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| The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally executive produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show is the longest-running program in MTV history.[1] Following Bunim’s death from breast cancer in 2004, Bunim/Murray Productions continues to produce the program. // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ...
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Mary-Ellis Bunim (July 9, 1946 - January 29, 2004) was a producer and co-creator of MTVs The Real World and Road Rules. ...
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The nineteenth season aired from August 2007 to January 2008. The show is now in production of its twentieth season, which is set in Hollywood, California, and will premiere on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, the same date the first season of The Real World premiered.[1] Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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[edit] History The show focuses on the lives of seven strangers who audition to live together in a house for several months, as cameras record their interpersonal relationships. The show moves to a different city each season. The footage shot during the housemates’ time together is edited into 22-minute episodes. The narration given over the opening title sequence by the seven housemates states some variation of the following: | “ | This is the true story... of seven strangers... picked to live in a house...work together and have their lives taped... to find out what happens when people stop being polite... and start getting real...The Real World. | ” | Before the televised version of the show debuted, a "scripted" version of it was toyed with. Rather than being themselves, a set of strangers (not the New York cast) were given story and character arcs to attempt to recreate (a la a soap opera). Bunim & Murray decided against this, and, at the last minute, pulled the concept (and the cast) before it became the first season of the show, believing seven different people would have enough of a basis on which to interact without scripts. Tracy Grandstaff, one of the original seven picked for "season 0" went on to minor fame herself as the voice of the animated Beavis and Butt-head character Daria Morgendorffer, who eventually got her own spinoff, Daria. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...
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One sign of the show’s popularity occurred on the October 2, 1993 episode of the sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live, which poked fun at the show's second season Los Angeles cast, whose members were depicted as contentious and bigoted, a parody of the numerous discussions of racism, bigotry and political differences that served as a recurring theme that season.[2] is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The show also gained widespread attention with its third season, The Real World: San Francisco, which aired in 1994, and depicted the conflict between David "Puck" Rainey, a bicycle messenger criticized for his hygiene, and his roommates, most notably AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. As the show gained more popularity, Zamora’s life as someone living with AIDS gained considerable notice, garnering media attention. Zamora was one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, and after his death on November 11, 1994 (hours after the final episode of his season aired) he was praised by then-President Bill Clinton. Zamora’s roommate and best friend during the show, Judd Winick, went on to become a popular comic book writer, and wrote the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Pedro and Me, about his friendship with Zamora, as well as high-profile [3] and controversial [4] storylines in mainstream superhero comics that featured gay and AIDS-related themes. As the San Francisco season continued to grow in popularity, it was clear that the "reality" television format was one that could bring considerable ratings to a network. David Puck Rainey (born July 18, 1968 in Alameda County, California, United States) appeared on The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. ...
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Appearing on the program has often served as a springboard into further success, especially in the entertainment and media industries. Eric Nies of the New York cast went on to become a successful model, actor, TV host, and was inducted into the Television and Broadcasters "Hall of Fame" for his pioneering work in reality television. His housemate, Kevin Powell, became a successful author, poet, journalist, and 2006 candidate for United States House of Representatives for New York's 10th district. Their housemate, Heather B., enjoyed a career as a rap music artist. Los Angeles cast member Beth Stolarczyk has produced men's and women's calendars and television programs featuring reality TV personalities, including herself, Las Vegas' Trishelle Cannatella, Chicago's Tonya Cooley, and Back to New York's Coral Smith.[5] Stolarczyk and Cannatella have also appeared in Playboy magazine, as have Las Vegas' Arissa Hill and Miami's Flora Alekseyeun. Cooley appeared on playboy.com. London cast member Jacinda Barrett has become a successful film actress, appearing in prominent roles opposite John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix, Anthony Hopkins and Renée Zellweger. Lindsay Brien of the Seattle cast became a radio and CNN personality. Chicago cast member Kyle Brandt’s acting career includes starring in the soap opera Days of our Lives. His castmate, Tonya Cooley, also appeared on an MTV special of True Life: I'm a Reality TV Star. Las Vegas cast members Trishelle Cannatella and Steven Hill appeared in the horror film Scorned. Cannatella herself has also appeared on other reality shows, such as The Surreal Life, Battle of the Network Reality Stars, and Kill Reality, the latter of which also featured Hill and Cooley. Hill, along with housemate Alton Williams, hosts a radio show. Dozens of former cast members from The Real World, and its spin-off, Road Rules, have appeared on the spin-off game show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, which pays up to $60,000 to the winners. Various cast members have also earned livings as public speakers, as Bunim-Murray Productions has paid for them to be trained in motivational speaking by the Points of Light Foundation since 2002, allowing them to earn between $1,500 and $2,000 for an appearance on the college lecture circuit.[6] Eric Nies (born May 23, 1971) was born and raised in Ocean Township, New Jersey, is an accomplished actor, model, dancer, and singer. ...
