I am – Hercules!!
It was the “Real World” season even killer hurricanes couldn’t make interesting!
That’s not really true. Paula Walnuts weighed 90 pounds, drank like a fish on a bicycle, and maybe had multiple-personality disorder: sometimes she talked like she was 24 and other times like she was 8. I’ll miss Paula Walnuts.
Also, the homosexual fellow who made a Mean Girl “burn book” and started screaming at Svetlana’s mom over her cell was memorably unpleasant.
Despite the lackluster Mystic-Tan season, “Real World” remains the highest-rated series on MTV (which someone should really rename the “Paramount Reality Channel” at some point).
You can kinda tell from the promos that the reunion special will not approach the sort of fireworks that greeted last year’s grudgier Austin cast. But perhaps we’ll learn why everybody called Svetlana “Fitz.”
I crave the reunion specials, because I tend to love any story that leaps forward six months. Did anybody see the episode of MTV’s “True Life” titled “I’m a Former Reality Star”? It separately followed ””Survivor’s” dirtbag-ish Johnny “Fairplay” Dalton, “Survivor: Amazon’s” muscular Chinese-American Daniel Lue, and a jittery Tonya Cooley from the Chicago “Real World” cast.
One comes away from that episode with a couple observations:
1) Getting cast on “The Real World” is like winning the lottery, and being a “Real World” vet can become your life and career. Before she flew to Australia in an effort to win the big cash prize on the “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat,” Tonya seems to have made her living touring drinking establishments. She would charge club owners hundreds of dollars, show up and scream to Gen-Z boozehounds things like “You people are all crazy!!” (I wonder, though, if any Real Worlder can make his or her living this way? Could Nashville-bound Jon Brennan from the Venice cast? Could budding playwright Jay Frank from the London cast? What about less showbizzy vets like Julie Oliver from season one or Cory Murphy from season three?)
2) All reality-show stars seem to know each other, to a ridiculous, incestuous degree. During the “True Life” episode Tonya actually ended up appearing in Fairplay’s segment (or was it the other way around?). Not only did the two “Kill Reality” vets cross paths for maybe the millionth time, they did so in a Sunset Strip venue absolutely teeming with other reality-show vets. (Currently immersed as I am in CBS’ “Big Brother All-Stars,” I learned from the live Internet feeds that “Evil Doctor” Will Kirby is now going steady with “For Love Or Money” reality-show winner Erin Brodie. His housemate, bikini-happy “Big Brother: X-Factor” vet Erika Landin, was for five years significant other to “Big Brother 1” runner-up (and “Kill Reality” producer) Josh Souza. And I think Landin’s day job is helping to cast future editions of “Survivor.”)
10 p.m. Tuesday. MTV.
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