There's nothing on TV this week. That's why I'm going on vacation! Now please enjoy the following I recommended Television™ rerun.

Okay, listen up! This week marks the debut of Survivor: All Stars, wherein past Survivor contestants reunite on a secluded island and screw each other out of a million bucks. And to celebrate this occasion, here's another list of my pissy complaints about the show.

IT FETISHIZES SKELETONS! While many viewers are naturally attracted to the occasional nudity on Survivor, in reality, these people are only naked because their clothes have fallen off their starved, emaciated bodies! They look normal on day one; by day 30 a bunch of nude skeletons are walking around with big boobies. Which, okay, is kind of sexy. BUT IN A SICK WAY, SICKO!

ISN'T A MILLION DOLLARS ENOUGH? Along with returning favorites Sue Hawk, Rudy Boesch, Jenna Lewis, and the insane, but charming Rupert Boneham, Survivor: All Stars also features million-dollar-winners Richard Hatch, Ethan Zohn, and Tina Wesson! These greedy pricks already won their million smackers—and now they want more?!? But perhaps I'm being judgmental. Maybe these people are putting their money in some kind of direct-deposit account... a direct deposit of COCAINE going right into the First National Bank of Their NOSE!

I DIDN'T LIKE THESE GUYS THE FIRST TIME AROUND, AND I HAVE TO SEE THEM AGAIN? Over the past seven installments of Survivor, there have been 112 contestants—and how many have been truly memorable? A handful at best, and then only if they turn out to be bipolar monsters. So if the bipolar monsters are the ones making this show successful, then why in God's name are they staffing All Stars with dead wood like Rob Cesternino and Tom Buchanan—who I can't even fawking remember? Let's stop beating around the freaking bush! Let's break some crazy people out of a mental asylum (or perhaps your workplace), stick 'em on an island... and put on a show called Bipolar Monster Island!

Or... better yet! While bipolar contestants are really interesting, you know how sometimes insane people think they're superheroes? Well, how about a show where you break some crazy people out of a mental asylum (or perhaps your workplace), give them superhero costumes, and let them fight each other on a deserted island—which we can call Crazy Superhero Island!

OH! OH! And here's an even better idea! There's nothing funnier than a game of "donkey polo," right? So how about a show where bipolar mental patients dressed as superheroes play "donkey polo" against such Hollywood has-beens as Patrick Swayze, Fran Drescher, and funnyman Louie Anderson? And we can call it Celebrity Donkey Polo Island: Crazy Style!

See... that's why I get so frustrated with reality shows like Survivor. I have to think up everything for these people!recommended

This Week on Television

Friday, August 24

8:00 MISS TEEN USA

What parents don't want to see their daughter strutting around like a prostitute?

Saturday, August 25

9:00 JEKYLL

Season finale! Tom realizes he can no longer control his Victorian naughty alter ego, the horny Hyde!

Sunday, August 26

8:00 TEEN CHOICE

A ceremony honoring things teens love—as if they give a crap about anything except masturbation and High School Musical.

Monday, August 27

10:30 LIFE OF RYAN

Debut! A reality show about wealthy 17-year-old skateboard phenom Ryan Sheckler... who just wants a normal life. Oh, BOO-HOO-FAWKIN'-HOO!

Tuesday, August 28

10:00 ROOM 401

Season finale! A scary version of Punk'd—except the victims have poop in their pants.

steve@thestranger.com