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Here we go again: The Real World may finally (or dreadfully) be coming to Washington. We know, we know. Rumors circulated three-and-a-half years ago that MTV was scoping out property in Adams Morgan. We warned you then it probably wouldn't happen, it didn't, and the bars of Adams Morgan were better for it.
But Bunim-Murray Productions, which currently produces The Real World for MTV, is reportedly looking for activists and politically minded people to cast for the next season of the show, so the rumor mill is pegging the most likely location as Washington. They also held an open casting call in College Park, Md. last weekend, so they're at least once again considering D.C. as a location. The question has always been, though, in this image-conscious town that likes to fire even low-level staffers for their public indiscretions, who on earth would possibly be stupid enough to employ these people? DCist maintains that this is the real hurdle and offers its own solution -- Rock the Vote. MTV can ante up this year and let their own projects suffer from any nonsense.
And as far as the location of the monster mansion? Rent a pad in Georgetown -- and let the not-so-real worlders battle in out with the LNSers. It keeps other late-night spots safe for the rest of us.
DCist staff took an in internal poll when someone was shocked to discover The Real World was still filming. What's the last season you watched voluntarily? New Orleans was the final nail in the coffin for some, while others regrettably lasted until Las Vegas. One gave it up after San Francisco. Every show has it's shelf life. Does anyone even care about The Real World anymore?
Could The Real World Finally Make it to D.C.?
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I gave up on the show a long time ago, probably around Seattle. Though I returned for Chicago, only because I sort of knew someone on the show. Then dropped it cold turkey after the first episode of Las Vegas, which ended with some Abercrombie & Fitch models making out in a hot tub.
Maybe they could do a spin-off of Big Brother: Lock all the LNSers and some liberal Hill or Sierra Club interns in a house for a few weeks and broadcast it 24-hours a day on the Web.
bring back puck.
I stopped watching halfway through New Orleans.
Exception: Real World San Diego. Best season ever.
I stopped watching during the first season when I realized it was a show called the "Real World" but no one had to pay rent.
Real World 21? They've seriously been doing this shit for 21 years now? I stopped watching after Real World New York.
one word can sum this up. That word is VOM!
Yeah, it was definitely around Seattle. When the guy slapped the girl and threw her stuffed animal in the river.
I did, quite randomly, wind up sharing a couchette with Dave from Real World Seattle on a train ride from Munich to Prague back in 1999. He was on his way to visit Janet. That's my Real World "celebrity" story. It takes me far, let me tell you...
Hey a little credit here! Although I didn't know about the casting call.
I do have to say RW Sydney did bring me back a little.
No offense RJ, but Stephanie had been working on this post for 2 days before you posted that link :)
I think the real question is, "Does anyone even care about MTV anymore?"
My life has intersected with Real World: Seattle in two ways:
1. I studied Arabic in Morocco with Dave in the summer of 1998, AND:
2. I went to college with the brother of the girl Dave slapped on the show.
Jackpot.
When I was fourteen, MTV seemed to me to be the black heart of corporate evil: paunchy, middle-aged consultants deploying bar charts to figure out what teenagers would spend money on. I also remember thinking that it was uncritical of music and culture to the point of sycophancy. I have not watched the network since.
Now I that am approaching middle-age myself, I find myself having the same thoughts about HGTV. Sadly, however, I cannot stop watching it.
DCGent, you win! Two intersections! :) I remember Dave to be quite a character. Actually, by the time we were through with the overnight ride, I was quite happy to be done with him. I think the "fame" went to his head a bit.
Damn...glory dashed again.
my only connection to the real world was that someone from the early days of the show (i'm assuming) came to speak at our dorm at michigan state when i was in student government there. this was back in '98, i think. i can't remember who the guy was, but we had to pick him up at the airport and drive him around east lansing. i'm sure he wasn't very impressed.
i've never watched the show, other than 3-4 minute bursts when my roommates were watching.
I think the real question is, "Does anyone even care about MTV anymore?"
In a nutshell: no. I'm still waiting for someone to file a lawsuit to force them to drop the "M".
I'm pretty sure they haven't played a music video on the network since 1998.
