I've got to start off this recap of the Real World Sydney with a big, heartfelt thank you to Dumby. Last week, he had me seriously concerned with his open-mindedness to gay people and admissions of a rough childhood. I can't say anything mean about that. But this week, he's back to being a hostile jerk who uses people who are nice to him as a doormat. So thanks, sweetie. I was getting worried there for a minute.
The pigs have landed.
We meet again on a sunny day in Sydney, and there's a package at the door! It's so big it takes both Shauvon and Trasha to drag it inside. Hmmm...we're about a third of the way through this thing, we've established characters, had a little drama, quick calculation says...time for the "real world" job! I have to put it in quotes, cause it's always some easy, fun stuff. A REAL real world job would be cubicles or cash registers. But, nothing dramatic about that so let's just open the big ol' box.
And the job is...Contiki! They're a travel tour company. The roomies will be working on a special travel project. Cow hopes it will be something fun and interesting, cause he's never had a fun job before. No worries, Cow, see above.
In the boys' room, they discuss the new job. Cow, who's turning into a real little bitch, has a mean comment to make about what each of the girls does for work back home. Parisa is a professional student, Shauvon writes sex stories, Trasha buys clothes for people and he has no idea what KA does.
Well, first of all, Shauvon writes a sex column for her school newspaper, it's hardly a living writing porn. As for Parisa being a full time student, I can see how an educated woman would scare the crap out of narrow-minded Cow. And Trasha...I'm sorry, but who is she buying clothes for? I picture a minion of obnoxious twenty year olds in faux Chanel shades and two-tone skunk hair, and make a vow to never, ever to go Fresno.
And while he's picking on the chicks, what about the boys? Dumby is a full time student, same as Parisa. Much like KA, we have no idea what Cow does. And Isaac ROBS HOUSES! Shut up, Cow, and leave the judging to me.
For their first day on the job, Parisa skips around the house waking everyone up. It's 11:15 am, and they're all still fast asleep in bed. Way to soak up the experience. Somehow, Parisa's intrusive, waking people up at nearly noon so they're not late for their job thing has upset Dumby. Fucked up his chi, I believe, was the exact phrasing. She ruins the positive aura, he whines. Parisa is the one ruining the positive aura? Oh sure, I can totally see how a girl who enjoys the morning time could really ruin a day.
And you think that's bad? It gets worse. Wretched Parisa has the nerve, the gall, the impudence to continue sucking all the positivity out of the day by...SINGING IN THE SHOWER. Oh, she's just vile.
Wash that man right out of your hair, girl.
Trasha, of course, agrees. She and Dumby bitch about it together. In a positive way, of course. We have a recording studio, they complain. How dare she sing a tune in the shower! You can't even have a conversation, bemoans Trasha. Oh, the horror. It's like you said, she continues, Christina Aguilera gone bad. Yeah, Parisa's the real negative force in this house. And then, awful, negative, chi-stealing Parisa commits an offense so terrible I can barely bring myself to write it. She cooks the roomies a yummy looking French toast brunch. I know. The karma police are soooo gonna get her ass.
I think Parisa looks pretty as she flits around the kitchen, making sure everyone's fed. Shauvon has accessorized her black Contiki logo t-shirt with a yellow sash, and I like that she added a little personal style to it. She's really excited about the job.
Isaac does a countdown, cause of course, after sleeping til nearly noon, they're running late. He thinks they could run a vacation resort; Dumby could be the bartender, he could be wedding singer and Cow could be the repairman. I can't help but notice the obvious omission of the girls in this scenario, and I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of a boys vs. girls divide brewing. But that would be stupid, right? Exactly...which now makes me sure that's precisely what's happening.
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Comments (8)
Chickbomb!!! Great recap! Especially considering what you had to work with, next week looks way better, a love triangle yeah!!
1 of 8 | Posted by lloyd dobbler | Posted on September 30, 2007 11:02 PM
ChickBomb,
Excellent, excellent recap! Your best yet. Truly insightful and the image captions... hilarious, just hilarious. Loved it!
2 of 8 | Posted by BonaFide | Posted on October 1, 2007 5:47 AM
"You should totally text that pic to God"
LMAO ChickBomb!
Parisa is possibly one of my favorite Real Worlders ever. She just seems normal and nice and I wonder how the hell they picked her for this show. Issac is also strangely growing on me minus the whole I'm going to apologize by calling you a slut AGAIN thing. Where has little KA been? She was very absent from all the drama this week.
3 of 8 | Posted by HereKittyKitty | Posted on October 1, 2007 4:47 PM
First couple paragrapsh, I spent time looking for my cup, because of the hormoningly lines drawn in the sand, but the you mellowed out.
I can't beleive you would even get mad at these people anymore. Nothing they do or say should suprise you. Sadly, I Issac is the best one in the house. When the first showed him, i thought just waht the "real" worl needs another hip-hop Eminem wannabe, now I realize he is just a goofball, in house full of full on nutballs. Good luck, Issac, good luck . . .
4 of 8 | Posted by mattypopo | Posted on October 1, 2007 5:08 PM
FYI, New York University is not an "Ivy League" school. The Ivy League includes Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, U-Penn, Princeton, and Cornell. Parisa goes to NYU, thus she is not Ivy League (like that means anything, NYU is a good school).
5 of 8 | Posted by MOwen | Posted on October 1, 2007 7:39 PM
Don't know how you can defend Parisa as much as you do. She's the most annoying person to appear on this show in a long time.
Sure Dunbar is a jerkoff, but a girl like Parisa would get on anybodys nerves.
6 of 8 | Posted by kevintheomanharris | Posted on October 2, 2007 7:00 AM
Cow builds log houses. He told us that in the first episode. And I think he just said Trasha buys clothes. Not for people, just...buys them, I guess for herself.
7 of 8 | Posted by bulletproofheart | Posted on October 2, 2007 10:59 AM
ChickBomb, I know you're in love with Parisa, and I usually see her as the voice of sanity more often than not, but I'm sorry, waking everybody up 2.5 hours before they have to be somewhere that's 30 min away is annoying, as is constantly belting out melisma at full volume in the shower. And I'm sorry, but Parisa's singing is totally "Christina Aguilera gone bad". I shudder to think I'm in agreement with Trasha and Dumby on this one.
8 of 8 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on October 5, 2007 8:06 AM