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[edit] Format and structure Each season consists of seven people, aged 18 – 25 (a reflection of the network’s target demographic), usually selected from thousands of applicants from across the country, with the group chosen typically representing different races, genders, sexual orientations, levels of sexual experiences, and religious and political beliefs. Should a cast member decide to move out, or be asked to do so by his or her roommates, the roommates will usually cast a replacement, dependent on how much filming time is left. Cast members are paid a small stipend for their participation in the show.[6]
Each season begins with the individual members of the house shown leaving home, often for the first time, and/or meeting their fellow housemates while in transit to their new home, or at the house itself. The exception was the Los Angeles season, which premiered with two housemates picking up a third at his Kentucky home and driving in a Winnebago RV to their new home in Los Angeles. Upon arriving at the house, the housemates choose their bedrooms, which is typically the first source of tension, as some roommates fail to acquire the room of their choice, or some choose their rooms before the rest of the cast arrives. Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area Ranked 37th - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 1. ...
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The house is typically elaborate in its décor, and usually includes a pool table, a Jacuzzi, and a fish tank, which serves as a metaphor for the show, in that the roommates, who are being taped at all times in their home, are seen metaphorically as fish in a fishbowl.[7] This point is punctuated not only by the fact that the MTV logo title card seen after the closing credits of each episode is designed as an aquarium, but also by a poem that Judd Winick wrote during his stay in San Francisco called Fishbowl. Categories: Sports stubs | Billiards ...
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The housemates are filmed all the time. The house is outfitted with cameras mounted on walls to capture more intimate moments, numerous camera crews consisting of 3 – 6 people follow the cast around the house and out in public. Each member of the cast is instructed to ignore the cameras and the crew, but are required to wear a battery pack and microphone in order to capture their dialogue, though some cast members have been known to turn off or hide them. The only area of the house in which camera access is restricted is the bathroom.[8] Despite the initial awkwardness of being surrounded by cameramen, cast members have insisted that they eventually adjust to it, and that their behavior is purely natural, and not influenced by the fact that they are being filmed.[9] Winick, an alumnus of the show’s third season, adds that castmembers eventually stop thinking about the cameras because it is too exhausting not to, and that the fact that their lives were being documented made it seem “more real”.[10] The producers made an exception to this protocol during the third season, when Pedro Zamora requested that he be allowed to go out on a date without the cameras, because the normal anxieties associated with first dates would be exacerbated by the presence of cameras. Filming of The Real World: Chicago was also suspended during the onset of the September 11 attacks. The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...
At the end of each week, each housemate was required to sit down and be interviewed about the past week’s events. Unlike the normal day-to-day filming, these interviews, which are referred to as "confessionals", involve the subject looking directly into the camera while providing opinions and reflective accounts of the week’s activities that are used in the final edited episodes. The producers instruct the cast to talk about whatever they wished, and to speak in complete sentences, to reinforce the feeling on the part of the home viewer that the cast is speaking to them. Winick referred to this practice as "like therapy without the help".[10] The confessionals were originally conducted by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jon Murray, but were eventually delegated to production staff members like George Verschoor and Thomas Klein. Beginning with the second season (Los Angeles), a small soundproof room was incorporated into the house for this purpose, and the room has also become known as the "confessional".
