I now know why Gordon Ramsay uses so much foul language on his Fox shows "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares." Trying to cook can be a $%&#$ hard time.

Ramsay showed up at the TV critics meetings to talk about his new Fox series "Gordon Ramsay" Cookalong Live." During the new one-hour TV show, Ramsay will prepare several dishes that are easy to make and inexpensive.

To promote the show Ramsay arrived with loads of kitchen items. Each critic was given a metal bowl, a whisk, sugar and egg whites. The task was to create the meringue that would be put on ice cream to create Baked Alaska.

Whipping a few eggs to a white cream seemed like an easy task. Soon I would realize it would have been easier to walk to Alaska, buy a Baked Alaska and carry it back to Pasadena on my head.

Mark Burnett, the man behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," has come up with his own economic stimulus package. His new ABC show, "Shark Tank," is designed to help the small business owner -- one at a time.

The new reality show launches at 9 p.m. Sunday. Entrepreneurs with good ideas are given the chance to make their business dreams come true. All they have to do is convince the show's "Sharks," a bunch of self-made millionaires, they are worth the investment. Bad ideas are sent packing.

The Sharks are: Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul; Kevin Harrington, infomercial industry pioneer; Robert Herjavec, technology innovator; Daymond John, fashion icon; and Kevin O'Leary, financial expert.

At the movies:
"The Hurt Locker": Director Kathryn Bigelow crafts an exciting yet cerebral film about a team of bomb dismantlers in Baghdad. The action sequences are riveting, but there's an arc to the film that's more primal than anything -- not interested in political ideologies or morality, but rather confronting humanity's underlying impulses toward conflict. (Read Donald Munro's review here)

"(500) Days of Summer": An idealistic man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls for a woman (Zooey Deschanel) who doesn't believe in love. Director Marc Webb's smart structure and flights of fantasy work. This smart, funny look at relationships turns out to be one of the best "unlove" stories ever made. (Read Rick Bentley's review here)

On DVD:
"17 Again": A man (Matthew Perry) gets a second chance at high school when he turns into a teen (Zac Efron). There are moments that are so sickeningly sweet that any diabetics who opt to see the new Zac Efron film should be warned: Comedy could cause coma. Despite the heavy-handed writing, the film isn't a complete wash. (Read Rick Bentley's review here)

"Monk," 9 p.m. on the USA Network

The final season of "Monk" begins tonight with an episode that reveals the TV show that made quirky private detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) happy. The star of the series (which is very "The Brady Bunch" looking) is being threatened after she writes a book that tells all the dirty secrets.

"Monk" has constantly been a solid series. Catch the last new episodes while you can.

One of the best episodes of "The Simpson" had Homer Simpson being sent to a mental institution. There, he became friends with a very large white man who said he was Michael Jackson.

When Simpson gets released, he invites Michael to come to his home for a visit. Michael ends up writing a song for Bart to sing to Lisa as her birthday gift.

Everybody: "Lisa it's your birthday..."

It was a secret at the time Jackson did the voice and he was credited as John Jay Smith. Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa for two decades, says Jackson showed up at the recording session to work with the cast. She found him to be a rather shy person and a big fan of the show.

What you might not know was that it wasn't Jackson who sang the birthday song. His record company would not allow him to do the tune.

"Michael hand picked the person to sing the song. It was this skinny little white guy who sounded just like him. Imagine the pressure of singing like Michael Jackson in front of Michael Jackson," Smith said during breakfast. She had traveled to Pasadena to talk with TV critics about the 20th anniversary of her series.

That singer was Kipp Lennon. He is the younger brother of the female quartet The Lennon Sisters.