As many of you pointed out, the dancer was actually wearing flesh-colored briefs under her dress. The network provided photos to the Washington Post's TV Column today, where you can clearly see the underwear. Guess everyone who said a female dancer was too smart to go on a TV show wearing a skirt without any protection was right.

However, the mock scandal was good for ratings. The ratings went up by about two million viewers for the show that aired the day after the news broke. And when the show's ratings are just at 7 million people, they need every pair of eyeballs they can get, even if that means using a transparent pair of undies to get them there.

Last night, when a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance celebrated making it to the next round, she got so excited she fell to the floor, writhing in excitement, and let the camera film up her skirt. Too bad she wasn't wearing any panties. Oopsie!

After the Janet Jackson debacle, where she showed her breast on live television during the Super Bowl halftime show, the reaction was immediate and fierce. After all, bare nipples are the greatest threat to our national order. Well, nipples and gay marriage are close, but nipples always win by a hair. Now there may have been a real live vagina on television, we have no idea what the precedents are. Viacom, the owner of CBS, paid $550,000 for showing first base, how much will Fox have to pony up for the whole infield?

Well, that depends on a few factors:

• Since this was taped television instead of live, did Fox know there was a cooch in the broadcast when it aired? If so, big fine.
• If not, why doesn't Fox have an official person in charge of making sure that no genitalia make it on to television? If they don't, big fine. If they hire one, thus stimulating the economy and our Puritanical sense of decency, then the fine will go down.
• Was this a stunt to get everyone talking about a show whose ratings are off from the summer season. If so, Fox better get out it's wallet. (Also, kudos).
• How many form letters will the Parents Television Council fool people into sending to the FCC? The number is a direct correlation to size of the fine.
• Will Glenn Beck or another cable new yahoo take up the cause? If so, the decibel level of his loudest, sternest scream on the subject multiplied by the square root of pi will be used to determine just how much a vagina on TV will cost.
• How many tween girls were blinded by seeing a woman's nether region on TV? Each one will be awarded $300, or a free pair of tickets to a Miley Cyrus concert (but, you know, the back rows, cause it's not like they can actually see anymore).
• Was the girl in the clip 18? If not, every person who watched it on YouTube will be tracked down by their IP address and thrown into jail for watching child pornography. If not, then it's cool. We're all just pervs.
• Is there an actual vagina on television? Cause if not, well, is that even indecent?

Broadcasting & Cable brings the joyous news: Our long national nightmare may be drawing to a close. If only we can re-open this investigation.

"The evidence in this case strongly suggests that CBS had access to video delay technology at the time of the 2004 Super Bowl," the commission said Tuesday in a brief to the Third Circuit Appeals Court in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl Reveal case. The FCC asked the court to remand the decision back to the FCC so it could investigate further its assertion that the violation was "willful."

If a TV network can fudge answers to a governmental body about the availability of time delay technology in a Super Bowl halftime show and get away with it after just a five year investigation, are we really a nation, at all?

Mintz-Plasse was telling a story about how Harrison Ford thought he was really funny (right...) and, while supposedly quoting the grizzled old actor, said "Your speech... was fucking hilarious." Kimmel didn't seem particularly fazed — he even congratulated McLovin on getting Indiana Jones to use profanity. But just so you don't think the censors were snoozing, a few minutes later, as you'll see in the clip, they bleeped him saying "goddamn."

In a sign of how pointless it is to compete against our superstar President — it's fucking 2:30 in the afternoon and we're just getting around to it — according to a very lazy search of the Internet, approximately three Obama-hating people were watching at the time.

Much of the country did manage to witness the offending digit-extension (above), however. That in turn elicited 18 separate complaints to the FCC from outraged Americans—citizens not all that different from you or us, save for their distaste for Aronosfky's obscene (but artistically assured) hand gesture. From the LAT:

"We received 18 complaints about the Golden Globes telecast," FCC spokeswoman Edie Herman wrote in an e-mail to The Times, "and the commission is reviewing the matter."

An NBC spokeswoman confirmed that it aired the Aronofsky gesture on the live telecast. "On the West Coast, it went to black for two seconds," the spokeswoman e-mailed. "Beyond that, we have no further comment."

