Another Wednesday, another MTV [1]'s The Real World [2] and another week where I ask myself, again, why I'm even bothering to watch the show anymore. Ostensibly, it's because Katelynn [3], who I know, is on the show, but she gets so little screen time that frankly, I wouldn't miss much if I didn't watch the show.
But I did, and if I'm suffering, so are you.
So, this week: “Saving Private Ryan [4] (how about that—MTV's title is better than anything I could come up with).
As if we couldn't see this happening from a mile away (Bunny: “the show is scripted! Scripted, I tell you!”) Ryan [5], just after Election Day [6] (although frankly, the temporal liberties they take, only the cast know for sure when this happened) gets a call from his brother that “The Paperwork” has arrived—his orders calling him back into service.
There's also Ryan's film “No More Tomorrow,” which the less said, the better (“bad” comes to mind, so does “cliché” and “predictable”). And I'm sure that if Ryan didn't have a girlfriend, he and Baya [7] would have become “roommates” by now (that is, if they haven't already).
The real shock this week was that Chet [8] and Scott [9] both came out of the closet. Chet wasn't so surprising really, but Scott? Republican? It's amazing that both of them weren't lynched in a predominately pro-Obama household. I give them both kudos for coming out on national television.
[4] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/episode/episode.jhtml?episodeId=148950
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)