Real World Recap: Fare Thee Well, Captain

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By VirginiaApple | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 | 11:10 am | 20 Comments
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Grandpa tells us that Chelsea is coming to visit today for “step one of the amendment process.”  Oh shit, with talk like that and his avoidance of drinking, I’m starting to fear that Grandpa has political aspirations.  Please, PLEASE let me be wrong about this.  For America’s sake.

It turns out that Swift has accompanied RomCom to the salon to get her hair colored.  He asks her how she’s feeling and she says she’s pretending that he’s just having a friend visit for 2 days.

This will do wonders to rebuke all of those “Swift is gay” rumors.

Over at the airport, Chelsea has arrived.  She and Grandpa seem happy to see each other, considering.  When Chelsea brings up her humidity-affected hair, Grandpa promptly makes the situation nice and uncomfortable when he compares it to RomCom’s “fluffy” hair, which is dead because she dyes it so much.  Chelsea is proud of her natural hair color.

Mo’Rum and Latoya have decided that it is a wise decision to go into the wilderness unsupervised.  They’ll be hiking Hassel Island, and they’ve dressed for the occasion:

Somehow this seems like it’s going to end with one of them screaming “it was only supposed to be a three hour tour!” into the dark wilderness.

Grandpa has gotten a hotel room for Chelsea out of respect for RomCom, which is just so thoughtful of him, you guys.  He also doesn’t want to leave the hotel.  Not because of Chelsea, mind you, but because her room has air conditioning.  He points out their house from her balcony view.

Mo’Rum and Latoya are up to their usual antics, but this time in the woods.  I find Mo’Rum much more likeable with Latoya as opposed to with Ginger.  Latoya runs screaming away from… a turtle.  It’s getting dark (although it appears to have been late in the day when they started this adventure, which seems stupid) and they’re lost, but if Mo’Rum is going down, she’s happy to go down with ‘T.  They then burp approximately four hundred times, seemingly on cue, to “scare off the animals.”

Grandpa takes Chelsea to Carnival, where she says she’d be tempted to drink if she were down there all the time.  Somehow, Grandpa equates this with his temptation to bang RomCom, which Chelsea thankfully tells him is ridiculous.  She says a big thing happened between them, and he kept doing it anyway.  Grandpa says she can’t keep reaming him for reaming RomCom.  I’m just thankful that ONE of Grandpa’s lady friends has a backbone.

Chelsea says that Grandpa will always be a part of her life, but her feelings have changed.  He asks if she’s seeing anyone, and she says she’s been on a few dates with a guy.  He whines that it’s totally no fair that he brought her down here for a visit while she’s going on dates with someone else.  “You’ve been here having sex with another girl!” Chelsea thankfully exclaims.

I just want to hug this lovely bundle of logic.  And she has a backbone, so I don’t have to worry about crushing her!

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20 Comments

  1. 1
    Moli Moli
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    I haven’t read the recap, but I have to say. RomCom has been bugging me for a while now. I couldn’t figure out who she reminded me of…well I now know. There is an ‘adult film’ actress by the name of Faye Reagan who she reminds me of. A ummmm friend…yea that right…*stutter*…friend …told me about her…no a friend of a friend*wipes sweat from brow*. I also heard she is quiet a good ‘actress’.

  2. 2
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Before I finish reading the recap, urine and blood tests are about the same for drugs. Most of them can test if you’ve had something in your system but for only a few days. Except weed. That crap stays in your system forEVER.

    Everyone has to take a drug test at my job. Many people fail, so I read up on it awhile ago.

  3. 3
    jerseyj
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    @VA, how could you not discuss the biggest mystery of the episode? what the heck was with the weird arm-band thingies Chelsea was wearing? They look kind of like those compression band thingies than NBA players wear and she had them in multiple colors for different outfits. No explanation was given at all! I guess this might join Marie’s frozen waffle ankles as an unsolved perplexity of this season. :p

    Also, Go Yanks! :)

  4. 4
    considerthis
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    @jersey you beat me to it. What are those colorful compression bandages? Maybe she wasn’t preggo (or has that been confirmed?) but rather she got burned in a freebasing cocaine accident while she was celebrating her freedom from her warden aka Gramps – also explaining Needy’s claim of “Most Perfect Girl”.

