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Former Office worker Rashida Jones stopped by the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last week to help promote her new Fox sitcom Unhitched.

As viewers know, tonight’s episode “Pole-Dancing Toddler” is the show’s first-season finale. If you check out the video of the interview after the jump, you can get a sneak peek at a scene from the installment.

There’s also plenty of interesting conversation, most of it about Unhitched’s premise, Craig’s cool accent, and cults — yes, cults — in Los Angeles.

Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

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It’s a finale for Fox’s latest sitcom, Unhitched. And, the Farrelly Brothers show has at least a little to celebrate since it made it this far despite all the early negative reviews.

On “Pole-Dancing Toddler,” both Gator and Kate become involved with people who work around other species: Gator an animal-rights proponent and Kate an exterminator (Ew!). What that has to do with poles, pole-dancing, or toddlers is beyond me, though.

Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

Monday | March 24

• Greek: The popular college series returns to complete its full-length first season with A New Normal. [8pm EST/ABC Family]
• How I Met Your Mother: Oops! Britney Spears is doing it again, namely guest starring on a sitcom. This time it’s the Ten Sessions episode of HIMYM. [8:30pm EST/CBS]

Tuesday | March 25

• ‘Til Death: This special Really Big Brother episode of the Fox sitcom introduces a new face we’ll be seeing more of on future episodes. [9:30pm EST/Fox]

Thursday | March 27

• Eli Stone: 1980s pop star George Michael returns for another appearance on the appropriately titled episode I Want Your Sex (remember — he had a hit song with the same name). [10:02pm EST/ABC]

Saturday | March 29

• Kids’ Choice Awards: Jack Black hosts the annual fun and shenanigans again, and will probably get slimed, too. [8pm EST/Nickelodeon]

Sunday | March 30

• Unhitched: Wow! That was fast! Already the first-season finale, Pole-Dancing Toddler, has arrived. Now all fans have to do is wait to see if there’ll be a second season. [9:30pm EST/Fox]

Unhitched is starting the spring television season with two episodes on one night, “Mardi Gras Croc Attack” at the special time of 8:30pm EST and “Yorkshire Terrier Sucked Into the Internet” in the regular 9:30pm time slot.

On the first episode, Gator and Kate get into all kinds of trouble at her boxing gym, and on the second, Kate hooks up with Gator’s employee.

Freddy and Tommy are around, too, learning all about tantric sex in the first episode and online dating in the second.

Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

Monday | March 17

• The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men: All three CBS Monday-night comedies return to the tube with brand-new episodes. It’s about time! [8pm EST/CBS]

Tuesday | March 18

• The Riches: The second season begins with The Last Temptation of Wayne [10pm EST/FX]
• The Truth Behind the Sitcom Scandals: First up on this titillating new exposé series: MASH and The Love Boat. [10pm EST/Biography Channel]
• Miss/Guided: The Alphabet Network presents its latest sitcom with the opening episode Homecoming. Note that this is a special broadcast and the series normally airs back-to-back episodes on Thursdays from 8pm–9pm. [10:32pm EST/ABC]

Wednesday | March 19

• Biography: Why not? The focus of this particular episode is Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, who always has been and always will be a comedian, too. [10pm EST/Biography Channel]

Thursday | March 20

• Lipstick Jungle: More episodes have been ordered, but tonight’s Chapter Seven: Carpe Threesome is still the first-season finale. [10:01pm EST/NBC]

Friday | March 21

• ‘Til Death: Friday-night repeats kick in with the November 2007 episode Vintage Eddie. [8pm EST/Fox]
• The Return of Jezebel James: Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s absolutely horrid new sitcom moves to its regular time slot with Needles & Schlag. [8:30pm EST/Fox]

Saturday | March 22

• Comedy Specials: The King of Queens‘ Kevin James, Blue Collar Comedy Tour’s Ron White, and Last Comic Standing first-season first runner-up Ralphie May all have one-hour primetime specials scheduled: Sweat the Small Stuff, You Can’t Fix Stupid, and Girth of a Nation, respectively. [8pm, 9pm, 10pm EST/Comedy Central]

Sunday | March 23

• Unhitched: The sitcom gets an extra episode, Mardi Gras Croc Attack, at 8:30pm, in addition to the regularly scheduled episode Pole-Dancing Toddler at 9:30pm. I’d just like to know who comes up with those ridiculous titles, though. [8:30pm and 9:30pm EST/Fox]
• The Game: Melanie & Company resume their second season with Take These Vows and Shove ‘Em!. The 4400 and That ’70s Show’s Megalyn Echikunwoke guest stars. [9pm EST/The CW]

…and a shorts-wearing Will Ferrell — get a look at those legs!

Former Office worker Rashida Jones took some time out of her busy schedule a few weeks ago to promote her new Farrelly Brothers sitcom Unhitched on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

After O’Brien got over his pleasant surprise that Jones is one quarter Irish — thanks to her mother Peggy Lipton’s mother — she and the host discussed lots of things.

O’Brien is well aware of the Farrelly style of outlandish comedy, although he’s never met the siblings. But, even he recognizes a lawsuit just waiting to happen when Jones describes Peter Farrelly’s extremely unique and moronic manner of greeting the actress. Lucky for him Jones apparently has a tolerant sense of humor.

Jones also tells about her painful encounter with Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee Bubbles when she was just ten years old. I guess those are the kinds of memories you get to have when your dad is the music biz’s legendary Quincy Jones.

Check out the video of the interview after the jump, and remember that Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

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The next episode of Unhitched, “Conjoined Twins Pitch No-Hitter,” goes international — sort of — when Gator and Freddy hook up with two women from Iceland. One of the ladies is played by actress Valerie Azlynn, who had/has a regular role on CBS’ recent, ill-conceived new sitcom Welcome to the Captain.

Elsewhere, cowardly Kate persuades Tommy to accompany her to a party because her former significant other will also be going.

Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

On the “Woman Marries Horse” episode of Unhitched, the ill-fated hookups range from a not-so-perfect potential partner for one of the singles to a musician with a unique talent for another. I’m guessing true love will continue to elude them both, as well.

Unhitched airs Sundays on Fox at 9:30pm EST.

Original Air Date: March 2, 2008

Finally we get the new series that everyone’s been dumping on so much lately. Is all of the flak justified? Kinda.

I expected the premiere episode to be stupid in an offensive and/or repulsive way, Farrelly Brothers-style. That wasn’t the problem for me, though. Instead, I felt the “comedy” was too tame and, of course, not particularly amusing.

Even worse, the funniest moments were courtesy of guest stars playing peripheral characters, such as Jackass star Johnny Knoxville’s jackass pimp Chuck and Ben Giroux’s very enthusiastic Tim, also known as Kate’s short-statured date who does double duty as Boston Celtics mascot Lucky the Leprechaun.

In other words, the show is similar to CBS’ Welcome to the Captain — while watching you wonder why any network executive thought the world needed to see such nondescript and forgettable material. Will they ever learn? Probably not, so on to the recap…

Main character GATOR walks his date home, and she asks him if he’d like to come up to her apartment. When they get inside, the entire unit is decked out with green, leafy plants everywhere you look. The woman tells Gator the foliage reminds her roommate, a small orangutan, of his home in Borneo.

She then puts on a video of gorillas mating during her recent trip to the region, and she informs Gator that in the primates’ species, females initiate sex. Gator’s all for it when she asks if he’d like to do what the apes are doing on tape … until the orangutan gets excited, as well, drops its pants, hops on his naked backside, and you get the idea

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