Sean “Diddy” Combs’ many years of saying things in recording studios and occupying club booths finally culminated this week with his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but before we go ahead and criticize the Hollywood Sidewalk Star-Awarding Committee for lowering their standards, let’s take a quick look at some other slightly shaky Stars on the Walk of Fame:

Dishing out stars based on one starring role in one buzz-generating primetime tv show sets a tough precedent; what about stars for James Gandolfini, David Duchovny, Candace Bergen, or frickin’ Jerry Seinfeld? And if we’re nominating Franz for his pioneering work in male nudity on non-paid television, then surely we have to let the entire cast of Nip/Tuck stick their asses into a slab of cement too, right?

Miiiiight have jumped the gun on this one a little bit, Hollywood. Granted, the star came years before any domestic violence charges, and if you took away all the stars from people with spousal or substance abuse problems, you’d be left with just a full block of Fibber McGee and Molly. But why does Lando have a star and Luke, Leia, Chewy, and frickin’ James Earl Jones don’t? Or Wedge, for that matter?

While I’d always believed the novelty song genre to rank on the Hollywood legitimacy totem pole somewhere between Mime and Blogger Ranking a List of Questionable Walk of Fame Stars, surely we can all agree that Dr. Demento and “Weird” Al deserve the honor at least as much as the dude who unleashed “Disco Duck” on the world? And while we’re on the topic, why isn’t “Weird Al” in Cooperstown too?

Nothing against the show “Rugrats” (besides Angelica, the first character to make our ten-year-old selves yell “you whore!” at the tv screen), but this inclusion is just…bizarre. We’re giving a star to an entire group of animated babies? Don’t we now have to reward Spongebob, Pokemon, the Ninja Turles, Power Rangers, and for the hell of it, Rocko’s Modern Life? Answer: Yes, No, Yes, No, and F*ck Yes.

Sigh… Yes, every other host of “The Tonight Show” has a star, but on the other hand, every other host of “The Tonight Show” isn’t Jay Leno. I don’t say that just to obligatorily bash Leno, either — Letterman and Conan don’t have stars, meaning we’re basically just rewarding the phrase “Tonight Show” on a technicality. Or maybe “Collision Course” set him apart.

Ryan Seacrest definitely gets made fun of wayyy more often than he deserves. He’s the quintessential “Eff this dude, anyone could do that job,” “What do you want him to do differently, he’s just hosting a show?” “Whatever, I still hate him” knee-jerk celebrity who’s easy to rip on simply because he exists. That being said, it just seems a little odd to toss him in there when George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe don’t have stars. I guess they need to spread themselves out sh*ttily a little more?

So now we’re giving out stars based on whose Greatest Hits albums we bought when we were thirteen? Would you even recognize Steve Miller nowadays if he came up to you on the street and screamed “The Joker” into your eyes? Let’s get some stars for Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, The Who, Zeppelin, etc. before we start lowering the $5 Best Buy display into cement.

Just how vague are the criteria for getting a star, exactly? Disneyland is a place that exists and which people go to, that I will not dispute. But Walt Disney has a star, Mickey Mouse has a star, Donald Duck has a star, several of the tiny brooms from Fantasia have stars — Disney has been more than compensated Star-wise for their contributions to the entertainment industry. I think we can relegate the “Disneyland” star to the appropriately general Walk of Stuff alongside the handprints of pizza, the Six Flags Superman ride, Monticello, the A chord, etc.

John Tesh has enjoyed a lengthy, stable career in both the television and recording industries, but he’s also been a go-to punchline for the last… ever… or so. Maybe he’s just on the Walk to make the stars around his seem edgier? Just take a quick glance at this. And this. And this. Also, this. Ok, point made.

Here is the entire filmography for Strongheart the dog:

The Silent Call (1921)
Brawn of the North (1922)
The Love Master (1924)
White Fang (1925)
The Return of Boston Blackie (1927); thought to be the only Strongheart movie still in existence

In conclusion — You’re worthless, Strongheart the Dog. Eddie from “Frasier” hopes you died a painful, wormy death.

[For the record, our picks for Most Deserving Stars -- Bob Barker, Patrick Stewart, the aforementioned Fibber McGee and Molly, George "Spanky" Macfarlane, Irish McCalla, the list goes on and on...]