    Karma is coming for Gramps if what I near is true.

    Why with all the fame whore douchebags on the planet would you pick a “recovering” addict to cast? Needy still livin in denile – he wants to get sober as bad as Joey Kovar (too soon?) Mix a little bit o fame with a lotta love for drugs and MTV is gonna get their hands bloody again.

  5. 5
    VirginiaApple
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    LOL, Moli!

    Thanks for the info, classy drunk! I knew I could rely on someone to clarify. I guess it makes sense, because blood is constantly releasing its excrements through the kidneys, which is where urine comes from, so it makes sense that it would be detected for the same amount of time. My brain was not processing these thoughts at 6 am.

    jerseyj, I totally noticed those! But I was rushing to finish the recap so I didn’t get a change to get into it. Sadly, my mind immediately went to a dark place and started wondering if she’s a cutter and wore those to hide it. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s just a harmless (yet weird) fashion statement. Also, totally forgot about Marie’s waffle ankles, so thanks for that reminder.

    considerthis: I hope karma comes after Grandpa. He tries to act like he feels bad, but I don’t believe him because his actions say otherwise. And I really hope Captain Needy can pull it together, but I’m skeptical. I didn’t watch Joey’s season so all I know is little snippets of info. But I do like your alternate theory for what happened to Chelsea.

  6. 6
    Catherine
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    I think the arm bands were to cover a skin problem, bc I watched the episode twice and the second time I noticed when she and trey were fighting in the hotel that her hands were uncovered and they looked blotchy like cirrhosis. But I could be wrong, it was a week ago. She was probably embarrassed. She already had the odds stacked against her dating that douche bag. I also liked that it seems to be universally agreed that he is indeed a douche bag and its not editing. I cannot wait for the reunion. And did anyone see in the challenge previews it looks like Robb proposes to mo-rum?

  7. 7
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    Ok Gasmii:

    *Thank you @Jerseyj was that a fashion statement Chelsea was trying to pull off? And btw, had she already had the abortion at that point? I cannot really focus when this show is on so I am not sure.

    *My Ex-fiance is a recovering addict, I’ve mentioned before. Most drugs stay in you system for 72 hour with the exception of weed which lasts 30 days plus and never comes out of your hair. Also that 6 month chip is gonzo and if Needy chooses to start over he gets a 1 day chip like all people joining a 12 step on the first day. He has to start from the beginning hence the motto: “One day at a time.”

    *I am not privy to Needy’s habits as of now but, he has done a LOT of promoting with CT and Cara Maria at the Bar where Danny bartends so, I would venture and educated guess he is still not sober. Especially since he’s been rumored to be chilling with the ‘super cute’ Cara Maria.

    I can honestly say I hate this season the most since the dawn of Real World time. Who the eff does Trey think he is? Marie even? Where do they find these people? And to @considerthis’ point WTF did they pick Needy? How about someone more intersting. It was just a few seasons ago where we got awesome cast members like Hair, or Kristen (the Transgender), MikeRoy, Neon Nate. I mean really. Is it time to retire this show or, am I overracting?

    *Does anyone else find it hard to stomach that Trey got Chelsea pregnant and the both kept messing around with other people? Not to get too political here but I would be devastated if something like that happened to me. I certainly wouldn’t fly to the Carribean to see the guy who knocked me up and his side chick.

    People are fucked.

  8. 8
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    I am thinking the arm band was from a burn on her arm…?

    Off to read the recap so I can join in the comment fun!

  9. 9
    thespiral
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Cocaine shows up in a urine test for 2-3 DAYS after use. There is no such thing as residual cocaine in the system (Needy must be thinking of weed.) Regardless, I’m glad he told the truth and I hope he stays clean and gets whatever help he needs. It’s a helluva drug!

  10. 10
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    Needy knew exactly what he was doing, he was hoping the sample would prove clean. Depending on the lab testing (I also had to get drug tested for Division I athletics to keep my full ride as well as for workafter college) they sometimes test 50% for “Street drugs” and 50% for controlled substances.

    He was stalling for time. Addiction is rooted in lies and he was lying to everyone and he knew it so he could hold onto this opportunity as long as possible. Like Marie, I would have called him out for the same thing.

    I seriously hate Trey. Bleech.

