10. The actors are holding each others' cue cards.

9. Laugh track consists of a guy with a wet, hacking cough

8. You start thinking "maybe I'll go listen to that new Roger Clinton CD."

7. Title contains the words "The" and "Mommies"

6. Actors frequently break character and scream: "Good Lord, does this suck!"

5. The biggest laugh of the night involves a dead chicken in underpants.

4. Big purple dinosaur keeps biting the children

3. Skinny gap-toothed host reads lame list.

2. Show's premise: man with bionic ass

1. It's on FOX.