seaside heights

If you want to spend a night in the house that Snooki, J-Woww and the Situation slept in, the price of Scotchguard won't be the only thing driving your expenses through the roof.

The owners of the 'Jersey Shore' Seaside Heights house are charging tenants up to $2,500 a night and that includes a signed lease.

It's also not the first time a former MTV reality show abode has attracted a higher asking price. The 'Real World: Las Vegas' at the Palms goes for $5,000 a night. Again, the price of Scotchguard must be just astronomical.

I don't think I did one of these lists last year, and I have no idea why. The election all by itself would have generated a pretty fun best/worst list. Maybe we were all suffering from information overload, and were just exhausted. Not sure.

But 2009 had a lot of interesting TV, too, just not all in one category. As I've done in the past, I'll dispense with the usual "best show" and "worst show" lists and just make up categories:

GOODNESS

Best comeback from a shaky first season: Parks and Recreation. As I mentioned in my "return of the sitcom" story, Parks and Rec has made the biggest improvement from first season to second since... well, since The Office. It's no coincidence; Greg Daniels and Mike Schur's Office experience taught them that patience would be rewarded, both on the part of the writers and the viewers.