I was a fan of MTV's The REal World at the beginning. Then...around the time of Real World Seattle, the room mates all started acting and LOOKING like Hollywood starlets.

I caught the season premier of Real World Austin, and it's sickening, Everyone on there is either a buffed pretty-boy or a hot babe. I have nothing against eye candy...but wasn't The Real World supposed to represent THE REAL WORLD?!?!?!

Not everyone out there has washboard abs and flawless skin. What made Season 1 such a hit was that it truly DID represent a group of everyday people, with everyday problems and attitudes. Now everyone on the show is Barbie & Ken, and just looking to get laid on TV.

I'd rather watch the Surreal World.

I couldn't agree with you more, but it seems pretty much every "reality" show on television nowadays subscribes to the theory that a cast of babes and hotties (no matter how vapid, boring, or generic they are) is more 'interesting' to watch than normal, everyday looking people.

I have the same gripe as you in regards to Big Brother. I really enjoyed BB the first couple years - the housemates were a variety of ages, body types, looks, lifestyles, etc. Of course there were the obligatory few "hotties", but there were *also* middleaged people, heavier people, people who were like *real people you might know in your life*. To me that assortment of types and ages and styles made the show more interesting, gave it more dimension, to see how these people would all relate and get along.

The last few years I haven't even bothered to watch Big Brother anymore because all it is now is a bunch of snotty, bitchy half-dressed young twentysomething model types, looking to "hook up". BORING. (exactly the same thing you said about what The Real World has become)

I think a lot of things these days is more style and image over substance. Looks and image. Unfortunately, a lot of the viewing public seems to be happy with that mentality and they keep watching.

Anyhow I understand your frustration about Real World b/c I've felt the same frustratin these past years with Big Brother.

"The Real World" was only semi-nice when it first started, with the whole
eric and july thing blabla

up until the real world London (with Neill ) and after that it has
always remained a mysterie to me what the hell hapened to the show to go
from quite nice to absulotely horrible people running around in lame and
ott houses talking on the phone all day long blubbering to boyfriends and
girlfriends at home.

IstenSzek said:

are you still gonna try out for the show?

Christopher said:

I just auditioned via webcam

IstenSzek said:

i know i just paid to see it

Christopher said:

PurpleJedi said:

Oh please....

Just ONE name; Eric Nies.



It has ALWAYS been that way. It just took you a long time...
[Edited 6/29/05 4:20am]

IstenSzek said:

Real World London was my favorite season.
Remember when Neill's girlfriend sent him the pig's heart for Valentine's Day?
Neill was very interesting to me....loved the tension between he and Kat.
AND SHARON - loved her.

LMAO.


I went to school with Julie Oliver (ERic Nie's love interest in Real World #1).

She sat in front of my in French class. She was really quite racist (though I was relatively popular enough for her not to mess with me). But my sister once had threatened to beat her ass for some ching-chong statement she made.

Anywayz, it was painfully appearent to me when watching the very first episode of the very first season that those kids are not REALLY being themselves.

AsianBomb777 said:

puts on wannabe by Spice Girls.

fleshofyourflesh said:

Yes! Sharon, always talking talking talking, and she was so sweet and nice
to everyone and when she got sick they just left her half dead until she'd
finally be taken to hospital.

Neill's girlfriend was psycho That bloody Valentine was so rancid ewww.
but in a way, she was right, because he was fooling around a bit too much
with Kat anyway. I loved watching him, he did indeed seem very interesting
in a disturbed and disfunctional way lol. Plus he looked lickable, which
was a first for any RealWorld season imo.

And then there were the (also) crazy Jacinda, bitchin one minute and ehm
running around London naked the next hehe. And Jay, writing his play and
performing it in the house. Or the weird German DJ Lars lol.

AsianBomb777 said:

she wasnt as dumb and sweet as on the show?


i love the episode where she ventures in the crack alley to help that homeless lady and then the lady ditches her 3 episodes on haha

IstenSzek said:[quote]

fleshofyourflesh said:

Yes! Sharon, always talking talking talking, and she was so sweet and nice
to everyone and when she got sick they just left her half dead until she'd
finally be taken to hospital.

Neill's girlfriend was psycho That bloody Valentine was so rancid ewww.
but in a way, she was right, because he was fooling around a bit too much
with Kat anyway. I loved watching him, he did indeed seem very interesting
in a disturbed and disfunctional way lol. Plus he looked lickable, which
was a first for any RealWorld season imo.

And then there were the (also) crazy Jacinda, bitchin one minute and ehm

quote]

Yes, yes, and didn't Neill get bitten or something while performing?
Can't remember where...was it his nose?[Edited 6/29/05 4:30am]
[Edited 6/29/05 4:30am]

DJ Lars

HamsterHuey said:

GERMAN dj Lars

IstenSzek said:

Play me a song.
mumble....chanson....

HamsterHuey said:

~searchesthroughmp3folderinafrenzy~

puts the needle down on:

Miles Davis / Générique

Miles Davis / Intro: MD 1/Something's On Your Mind/MD 2

IstenSzek said:

Alas, Bernadette'Sing me A Song has moved to the front of my lobes and is rocking me brain.

Bastid.


Sing me a sooooong!

It's 1983 all over again.

HamsterHuey said:

I still haven't caught anything from this new "Austin" group.. though I've heard it's already "crazy"..


you know what I want to see???
I know eMpTV will never have the nerve to do this,

but it would be cool - not to mention PROBABLY VERY INTERESTING - to see them to a "Real World" like they did on Dave Chappelle's show - where there was a MAJORITY of "brothas & sistahs" & only 1 caucasian..
that Chappelle "real world" skit was as FUNNY AS I DON'T KNOW WHAT.. for those of y'all who haven't seen it..

mltijchr said:

I'd like to see that too.
I was thinking the other night while watching the Austin crew...the bruthas hardly ever hook up with any of the chicks in the house (except for the Vegas season).

Im so glad taht everyone has perfect skin and flat stomachs on that show, so everyone can develop MORE of a complex about themselves.

I watch real World sometimes, but I know that it's fake as hell. They have writers for Pete's sake Why would a "reality" show need writers? And when are they coming to Atlanta?

PurpleJedi said:

me too... nothin' better than washed up celebrities tryin' to make a comeback.