The various casts were often creative in their use of the confessional, which Bunim and Murray referred to as “inspired lunacy”, such as a group confessional conducted by all the Los Angeles housemates on their last day, an appearance by San Francisco housemate Judd Winick in a nun’s habit, and Miami roommates Melissa Padrón and Flora Alekseyeun dressing up as prostitutes for a shared confessional in which they discuss why their roommates did not get along with them. During Mardi Gras, New Orleans cast member Danny Roberts used the confessional to engage in a sex act.[11] Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...
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Initially, the show would document the housemates as they struggled to find and maintain jobs and careers, with minimal group activities aside from their day-to-day lives in the house and their socializing in the city. The only group activity engineered by the producers during the first season was a trip for the three females to Jamaica. By the second season, sending the entire cast on a vacation would become the norm, and the second season cast was also sent on a day trip to Joshua Tree, California. By the fifth season, the cast would be given an ongoing, season-long activity, with the Miami cast given startup money and a business advisor to begin their own business. This aspect of the show remained in subsequent seasons, and would be obligatory, with casts assigned to work at after-school daycare program, a radio station, public access television station, etc. Joshua Tree is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California. ...
Physical violence of any kind was not tolerated by the producers. After an incident during the Seattle season in which Stephen Williams slapped Irene McGee as she moved out, the incident was debated by the housemates, who were not present but were shown a videotape of the incident. The producers, not wanting to be seen condoning violence, gave the housemates the choice of having him leave, but instead the housemates chose to let him stay, and Williams was ordered to attend an anger management class. Sydney housemate Trisha Cummings was ordered out of the house after she shoved Parisa Montazaran to the floor. Irene McGee is a San Francisco State University graduate student, radio DJ and host of [No Ones Listening], a new radio podcast program about the mass media. ...
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[edit] Prejudice As their experiences on The Real World were often the first time that cast members encountered people of different races or sexual orientations[12], many episodes documented arguments over these issues. First season housemate Kevin Powell had such arguments with Eric Nies, Julie Gentry, and Becky Blasband. The Los Angeles cast was also contentious, with racial and regional epithets exchanged between Jon Brennan, Dominic Griffin, and Tami Roman in the very first episode. San Francisco housemate David "Puck" Rainey mocked both Pedro Zamora's homosexuality and his Cuban accent, even leaving messages with derogatory jokes about homosexuals on the house's answering machine after he was evicted from the house. During his stay in the house, he at one point wore a T-shirt with a swastika design on it, which the Jewish Judd Winick saw as a betrayal. Flora Alekseyeun, during an argument with Miami roommate Cynthia Roberts, dismissed what she referred to as Roberts' "black attitude". Their roommate Melissa Padrón, during a heated exchange with homosexual Dan Renzi, called him a "flamer" after he called her a "stupid bitch". Racism was also a subject of argument for New Orleans housemates Julie Stoffer and Melissa Howard, as when Howard took offense to Stoffer mentioning that her stay in New Orleans was her first encounter with "colored" people. Howard also took offense when a boat guide referred to a group of birds as "nigger storks". The stereotypical views about blacks that Back to New York's Mike Mizanin was imparted by his uncle offended Coral Smith and Nicole Jackson when he related them, and they tried to educate him on black culture. They were also offended by the fact that biracial roommate Malik Cooper wore a T-shirt with the image of Marcus Garvey, who was against miscegenation, despite the fact that Cooper was of mixed heritage and by his own admission had never dated a black woman. Philadelphia's Karamo Brown stated opposition to interracial dating, specifically in regards to Landon Lueck and Shavonda Billingslea's relationship. In the Denver season, Davis Mallory got into a fight with Tyrie Ballard, and then called his boyfriend and said, "I'm going home tomorrow, because some nigger wants to kill me!" During the Sydney season, Trisha Cummings related an incident at a McDonald's in which she told an Asian employee who did not understand the word "sample" that she should take English lessons. Her housemate, Parisa, was upset at the comment, which she saw as insensitive, and reminder of the bigotry she suffered as a schoolchild by teachers who criticized her parents' accent. Trisha later explained on Escape from Oz: The Real World Sydney Reunion that she mis-worded her initial explanation of the incident, but that it was not motivated by race.[13] Becky Blasband (born July 8, 1967, in New Hope, Pennsylvania) is a singer and songwriter who gained notoriety as one of the original cast members of television reality show The Real World. ...