I stopped watching after New Orleans.
I recently caught a commercial for a Sydney reunion show calling it the most explosive/controversial or something-to-that-effect season yet...
Any network that can deny/re-neg on actually being somewhat relevant and edgy (not sure if that's the right word) in having Pedro in the San Francisco house, who had HIV, in '93ish just goes to show how awful television/entertainment/consumption has become.
Though, I had a crush on Jason from Boston something bad... heh.
Let them go to Georgetown... even more reason not to go there myself.
last year, i was on my way out of a show at ram's head in balto when tonya from RW chicago was doing an "appearance" at the restaurant next door. this consisted of her dancing on the bar in a tight tank top while pouring shots into peoples' mouths. good work if you can get it.
So....they want to do a show in DC, but are doing a casting call in College Park?
That makes me wonder if they won't locate the house up there and still call it "DC".
I stopped watching the show when it was clear they would not cast anyone who was not incredibly buff and they kept finding the same stereotypes to entertain us: angry black man/woman; country bumpkin who's never seen an actual live black person; cool street-wise dude; openly gay man/woman; closeted gay man/woman; lipstick lesbians; substance abuser; mental cases.
It's the same show, year after year. They should do something creative like put on some fat slobs or make the cast actually have to work.
I saw the girl that got slapped at the HFStival one year. Somehow she was backstage and came over to the fence to great "her fans." As I recall she had no fans and instead everyone began yelling at her. She quickly turned and ran away. Can lyme disease really make you that psycho? Somehow I doubt it.
Sorry. I just got here. What's everyone talking about?
yeah new orleans was the last season i watched. the last truly fun seasons were Boston and Miami.
I have never watched the Real World. HOWEVER, I was once hit on by Melissa Howard. It was terrifying...
Real World "celebrity" story:
Summers off from college I go back home to Cape Cod and work at a local seafood place. I had one set of customers, an older ethnicy (turned out to be Cuban) married couple from Boston. They stopped by every Friday and would wait to be served by me. If it was my lunch break, they would wait the hour.
Finally, at the end of the summer, they came in and told me to wait a second. They wanted to introduce me to their daughter. So, she comes in and shakes my gross fishy hands and, lo and behold, Flora from Real World Miami. This is the only time I was introduced to someone whose boobies I had previously seen (thanks Playboy!).
Lamest story ever, I know. But, if you want to get in with D-List celebs, it's good to be a seafood clerk.
Irene (the aforementioned girl that got slapped & had lyme disease) apparently went to Georgetown for grad school after leaving the show. I saw her at The Front Page one night in 1998 or so. She was actually a pretty nice person to talk to, but she definitely had a holier-than-thou attitude. More than a few times she expected guys to worship her for being a quasi-celebrity... nobody bought it, though, and she was forced to talk to a bunch of college freshmen (i.e. my friends and I) for the duration.
True story.
Wikipedia says she now hosts a kid-oriented radio show out in San Francisco.
The lumberjack guy from Wisconsin ran for Congress a few years ago, I saw him at Fado trivia night in Chinatown. He lost at both.
yes, Irene. You'd think I'd have remembered that since she has the same name as my grandmother...
I vaguely remember the DJ thing, that would explain the backstage access.
I would really prefer to be able to get belligerently drunk without fear of my shenanigans ending up in the background of crappy TV shows.
No camera crews in bars, dammit.
God, this show is terrible. But I really did enjoy San Diego...I think the fact that they showed a blooper reel that was actually kind of funny said it all about that season.
I really didn't pick up the show until Hawaii and watched it on and off and then promptly dropped it with Phila. Worst. Season. EVER.
jason cornwell (thanks wikipedia!), that was the guy who was on the college lecture circuit...
God, this show is terrible. But I really did enjoy San Diego...I think the fact that they showed a blooper reel that was actually kind of funny said it all about that season.
Did the blooper reel contain all the rape footage that the SDPG confiscated from the show?
*SDPD
Used to be addicted to RW, but have since moved on to Amazing Race. Stopped watching after the New Orleans season.
I don't think DC will work as a RW location. Outside of the mall museums, there's not enough local flavor to use as that oh-so-overplayed theme of "gosh, they don't have stuff like this back in east jybip."
