The most sublime chapter of the TV week was, in my estimation, Kate Gosselin on Larry King Live.

To see two people of such fierce intelligence parrying with each other - oh, wait, that was David Letterman interviewing legendary magazine editor Anna Wintour the previous night.

Larry was lasered in on one issue: Why, why, why would Kate agree to participate in a reality show, putting her life under a microscope?

Oh, come on, Larry. She does it for the same reason you stay on the air: the paycheck. And the free prunes in the green room.

There was an initial stiffness to the interview. Of course, that may be because the last time Larry interviewed a homemaker it was Dolley Madison.

But each was clearly oblivious to the other's circumstances.

"Do paparazzi follow you around?" King asked. Um, have you passed a newsstand in the last year, Magoo?

At one point Kate said, "Nobody goes into a marriage or has kids planning a divorce." Girl, you're talking to Larry King, a guy who makes Liz Taylor look monogamous. King's eight marriage licenses should be stamped with expiration dates.

The most intriguing exchange came when King asked, "Would you date?" Kate responded, "No, I'm too busy. Sorry."

"Sorry"? Did she think Larry was hitting on her? Do we smell Wife No. 9?

Are the stars out tonight? Sometimes the atmosphere on Entourage gets incredibly inside-showbiz. This week E (Kevin Connolly) went to work at a new management agency (owner played by George Segal) where he reluctantly crossed swords with another agent (played by James Caan's son, Scott) over who would represent Bob Saget (returning to play himself - a deeply depraved version of himself).

So who gets the biggest trailer on the set?

High profile. Lifetime's diverting new series Drop Dead Diva had its own celebrity cluster, with guest roles for Tim Gunn, Jorja Fox, and Elliott Gould.

The same episode name-checked Tim Allen, Parker Stevenson, and Patrick Dempsey.

Is this a TV show or the SAG Awards?

Yow! TV is getting freaky. In fact, it's getting super freaky. Remember Rick James? The late funketeer's biggest hit, "Super Freak," is now being used prominently in commercials for the Mohegan Sun casino as well as the Visa campaign that features Morgan Freeman voice-overs.

I hope this doesn't unleash a flood of ads set to hits from 1981. I wouldn't mind revisiting Gino Vannelli's "Living Inside Myself" a few times, but if "Theme From Greatest American Hero" starts coming out of my TV set, I swear I'm going to pull an Elvis.

Recipe for disaster. The DVR allows me to pick shows I want to record from a long list of titles. So this week, I racked up something called "Buckwheat Blunders and Twists of Fate," figuring it was a Little Rascals retrospective.

Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be an episode of a cooking competition, Chopped, on the Food Network.

I hung in there with it for a while out of politeness - until that is, they started chunking olives into their dessert dishes.

I think even Alfalfa would turn up his freckled nose at that combo.

Contact staff writer David Hiltbrand at 215-854-4552 or dhiltbrand@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/daveondemand.