The animated adventures of comedian Jim Gaffigan as a pasty superhero and Conan O'Brien as his emasculated sidekick – Pale Force, presented as shorts on Late Night with Conan O'Brien – was apparently so popular that NBC ordered  20 new episodes to air on Late Night before said episdoes are made available (and cell phone-downloadable) on the NBC website.

I didn't even know there was a first season!

This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2007.