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[edit] Politics Jon Brennan disagreed with Tami Roman’s decision to have an abortion, and argued with Aaron Bailey's girlfriend, Erin, who was pro-choice. Rachel Campos, a conservative Republican member of the San Francisco cast, clashed with liberal roommates Mohammed Bilal and Judd Winick. Paris housemate Chris "CT" Tamburello became confrontational during a discussion of the Iraq War, even threatening Adam King. Nehemiah Clark, of the Austin, Texas cast, expressed disapproval of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War, sometimes coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Iraq as a combat medic for the US Army. Issues of discussion Pro-choice describes the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and pregnancy. ...
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[edit] Religion Philadelphia castmates M.J. Garrett and Sarah Burke argued over the film The Passion of the Christ. Sarah, who was Jewish, found the film anti-semitic, whereas MJ did not.[14] New Orleans cast member Julie Stoffer's Mormon faith was a recurring topic of discussion throughout the season. Stoffer, then a student at Brigham Young University, was suspended from school in 2000 due to honor code violations televised on the show. This article is about the film. ...
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[edit] Romance Many cast members were documented in various stages of their love lives, either attempting to maintain long-distance relationships with loved ones back home, looking for love in their new city of residence, and in some cases, flirting or even developing serious relationships with their roommates. San Francisco roommates Pam Ling and Judd Winick have since married and had a child. Their roommate Rachel Campos married Sean Duffy of the Boston cast, and they have four children with another on the way. Las Vegas roommates Trishelle Cannatella and Steven Hill consummated a romance during the show, which resulted in a pregnancy scare for Cannatella. Their roommates Irulan Wilson and Alton Williams began a relationship that continued after they moved out of the Las Vegas suite. The Austin cast spawned two relationships, one being Danny Jamieson and Melinda Stolp, who are currently engaged, as well as Wes Bergmann and Johanna Botta. As of 2006, Wes said an official engagement will happen once he graduates from college.[citation needed] Pam Ling (April 21, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an Asian-American doctor best known as a castmate on The Real World: San Francisco, the third season of MTVs long-running reality television show. ...
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Many cast members had ongoing steady relationships that predated their appearance on the show, but for those whose relationships were of the long-distance variety, remaining faithful was often a challenge. New Orleans’ Danny Roberts cheated on his boyfriend Paul, who was stationed in the military. Seattle’s Nathan Blackburn’s girlfriend worried about their relationship. Miami’s Flora Alekseyeun attempted to maintain relationships with two boyfriends simultaneously. Sydney's Shauvon Torres left the house to reconcile with her ex-fiance, David. Her housemate Trisha Cummings and Dunbar Flinn flirted or had sex with people other than their significant others back home.
Relationships among cast members of the various seasons of The Real World and its spin-off, Road Rules, are frequent on Real World/Road Rules Challenge, a game show which assembles dozens of alumni from the various seasons together.
