There’s no denying that reality TV keeps getting more and more ridiculous. It’s as if networks are constantly grasping at straws, trying to create the next big cult favorite. And if the pitch isn’t outrageous enough on its own, a surefire way to spice things up is by slapping “Celebrity Edition” on the title. For better or for worse, ABC has proven that they have this reality TV formula down to a science with their latest celebrity competition show, “Splash.”

Based on a British series of the same name, “Splash” features ten D-list celebrities who train for and compete in weekly diving competitions. Yeah, you read that right—it’s celebrity diving. Coached by Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis, celebrities like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kendra Wilkinson and Drake Bell (to name the most well known of the bunch) must struggle through an intense six-week training period full of belly flops and mental breakdowns. Then the competitors don flashy swimsuits and show off their skills while being judged by 2012 Olympic gold medalist David Boudia, U.S. diving performance director Steve Foley and a live studio audience. At the end of each episode, the competitors with the two lowest scores compete in a dive-off, and the loser is eliminated.

If you’re like me and you became weirdly obsessed with diving during the London Olympics, you’ll probably find watching this show to be particularly painful. After seeing English diver Tom Daley nail a backward two-and-a-half somersault, two-and-a-half twist with a pike last summer, watching 417-pound comedian Louie Anderson deliver a sloppy swan dive is downright sad.

In fact, most of the celebrities competing in this episode had pretty boring dives. And therein lies the biggest problem with “Splash”: the fact that diving is really only fun to watch when it’s done by a professional. Extreme skier Rory Bushfield’s back double somersault with a twist was certainly impressive, but I wasn’t exactly on the edge of my seat while watching Anderson’s basic swan dive or Abdul-Jabbar’s failed attempt at a back somersault.

Perhaps one of the most annoying things about the show’s format, though, is the fact that the judges score the celebrities based on their “journeys” rather than on the quality of their dives. This means that Anderson (who is so overweight he could barely get out of the pool during training) and Abdul-Jabbar (who is 65 years old and more than 7 feet tall) received relatively high scores simply because the judges thought it was inspiring that they were competing at all. Meanwhile, beauty queen Katherine Webb wound up in the bottom two despite delivering a fairly impressive back somersault. In the end, though, Keshia Knight Pulliam (from “The Cosby Show”) was rightfully eliminated after executing a boring handstand dive in which she basically just fell into the pool.

Usually, the saving grace of these kinds of shows is their humor, but “Splash” isn’t even that funny (unless you’re a big fan of water-related puns). Rather, the overly peppy hosts are constantly trying to amp up the drama through melodramatic clips from training and emotionally overwrought interviews with the competitors.

Basically, watching washed-up celebrities attempt difficult dives isn’t as amusing as you might think. The competitors on “Splash” aren’t bad enough to be considered funny, nor are they good enough to make the show interesting. In other words, “Splash” is pretty much a disappointment—but if you really want to see 4-foot-3-inch comedian Chuy Bravo attempt a complicated dive, go ahead and tune into ABC next week.