In The Simpsons (World, 7pm), Bart gets to do what a generation of Americans can only dream of: torment George Bush.
George and Barbara have retired to Springfield so George can write his memoirs, and Bart decides to invite himself in to see just what life for an ex-president is really like. Babs gives him cookies; George gives him hell - and the whole thing ends in an un-neighbourly tussle; again the fantasy of a million American fathers, to biff the guy who was such a dull president for four years.
The voice, of course, is not the real thing because Mr Bush, unlike many celebrities, will not choose to appear on The Simpsons. For him, the show is a dangerous and moral-sapping load of rubbish. He loathes it so much he even made a point of slagging the show in his State of the Union address.
Creator Matt Groening certainly got his revenge with this episode.
Would Bill Clinton agree to do a guest spot on The Simpsons? Given his track record, he probably will just as soon as he has this wretched second-term thing licked. He will only be following a long line of celebrities who have added the lustre of their names to the show.
Barry White, Dennis Franz and Patrick Stewart have been one-off guests. Kelsey Grammer hammed it up beautifully as crazy Sideshow Bob and Danny DeVito played Homer's long lost brother. And when the time came for someone to be the voice of Maggie for her first intelligible word, there was apparently fierce competition among celebrities for the part.
I have been worrying for some time about how best to tackle Citylife (Pearl, 8pm) in this column; my predecessor favoured a discussion of the aesthetics of the show (Fiona Carver's haircut).