OK, I admit, I have become addicted to those self-important, argumentative 20-somethings every Tuesday night. I sit there thinking, “Jeez, I’m glad I’m middle-aged” and, “what would possess someone to go ON this show?”
I must say, it is refreshingly un-P.C. A season or two ago, they had a truly evil gay boy, and this season they have two obnoxious, racist black girls: not something you’d ever see on a scripted show.
Anyone else watching it? I recall that two Dopers have friends on this season (neither of whom, I’m glad to say, have come off too badly . . . yet . . . ).
Sorry Eve. As you know I’m caught up in another reality show in the same time slot. Too bad. It would have been fun to dish on the evil horrible people.
I just wanted to say thanks. If a bastion of class such as yourself can get caught up in the cheese, then I don’t feel so bad for my own guilty pleasures.
You had already blown your image the moment you mentioned exercising. Did Talullah Bankhead run thirty minutes every day? Or wear a sweatsuit? I think not.
I hate this years Real World. I watched last night for the first time since the first episode and found myself incredibly irritated by the black girls on the show. I hope I don’t sound racist but they really make the black thing a bigger issue than it needs to be. It was getting to the point where I was expecting that guy kevin to go get some cap’n crunch from the pantry and Nicole to start yelling that she is being oppressed because the only cereal in the house features a white guy on it and how nobody there understand what she is going through except for Coral and Malik.
Know what I think the show needs more of? Really annoying people… oh wait. Nope, nevermind.
I feel really, really sorry for Mike. Coral gives him so much shit. I think he truly means well but can’t express himself well.
laughs There goes my image, too, right?
Malik doesn’t talk much (or maybe I don’t watch enough), right? And I saw a preview of the show where Nicole blows up at Kevin…daaaaamn. I find it amusing and sad at the same time.
I find it refreshing that the two black women on the show are shown to be utterly obnoxious, racist and humorless. John Waters has said that he’s annoyed that gays are ONLY shown to be shining beacons of goodness: “Show us like we really are—like everyone else!”
pezpunk, I agree with you: Nicole and Coral are bitches, plain and simple (though editing just MIGHT play a part in this, too). The fact that they’re black has no bearing on it: Malik is a sweetheart. Mike seems to be a good-natured goofball who has said some stupid things (he IS, what, 21?) and then learns from it.
[Maurice Chevalier voice]: "I’m glad I’m not young anymore . . . "
[P.S. The dog’s name was “Asta,” unless you named yours after Brooke]
They are filming the new season in my neighborhood, and get this, people are PROTESTING it. Lining up outside the house and yelling things like “We are not actors in our own neighborhood!,” “We’re Real, You’re Not!” and splattering the house and the cast with red paint. The hip neighborhood businesses have put up signs banning Real World filming inside.
The protestors see it as a sign of gentrification in the neighborhood that is pushing artists & working people out.
Plus they hate evil corporations and spoiled twenty-somethings, I guess.
I do understand at least some of the resentment, especially for people who live right next to the house - a film crew parked in your neighborhood for 5 months training klieg lights outside your door is a pain in the ass. And so are a bunch of angry protestors. It’s a busy intersection, and I do resent the thought of possibly being on camera every time I go to my bank or wait for the bus.
At least now I can start carrying a large sign that says “Greetings, Eve Golden! I can’t believe you watch this show!” when I run errands.
Last year, I was a terrible snob about Big Brother (UK). This year, I lapped it up. I don’t know that it “spoils my image,” though. I seem to becoming dumber as I grow older anyway. I don’t think forgoing Big Brother would help me very much.
My wife, who is an otherwise intelligent person, will sit down and watch the Real World, especially on the “marathon” weekends. Me personally, I can’t stand it. I seriously have to leave the room when it is on. I hear these self-absorbed idiots moaning about the trivialities of their life and it just makes me angry.
Thank God Eve watches The Real World. I might not even try to hide it anymore.
My husband walked in on me talking to the TV last night: “Oh Nicole! You’re only disrespecting yourself, baby!” I thought she was so pleasant and mild-mannered in the early episodes. She just freaked right the hell out last night. She passed Coral from way behind in the “Super Big Bitch of the House” competition. It was a stunning hissy fit, really.
Does anyone else hate the “fake job” segments? I don’t want to see the hamsters try to work at pretend careers—I want to see them freak out in demented psychodramas! I want ill-fated affairs and crying jags and drinking binges and hissy fits, so I can sit there and yell, “Oooh, Coral, I hate you soooo much!” at my set while my cats stare at me, nonplussed.
Put me in with all the other Real World watchers. I found last night’s show to be an interesting look into the lives of two very different people, both born of one black and one white parent. Although, just so you don’t get the wrong impression, I also like seeing who is hooking-up with who.
And thank God I’m not the only one who thinks Coral and Nicole are racist, narrow-minded bitches. Did anything good happen last night? I mean other than Nicole being angry that Malik went out with a white woman? And another thing–why are people are always trying to hook up with people in the house? Weren’t they paying attention The Real World, Hawaii???
I never watched Real World much until the London cast. Then the Miami cast pissed me off again with all their whining, bitching, and pissing around and I quit watching after 2 shows.
I only watched the New Orleans cast after hearing that the people were actually pleasant to each other. What kept me watching was the Morman girl [forgot her name]. Not to disparage, but Utah doesn’t really have alot of diversity going on and she had a very sheltered upbringing. I was impressed with how well she grew and how much the other cast members had the brains to understand that racism and simple ignorance aren’t the same thing and that she wanted to grow and understand.
And as everyone else here has noted… this season’s fulla bitches.
I was forced to watch one of these marathons nine years ago. I was staying at a friend’s vacation home and I had no way of escaping from watching multiple hours of this, fake, irritating tripe. I’ve hated it ever since.
