
Jack nabs a motorist with expired plates outside of Dover, while Chewy continually rides back-and-forth along Delaware's 23 miles of interstate.
Paranormal Cops
A&E;
10:30 p.m. EST/9:30 p.m. CST
This week the team investigates reports of an underage ghost loitering outside Foremost Liquors and badgering customers to buy her a half pint of Smirnoff.
Congressional Bloopers
C-SPAN
3 a.m. EST/2 a.m. CST
On this episode, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accidentally votes for a bill to legalize machine guns, Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is caught saying he wouldn't mind if his grandchildren had a gay schoolteacher, and a window washer falls through a skylight.
Parking Garage Surveillance Camera
DISC
12 a.m. EST/11 p.m. CST
A tight advertising market has caused the Discovery Channel to lay off its overnight security guards, so if you spot anything suspicious happening in tonight's live feed from the network's parking garages, please call the number at the bottom of your screen.
How It's Broken
DISC
7 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. CDT
Tonight: A detailed look at the paper jam.
The NFL On Fox Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Pregame Show
FOX
12 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. CDT
Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long discuss the factors that may influence the elements that could affect the aspects that have a chance of impacting the details that will possibly shape the outcome of the game.
Bravo Coming Out Party
BRAVO
4 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. CDT
Four years after it would've surprised anyone, Bravo comes out as a gay network, winning hugs and cheers from Lifetime and Oxygen, and prompting Spike TV to move two channels away.
American Masters
PBS
9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT
More Bob Dylan.
I-70 Truckers
HISTORY
9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT
Tonight: Jeremy tracks retread debris across western Ohio, Clint catches some quick shut-eye on the shoulder of a Flagler, CO off-ramp, and Big Frank blasts his horn in exchange for a flash from two coeds in the back of a Jeep Wrangler.
The Real Housewives Of Mogadishu
BRAVO
10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT
Aasha is enraged when she finds out she's not on the guest list for Ugah's female circumcision.
I'd Hit That
SPIKE
9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT
From their bench in front of the Westfield Mall food court, 15-year-olds Mark Obst and Ted Baron judge whether or not they would do each and every female passing through their line of vision.
Archer Daniels Midland
CMT
8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT
Thirty more minutes of corn being shot into a huge silo.
Fat Ghosts
Sci-Fi
8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT
This show follows paranormal detectives as they track down apparitions that, to be quite honest, could stand to lose a few.
Ice Road Hookers
HISTORY
10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. CST
This weekly reality program chronicles the vicious competition and daring exploits of the rugged prostitutes who service the region's famed truckers.
Affirmative Action!
FOX
9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST
Two under-qualified cops crash through some fruit carts.
Paris Hilton's My New BFF
MTV
10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT
Four girls are eliminated when they can't explain the military buildup that led to Indonesia's occupation of East Timor.
