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Title: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 02, 2010, 02:04:32 am
What a collection of douchebags.


I hate them all already.


The burning question:
which staffers will end up in the 930 episode (if the footage shot there does get used in an episode)?

Other than  that, I doubt I'll watch anymore of this crap.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: redsock on January 02, 2010, 11:43:36 am
It was rather awful. I haven't watched a Real world in years though, so this might be part for the course.

I was honestly more interested in how they came to decide what to order at Bucco de Beppo that their stupid fight over religion.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 02, 2010, 02:55:25 pm
Yeah, the last one I remember following was SF.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on January 02, 2010, 07:36:11 pm
I think the Washington Post preview by Hank Steuver summed it up quite nicely:

"Washington is not too boring for "The Real World," but times have changed. Now it turns out to be the other way around: "The Real World" is too boring for Washington. "

One thing that's for certain, though, the only bigger douchebags than the cast was the small army of DC bloggers that mobilized to bitch about the taping of the show.    One guy even went so far as to get a dedicated domain name, http://www.antirealworld.com/ , which predictably fizzled out about halfway through the show's production due to lack of interesting material.

I had my own incredibly boring mini-encounter with the Real Worlders, memorialized for posterity here.

http://dcalex.blogspot.com/2009/07/unreal-real-world-and-then-real-one.html

Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Bags on January 05, 2010, 05:31:17 pm
You know it's boring when this got three posts....
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: distance on January 06, 2010, 03:10:41 pm
it's ridiculous that they even make this stuff anymore, let alone that anyone actually watches it.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on January 06, 2010, 09:16:28 pm
I gotta admit, the original "Real World" was kind of fun... mindless decadence, like eating Thrasher's french fries on the Ocean City boardwalk while watching the girls walk by with their skimpy bikinis and thick Baltimore accents.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 06, 2010, 09:23:47 pm
I thought the Puck/Pedro spats during SF were hilarious. But I was 13.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 07, 2010, 04:24:49 pm
yeah, I think that was the last time I really watched the show......I tried to watch the DC one, but just wasn't interested at all...guess i'm all growed up
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on January 08, 2010, 05:16:27 pm
I caught the first episode, do they live across from the Friday's on GW campus? Or was i just seeing things.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 08, 2010, 05:17:43 pm
They lived at 20th and S.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Mobius on January 09, 2010, 01:47:25 pm
What a disappointment.   Its like if the Jersey Shore had a cast of emo kids from Canada.  Who are these losers??  They have no semblance of personality or hint of DCishneess.

DC has plenty of characters that it would be interesting to watch interact . . . How about casting a Late Night Shot trust funder, a young Obama staffer, a U Street Poetry Slammer, a Dupont alternative lifestyler, a hot law student or lawyer, an ahole lobbyist type, an intellectual thinktanker and one or two or three hot interns???  How about making it about DC!!   That show would actually be cool!
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 09, 2010, 01:51:17 pm
I can't believe I'm saying this but the Jersey Shore cast are less unsavory.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on January 09, 2010, 01:53:01 pm
DC has plenty of characters that it would be interesting to watch interact . . . How about casting a Late Night Shot trust funder...
Uh, Blonde Charity Mafia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Charity_Mafia)? Unfortunately it never made to air in the US, which upset me since I made it to casting call for it.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on January 09, 2010, 02:47:53 pm
What a disappointment.   Its like if the Jersey Shore had a cast of emo kids from Canada.  Who are these losers??  They have no semblance of personality or hint of DCishneess.


Seriously, they have even less DCishness than most DC newbies.   As for the house, it's been a long time since I've watched a Real World season, but what's "reality" about putting them in a crazy mansion that bears not even a passing semblance to the digs that young people new to DC find themselves in? 

Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: MindCage on January 11, 2010, 08:26:59 pm
I gotta admit, the original "Real World" was kind of fun... mindless decadence, like eating Thrasher's french fries on the Ocean City boardwalk while watching the girls walk by with their skimpy bikinis and thick Baltimore accents.


"Alright alright...I keep getting older, they keep staying the same age."
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 27, 2010, 03:33:43 pm
930 episode is tonight.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: eltee on January 27, 2010, 08:27:21 pm
ha. i meant to find this thread and make that comment. the show is really boring and they are really annoying. yet, i will watch this one just to see the club.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on January 27, 2010, 08:34:01 pm
They've already ruined Russia House, now 9:30. :(
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 27, 2010, 08:36:27 pm
The bit at Nellie's last week was priceless. Other than that, the show has been a miserable and boring failure. This will thankfully be the last episode I watch.

Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: wml7 on January 27, 2010, 11:14:19 pm
hmm The Cab and Eye Alaska, sorry people don't know them
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 27, 2010, 11:31:58 pm
i think it could be cool if none of the 9:30 staff signed waivers and all of their faces were blurred out...
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 27, 2010, 11:36:48 pm
They never once mentioned the club by name. That was kind of odd.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 28, 2010, 02:10:25 pm
The club got MUCH better publicity when Ace of Cakes visited, I thought. Plus Clutch is way cooler than that no-name crap that played. But the Cab sold out the place? Never even heard of them.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 28, 2010, 02:14:54 pm
Oh hell yeah. The Ace of Cakes segment was essentially a long ad for the club. This thing was bullshit and a letdown. Par for the course for this godawful show, I guess.


"I have The Cab on my Ipod so I respect them as musicians."


I think they're big with the tween crowd. The backbar that night was most likely packed with bored parents.
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: eltee on January 28, 2010, 02:19:58 pm
i think it could be cool if none of the 9:30 staff signed waivers and all of their faces were blurred out...
lol!
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on January 28, 2010, 02:56:35 pm
How is it possible to ruin Russia House?   That place is seriously douchebag central.

Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: eltee on January 28, 2010, 08:23:42 pm
who knew WTOP writers are snarky?!
blog: *spoiler alert* (that is, if you really care about the show and can't predict what happens week to week don't read this) http://www.wtop.com/?nid=834&sid=1875071
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: Jaguar on January 28, 2010, 09:30:03 pm
How is it possible to ruin Russia House?   That place is seriously douchebag central.



(Will claim the non-local clause for this.) What's Russia House and why is it douchebag central?

Doomie, there's a little something special, just for you, over on the YouTube thread.  ;)
Title: Re: The Real World DC thread
Post by: eltee on January 28, 2010, 09:54:12 pm
watched the show tonight. agh, those kids push buttons and annoy me. and i knew it - scenes from next week - that kid is creepy!
Anyhow, nice to see the club - they cropped everything so much...At least they gave the address! think the guy from the band regrets talking about his bathroom activity on national television?