You know how every Twilight Zone episode is either directly or indirectly about a guy who feels like he's going crazy because he wakes up one day and the whole world is different, but he's still like the only one who realizes it and feels totally insane and left out as a result? That's how I feel whenever a new Tyler Perry movie comes out.

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Tyler Perry's latest movie, Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, opens tonight. The movie centers around a no-nonsense elderly black woman, Madea (played by Tyler Perry), who goes to prison, for some reason, and I assume something wacky happens when she gets there that inevitably ends in the empowerment of young black women everywhere. It is Perry's third feature film that focuses on Madea and it will, in all likelihood, make a whole lot of money. Do you know what I said back in February of 2005 when I saw previews for this new movie,Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman? "Who the hell is Tyler Perry?" And, you know what? I still have no idea. I mean, I know who he is on a literal level- he's the writer/director/star of all those Tyler Perry movies. But at the time, Tyler Perry hadn't made all those Tyler Perry movies, so he was still just regular old Tyler Perry. So why does he take the possessive route by calling his movie Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad, Black Woman, as if we were all supposed to know who he was already, even though that was his first movie?

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Sure, at the time, he had some successful plays under his belt, but so does Martin McDonagh. and you've never heard of him. You know why? Because he didn't try to bill his first movie as