Real World London: Classic or Dud

Most Americans like dirty laundry, London did not have enough. Hence.

Every item of furniture in that house was put together by my hand. Badly I must add.

Ha, I just listed the biggest nutjobs from the later seasons and no one can compare to Puck, Tami or Beth S! Maybe Kaia and Kyle, but it's tough.

I'd agree with you that Lars was a nice guy, but the rest of them. Self obsessed narcissists who had some kind of sleeping sickness. ANd they couldn't hack Notting Hill.

Is it fair to say my way is a more Irish/British way of doing things? The better side of bottling up emotion?

I have to say I laughed heartily when that funny looking Bono Irish guy Dominic passed out on the beach after however many pints and the house was like "you have a problem Dominic". Yes he does, he's Irish.

I only remember Sharon being ill all the time. Kat was a lovely girl, bless her. I forget most of the others except Neil and his silly girlfriend.

Rachel NY2 was a whiny mess of insecurity with one of the worst voices on Earth. I know she was significantly younger than everyone else, but STILL! I wanted Coral to head-butt her.

If faking illness for sympathy while on TV isn't the act of a self obsessed narcissist I don't know what is.

"Uh, I saw Blues Traveler... and I put on my play. Oh... yeah... I shot some hoops... I saw my girlfriend too."

So you did the same things you would've done if you had been in the States?

"Well, I probably got more sleep."

Also, I'd forgotten that Stephen was arrested for being a man-ho, so after that and his BIZARRE behavior on the last challenge, he definitely gives Beth and Puck a run for their money. I still hate Kaia and Matt, though.*

* As they were portrayed on the show; perhaps in real-life Matt isn't a low-life manipulative fuckface hiding behind a "sensitive guy" persona so that he can bang chicks and Kaia isn't a soulless, pretentious robot suffering from Tourette's.

RW Fun Fact: Kaia's real name is Margaret.

Heather [NY]
Kevin [NY]
Norman [NY]
Beth S. [LA]
Neil [London]
Coral [NY2]

Most of our time together would be spent making sport of Beth S.

The fun thing about a RW in your own city is clear evidence of how warped the editing is: according to Chicago episode one, the first thing Princeton-boy did the "day after" moving in was to browse through a Chicago Reader from THREE MONTHS IN THE FUTURE (FUTURE) (FUTURE) (future) (future). (That was the World of Tomorrow echo-effect.)

Norman and Beth S in the same house = QUALITY TELEVISION. Coral reminds me of a very good friend of mine from college, so I feel a large amount of empathy towards her (and the editors were much nicer to her during the Challenge than they were during her season).

(* I'm still trying to decide about this guy's incident with Tami. What he did was really dumb and cruel and childish and took way too far a joke that wasn't even cute to begin with, and I suppose that justified their kicking him out, but there's this little part of me that feels sorry for him for having the whole thing inflated into this lascivious sexual assault as opposed to just oblivious shitty behavior. On the other hand, the price you pay for doing shit like that to people you don't know is that they may in fact really mind and really feel threatened, and they're not in any way beholden to play along just because you "meant" it in a funny and not a threatening way.)

I used to love RW, but the last few seasons I only have watched maybe a couple of episodes of at most. It just seems too Abercrombie, I suppose.

Beth S is one of the most evil people to ever appear on that show, followed closely by Tami. There was no chance of people getting along on the LA house with both of them in it. (That first RW reunion, I SO wanted Heather B to beat the shit out of Tami!)

Funniest LA moment: Glen moaning about the lack of fellow cast members' decorum overseas interspersed with his own (more extreme)lack of decorum overseas.

Second funniest LA moment: Beth S and her moped accident.

Fourth-funniest LA moment: Dominic passing out on the beach and everyone else thinking he had a drinking problem.

Fifth-funniest LA moment: Aaron's calendar shoot! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I'll trade you for a Unilever CD.

I think LA Glen is one of the biggest assholes, as noted above. He also bitched about Jon giving a cowboy yell in that tourist bar stuffed with Americans, as if he had done it in a church or something.

What I meant with David was that unfortunately he put himself in a position where someone (Tami) could say "No, I really did strenuously object to that and felt completely violated," which leaves him with very little defense: this is why we normally don't do stuff like that unless we're pretty damn sure the person isn't going to mind. But yeah, Tami obviously found it at least mildly playful and funny up until a point, and while he dragged the whole thing out a bit long, he did knock it off right around the point where she effectively communicated that she was no longer amused. Beth totally inflated it, and I got the feeling that Tami just couldn't handle the idea of having someone in the house who would treat her in a jokey picking-on way rather than, you know, adoring and accommodating her at every moment.

the more enterprising among you can easily go on google and find the web diaries of later-season cast members. more proof of their reflexive acting for the spotlight? it seems like an awful lot of them went into the show knowing that they would be 'that season's puck' etc ...

Somewhere in my stash of unsellable promos, there's a copy of Rebecca "Becky" Blasband's album. I never listened to it, but I have a pretty good idea of what it sounds like.

Oh: Jon Brennan is destined for the stars!

NO Julie is a nightmare. About the only thing I can think of that she did that I thought was great was when she squirted Matt in the face with the sink hose when he was being dumb. That almost made up for her commentary about his mouth (and her unnecessary drama-scrounging when her folks came to visit). Give me Melissa, Kelly and Danny any day from that group.

There was a period of time when Sean would have been on my Most Evil Real Worlder Of All Time list, but the conversations he had with Genesis and Kameelah at the end of the Boston season totally redeemed him. I've never been a big fan of Rachel's, though (but that's largely because of the rampant Young Republicanism).