I confess. Tonight I watched the second installment of The Surreal Life. It’s basically the bottom gutter of all reality shows. They find the worst b-list celebrities and throw them all into a house together. This installment includes televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, Erik Estrada (CHiPs), porn star Ron Jeremy, Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Traci Bingham (Baywatch), and Trishelle Canatella (The Real World: Las Vegas).

As dumb as the show is, it’s hilarious. My favorite part is watching Tammy Faye interact with — well, everyone. It’s like watching the Pharisees hanging with the lepers. Actually it’s not that bad. Tammy does a pretty decent job of not being incredibly judgmental. She has to live with these people, and she’s doing a decent job of showing them love.

My favorite moment was when she plugged her ears during one of Rob’s profanity-laden bleep sessions. Then she asked him why he always swears, and admits her penchant for the word “crap.” She said she was on Christian TV the other night and said crap and they bleeped her out. I laughed out loud. Then she said she had to resort to something else, but they bleeped that out. I’m curious if she actually swore or if they just bleeped out whatever she said for effect. Either way it was a really funny moment. I’m just envisioning Tammy Faye on a Billy Graham TV special and suddenly she’s bleeped out for saying crap. Now everybody thinks she said something ten times worse.

Ah, Christian TV. The only thing more surreal than The Surreal Life.