[edit] Sexuality The level of sexual experience varies among a given season’s cast members. New York's Julie Gentry, Los Angeles’ Jon Brennan, San Francisco's Cory Murphy, Boston's Elka Walker, Seattle’s Rebecca Lord, New Orleans’ Matt Smith and Julie Stoffer, Paris' Mallory Snyder and Austin’s Lacey Buehler, for example, were virgins during their respective seasons. On the other end of the spectrum was New Orleans’ David Broom, who was highly promiscuous, having had many sexual partners during his season, including more than one during Mardi Gras alone,[15] some of whose names he did not even know. New Orleans’ Danny Roberts engaged in a sex act in the confessional room with a man during Mardi Gras. More than once, fellow housemates have been involved in pregnancy scares, notably in the Las Vegas season (between Steven Hill and Trishelle Cannatella) and the Sydney season (between Cohutta Grindstaff and Kelly Anne Judd). Some cast members expressed difficulty with relationships, such as London’s Sharon Gitau. Cory Murphy Cory Murphy (August 28, 1973 in San Diego, California), was a castmate on The Real World: San Francisco, the third season of MTVs long-running reality television show. ...
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The Real World: New Orleans was the ninth season of MTVs popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. ...
Overt sexual behavior was minimal during the show's early seasons, relegated mostly to discussion. In subsequent seasons, the level of sexual activity greatly increased, beginning with the Miami season, which depicted or touched upon activities such as exhibitionism, frottage, voyeurism, and threesomes. This increasing level of sexuality became a focus of criticism of the show, with the Las Vegas season serving as another prominent example. An exhibitionist exposing himself at a soccer game. ...
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[edit] Unrequited love Jon Brennan’s Los Angeles roommates speculated that he had developed a crush, or possibly had fallen in love, with Irene Berrera. New Orleans’ Melissa Howard was attracted to Jamie Murray, who did not reciprocate. Their roommate Julie Stoffer harbored similar feelings for Matt Smith, who also did not reciprocate. Back to New York's Lori Trespicio developed an attraction for Kevin Dunn, but he did not see her as anything other than a friend. Jamie Murray Jamie Murray (born October 27, 1977) was a cast member on MTVs The Real World television series, New Orleans during the Spring of 2000. ...
[edit] Departed housemates Many times, housemates have left the Real World house (and production) before production was completed, usually due to conflicts with others. David Edwards was asked to leave because his volatile behavior made the three women in the Los Angeles house feel unsafe. Irene Barrera moved out of the Los Angeles house when she got married. David “Puck” Rainey was voted out of the San Francisco house when housemate Pedro Zamora, whose contentious relationship with Rainey was affecting his health, told his housemates that he would move out if Rainey did not. Rainey moved out, but he appeared in some subsequent episodes in which he continued to socialize with former housemates Cory Murphy and Rachel Campos, and in the season finale. Melissa Padrón moved out the Miami house because of conflict with her housemates, but continued to appear on the show and participate in the group's startup business discussions. Irene McGee moved out of the Seattle house because of ethical objections to the show's production, though at the time, she claimed it was because of illness. Justin Deabler moved out of Hawaii house because of family troubles, though his housemates pondered if it was because he felt no rapport with them, while roommate Ruthie Alcaide was ordered out of the house (although not permanently) to seek rehabilitation for her alcoholism. Frankie Abernathy moved out of the San Diego house due to homesickness. Sydney housemate Shauvon Torres left the house mid-season in order to reconcile with her ex-fiancé while roommate Trisha Cummings was ordered out of the house following an altercation between her and Parisa Montazaran. The Real World: Hawaii was the eighth season of MTVs popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. ...
The Real World: Hawaii was the eighth season of MTVs popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. ...
Frankie Abernathy (December 21, 1981 – June 9, 2007) was a castmate on MTVs The Real World: San Diego. ...
[edit] On-screen marriage Irene Barrera-Kearns got married during the Los Angeles season, and moved out. Pedro Zamora exchanged wedding vows with his boyfriend Sean Sasser.
