For those viewers who like their summer T.V. fare served with a mindless, heaping side of bitch slap, look no further than VH1's newest reality show, I Love Money. Bringing together former contestants from Flavor of Love 1 and 2, Rock of Love 1 and 2, and I Love New York 1 and 2 eight of your favorite artificially augmented ladies and eight chiseled, gangster and/or perverted guys (talking to you Mr. Boston) have decided to skip over their quest for love and just get down to the real reason they're on reality TV—money. The contestants will vie for $250,000 as they simultaneously live, hook up, and hate on each other in a mansion located in Huatulco, Mexico. Over the course of the show, the contestants will be put through a series of "mental and physical challenges based on the most memorable moments of the shows they were on." Think bed wrestling, a spitting contest, and pole-climbing. In other words, great!

In last night's debut episode, 17 contestants arrived at the mansion and after a quick spurt of energy resulting in the grabbing of bedrooms, alliance-forming, enemy-bashing, and the scouting of potential sex partners, they were asked to share the reasons why they needed the cash. Answers ranged from "strippers" and "spreading the word on mentally challenged dogs" to the ability to build a "fully-equipped dungeon" in the basement to keep a dominatrix business up and running. From that well of unabashed selfishness and fake altruism, the first challenge was issued.

Both guys and girls had to don black string-bikinis and enter a money booth. The two contestants who grabbed the most pesos in 30 seconds would be elected captains and select teams that would compete against each other for the rest of the show. The one leftover person would be sent packing. With Midget Mac (I Love New York Season 2) and Real (I Love New York Season 1) refusing to participate for reasons mainly involving keeping it real, the remaining 15 players started stuffing cash in their pants and in their bikini tops. Hoopz, who beat New York to win season one of Flavor of Love and White Boy from the first season of I Love New York won the challenge, and were immediately subject to an afternoon of ass-kissing and pitches from the other contestants on why they should stay and be picked for their teams. Some used genuine pleas, while others, like Meagan from Rock of Love 2 used breasts and butt crack. At the end of the episode, the contestant who mostly used insults, Midget Mac, was the lonely soul left standing and was dismissed from the house.

From the season previews, the show seems to consist of little more than the challenges interspersed with bouts of yelling, buckets of tears, and dozens of cat fights. Hey, it's better than Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. We're in!