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Discussion thread about Real World: San Diego (2011) - We're Gonna Get Arrested with 24 replies from the Vevmo community.
dreamer;287962 wrote:Since Priscilla has no problem jumping in the sack with him apparently, I am not going to fault the guy too much for trying. It is a very mixed signal thing to do to say "I can't trust him" and then go all Romper Room with him every time he shows up.
Priscilla is light years out of that ginger's league, it is kind of hilarious to look at. Did anyone else notice that Sam got literally zero screen time? Less than Ashley - sad day.
Ch@llengeFan;287875 wrote:The editing was just SOOOO obvious with it. As soon as they showed Alex's phone call about the money and the contest, you knew exactly how it would pan out. Besides, the fact that these two events coincided so perfectly smacks of manufactured drama and/or lazy editing. This is supposed to be a reality show, not a sitcom. This season is about as predictable as an episode of The Brady Bunch.
Why couldnt they have decided to use the part in the beginning of her talking about sending the money to Africa after she had already won? I dont understand why it seems scripted, Maybe she won and they used that in the episode as some background for why she wanted to win.
Buck05;287897 wrote:American Horror Story is not a reality show. How can you compare the two. Anyway this was a good episode once again.
I don't watch Real World live anymore - because American Horror Story trumps it by a mile. But I must say, the uber amounts of discussion regarding this new episode makes me want to rush to MTV.com to view it....(I speak sarcasm fluently). I'm trying to like this season, I really am, I think I just liked Vegas so much that this season was doomed from the start for me.
Nostalgic;288099 wrote:I'd say it was a better episode but the season is just toast. There have been so many not good episodes, combined with the approaching holidays, that it won't be saved.
American Horror Story is not a reality show. How can you compare the two. Anyway this was a good episode once again.
Zereaux;287828 wrote:Maybe my opinion is biased because I've been such a RW fan for years now but I truly think RW is one of the few reality shows left that is still strictly reality. Although, everytime a new episode of San Diego airs and I see this new "HD style" they're doing, I do question if they're starting to go the Jersey Shore route and make up storylines.
What a coincidence -- Alex wins the contest and can send the $500 to her family in Africa.. who needed $500 at the beginning of the episode. That doesn't seem scripted at all. Ugh, they should just ******* cancel this show already. Almost every episode has had something that seems scripted in it. At least previous seasons tried to be subtle about it.
LaneV95;288205 wrote:Most likely 12.
Does anyone know how many episodes are this season? Last season had 13 and DC had 14 but I think this one only deserves 10 if that. Anyways how many episodes till this is over?
Npresh24;288206 wrote:That'd be my guess. I'd be surprised if we see a *** Show, but who knows--this is the Never-Ending Story 2.0
Most likely 12.
FishHooks;288207 wrote:I'm sure there going to wrap with the reunion right after because 13 would land them on the week during Christmas,I highly doubt there going to run this season through the holidays.
That'd be my guess. I'd be surprised if we see a *** Show, but who knows--this is the Never-Ending Story 2.0
Npresh24;288209 wrote:Yeah I am expecting that too. the Finale and the Reunion on the same night and onto better things.
I'm sure there going to wrap with the reunion right after because 13 would land them on the week during Christmas,I highly doubt there going to run this season through the holidays.
FishHooks;288241 wrote:They may do the same thing they did for DC. The STSHS aired after the 2nd to last episode. And the reunion aired after the finale.
Yeah I am expecting that too. the Finale and the Reunion on the same night and onto better things.
