We don’t write enough about Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? here.  Partially because I still am not a fan of the show.  Partially because nothing interesting ever happens on it.  However, FOX is attempting to change that by throwing in a lot of celebrities this season.  I mean a lot.  We have famed game show winners, supermodels, Nobel laureate, and more.  Because, you know, adding celebrities to a show usually works.

Right now it looks like ten celebrities have signed on.  Included in the list is supermodel Kathy Ireland, actor Dean Cain, musician Gene Simmons, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, former fat person now out of a job personality Star Jones, actress Jennie Garth, astronaut Robert Gibson, zookeeper Jack Hanna, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate George Fitzgerald Smoot III (who has the snobbiest name I’ve ever heard in my life), and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings.  It’s at least five episodes of the 22 currently scheduled airings.  Honestly, it’ll probably be in the area of seven or eight episodes since they love to stretch stuff out.  Isn’t this stuff what killed Weakest Link and a lot of other shows which threw as many celebrity shows as they could?  I mean it’s nice that they are still giving the lowest scoring people on audition exams the ability to play the majority of a time.  But over a third of the episodes will be celebrities.  Isn’t it a bit much?

Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?’s new season kicks off on Friday, September 5 with a two hour episode featuring Kathy Ireland.