Critic's Help guide to Monday TV: Guest Stars In abundance, Where's Matt Lauer, 2 . 5 Males

Jon Cryer When you look at this, Present day well-traveled Matt Lauer might be on his method to his next destination. This is actually the tenth anniversary of his "Where on the planet Is Matt Lauer?" stunt (airing all week, beginning at 7am), so that as he informs our Stephen Battaglio, this may be his last.The Laugh Track: Here's what is happening on CBS' comedies: How I Met Your Mother (8/7c), Barney may finally have the ability to get free from putting on that hideous yellow duck tie, but freedom has a cost. ... I'd suggest beginning a consuming game for whenever a "vagina" joke is told on 2 Broke Women (8:30/7:30c), but who would like to risk alcohol poisoning? Max and Caroline earn extra dollars cleaning a hoarder's apartment, and that i question what amount of the junk reminds them of "junk." ... Watching Jon Cryer funnel Charlie Sheen may be the use 2 . 5 Males (9/8c), as Alan includes a schizo break when Walden's redecoration from the Malibu manse starts to get rid of all traces of their former owner. ... She might have left The Talk, but Carol Robinson Peete returns just to walk the walk on Mike & Molly (9:30/8:30c) like a lady with whom Mike's partner Carl is eager to score to start dating ?.Want more TV news? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!More visitors (it should be sweeps month): The large news on Fox's House (9/8c) may be the return of Taub and Chase towards the team - attempt to contain your excitement - but I'm going to be watching for that guest appearance of Battlestar Galactica/Law & Order: United kingdom vet Jamie Bamber because the patient-of-the-week, a pillar from the community who's been hiding plenty of dark secrets, which inevitably spill out once he's accepted to Princeton-Plainsboro. ... They have been making beautiful music (figuratively) together for any very long time, as well as on HBO's Bored to Dying (9/8c), Ted Danson takes singing training from wife Mary Steenbergen, guesting like a "wonderful pothead." Sarah Silverman also seems like a "friendship counselor," as Jonathan hopes to reconcile with George. ... Richard Burgi, gone although not forgotten from Desperate Average women, plays a suspect on ABC's Castle (10:01/9:01c) inside a situation that can take the boys - Castle and also the bromantic partners Esposito and Ryan - on the journey to Atlantic City, where Castle arranges a bachelor party for Ryan.What exactly else is on? ... A meteor strikes the colony on Fox's Terra Nova (8/7c), knocking out all of the energy and tech, departing the settlement susceptible to another potential Sixers invasion. ... The rest of the ballroom dancers on ABC's Dwts (8/7c) each must perform two individual programs: one a ballroom style they haven't done before, and also the second an "Instant Dance" carried out to music they are only seen. Will Nancy Sophistication even reach the finish from the show now? America, offer her (and us) a relaxation! ... National Geographic Channel's 4th annual "Expedition Week" is moored through the four-part series The Witch Physician Will Help You Now (10/9c), by which adventurer Piers Gibbon travels to exotic lands and cultures to research regional remedies. First stop: Hong Kong, where Gibbon brings along people struggling with chronic back discomfort and deficiencies in the olfaction to test chinese medicine, including tongue acupuncture along with a glass of penis wine. Bottoms up?Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!