What’s the story with The United States of Tara? So it’s a show about a woman with multiple personalities produced by Stephen Spielberg. It was also supposedly written by Diablo Cody, but you’d never know this from any of the publicity materials. Why wouldn’t they put the name of its Academy Award winning creator on any of its ads? Could it be because she didn’t actually write it?

Well, whether she wrote it or not, it sounds like it’s got its fair share of the unbearably annoying pop-culture references that define that wacky Cody “style”. To wit:

So, here, we get, “Sometimes you make me feel like I’m living in a Lifetime lady-tampon movie”; “That dude is such a waste of hair product”; “Ive been diggin’ around your closest for an hour, and I still can’t fuckin’ get to Narnia”; “cluck-cluck” as a synonym for fried chicken; “Sudoku” as a racial slur; “Jell-O Pudding is for the children” said in Bill Cosby’s voice; and — this is T explaining how Tara found out that her daughter took a morning-after pill — “She went all CSI in that pubic thatch you call a backpack.”

If that last line made it into the final script, just imagine what they cut. What in the Hell does that mean?

And can you imagine anything worse than being the ear in Diablo Cody’s brain that has to listen to her thinking “Jell-O Pudding is for the children” in Bill Cosby’s voice and then laughing hysterically? That brain-ear has the worst job in Hollywood.