Target & Bravo sittin' in a tree, selling you bad DVDs: the channel's picked our local red-themed retail behemoth for the exclusive sales of sell DVD versions of such top series as "The Real Housewives" DVDs. But wait, there's MORE: you'll also get "Flipping Out" and "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List." Only at Target.

Bravo used to be the arts channel when cable began, the highbrow place with documentaries about Esperanto versions of Puccini, the channel everyone pointed to when they wanted to show how uplifting and edjumacational cable could be. This changed in the early 2000s, when the company realized their slogan might as well be "Bravo: the channel everyone says they watch, but don't," and stopped making programming people pretended to watch. Wikipedia says the station is now seen by 80 million people, but I suspect that's the number of homes in which one could theoretically view Bravo, or have walked by a TV when Bravo is on. You'd have to smear glue to the sofa and nail my feet to the floor to make me watch Real Housewives. Or nail them to the coffee table; more relaxing posture.

What do the people of the world think of this momentous decision? Let's go straight to the font of all wisdom, comments on Yahoo News sites:

So . . . a fan, I take it? Obviously someone who watches. She'll probably buy the DVD, too, just to maintain the level of contempt required to feel better about things. That's the point of these shows, after all: reminding you that more attractive women with lots of money and plastic surgery are worse people than you, even if they can spell.