If there's one major benefit to being off work for holidays, it's the opportunity to watch daytime television that usually goes missed. It's almost enough to make someone want to be at home everyday to watch such quality programming. A few observations:

- While the Today Show can be usually considered entertaining and informative, the decision for Kathie Lee Gifford to be on the show is mystifying. Who knew she was even still around. Now that her beloved kids are grown up and Regis replaced her with a far cuter and (slightly) less annoying cohost, is she relevant in the least? Let's hope not. Maybe it was some special thing since some of the regulars on the Today Show are off for the holiday. Either way, she was on there with this Hoda lady and it's less-than-even-tolerable.

- The Price Is Right with Drew Carey hosting just is not as good as the Bob Barker version. Sure, Bob was 147 years old and had been doing it a long time, but it's easy to miss his performance. Drew Carey has been great in pretty much everything he's done, but it just feels forced and a little bit of a farce that he's the guy on TPIR. Yes, that's "TPIR" just like they put on the fake license plates on the giveaway cars on the show. Or at least they used to do that. Maybe that has changed too, which would be almost as disappointing as Drew Carey's performance as host.

- The past two days of daytime television have been augmented by the inclusion of much pro football yesterday and much college football today. Daytime television would be great if there was live football on everyday, but that simply isn't the case. Even watching old games on ESPN Classic isn't super-great, so a conclusion can be drawn. Daytime jobs should be kept and extremely crappy television should stay on during daytime.