There's the teenaged character who performs a circumcision on himself, and later engages in three-way sex with two female classmates, and in another episode has a lengthy affair with a middle-aged woman who turns out to be a transsexual who was is also having sex with her teenaged adopted son, who ultimately kills himself. There's another character who is shown having oral, anal and vaginal sex with a doll, imagining he was raping the porn star on whom the doll was based.

There's the morgue worker who saves his dead sister's head to assemble, along with assorted other female body parts, a Frankenstein-like monster with which to have sex. There is the rapist who rapes both women and men (the star gets it anally) and then slashes their faces.

There's the surgeon who, we learn, was born without proper male genitals, has a sister who, like he, is also deformed and was also the product of an incestuous relationship, and so he has an incestuous relationship with her. The main surgeons are more normal. If they're not visiting prostitutes for threesomes, these adults go to college parties to have college girls perform oral sex on them.

Star-dimmed Hollywood celebrities are lining up, eager to be part of this dizzying complexity. Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Anne Heche have made guest appearances. Vanessa Redgrave has played the role of a grandmother who, among other things, has sex with one of the surgeons during her daughter's wedding and later smokes pot with her grandson. Joan Rivers has made appearances as a character requiring face-lifts, and last year appeared as herself, offering a testimonial (including a demonstration) for a semen-based facial cream.

This year even more has-beens will participate. Jacqueline Bisset, Brooke Shields and Rosie O'Donnell will be featured. Mario Lopez ("Saved by the Bell") will have a "Brokeback Mountain" shower-scene moment with one of the main characters. Kathleen Turner will play the role of a phone-sex operator who wants a voice lift. Catherine Deneuve's character will have her dead husband's ashes inserted into her breast implants. And 74-year-old Larry Hagman will play a character whose mid-stage prostate cancer has left him in need of larger testicles.

They've all made the industry trade papers now, and presumably are gloriously happy.