Pants-Off Dance-Off

STRIP TEASE Best-of host Sweetin is gently snarky — but never cruel — when the would-be 21st century Fred and Gingers drop trou

On Fuse's happily bizarre Pants-Off Dance-Off, contestants — college students, little people, women who claim to be mermaids — enter a room and strip-dance to a music video for ''cash prizes.'' As they groove (or pass their shirt between their legs like a basketball), they chat to the camera. One sexagenarian discusses his chickens before tossing off his beret; young Bernard proclaims unironically that nudity is okay ''as long as it's done in the right place and right setting.'' (The final revelation of pixelated naughty bits is saved for the show's website.) Now in reruns — Full House's Jodie Sweetin hosts a best-of — Pants-Off works because it's not cruel: The VJ's comments may veer into snarky, but they're never mean. It almost wouldn't matter if they were, as these people shucking down on national TV seem entirely blissful — unmockably so.