Nate, Frank, and Zach (Real World, various GRTFL teams): 35 points. I can't lie. When we made the rule that awarded 35 points for “Being the cause of a visit from any vehicle with sirens,” we were proud of ourselves. But we had no idea we were about to be burdened with the worst cast in the 26-season history of The Real World. In previous seasons there have been assaults, public intoxications, and even one dude whose tongue was bit off. This season? The cops come because Nate, Frank, and Zach moved Priscilla’s boyfriend’s scooter around the corner while he wasn’t looking. What’s next, guys? Prank calls? Seven seconds in heaven? Tying shoelaces together? Messing with someone’s toothbrush? Oh wait, bad example. I will say, though, that the dude that let them hide the scooter on his property was pretty *****in.' He was down with the joke and didn’t waver a second when the cops came. He also lied to the face of Priscilla’s boyfriend when he was questioned about the bike’s whereabouts. If I were producing this season of the show, I would have immediately called my boss and said, “Bad news, Mr. Murray, I just canceled Real World: San Diego. Why? They're all squares. The hottest two of ‘em won’t even hook up, and the psychopath isn’t drinking anymore. What? Oh, the good news? The good news is that I grabbed the crew and we are now shooting a reality show about some random dude in San Diego. Trust me, he has the X factor. The show is Larry the Cable Guy meets The Honeymooners meets Hamlet. It’s gonna be huge. Sorry, I have to go now — I think he’s about to kill something and eat it.” Sidebar: If you ever want to be a television producer, trust me, it’s super-easy. All you have to do is name drop the names of a bunch of already successful shows in your pitch. “So yeah, think of it as American Idol meets Seinfeld meets WWE Wrestling meets The Daily Show with a dash of Steve Miller Band hosted by Chris Rock.” I wish I were kidding. Priscilla (Real World, Simmons): 30 points. Having a high school sweetheart and leaving for college is a Catch-22. In Priscilla’s boyfriend Dylan’s case, it is a Catch-DD (what? Too easy? Yeah, you’re probably right). If you don’t watch the show, Priscilla is a gorgeous, 19-year-old, surgically enhanced young woman who dates a fella that looks like Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles (shout out to the half dozen people who tweeted me that line. Did you really think I wouldn’t plagiarize it?). If you're Dylan and you're heading off to college, you have a huge decision to make. You can stay with Priscilla knowing that you will never again speak to a woman this beautiful unless she is asking you to go to the champagne room. Or you can break up with her and try your luck with the ladies of your freshman class who have all completely reinvented themselves and are ready to try anything in the name of “experimentation.” Dylan chose the latter. Dylan then learned that their idea of “experimentation” had more to do with smoking pot, getting tattoos, and kissing girls than it did with sleeping with guys they cheat off of in econ class. So what does Dylan do when he comes home for the summer and finds out that his high school girlfriend is on Real World? He gets back with her. It takes about two days and one coitus for Priscilla to get hip to his moves and drop this on him while he is attempting a second coitus: "Let's just go do something. I, like, sooooooooo don't want to lay here anymore." Shortly after that they shared a breakup kiss (5 points) that made my wife say, “Ugh, that is DISGUSTING!” Dylan walked out the door, Priscilla cried (5 points) and then sang some terrible off-the-top-of-her-head heartbreak pop jam about him (20 points) with her roommate Alex’s “band,” Alex and the Hats. More on them later. Dylan, I have some advice. Want to know why I haze you in this column? Want to know why you didn’t get any girls in college? Because you aren’t a nerd, you are a nerd on a motor scooter wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses trying to look like Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. That is never going to work. Be the nerd that you are. Own it. Girls love nerds the same way that they love it when their tough-guy boyfriend tries to ice skate and falls on his ***. Start a Latin club at college, protest the use of starch in the university cafeteria, join the ultimate Frisbee team. The ruler of the nerds will be escorting sneaky eights out of the library while frat boys are dragging fives out of the townie bar. Fact. The motor scooter and leather jacket are cool and all, but you're running a short con with those. The King of the Nerds route is the long con and a much better play. Next time I see you, you should be waiting for the bus reading a calculus textbook. Trust me, Dylan. Alex (Real World, Lane): 25 points. Alex is in a “band” called “Alex and the Hats.” Alex and the Hats consists of Alex and two dudes that wear hats. One plays the guitar and one plays some “instrument” that doubles as a chair and looks like a milk crate. Alex got all anxious because this was her first performance in front of an audience (20 points). She performed and broke down in tears afterward (5 points) because she was so moved by the emotion of performing in front of people. Oh, did I mention that the performance was in the parking lot of a surf shop and I have seen a larger, more captivated group at a Brooklyn dice game? Honestly, it was like crying because you told a joke in an elevator and it was your first stand-up show.Reality Scorecard: Lamest Police Visit Ever - Hollywood Prospectus Blog
FishHooks;288324 wrote:LOL! Well the good news is, I believe this season is almost over.
Can we just start making up Fantasy cast members yet? A fan-fiction season would be more interesting to me at this point and I think those folks who do that stuff are nuts....
FishHooks;288324 wrote:Hey! I happen to have written some really good fanfiction for the real world, fyi. But I'm not going to trip. I think you meant in general.
Can we just start making up Fantasy cast members yet? A fan-fiction season would be more interesting to me at this point and I think those folks who do that stuff are nuts....
LaneV95;288205 wrote:
Does anyone know how many episodes are this season? Last season had 13 and DC had 14 but I think this one only deserves 10 if that. Anyways how many episodes till this is over?
Npresh24;288209 wrote:
I'm sure there going to wrap with the reunion right after because 13 would land them on the week during Christmas,I highly doubt there going to run this season through the holidays.
Nightwolf;288472 wrote:I think one of the locals posted on here somewhere to the effect that the police regularly were in the area once filming started.
After thinking about it, I'm fairly certain that the cop they had there was planted by production and knew about the whole prank since I don't recall their faces being blurred out, nor does it seem likely that they just happened to be right in the same location that Dylan got his bike moved.
Priscilla is light years out of that ginger's league, it is kind of hilarious to look at. Did anyone else notice that Sam got literally zero screen time...
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