Lorenzo's Pointless Laser

With one zap of Lorenzo Lamas' laser pointer on ''Are You Hot?,'' so many problems became so painfully clear -- and no, we're not referring to a contestant's allegedly imperfect thighs or undersize breasts. The C-lister's little green dot became the icon for a pointless fleshfest of a show that, in turn, exemplified an era that will heretofore be known as ABC's ''Reality Washout of the 2003 Midseason.'' The lineup -- ''All American Girl,'' ''The Family,'' and ''Celebrity Mole: Hawaii'' -- deftly embodied everything wrong with the genre.

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