I am – Hercules!!

Ben Edlund authored this evening’s installment of “Point Pleasant,” which plays a bit like what “Desperate Housewives” might if “Desperate Housewives” wasn’t the most toothless, bland, timid, inoffensive and laugh-free “black comedy” since “Arli$$.”

This week Grant Show’s agent-of-Satan character does something to a Point Pleasant tour guide that compels her to keep bringing up, as confused families look on, the most grotesque and unsavory episodes of the seaside community’s history.

Edlund, you’ll recall, is a certified comedy genius. He created the “Tick” comic book and the animated series based thereon. He wrote the brilliant pilot for the brilliant live-action Patrick Warburton version of “The Tiek” too, and wrote the episodes about the 112-year-old supervillain and the trial of Destroyo.

In 2002 Edlund signed aboard Joss Whedon’s fabulous spaceship action comedy “Firefly,” where Edlund co-authored a hilarious (if unaired) installment about a ray-gun heist.

After Fox foolishly cancelled “Firefly,” Whedon brought Edlund over to “Angel,” where Edlund quickly created the peepee demon and the Incredible Krevlornswath, then briefly turned the title character into a muppet.

After Angel folded, “Global Frequency” recruited Edlund. When the WB failed to go forward with that project too, Edlund joined the staff of Marti Noxon’s “Point Pleasant.”

Tonight’s installment also reunites Noxon with actor Adam Busch, who played homicidal Buffybot builder Warren Meers during the last three seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which Noxon wrote, produced and directed.

If you're keen to see Edlund's episode, don’t fret too much about missing tonight’s you-can’t-fire-me-I-quit “Apprentice.” CNBC repeats it twice on Friday and twice more next Tuesday.

"Point Pleasant" airs 9 p.m. Thursday on Fox.

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