ABC's Courteney Cox.

Has anyone watched Desperate Housewives lately?

Man, is it boring.

In case you’re out of the loop, Lynette is pregnant and doesn’t want anyone to know, but she used her hormonally-enlarged breasts to influence men at a business dinner. Bree is having an affair with a serial adulterer, who has asked her, lucky girl, to marry him. Gabby competes with her husband’s niece to be the hottest female at the dinner table. Susan marries Mike, leaving poor jilted single loser Katherine to go slowly insane.

Contrast DH‘s desperate (and sleep inducing) storylines with those featuring unmarried characters on more interesting TV shows. I’m talking about 30 Rock (Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy), The New Adventures of Old Christine (all the leads are single), and the hilarious Cougar Town, in which newly divorced Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) chastises a middle-aged male neighbor for dating people half his age, and then goes out and does the same thing. (Meanwhile, her best friend, burdened by a nerdy husband and a needy kid, is left to live through her vicariously.)

If you haven’t checked out NBC’s new hits Community and Parks and Recreation, please do. They’re smart, funny, and loaded with single characters who have more on their minds than looking hot and landing a man.

You have a life, so set the DVR, my friend.