Can a TV show play in smart playlists on iPod?

I have a 80G iPod Classic. Apple released a free song video from Ryan Adams as a TV show. I like the song and would like it to play in my smart list music rotation. The TV show syncs to the iPod, and I can play it manually (I do have sync settings to transfer 'all' TV shows).
When I look through the iPod content on my Mac, the song shows in the playlist, but it does not show up in those exact same playlists on the iPod, only in the TV show list. It will come up in the normal rotation on the Mac.
This is a very minor annoyance, but am wondering if I have missed something in the settings or if this is just something that the iPod sees differently than the Mac and is not possible to accomplish.

Duh, just change the format to music video. Just found out this was unanswered while checking out another post.

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For the sake of this discussion, let's assume I have
a workout playlist and a dining jazz playlist in
iTunes.
Q1: I understand that I can manually select "a"
playlist in iTunes and move that to my iPod shuffle.
And I understand how to manually order the songs to
be stored in that same order on the shuffle. Can I
move both playlists and have both ordered they I way
I choose in iTunes? I am assuming yes.
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key sequence on the shuffle to do this? I understand
the shuffle button to use shuffle or not shuffle. I
want to play only workout songs while working out and
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dining to only get the playlist I want for that
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