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I don’t know why, but most of the TV shows I watched recently had main characters breaking out into song. First of all, Shannon sang that French song on Lost last week. On Veronica Mars, Veronica was investigating at a karaoke bar and ended up singing onstage. She was actually pretty good, but it had that fake actor-turned-singer sound to it. This week’s episode of The O.C. featured Sandy singing a few songs to Kirsten for their twentieth anniversary. Elsewhere on the FOX Network, it is Hal and Lois’ twentieth anniversary on Malcolm in the Middle. For no clear reason, Malcolm buys a guitar and sings a self-written song to his family. Incidentally, it turns out that his song is a re-hash of the tune of the Meow Mix commercial. Finally, on Joan of Arcadia, Joan joins the school musical and performs a big closing solo. This performance was the best of them all, since she actually did a pretty good song and her voice wasn’t bad either. Now, I just want to know why they’re all suddenly singing now.