No matter how much goodwill the Emmy Awards engendered by nominating Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton for Friday Night Lights, when Tony Shalhoub is still hearing his name called for Monk, you know there must have been some snubs. Here now are the Movieline-approved five most egregious. Set your outrage level to apoplectic and click ahead to witness the carnage.
· Community and Parks and Recreation are (mostly) shut out
As predicted here yesterday -- amid some truly tone deaf calls, like no nominations for Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison; whoops! -- Community and Parks and Recreation were pretty much ignored by Emmy voters. The critical favorites could only score two nominations -- both by Parks and Recreation (Amy Poehler's deserved Best Actress in a Comedy nomination and best theme song). For Community, that means a big goose egg. Though as snubbed-for-Shalhoub star Joel McHale said after delivering the nominations, "It's OK. I phone it in."
· Chandra Wilson fails to get a fifth straight Best Supporting Actress nomination
Mock Grey's Anatomy if you will, but one thing has been consistently excellent on the fledgling series for the last five years: Chandra Wilson's performance as Dr. Miranda Bailey. After four straight nominations and a season closing arc that played to the rafters, you would think a fifth nomination would have come easily for the Grey's star. Nope! And while it's hard to argue with the other selections in the category -- Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks, Burn Notice's Sharon Gless, Damages' Rose Byrne and The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski -- shouldn't someone have found room for Chandra? Lord knows everyone loves Hendricks -- but was she really that good on Mad Men this season?
· Ed O'Neill left out of the Modern Family bonanza
How'd you like to be Ed O'Neill this morning? Your hit show, Modern Family, just scored a Best Comedy Series nomination, while every single one of your adult co-stars -- Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ty Burell -- all grabbed supporting noms too. Even Fred Willard got noticed as a guest star. But you? Nothing. Question: Does Modern Family even work without its twisted patriarch?
· FX series Justified and Sons of Anarchy forgotten about
Say hello to the snubs that made television critics spit up their bowl of Cheerios. With the exception of a score nomination for Justified, the two FX dramas were completely ignored. Maybe next year the Emmy voters can figure out what channel FX is on their cable system and go from there.
· The Late Show with David Letterman doesn't make the cut
Lost in the Lindsay Lohan-like FU jubilation of Conan O'Brien getting nominated for The Tonight Show -- meaning NBC will actually have to acknowledge his existence when they air the Emmys at the end of August -- is the fact that David Letterman was left out. And let's be honest: Team Coco or not, Letterman's Late Show was better than Conan's Tonight Show by a lot. Schadenfreude aside, nominating Conan over Dave just feels plain wrong.
But wait! What about Mary Louise-Parker, the stars of True Blood, Tracy Morgan, Friday Night Lights, Vincent Kartheiser, and all the other snubs? That's where you come in: Leave your favorite in the comments below.