[edit] Life-threatening illness Pedro Zamora struggled with AIDS. He succumbed to the disease hours after the San Francisco season finale aired. Seattle's Irene McGee suffered from Lyme disease, and ostensibly moved out of the house because of it, though she later revealed that this was a cover for her ethical objections to the show’s production. Ruthie Alcaide of Hawaii suffered from alcoholism, and collapsed unconscious in the season premiere. She was later ordered by her roommates to seek treatment or be evicted. She has long since been sober. San Diego housemate Frankie Abernathy suffered from cystic fibrosis. She passed away from the disease on June 9, 2007.[16] Sarah Burke from the Philadelphia season battled an eating disorder and has overcome it.[17] Key West's cast member Paula Meronek was battling anorexia and bulimia, and started seeing a therapist during filming. Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is an emerging infectious disease caused by spirochete bacteria from the genus Borrelia. ...
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[edit] The Real World seasons -
For more detailed information on seasons, cast lists, and DVDs, see: List of The Real World seasons. The following charts list the seasons and cast members of the MTVs long-running reality television show, The Real World, its reunion shows, and its DVDs. ...
The following charts list the seasons and cast members of the MTVs long-running reality television show, The Real World, its reunion shows, and its DVDs. ...
In 2002, MTV also produced a made-for-TV movie The Real World Movie: The Lost Season, ostensibly about a season of The Real World whose cast members are terrorized by a rejected would-be member[18].
[edit] Criticism
[edit] Authenticity As with other reality shows, The Real World has received criticism for being staged[19]. During a reunion show featuring the first four Real World casts, Heather Gardner, of the original New York cast, asked some members of the San Francisco cast if their situations were real. She noted that situations from the original season seemed to repeat themselves in the other incarnations, stopping short of accusing them of acting. On an edition of the E! True Hollywood Story that spotlighted the series, cast member Jon Brennan revealed that he was asked by the producers to state on the air that he felt hatred towards housemate Tami Roman for her decision to have an abortion, and that he refused to do so, stating that although he disagreed with her decision, he did not feel hatred towards her. Another issue is how MTV actually portrays the people on the show. There have been accusations of the producers selectively editing material to in order to give the false impression of certain emotional reactions or statements from the castmates.[20] E! True Hollywood Story is a TV documentary series on the E! Entertainment Television cable and DBS channel that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures. ...
Some critics see the very concept of being in "the real world" as a misnomer, asserting that in the real world, people do not live in luxurious dwellings for free, are not "given" jobs in the media without any effort, and are not taken to exotic locations for free. [21]
[edit] Ethics The show has been accused of disregarding ethics. On the final track of his Become the Media spoken word album, activist Jello Biafra discusses a conversation he had with Real World Seattle cast member Irene McGee[22]: Become The Media is the sixth spoken word album by Jello Biafra. ...
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. ...
Irene McGee is a San Francisco State University graduate student, radio DJ and host of [No Ones Listening], a new radio podcast program about the mass media. ...
| “ | We know Real World is not the real world. I recently met a woman named Irene McGee who quit this show and said not even the house was real. The fridges were all filled to the brim with Vlasic pickles delivered daily by the crate load along with gallons of Nantucket Nectar. If she drank anything else, the crew took it from her hand and made sure the Nantucket Nectar label was facing the camera instead. When she walked out, another guy in the cast of Real World hit her and the camera guy did nothing ... When she spoke out, MTV sued her. And Entertainment Weekly rated Irene getting smash mouthed the 47th most interesting event on TV that whole year ... Can’t you MTV think of a better way to raise audience awareness of domestic violence than to make it look cool? | ” | McGee has toured colleges to discuss media manipulation and the falsehoods of reality television. She recently began a youth-oriented radio show/podcast, No One's Listening[23] covering a wide range of pop-culture and media-related issues.
