Fans lined Hollywood Boulevard near the iconic Graumann’s Chinese Theatre on Wednesday night in Hollywood, the street occupied by a huge red carpet tent lined with throngs of media and photographers jostling for position. One by one the stars of Marvel’s The Avengers arrived and made their way down, waving to screaming fans and enduring the barrage of media scrutiny about their clothes, the roles, the future of the franchise and more.

Every once in a while a TV show comes along that presents itself as food for thought for intelligent adults instead of sugar-coated fairy floss for pubescent morons. Only a few come to mind … M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues and ER among them … but now The West Wing joins them

This time it’s the eeevil pharmaceutical industry breeding the bloodthirsty behemoth in pursuit of a miracle cure, and when it gets loose only one man can accompany the implausibly young and hot herpetologist in bringing it down — none other than the Hoff himself.