Unless they put them in deepest Anacostia. That would actually be worth watching.
The only way I'd watch would be if it was like the Mad Real World on Chapelle's Show, with all the housemates black and the one white guy's dad gets shanked, he loses his girlfriend to Tyree and Lysol, etc.
I once ran into Irene from Seattle ("the girl that got slapped") at DCA in 1998. I think it was the day that the Senate voted to acquit Clinton. A tweeny-bopper recognized her going into the restroom there, and got her entire high school tour group a picture with the "celebrity." She seemed pretty gracious to give a photo while trying to go to the restroom.
I was pretty young myself then. I wonder if I had watched Real World after early high school if I would recognize some of today's Real Worlders in some situation like that Munich-Prague train like Cole. I just have no idea what any Real World stars post-Seattle look like, and definitely not the ones who are now my own age. Still, it'd be kind of neat.
oh yeah! miami!
i wanted to be friends with the girl who wore skingraft band tshirts and skated.
I loved it when they threw Bob Dole out of the house.
"I had sex with Katie too"
the real world has always been a secret pleasure for both my wife and I...in fact, I dont think I have missed a season ever...its been institutionalized at our house with tuesdays (or wednesdays) reserved as "date night" at the house...
this is more of a big deal when you consider that we dont watch much TV other than that...
/ashamed
Agreed. That Dave Chapelle skit was mighty fine.
"I would really prefer to be able to get belligerently drunk without fear of my shenanigans ending up in the background of crappy TV shows."
No worries. They have to put up a bunch of signs saying you agree to be on tape, etc.
Stephen slapped Irene, not Dave. That was my favorite season, and of course when i went to Seattle we had to go see the RW pier. I went to Tulane my freshman year so I saw the RW New Orleans mansion plenty of times...it was all boarded up after those whoremongers were done with it. That was the last season i watched regularly, though i do watch it every now and then if there's nothing else on. Oh, Paris I watched fairly often too.
what i dislike even more are the shows they bring back the RW alum for, the gauntlet and all that crap. your 15 minutes are up, go away.
What? No mention of David from New Orleans?
Come on be my baby tonight. Dweee bop a boo dweedle doo bow. Come on be my baby tonight.
Every show has it's shelf life
Apparently grammar has a shelf life too...
Anyhoo, my full-time Real World shelf life was London, Season 4, though I did end up watching an episode or two of Seattle, Boston, New Orleans, Paris, and Las Vegas during marathons.
The reason there have been 21 seasons is because they started doing it twice a year... that's really when the quality went majorly downhill, though it was already on its way. The first season was New York, in 1992.
I got a BJ from Trishelle and was pretended it was Kelly-Anne.
Not really.
Brush w/real world celeb: Judd Winick (RW:SF) was in my graduating class in college. He had a pretty hilarious comic in the Michigan Daily.
Brush w/real world celeb: Judd Winick (RW:SF) was in my graduating class in college. He had a pretty hilarious comic in the Michigan Daily.
Oh my god, Sean Jean, you just made my day.
By "made" I mean "ruined," because that "song" is going to be in my head for the next week.
50 comments and yet I'm the only person to recommend this post?! You'd think one person would have at least clicked on the recommendation link by accident.
oh my god are you kidding? real world in DC would be AWESOME! ooo the backstabbing, the 20 something drama -- really who could ask for anything more :-)
I have had 3 RW run-ins.. I will save the best for last....
1. Saw a bunch of the cast of the RW:New Orleans at University of Florida they were on a college tour..
2. Ran into Irene RW:Seattle in a hair salon.. She was very aloof and very snotty!!!
3. The best one was at my doctor's office in Silver Spring, MD.. I was very sick with a stomach virus (and everything that goes along with that, draw your own conclusions) so I needed to have some bloodwork done and this Med Student comes in to ask me some questions she was really sweet, The name on her nametag kept buggin me and I finally asked her why do I know you?? It was Kamelah from RW: Boston (she was interning)
I haven't watched since RW: New Orleans I agree with the above poster who said it has become drunk Abercrombie and Fitch folks!!!
~d