MTV Real World

[Candyman]

Anybody see the new Real World Philadelphia?

2 very handsome straight guys with killer bodies. Better yet 2 gay boys. Big hunky black guy that acts very straight and the cute sexy I'M GAY boy. Should be very intersting show with lots of eye candy.

 

Candyman-it melts in your mouth, not your hand :9

[sportsguy]

Real World

 

MJ Garrett is a former college football player

and is definitely a hottie with an incredible body.

[Candyman]

RE: Real World

 

Landon has a hot body and seems to get freaky when drunk.

 

Cuming attractions promised some peaks at gay butt on the next show

[sportsguy]

Landon

 

Candyman, agree totally with you.

Landon has a red hot body. He would get

me hard just seeing him with his shirt off.

And, yeah, he does appear to get kinda freaky

when drunk. Maybe, him and MJ can get together,

lol. Yum.

 

MJ did seem to take the gay club pretty well.

Seemed like he had a good time there. Of course,

some of that stuff MJ has said is just crap the producers

have made him say. I mean saying he hasn't been around

black people much and has not been around gay people.

Give me a break. He played on a SEC football team that

probably had thirty (30) or so black football players on

it. And MJ is not really some half redneck, like they

apparently want him to make himself out to be. And

Nashville is not a small town. Give me a break.

It is dumb to want him to say that. But, I understand

the producers like the stereotypes to be perpetuated.

And, I'm sure MJ has been around gay people in college.

 

MJ was at the South Carolina vs. Vanderbbilt game on September

6xth. He was also interviewed at halftime on tv. He seems to be a pretty good guy.

[+ Charlie]

I thought the most interesting twist was making two of the four guys gay, with the contrast between the fem and the butch one (who don't seem as comfortable together as the the gorgeous straight guys are with the gay ones). The problem with the "Real World" is that it seems more and more scripted, and less and less believable.

 

The latest pad is also unreal: they must have spent a fortune renovating and decorating that building, which ironically was used for years as a hostel for the down and out. My old gym is a block away (you can almost see it in many of the shots looking north), and if they had been real they would have had the kids work out there, where authentic funky residents of Olde City go, instead of the tony gym on 5th St in Society Hill.

[sportsguy]

Unreal World

 

I agree with you Charlie about how scripted it

apparently is.

 

And one other thing about that stupid comment

by MJ about not being around black people that I'm

sure the producers had MJ. I guess when he was

in the shower after games and practices with

the black football players he must have been

suffering from some vision defect since he

apparently did not know they were black. MJ has

been around black guys his entire life.

 

I know that with a degree from Vanderbilt that

MJ would not have said something that dumb

without it being scripted.

[BobbyThompson]

RE: Unreal World

 

A few weeks ago, I met the younger one at Mickey's in West Hollywood. I don't remember his name but five minutes was more than enough to know I couldn't stand an entire season. I haven't really seen it but I guess it's nice that there are different representations of gay life.

[BobbyThompson]

RE: Unreal World

 

A few weeks ago, I met the younger one at Mickey's in West Hollywood. I don't remember his name but five minutes was more than enough to know I couldn't stand an entire season. I haven't really seen it but I guess it's nice that there are different representations of gay life.

[skins1]

RE: Unreal World

 

Bobby,

 

do tell! dish the dirt babe. what did you see in 5 minutes that gave you that opinion?

[skins1]

RE: Unreal World

 

Bobby,

 

do tell! dish the dirt babe. what did you see in 5 minutes that gave you that opinion?

[Doug69]

>Big hunky black guy that acts very straight . . .

 

There are still people who say things like this and think this way? Sad. Truly sad.

 

Any gay guy who is masculine and normal-appearing is "acting straight."

 

Just pathetic.

[Doug69]

>Big hunky black guy that acts very straight . . .

 

There are still people who say things like this and think this way? Sad. Truly sad.

 

Any gay guy who is masculine and normal-appearing is "acting straight."

 

Just pathetic.

[BobbyThompson]

Crap, I actually posted that? I thought it was one of the many posts I write but then close the browser before I submit it! First thing I thought when I looked at this thread again was "Whew, glad I didn't post that." But oh well, oops.

 

No dirt, just thought he was boring.

[BobbyThompson]

Crap, I actually posted that? I thought it was one of the many posts I write but then close the browser before I submit it! First thing I thought when I looked at this thread again was "Whew, glad I didn't post that." But oh well, oops.

 

No dirt, just thought he was boring.

[OneFinger]

Just saw the first episode. I really enjoyed it and have to agree with others that the pad this year is really great!

 

But, I do think Landon was a little too comfortable at the gay bar. Plus, he always talks about his past 7-year relationship in non-gender terms (i.e., never refers to them by name or he/she). Think he could play on either team?

 

I really liked the idea that there is a diversity with the gay guys. Good to see that they're getting away from the stereotypes.

[woodlawn]

>>Big hunky black guy that acts very straight . . .

>

>There are still people who say things like this and think this

>way? Sad. Truly sad.

>

>Any gay guy who is masculine and normal-appearing is "acting

>straight."

>

>Just pathetic.

 

"Normal-appearing"? As opposed to what? "Gay-appearing"?

 

How truly sad that there are still people who say things like this and think this way.

 

Just pathetic.