  11. 11
    Moli Moli
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    Lol@quiet, instead of quite. I really really liked Chelsea, she is the exact opposite of RomCom. When Gramps somehow manages to slip a ‘well you did this(stupid fun something she did he didn’t approve of)’ scenario during a fight with RomCom she BACKS DOWN and freaking ACCEPTS that some how this is all her fault. Chelsea on the other hand [insert actual hand up] seriously you banged a chick after I had an abortion, nope you are an azz…plain and simple. She deflected every attempt from start to finish of him trying to do the ‘it’s your fault’ tactic. Cap’n Needy, you’re a freaking idiot…I have nothing more to say.
    The camera man got hungry so he whipped out his cellphone and called for help. I love it when Toya and Maria are together, it looks like they genuinely enjoy each others company. While sometimes with Ginger some ‘fun’ is oozing with nervous energy.

  12. 12
    Dazzy
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    I am a drug treatment counselor, and Gypsy is right: even the best urine tests can detect traces of alcohol in the system for 72 hours, and most hardcore drugs can stay in your system for over 14 days. Weed is longer, but in treatment if the levels decrease then it can be seen that the drugs are entering the system–if it spikes back up, then they are ‘bumping’ or taking hits. Like Gyspy said, he was stalling for time…and that ‘random’ aspect of testing was kind of funny to me. Producers must have assumed from football our boy Needy needed a test. Plus those test also show benzos (apparently being paired up with weed these days) and high traces of legal drugs, such as librium.

  13. 13
    Spring
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    Latoya and Marie were annoying as usual, I had to skip through most of their bullshit trip. Poor Robb, so easily falling into the role of Marie’s bitch. I can’t believe he went to pick up her food.

    I’m glad you called out Laura’s antics. There’s no way that kiss(along with her yelling to Brandon in her baby voice when Chelsea and Trey arrived at the house, because I’m sure she knew they were they were there. She was trying way too hard to show “I’m having so much fun without you Trey!”) wasn’t about throwing it in Trey’s face. I bet she was hoping he’d flip out again, because she rationalizes that him being a controlling dick means he cares about her. She says she didn’t want to be his second choice, but that’s exactly what she became.

  14. 14
    Rapscallions
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 8:04 pm

    I believe the armband was for a burn. I had a friend in college with the same thing and it was to help heal a bad burn suffered in an accident. He wore it for a couple of years at least.

  15. 15
    Spring
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    It’s way early for this, so I won’t really get into it, but after seeing the last episode and the reunion I can’t believe Laura. Ugh. We all know how pathetic she’s been since the start, but what a lost cause she turned out to be. I don’t think there’s anything Trey could have done to her that would have turned her off of him. I’ve complained about fictional couples with girls downplaying the bad behavior of a guy, so much that even the guy can realize how much of a douchebag he’s been before she does, but to see it with real people is unbelievably gross.

  16. 16
    PinkTop
    Posted September 12, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    Last week grandpa tweeted the following:

    “Chelsea was in an accident. She had surgery before the show. There are 3rd degree burns on her arm. That’s why she wears the medical sleeve”

    (I don’t follow that douche on twitter!!!! Found that through a net search)

    Laura must come from an abusive background. Or something… Can’t think of any other explanation for her alarming behavior.

  17. 17
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted September 13, 2012 at 8:20 am

    Laura was adopted… there could be something there about a need for acceptance and attention. Positive or negative.

    I was disgusted with the reunion and will hold back if everone hasn’t seen it as well.

  18. 18
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted September 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    I missed the finale but saw the reunion. It was gross. Brandon looked like a douchebag and sounded even worse. There were other parts that irked me, but he was by far the greatest evil in my eyes.

  19. 19
    billyjeansss
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:35 am

    I saw the reunion as well and all I want to know is why almost all real world alumni are all such losers? Every single one of them stated in their “what i’ve been doing since the show ended” interview that they are living at home with their parents, just hanging out and living life. I’m pretty sure they are all in their mid twenties and other than Latoya, I don’t think any of them have college degrees. Do they think they’ll be able to live off real world fame forever? Why are they all such egomaniacs? AHHHH

  20. 20
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 11:21 am

    @billy – yup, that was one of the first things I noticed and I’m glad I’m not the only one. Don’t you know it’s hip to be coddled these days? Ask Ryan from Teen Mom.

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