It's ridiculous that a show like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is considered one of the most subversive shows on television. Christ in a bag of cats, people! The show is not subversive if my grandma prefers Carson and his ugly belts over my twice-yearly visits to her rest home!

You wanna see subversive? I'll show you subversive! In just over a week, THE MOST SUBVERSIVE SHOW I'VE EVER SEEN will be returning for another slam-bang season: Wonder Showzen—Fri March 31, MTV2, 9:30 pm—is so subversive I'm astonished it ever made it to the tube. The retarded brainchild of New Yorkers John Lee and Vernon Chatman—self-proclaimed artists, rock musicians, television executives, and sex-collective members—Wonder Showzen is a viciously hilarious antigovernment, antireligious screed disguised as a classic children's show... with naughty puppets.

Consider Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Zoom, or any number of kiddie shows you've come to know and love. Then take those same shows and add atheism, masturbation jokes, cannibalism, anarchy, and puppet-on-puppet oral sex. Hosting the show is a group of puppets led by a derby-wearing yellow furball named Chauncy who every week goes on a new adventure—which generally ends horribly. For example, in one episode, Chauncy and a (real) little girl named Kaitlyn decide to take a rocket to outer space—and end up accidentally killing God (and then eating Him). Whoops.

Wonder Showzen live action segments feature a cast of pubescent kids in a variety of wildly un-PC situations, such as performing a musical dance tribute to slavery, or defining "love" as "something special between my dog's butt and the carpet." But my favorite segment is called "Beat Kids," which features a 9-year-old reporter named Trevor. When Trevor visits the horse track, he asks the trainers if slow horses "get sent to the chop suey factory." In another particularly offensive (and therefore hilarious) segment, he dresses up like Adolf Hitler and asks passersby, "What do you think is wrong with the youth of today?"

Like the quickly paced kiddie shows it parodies, the jokes in Wonder Showzen are piled on fast and furious, with blink-and-you-miss-it gags involving pigs (what they call "Hindu kryptonite"), milking cows ("I saw my daddy doing that in the bathroom!"), and Abraham Lincoln ("It never occurred to me to shave my beard and free the slaves—though I have thought about shaving the slaves and freeing my beard!").

And for the shortsighted few too goddamn cheap to invest in cable or satellite, Wonder Showzen: Season One is coming to DVD on Tuesday, March 28. Did'ja hear that, Grandma?? That means it's time to dump Carson Kressley and check out the true "King of Subversive TV," Wonder Showzen. (And don't forget, Granny: There are no TVs in the chop suey factory!) recommended