"Lock the doors and close the blinds -- we're going for a ride..."

Surprise! What happens to be on this evening at 8:30pm and 9:30pm (EDT) on ABC but...

Yes! The Knights of Prosperity!  One of the best underrated comedy series of the year! It was a mid-season replacement which was dwarfed by the Deal or No Deal power machine.  It's a pity that it was; seeing two episodes again tonight made me realize how wonderful the show was.

Premise: one of the working titles of the show was Let's Rob Mick Jagger.  Premise: A janitor (Donal Logue) and his working class buddies realize that there's more to life than their jobs -- so they decide to develop an intricate scheme to rob Mick Jagger's apartment. (Mick makes a cameo in the first episode as an even more flamboyant version of himself.) The group grows closer and closer together as a group of friends who see this not only as a means to easy money, but also as a means to a new outlook on life.

The thing is -- they're all kind of dorks. And anything that can go wrong -- does.

** SPOILERS AHEAD! highlight the text if you want to read it.

And during episode eight -- well, they realize that they can no longer rob Mick Jagger due to some new circumstances.  What can they do? They have to determine who else they can rob. At first they think it should be Kelly Ripa, but our main character falls in love with her instead.  But he finds a perfect mark: someone who demonstrates how unappreciative he is of his own success. Someone whom they feel deserves to be robbed.

And thus -- Let's Rob Ray Romano.

The past two episodes were just that -- their plan to steal from the guy whom Everybody Loves.  Romano plays himself. A sad, pathetic, malicious version of himself.  I never really liked Ray Romano. Nor have I had much respect for him. But now? He gets points for being able to laugh at himself. It's kind of how I felt when Neil Patrick Harris played himself in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.  Romano does wonderfully.

And you know what's great about all of this? The show is on again for two more weeks!

I'm excited. This is good TV worth watching.