[woodlawn]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

I check out each new season of "Real World" briefly in the hope that it will be about something other than pretty young kids drinking, hooking up and bickering over nothing. It's been some years since I've seen a cast in which my hopes have not been dashed. In the first season, the kids seemed (or were presented by the editors) as interested in one or two things other than sex and booze -- like politics, music and careers. At some point after that, however, the show stopped being about anything resembling real life and started being about selecting kids who looked good and were willing to have sex with each other even while the cameras were on. It is now nothing more than a device that allows the producers to create soft-core porn without paying the actors for performing. Why an adult with a fully-developed brain would want to watch it, I really don't know.

[+ Charlie]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

I agree. They seem to have no awareness that in the "real world" there is a war going on, a contentious Presidential campaign, terror acts and threats, and important social and economic issues. Although several of the kids have gone to good schools, they have expressed no academic interests, much less career interests (except Willy, the "personal shopper"). All that they--and the producers, I'm sure--are interested in are personal relationships: who is hanging with whom/who is sleeping with whom. Life is working out at the gym during the day and going out for entertainment at night, and bitching about others in between (hmmm....well, I suppose I have known my fair share of people who think that way, too). By the way, in real life none of this group could afford to live in their pad or that neighborhood, unless they had very generous and well-to-do parents. The last "Real World" group that I can remember who had real jobs and talked about things that were important beyond the four walls of the pad were the San Franciscans several years ago.

 

The only reason I tune in is to see the pretty pictures of my former hometown, whose administration made numerous concessions to the producers because they saw this as a great opportunity for free tourist publicity. They're hoping that gaggles of young people from the heartland will descend on South Street and Old City, looking for the places where these beautiful people gather.

 

OK, I have done grousing about the decline and fall of American popular culture.

[Guest bighugbearphx]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

>I agree. They seem to have no awareness that in the "real

>world" there is a war going on, a contentious Presidential

>campaign, terror acts and threats, and important social and

>economic issues.

 

Keep in mind that these shows are shot a good 3-6 months before they are shown. I would guess that they intentionally discourage or cut out talk about current events, so as to give the impression that you are seeing their interactions as they occur. They almost had to toss an entire season of Real World shot before 9/11, since the shows had been shot in a high rise with a clear view of the Twin Towers out the window (The showings were postponed, and not publicized as much as other seasons).

 

But I agree ... the show is more about attractive kids making friends and enemies, and is often unwatchable. The current season is the first one I have actually looked at in years. (By the way, "Willie" from this season is interviewed in the current issue of The Advocate.)

[woodlawn]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

> Although several of the kids have gone to

>good schools, they have expressed no academic interests, much

>less career interests (except Willy, the "personal shopper").

 

That is a good point. It seems awfully strange to me that in casts that include so many people who have gone or are going to university, there seems to be no one who ever thinks about or talks about any academic, cultural or political subject. The impression created is that either the kids are lying when they say they've been to college or any conversations they've had about such a subject have been edited out.

 

> Life is working out at the gym during the

>day and going out for entertainment at night, and bitching

>about others in between (hmmm....well, I suppose I have known

>my fair share of people who think that way, too).

 

I've encountered people like that as well, but I do all I can to avoid them. I certainly don't want to spend my time watching them on television.

 

>OK, I have done grousing about the decline and fall of

>American popular culture.

 

I think there are plenty of interesting things one can watch on television. "Real World" simply isn't one of them.

[Candyman]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

"there are plenty of interesting things one can watch on television"

 

Sure you can watch Fox News and Bill O'Rily try to stick there heads up George Bush butt.

 

Real World is great TV but sometimes you need some mindless entertainment

[woodlawn]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

>"there are plenty of interesting things one can watch on

>television"

>

>Sure you can watch Fox News and Bill O'Rily try to stick there

>heads up George Bush butt.

 

I don't know about your cable system, but mine offers literally dozens and dozens of channels. So for me, the choice is not between watching O'Reilly bloviate or watching a bunch of trashy young kids yell at each other about who was supposed to clean up the bathroom. There is ALWAYS something more interesting on than either of those things.

 

>Real World is great TV but sometimes you need some mindless

>entertainment

 

Please speak for yourself. In my view, mindless entertainment is for mindless people. If porn is what you want, there has hardly been a time in our country's history when it has been more easily available to people, thanks to the Internet. I'm sure you have figured out by now that MTV is not going to let you see any of the kids on Real World naked, at least not on the episodes they broadcast. So whether you want real, involving drama or just want to watch nubile young bodies having sex, you must look elsewhere.

[Candyman]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

Relax-take a pill and chill out and get a life.

Yeh there are plenty of great TV shows and you don't watch MTV for porn.

 

Shhhhh no wonder your named after a cemetery.

[woodlawn]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

>Relax-take a pill and chill out and get a life.

 

LOL! Nobody whose idea of a good time is watching 'Real World' on the tube is in a position to tell me (or anyone) to 'get a life.' First YOU get one, then you can tell the rest of us what it's like.

 

 

>Shhhhh no wonder your named after a cemetery.

 

Sorry you got upset, but if you can't stand hearing opinions that are different from yours then a message board is really not the place for you. Just turn off the computer and talk to yourself, and you will never have to worry about anyone arguing with you.

[Guest alanm]

Who cares what woodlawn thinks about this subject or any other? His whole game is to get you to reply to one his postings so he can reply back and get an argument going.

 

I watch Real World because I live in Philly and the show does a great job of showing off the city. The concept of featuring two gay guys is interesting, although there has not been much interaction including in tonight's episode. I like Willie's friend and am looking forward to see how the relationship goes. Is Real World a good show? Not particularly, but I can certainly afford to spend a half hour each week watching it. It's either that or Proust or Mann and my French and German are a little rusty!