While most high school seniors spend the last night before the first day of school getting ready for the upcoming year, Missy Franklin spent hers a little differently: She appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."

Then again, Franklin, a four-time gold medalist in London and the breakout star of the Olympics, didn't have a typical summer either. Odds are her  "what did you do over the break?" essay is going to be slightly more interesting than her classmates.

Franklin discussed her hectic post-Olympic schedule, whether she'll watch her races on DVR and whether she's actually going to swim in college instead of turning professional. Also, Leno bucked the odds by not mentioning that "Call Me Maybe" video. That's a bigger upset than Michael Phelps finishing fourth in the 400 IM.

Franklin was Leno's second guest of the night, following Sylvester Stallone. He didn't stay out on set to greet her like most of Leno's guests, presumably because a 17-year-old girl towering over the star of

The top five performers of the men's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics. (Getty Images)

The men's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics is now behind us, with the U.S. winning its second straight gold, Spain taking its second straight silver and a new rising international basketball power in Russia earning a bronze for its first medal since the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. Dozens of players competed hard and well over the course of the two-week tournament, but which performers stood above the rest? Hit the jump for Fourth-Place Medal's All-Olympic Men's Basketball Team, plus a few near misses and some dudes I just dug watching.

(AFP/Getty Images)Viewers were left wondering what happened after NBC cut some iconic British performances out of the Olympics Closing Ceremony on Sunday.

Fans looking forward to hearing the Who, Muse, and Ray Davies of the Kinks instead got a commercial-free airing of the new NBC comedy "Animal Practice."

Cue the outrage. At the handle #NBCfail, complaints rolled in. Wrote @ninatypewriter, "I think NBC has managed to become even less popular than Congress."

Or as @BookSavvy put it, "'Gee, I can't wait for the #ClosingCeremonies to be over so I can watch Animal Practice' - No One Ever."

The network did air the Who after "Animal Practice" and the local news, around midnight. But that didn't seem to satisfy some fans who couldn't believe the snubbing of Muse, whose contribution was particularly important to the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Louis Vuitton ad

Michael Phelps is back in the water, sort of. The Speedo-clad superhero of the U.S. Olympic swim team is taking the world's fanciest bath in a new Louis Vuitton ad.

Phelps may have retired from competitive swimming, but that isn't going to stop him from making a living in the water. The new ad has the all-time winningest Olympian sitting in a bathtub wearing nothing but Speedos and goggles. Goggles? You may be able to make the case for wearing something resembling clothing in the tub, but who wears goggles for a few inches of water?

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We may have just discovered the secret to Michael's success. Perhaps it wasn't his superhuman physique or his incomparable work ethic. Maybe it was just a pair of lucky goggles. And they seem to be working in and out the pool. If you've had a chance to see who Michael is dating these days, you wouldn't go anywhere without them either.

Phelps apparently, at least in the ad, carries his

4x400 champs (Getty Images)

The United States took over the medal count from China last Wednesday and never looked back.

With some help from hoops, the track and the ladies, the Yanks finished with 46 golds and 104 total medals to easily outdistance second-place China, which tallied 38 golds and 87 total medals. The U.S finished with 29 silvers and 29 bronze to top the list in the second- and third-place columns as well. Women made the biggest impact, claiming 29 of the 46 U.S. gold medals, which would be good enough for a second-place tie in the gold-medal count with Britain if they competed on their own.

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Russia finished third in the total count with 24 gold and 82 total medals, while the host Brits put up an impressive tally of 29 golds and 65 total medals.

Some of the key U.S. medals down the stretch came on the basketball court, where LeBron James led the men's hoops team to a second straight gold with a tight win over Spain on Sunday, while Geno Auriemma's  team claimed

Jessie J, performing with Queen (Getty Images)

The closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics paid powerful testimony to the most important British musician of all time... Jessie J.

Well, apparently that's what the director, Stephen Daldry, believes, since he not only had the provincially popular songstress singing the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancin'" but also reappearing at the big finale to belt out "We Will Rock You." There is no cold shower quite like the one that occurs when the surprise lead singer for a climactic Queen reunion turns out to be Jessie J.

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Daldry (whose most recent film was the dud Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) was probably never destined to win the kudos for his musical tastes that the opening ceremony's director, Danny Boyle, did. But his presentation was still greeted with an unexpected degree of virulence in the Twitter-verse, as the artsier first half of the ceremony gave way to an apparently random assortment of once or currently popular British

timothy spallThe Closing Ceremony of the London Summer Olympics was full of music, stars, and culture. Below, a recap of some of the moments that may have had non-Brits saying, "Wait, what just happened?"

Is it Prince Henry or Prince Harry?

When Prince Harry made his grand entrance at the start of the Games, you might have done a double take when his name was announced. "Prince Henry," the announcer said.

Did somebody just make an epic mistake, calling the redheaded prince by the wrong name? Nope. While the English may know this already, for those who don't, the prince's official name is Henry Charles Albert David. Folks call him Harry for short.

Who was the guy playing Winston Churchill?

That was popular character actor Timothy Spall. The London-born actor has appeared in several "Harry Potter" flicks as well as "Sweeney Todd," "Enchanted," and "The King's Speech" (in which he played Churchill).

Spall wasn't quoting Churchill after he emerged from the top of Big Ben. The words were from

The most eagerly anticipated element of the London Games' Closing Ceremony was the reunion of the Spice Girls, and one of them in particular stole the spotlight. Mel B performs at the Closing Ceremony (AP)

Melanie Brown, aka "Mel B," aka "Scary Spice," was front and center for much of the performance, which involved the Spice Girls singing their hits on top of cabs driving around the Olympic Stadium. The cars came together in the center of the stadium stage, and Mel B was in the center of the group when the cabs came to a stop.

She stood out in other ways, as well. She sported a sparkling bodysuit (taking notes, perhaps, from the publicity-savvy Jennifer Lopez during a New Year's bash) and seemed to be injecting more energy into the performance than any other Spice Girl. Mel B even got a little solo moment early in the performance, which included renditions of the hit songs "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life."

The 37-year-old singer looked especially good after giving birth to three kids since the Spice Girls' first "retirement"