11.   Here is a look back at the dim bulbs and bright lights of the year, starting with the dark moments in alphabetical order.

12.   His attempt to deliver a fruit basket to GE headquarters after the dim bulbs bought NBC is one of the great moments of confronting the anti-hip in TV history.

13.   His qualities of reserve and self-effacement allow him to play the dim bulb well.

14.   I guess the only way to shed light on a stupefying obsession is with dim bulbs.

15.   If so, the dim bulb that blinded Ann Richards could be on his way to becoming a nite lite in the Oval Office.

16.   In the lighting fixtures of life, Trixie is one dim bulb, a fact that is bluntly underscored by her habit of talking in metaphor-mixing malaprops.

17.   Is being a dim bulb an impeachable offense?

18.   It helps that her SNL colleague Will Ferrell is on hand to play the dim bulb she lusts after.

19.   Kotite is not the dim coaching bulb that the Philly critics lately have made him out to be.

20.   Maybe the only way to shed a little light on a stupifying obession is with other dim bulbs.