Just when a Today show personality was becoming bearable

I'm a Good Morning America girl -- and I strongly dislike Katie, Al and Ann -- so I don't really have a lot of love for Matt Lauer. Although he has always struck me as the most watchable of the four, and I did appreciate his standing up to Tom Cruise, who is clearly insane, irrational and dangerously glib. Plus, the other day on Martha Stewart's daytime show -- during a segment about packing a suitcase that promoted his upcoming "Where in the world is Matt Lauer?" trip -- he totally called Martha out on how out-of-touch with reality she truly is. Apparently the "Where in the world..." sponsor provides Matt and crew with a tricked-out 737 for the voyage that's been outfitted like a flying hotel. At one point Martha said something like, "Well, I don't have my own 737." Matt quickly responded: "I have a feeling you fly pretty comfortably." Oh, snap!

All that said, my tide of pro-Lauer sentiment ebbed a bit today, when I discovered this for sale on MSNBC:
The futuristic space font! The graduated Lauer close-up, implying that he is getting closer to wherever in the world you are! The hopelessly outdated referencing of a cultural moment that was over an entire decade ago!

Maybe I'm just jealous because there aren't any "Why in the world does Charlie Gibson remind me so much of my dad?" t-shirts.