I don’t know why it’s funnier when a school teacher says something stupid. It just is. So when they naively utter politically-incorrect nonsense, it’s enough to make you roar “That’s so wrong!” as you fall off the couch laughing. You’ll see what I mean tonight in the season premiere of Everybody Hates Chris and the series premiere of Aliens in America. “Ms. Morello” (aka Jacqueline Mazarella) was not intended to be a series regular, but her totally innocent putdowns of young-and-bussed Chris Rock have made her a fan fave in nearly every episode. No doubt you’ve also seen the Aliens promos in which an equally clueless educator refers to exchange student Raja’s religion as “Muslimism,” then asks him how it feels to be “so different.” They are some of the most amusing moments of tonight’s pilot, and we hope the Aliens teacher will be a weekly presence. These two CW Monday sitcoms are among the critics’ favorites, and the anti-politically-correct humor is a big reason why.

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