[edit] Sexuality and relevance The show has also been accused of being overly sexualized, most notably with its Las Vegas cast.[24] There is a larger conception that it has become increasingly unserious. As critic Benjamin Wallace-Wells put it: | “ | No longer an outlet for twentysomethings to brood about their future careers, the show has become a cyclic three-month on-air party for young adults to mingle in hot tubs and obsess about the present. The locales have changed from creative meccas like New York and London to vacation spots like Las Vegas and Hawaii. MTV has rejiggered the show to require characters to engage in artificial, season-long contests or projects -- like putting together a fashion show -- which the characters embrace in the way most American teenagers experience spring break: as a big party.[25] | ” | A 2006 comment from LA Weekly's Nikki Finke reflects the same sentiments: A twentysomething is a person in the age group of 20 to 29. ...
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| “ | The show that once seriously delved into hot-button issues like homosexuality, AIDS, racism, religion and abortion was now purposely pushing someone’s buttons to have that person implode on air.[26] | ” | The Parents Television Council, which has frequently criticized MTV, has also frequently criticized The Real World for its overtly sexual content. [27] In addition, they claim that because MTV routinely reruns Real World episodes with a simple "TV-14" rating without the "L" (language) descriptor, parents cannot block out the show with a V-Chip[28], although countering reports claim that the V-Chip does not totally rely on content descriptors added to the general ratings to work.[29] An episode of The Real World: San Diego that was broadcast in January 2004 came under intense criticism from both the PTC[30] and American Family Association[31] for its sexual content. The Parents Television Council (PTC) is a US-based nonprofit organization run and founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III whose stated goal is to promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry. ...
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[edit] Parodies, derivatives, and references - The show was satirized in the October 2, 1993 episode of the sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live. The episode, which was hosted by Shannen Doherty, featured a skit depicting a Real World cast patterned after the Los Angeles cast, and poked fun at the discussions of racism, bigotry, and political differences that served as a recurring theme that season.[2] Another SNL parody of The Real World came in a 1996 episode hosted by John Goodman in which Bob Dole (Norm Macdonald) is thrown out of the house.
- The 1994 movie Reality Bites, starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke, focuses around a group of twentysomethings whose video diaries are misappropriated for a Real World-style documentary series. This fictional documentary series, as well as the title of the movie itself, closely parodies and satirizes The Real World format.
- On Beverly Hills, 90210, a 5th season episode called "Unreal World" had David Silver using a David "Puck" Rainey manque named Tuck as the subject of a class video project. When Tuck refused to participate, David, Clare Arnold, Brandon Walsh, Kelly Taylor, Donna Martin, and Steve Sanders pretended to be Tuck and his roommates for the project. Among other things, Steve's country-boy act and dress is similar to Jon Brennan's from the Los Angeles season, and a character named "Beth", who is described in a negative light, is a reference to Beth Stolarcyzk, one of Brennan's castmates.
- In an episode of the animated TV comedy Family Guy, Stewie's audition tape for The Real World is seen.
- A satirical TV movie called The Lost Season parodied The Real World. It depicted a season of the show that supposedly took place in Vancouver, BC, and was abandoned because its participants were kidnapped.
- The reality show The Surreal Life is structured similarly to The Real World, except that the housemates, who live together for ten days, are celebrities. The show's original name was "The Surreal World" but it was changed to avoid a lawsuit for infringing a copyrighted title. [32]
- "Swept Away - A Very Special Episode", a Season 11 episode of the crime drama Law & Order that premiered February 28, 2001, featured a plot involving the investigation into the murder of a housemate on a reality show akin to The Real World called Deal With It.[33]
- An episode of the crime drama Diagnosis Murder also featured a plot involving a murder committed during the filming of a reality show similar to The Real World. The main character of the show, Dr. Mark Sloane (played by Dick Van Dyke) was one of the roommates at the time of the murder, and solved the crime, as he did every episode.
