I Want Your Sex - 
by B-Side
Over a week ago, we watched the kids of The Real World: Austin cavort in the Costa Rican sun as part of their well-deserved vacation from their cavorting in the Texas sun. And like that uncomfortable feeling you get when July crosses over to August, there's a sense that summertime in Austin will be ending soon. Now it's just a race to the finish line as the kids work to finish their documentary and whatever other sordid conquests they have in store for us. Unlike the end of summer, however, I'm actually looking forward to the end of this season. Starting out with so much promise and then devolving into a repetitive, generic mess, Austin hasn't full-out sucked like Paris or Philadelphia, but there's a feeling like we learned all we could learn from these kids weeks ago, and now the show is simply running on fumes. Not even the tantalizing allure of Nehemiah stuck in the clink could even pique our interests at this point (okay, maybe a little). I don't know where this season went wrong (probably somewhere between the 34th and 35th episode of the Danny and Melinda saga), but I'm rapidly awaiting its finale, whenever that may be. Gotta be soon, right?
This week's episode began with our old friend Wren hanging out at a bar with Wes. No word on whether or not this fine establishment was The Dizzy Rooster, but judging by the general cheesiness of the surroundings, I would have to surmise that it was. Anyway, this wunderkind couple seemed somewhat awkward tonight. Perhaps something was afoot? Wren, for one, seemed to be overtaxing her sole brain cell: "I don't understand," she said.
"You don't understand what?" asked Wes.
"You," she replied. Look, Wes is a simple man. There's not much to understand about him: he likes plaid patterns, the occasional vintage shirt, grandiose comments, general poseur behavior, babbling about nothing in particular, and of course, bubbles. Alas, this had been too much for Wren to comprehend, and so she repeatedly rebuffed Wes's approaches, refusing to get serious with him. It's for the better. She could never live up to Wes's first love: Mr. Left Hand.
"I am very, very, very sexually frustrated tonight," Wes complained. You see, he's spent so much time pursuing all these women that he hasn't been able to get anywhere with any of them. (His general lameness might also be a roadblock, but that's neither here nor there.) Anyway, a drunken Johanna managed to speak for all of America when she slurred, "RIght now, you're getting pretty good looking girls; so pick your goddamn fight and pick the good looking girls. Stop going for the shitty a;slkdhfas." Sorry, I couldn't understand what she was saying at the end there. It was some sort of non-distinct JohannaSpeak, which I encourage her to use more often, by the way.
Anyway, the good news for fans of Real World novelty games was that the ol' basketball machine was now fixed. Viewers may remember that a certain drunk roommate (Rachel) had flung herself into the apparatus, perhaps envisioning herself as a basketball of some sort. Well, Rachel's flight of fancy had fatally debilitated this most enjoyable of games, thus sending Nehemiah into a tailspin of rage and self-destruction. Mostly just rage though. But now we can put that dark chapter behind us because we now found Neh tossing basketballs into the hoop anew. Life is good!
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