George Takei helps slice through the cheese of "Wanna Bet?"

Out icon George Takei has followed up his country singing performance on Secret Talents of the Stars with an appearance on a show that harkens back to the heydays of glorious trainwrecks like Pink Lady & Jeff.

The show is called Wanna Bet?, and it's an American version of a German game show, hosted by the British comedy duo Ant and Dec (It's like a commercial for the United Colors of Crap).

George is one of the celebrity guests on the show, along with ... wait for it ... Harland Williams, Sherri Sheppard, and Tom Green. (AKA "Hell's Conga Line.") The fact that George (who can sometimes come across as a bit "eccentric") manages not to be the oddest one on the panel says a lot.

Please spare a thought today for Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg

The show has the four stars competing (for charity) to see if they can successfully guess whether a contestant with an unusual talent will be able to succeed or fail (it's basically "stupid human tricks" for money). They start out at $25,000 and wager parts of it on each player, and whoever has the most money at the end will win that money for his charity.

The first contestant is a former anthropologist who's going to try to hula hoop a 50-pound rubber tractor tire for 45 seconds, which leads to this awesomeness:

Sherri: "I think you should have stayed an anthropologist, cause you can dig up my bones anytime"

Harland: "I think he's got to succeed, because my father always told me, son, always wear your rubber"

And this is when the show moves from groan-inducing to Hall of Fame badness. Because it's a "family" show, TPTB decided that Harland's line was too "racy", so they add the word "tire" after "rubber". The only problem is that it's blatantly obvious that the word "tire" was added afterwards, and even though the line now makes absolutely no sense as a joke, the panel and audience laugh uproariously.

See if George was able to win after the break.

As I said, somehow George managed to retain his dignity throughout, even when faced with a malfunctioning bidder (which kept putting their wagers in wrong ... how the hell did this show make it to air?) and the contestant whose talent was ... licking cd's. (Yes, this guy could tell the title and artist of a cd by licking it ... and he succeeded!)

George was the ultimate winner of the night, earning over a hundred grand for the Japanese American National Museum. To win it, he was able to guess correctly each time, which means his "weird"-ar is functioning properly.

You can see the entire episode HERE, and I think you'll see that it's proof positive that anything will make it on TV these days.