We're in a very different climate from the post-NippleGate days, when the FCC could strike terror in the hearts of network-heads by affixing ludicrous penalty sums to exposed parts (somewhere in the vicinity of $250k per mammilla) of Janet Jackson's anatomy. Of course, that would be overturned four years later, and it's going to take something a lot worse than a middle finger to shock more than 18 Americans these days—especially when the airwaves have run amok with vulgarities like Rosie Live! and Cloris Leachman's malfunctioning nethers.

• Breaking: FCC reviewing NBC's Golden Globes telecast [LAT]

The unblurred wardrobe malfunction (courtesy of Survivor Sucks), after the jump (NSFW):

• Male Nudity Makes "Survivor" a Major Flop [TMZ]

Laugh all you want (we're right there with you), but hey — it worked. Follow the jump to read why.

"The airing of scripted indecency or indecent material in prerecorded programming would likely show recklessness, or may even constitute evidence of actual knowledge or intent," the judges wrote. "But when unscripted indecent material occurs during a live or spontaneous broadcast, as it did here, the FCC should show that the broadcaster was, at minimum, reckless in causing the indecent material to be transmitted over public airwaves."

The FCC argued that CBS was reckless in allowing the incident to occur. But the judges sided with CBS, which had argued the incident was unscripted and that the network had tried to prevent it by having "numerous script reviews and revisions" and "several wardrobe checks" and by implementing a five-second audio delay of the broadcast. CBS said video delay technology was not available at the time.

The best part of the judgment, though? As neither Jackson nor Timberlake are CBS employees, the network isn't responsible for their actions, premeditated or otherwise. And suddenly, we can't wait to see what a salivating Rupert Murdoch pulls out of his sleeve for Super Bowl XLIII next February; if this decision wasn't an engraved invitation to stage The Moment of Truth — Halftime Stripper Edition, then we don't know what would be.

[Photo: Getty Images]

• Court tosses FCC 'wardrobe malfunction' fine [LAT]

· Even Hollywood gets the blues. :( [Variety]
· Warner Bros. wins a bidding war for Daily Show writer Josh Lieb's book proposal I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President. [THR]

[Photo Illustration: Variety]

· Re-teaming alert! Jim Jarmusch will reunite his Broken Flowers co-stars Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton in The Limits of Control, a thriller/road movie about a "mysterious loner" up to no good. [THR]
· Jericho finally returns from hiatus, but to ratings close to those that earned it the short-lived cancellation that inspired outraged fans to bury short-sighted CBS executives in several tons of peanuts. Meanwhile, American Idol's two-hour Back to Hollywood episode put up the series' best numbers since its premiere. [THR]
· A cheerily delusional FCC chairman Kevin Martin tells the House of Representatives that he expects the coming transition from analog to digital television will be a smooth one, dismissing fears of nationwide riots induced by the unexpected, simultaneous darkening of millions of TV sets as "somewhat unlikely." [Variety]

Not only did Fox permit 'Til Death star Brad Garrett to spend a full minute alternately discussing Joely Fisher's generously displayed cleavage and sharing his desire to explore the area between her knees in a carnal fashion, it also allowed Charlie Sheen's image to be broadcast into the homes of millions of morally upright TV viewers, any of whom could have initiated a potentially disastrous FCC letter-writing campaign following their forced flashback to the actor's notoriously checkered sexual past.

• On TV, 'Extreme Caution' vs. Free Speech [ABC News]
• Previously: Fox Saves America From Silent Dirty Words, Blasphemy, And Fornication Talk At The Emmys [Defamer]

As today's THR notes, it was a Fox censor's itchy dump-button finger that triggered the jarring cuts, an attempt to avoid the post-Nipplegate wrath of the FCC for airing Romano's joke that "Frasier's screwing my wife," Heigl's silent mouthing of the word "shit" to express surprise that she'd actually won, and Field's taking of the Lord's name in vain ("goddamn"). We applaud the network's efforts to expunge these adulterous, scatological, and blasphemous references from the show, sparing millions of TV viewers—even the lip-readers!—from a potentially ugly controversy like the Jesus Can Suck It Incident that marred the Creative Arts Emmys earlier in the week.

• Fox steer clear of utter disaster [THR]