- Dave Chappelle lampooned what he perceived as the targeting of minority cast members for criticism or ejection on the show on his Comedy Central sketch comedy show, Chappelle's Show, with a sketch called "The Mad Real World", portraying, with hyperbole, the results of what would happen if one white person were to cohabitate with a collection of crazy black people. The white man is raped and beaten, his father is stabbed and his girlfriend cheated on him with multiple other housemates. Finally he loses his temper in asking his roommates one night to turn down the music so he can sleep; the next day they all vote him off, saying he's getting out of control and they're afraid of him. They conclude with "If you don't leave, we reserve the right to fuck you up."
- The Comedy Central series Drawn Together is an animated reality show parody that borrows much of its format and conventions from The Real World, but whose cast is populated by animated cartoon archetypes.
- The music video for the Eminem track, "Without Me", contains scenes which parody The Real World, with appearances by New Orleans castmate Julie Stoffer, Boston castmate Syrus Yarbrough, and San Francisco castmate David "Puck" Rainey.
- In the 1999 romantic comedy film 10 Things I Hate About You Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is watching television, on which the opening credits of The Real World: Seattle can be seen.
- In "Morality Bites", a second season episode of the television series Charmed, the sisters travel to 2009, and on the TV you can hear "Coming up, The Real World: On The Moon!"
- The 1999 romantic comedy film She's All That features Matthew Lillard playing Brock Hudson, an ex-Real World cast member kicked out of the house for being obnoxious to his fellow castmates.
- In "Text, Lies & Videotape", a fifth season episode of the television series Dawson's Creek, Audrey (Busy Philipps) is speaking with Joey (Katie Holmes) about recording her audition tape for the fictional The Real World: Ibiza season. In a sixth season episode, "The Importance Of Not Being Too Earnest", some college students comment if Joey sent an e-mail to the whole campus (by accident) in an attempt to get attention or because she was on The Real World.
- In "The Route of All Evil", a third-season episode of the animated television series Futurama, Fry, Leela, and Bender are watching an episode of The Real World set on the Sun. Leela's comment on how much an apartment that big would cost on the Sun is a reference to the criticisms of how people in real life would not be able to afford the upscale houses that the castmembers on The Real World live in.
- The WB television series Mission Hill based an entire episode around The Real World, in which the show's protagonist joins the cast and attempts to destroy The Real World from the inside by exposing it as an elaborate hoax with microphones and hidden cameras telling each person how to act and behave on camera.
- In the quasi-autobiographical memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, author Dave Eggers recounts his audition for The Real World: San Francisco.
- The TV show Muppets Tonight featured a skit called The Real World: Muppets. Most segments of it were only shown in United Kingdom. It showed Rizzo the Rat, Bobo the Bear, Clifford, Bill the Bubble Guy, and a goth girl named Darci.
- Several television commercials for the U.S. version of the Nintendo video game Animal Crossing parodied The Real World.
- The film The Real Old Testament is a film that uses the style of The Real World to look at some events in the Old Testament.
- The MTV Canada crew parodied The Real World with a trailer for The Real World: MTV, featuring nine VJ's with different personas. Most were from The Real World: Denver.
- The computer game Afterlife features a Hell punishment called "The Unreal World", which features the description "This is the true story, of 5000 SOULs, picked to live in a house, and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting damned."
- In "My Hero", a 2001 episode of the TV series Scrubs, a cutaway gag shows a number of the characters introducing themselves in the style of The Real World's opening sequence.
- In the April 10, 2005 episode of the stop motion animated television series Robot Chicken called "The Deep End", Aquaman is one of seven housemates in the fictional parody of The Real World called The Real World: Metropolis. Here, Aquaman is repeatedly insulted and degraded by Superman and the others. He also has effeminate mannerisms, and his own fish do not listen to him. In the end, Superman uses his heat vision to melt his head, killing him.
- A 1999 episode of the WB television drama Charmed depicted a newscaster in the year 2009 mentioning The Real World: The Moon.
- Dutch TV producer Erik Latour claims that the ideas for The Real World were directly derived from his telev
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