If you're one of the five or six people who saw Bravo's "Situation: Comedy" last summer, the plot of the WB's new comedy, "Misconceptions," may sound familiar:

A successful career woman who 13 years before conceived her daughter through the services of a sperm bank that promised a smart, high-achieving donor, finds otherwise when she goes looking for said donor because her daughter's demanding to meet her father. Up until now, the chief male figure in the daughter's life has been her mother's brother, who has many things to say, most of them wisecracks, when it turns out that the donor isn't exactly what the woman had ordered all those years ago.

That was also the plot of one of the two finalists in the Sean Hayes-produced "reality" show competition, "Situation: Comedy." Six months ago, at a Bravo session, I asked Hayes about the "coincidence" and got exactly nowhere.

Turnaround being fair play, I had to ask the producers of "Misconception" -- which stars "Frasier's" Jane Leeves as the mother and "3rd Rock from the Sun's" French Stewart as the brother -- the same thing.

And, so OK, maybe it shouldn't have been the first question of the session, but I had the microphone and I'd waited a moment or so, while an uncomfortable silence took hold, for someone to ask a less-pointed one before I waded in.

Stewart, who could probably find shtick anywhere, jumped in before producers Michael Saltzman or Jeff Kleeman could say a word:

"Wait, wait. This is your first question? No dinner, no dancing, just straight for the boobs? I will hop down there like a kangaroo and beat your ass, lady. We are not going to take any crap today. All right? Nothing about my drinking. Nothing about, you know, her [gesturing to Leeves] problems with immigration. Nothing about [co-star David] Higgins' third nipple."

When Saltzman could finally get a word in edgewise, he explained that their show was written more than two years ago "on spec," which meant that without a designated buyer, the script likely made the rounds in Hollywood. He acknowledged to being, well, "a lot surprised" when he saw the concept surface on "Situation: Comedy," but ultimately concluded "because it was basic cable and [a] reality show and really had nothing to do with us ultimately, I didn't really give it more thought beyond that, but I was surprised at the similarities to our show."

Whereupon the ever-helpful Stewart chimed in: "It happens a lot, because like even right now, I'm developing a show that is going under the working title, 'The West Wing.'"

Higgins: "What's it about, French?"

Stewart: "Oh, you know, it's about the president and his group of people and it will go through election after election. You know, I'm hoping for the best."