According to this MediaBistro report, TV Guide recently asked the top presidential candidates in both parties to name their favorite television shows. The candidates' (admittedly frivolous) replies are nonetheless interesting, because they reveal something about the sort of frivolity each campaign favors. For example, Hillary Clinton named Grey's Anatomy among her favorite television shows, and while I'm not sure about much in life, I am sure that Clinton probably hasn't seen more than a couple of episodes of Grey's Anatomy, if that many. And yet Grey's Anatomy also happens to be the sort of show that women who like Hillary Clinton are inclined to enjoy, and the sort of show viewers of which are people whom Clinton would like to like her too. John Edwards named Boston Legal one of his favorites, which is clever, since he's a lawyer. And Fred Thompson named Sportscenter, which is probably true, but also probably happens to be the favorite show of many guys who are inclined to like Fred Thompson. The two strangest replies, which suggest they truly came from the candidates themselves, were Barack Obama's choice of SpongeBob Squarepants and Mitt Romney's choice of Lost. Obama may enjoy watching television with his kids, as he tells TV Guide, but that doesn't necessarily mean he has to enjoy the programming itself. Part of the fun of watching TV with kids is ... watching it with kids. Yet Obama truly seems to enjoy SpongeBob. Romney's choice of Lost, meanwhile, confirms that he's a closet science fiction fan.