Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole returns to Adult Swim on January 8th of next year for a second season. Helping hype the next batch of 10 episodes, series creator Dino Stamatopoulos is refreshingly self-deprecating and somewhat critical of the inaugural season in this behind-the-scenes assembly that takes us to the show’s new home at Starburns Industries.

Tomorrow night at 8:30pm ET/PT on FOX, we’ll be treated to a new Peanuts holiday special. Would you believe that this is the 45th special? It’s also the 1st not produced without the late Bill Melendez. The hour-long special, titled Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, was produced by Wildbrain, the team producing HBO’s The Ricky Gervais Show and Yo Gabba Gabba!. The piece, which was adapted from comic strip material, was directed by Frank Molieri and Andrew Beall (who also provides the ‘voices’ of Woodstock and Snoopy). It’s also available on DVD. From what I’ve heard, FOX and the Schultz estate are closely watching how it performs tomorrow night, and imagining several more if an audience shows up. Here’s a clip:

In tonight’s South Park episode, titled The Poor Kid, Cartman struggles in the absence of Kenny, the poorest kid in school. Here’s a clip below. Speaking of the ‘have-nots’ – after tonight, we will have not another South Park episode for a solid 4 months, because this, my friends, is the season finale. Booo! Now it’s time to start saving up for a trip to NYC to see The Book of Mormon.

The last few years have seen The History Channel diverge from their roots, broadcasting series like UFO Hunters and The Nostradamus Effect. Tonight’s South Park episode takes a look at this curious programming trend in A History Channel Thanksgiving. Here’s a clip, in which we see a series that re-imagines the meeting of the pilgrims and the native americans as more of an Avatar style war of the worlds.

Tonight at 10pm on Comedy Central, the latest South Park episode, titled simply 1%, we’ll see Matt and Trey’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Cartman, who has battled to be cool in awesome episodes like Breast Cancer Show Ever, is singled out as uncool. Here’s a clip:

It’s a tradition that’s older than most of today’s college students – The Simpsons Halloween Treehouse of Horror episode. This Sunday (8/7c, on FOX) we’re being treated to the 22nd (XXIII) episode in the series in which Bart transforms into an alien avatar.

I gotta think there’s another 20 second clip from tomorrow’s episodes of South Park that would get me more excited for the release. Tomorrow night on Comedy Central the curtain drops on Broadway Bro Down, in which Randy discovers a passion for musicals. I suspect Matt and Trey are instilling this episode with some of their experiences from the last year, in which they released the award-winning smash hit, The Book of Mormon. Here’s the smallest sampling of what’s in store.