Thanksgiving break your freshman year is your first opportunity to impress your family after being at college. Do not blow it. Here are some surefire tips that will have Grandma saying, "Oh my!"

- Ride your motorcycle into the living room without opening the front door. Your family will be impressed by your reckless disregard for authority. Then spell your name with tire marks on the carpet, toss the helmet to your mom, and ask her, "What's for dinner, lady?"

- Tell your dad you made him a bookmark for Father's Day. Then give him a picture of you banging two girls. Tell him the way it works is that you put that picture in between the pages where you stopped reading.

- If a relative asks you how college is going so far, open your mouth and respond in a single tone, as if you are singing. Hold that note for three minutes. If the relative tells you, "I don't get it," respond with a casual, "You wouldn't."

- Eat the whole turkey. And we're not talking about being a wussy and eating it piece by piece. We're talking about unhinging your jaw and swallowing it whole before your dad even gets to carving it. If your family asks where you learned that, say, "Math 1B." For dessert, eat your uncle.

- As the meal draws to a close, ask your mom if there will be any strippers attending the after-party. When they do come, don't act so surprised. You're in college now.

You may have seen him on TV eating a zebra carcass in the African Savannah. Or maybe you've seen him willingly jump into a frozen lake in the European Alps. There was also that time he built a raft to escape from an Island in the South Pacific. His name is Bear Grylls. He's the host of Man Vs. Wild.

When CollegeHumor was allowed to interview Mr. Grylls, I jumped on the opportunity. Along with many of you, I am a big fan, and looked forward to asking him some geniune questions I had about the show.

We spoke at length about the upcoming season of Man Vs. Wild and how this season starts out with a two hour special called “Bear’s Mission Everest” which Bear himself described as “A million Miles away from Man vs. Wild.” It’s a two hour documentary (all episodes this season are two hours) on Bear’s mission to fly a powered paraglider over the summit of Everest (29,000 feet) facing 150 mph hour winds and minus 55 degree temperature – and raising over $1Million in the process for his charity Global Angels.

Then we talked about food.

Me: Can you rank for us the following foods that you’ve eaten on the show, from most to least delicious: Termites, a frozen sheep’s eye, and water from an elephant dung.

Bear Grylls: Termites are great I’ve had loads of those. Sheep’s eye was especially bad. I always thought it would be like a hard boiled egg but it was like puss and gristle and blood. Water from an elephant dung is above sheep’s eye, but below termites.

Am I leaving anything off the list?

Juice and rotting guts out of a camel that I was gutting and skinning.

Wow.

Yeah, Camel hump was bad – they store 95% of their fat in their hump. I was getting the skin off so I could use it as a blanket, and I tried some of the fat and really it was the one of the few times I vomited on the show.

Anything else?

Well if this was it, if this was indeed the last episode ever, what a way to go.

Usually Larry David thinks every season is the last season, so while there are no concrete plans to do another one, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. However, after leaving Seinfeld after it's 7th season, it appears as though this is the most optimistic he has been about another year since the show started, telling people he was already mulling another two (and maybe three!) seasons of the show. (Source: NYPost.com)

Well, Curb was awesome last night. Probably one of my favorite episodes ever.

Last week I discussed, not only my undying devotion to the show, but the reasons some episodes are weaker than others. I believe that sometimes the convoluted nature of most episodes lend to certain things being just TOO unbelievable, even within the logic of the show. The audience can only suspend so much disbelief.

I used to tape Simpsons episodes when I was in 6th grade. By the time DVD's were invented I had a collection of about 10 VHS tapes with about 150 episodes on them. I would study them like game film. I knew every joke, memorized every scene. If there was a Simpsons Superbowl I would have felt fully prepared to dominate at any moment.

My favorite Simpsons moments have always been when they used a type of joke I used to call "a switcharoo." I suppose I still call it that. When I was growing up, I was convinced that the Simpsons created this type of joke, and consciously used them at least once in every episode. It was like an easter egg only I knew about.

It is difficult to explain this abstract joke construct that my twelve year old self discovered, but I shall give it a try.

A "switcharoo" was when the Simpsons lead you to believe one thing, then flipped the joke completely and created a new punchline. These jokes were always my favorite. I felt they separated real Simpsons fans like myself from normal losers who would only watch one, maybe TWO episodes a day.

Two examples of "switcharoos:"

- In "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (written by Greg Daniels), a distraught Marge is driving her car hearing Homer's voice, as SNPP.com refers to it, in "ghostly fragmants." "You mean I'm going to be a daddy?... I hope we'll always be together.... together.... together..." Then the switcharoo: we see Homer is actually in the back seat on the floor actually speaking these things to Marge. God, nobody saw that coming. And I mean that in a non-sarcastic way.

- In "Two Dozen & One Greyhounds," (written by Mike Scully) the episode where Santas Little Helper knocks up another dog, there is a very dramatic scene in which the puppies are coming out. They are counting each one as it emerges from Santa's bitch. 22... 23... 24.... Then a series of transparent shots of clock hands rotating over and over signifying time flying by. In a "normal comedy" this would signify dozens of more puppies being born, but on the Simpsons, after this montage, we hear "...25!" as Homer states "God, I thought that last one would NEVER come out." Man that was so damn funny. Still typing non-sarcastically.

These types of jokes are so great because they give so much credit to the audience. They assume, and hopefully correctly, that the viewers are intelligent enough to know which path the joke would stereotypically take, so that when it makes a complete 180, the punchline becomes so unexpected and hilarious.

Of course the Simpsons is more than just "switcharoos." It's slapstick and intelligence and character driven and smart and everything you want a comedy to be. Comedy is so subjective, so when you come across a show as universally appreciated as the Simpsons, you know they're doing something special.

What's your favorite episode? Mine is "Itchy and Scratchy Land" or "Homer in Space."