I have seen pretty much every episode of MTV's The Real World ever produced (with the exception of that London season that never happened... actually I've seen a lot of that one too). I've seen those boring episodes from the first season that mainly consisted of people sitting round in silence and periodically discussing serious issues *YAWN*, and the ultimate in TV-14 debauchery (LV). I've the absurdly nice people (Rachel NY2) and the biggest assholes in the universe (Stephen SEA, David NO). I've seen the show slowly migrate from a socially-conscious study of young adult life to Girls Gone Wild for Kids. I've seen the houses get increasingly ridiculous in size and design. I've seen bad jobs (Let's take the craziest people we can find and have them care for children! BOS) and the jobs that actually bring something to the season (let's take the craziest people we can find and have them run club promotions in sin city! LV)
I'd like to think that I've become some kind of Real World expert after the 400+ episodes I've seen, so let me try something out. Just from the little intro show they do and commercials, I think I have this Austin cast (debut tonight at 10) pegged as pretty much carbon copies of previous cast members. First the easy ones:
Nehemia - This guy seems scarily similar to Jaquese from SD. He's part of the trend away from sociopathic black males to more normal-guy black males (Ok, Karamo from PHI destroys that point, but ignore it. He was also carrying the burden of being both a black guy on the Real World AND a gay guy on the Real World so we have to cut him some slack.)
Wes - Brad from SD. Frat boy/jock that wants to go into business and all that jazz. Although he seems to lack the redeeming qualities of Brad and just been an all-out jackass. Good for me, bad for the rest of the house.
Danny - Randy from SD. Randy had the jock air about him, but he really wasn't. He also produced one of the greatest moments in RW history with his drunken "I will CRY" rant on Frankie.
Lacey - This is the resident "weird chick". She's got Frankie written all over her, and she's gonna cause problems like Frankie too. Her attempts at a "quirky cool" look has already annoyed me in her 3 minutes of screen time between the various promos for this season.
Melinda - The sexpot, but she's supposedly a good girl (who proclaimed "I NEED ASS" in the season preview). She's a "freer" Cameran from SD.
Rachel and Johanna - seem boring and I don't care. I've gathered that Johanna is a partier and Rachel wants so "experiment" with Melinda. Rachel is also a veteran. Despite all of this I can't bring myself to care. They seem like "the other two".
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