It's the Real World Brooklyn, yo! This year's theme is After School Special. But do have quite a bit of ignorance, annoying people and a transgender roommate to spice things up. Don't bother trying to get in a cab, they really don't go there, but keep reading for the update on the latest true story of eight (yeah, you read it right) strangers...
I liked Bride Wars too! Waaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Ryan is the first roomie we meet. He shows us around his podunk town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His audition tape looks very produced. Well done, soldier. That's right, Ryan's a soldier, a veteran of Iraq. And a singer/songwriter. He performs a little song in what might be the desert of Iraq about how the place sucks, then he smashes his guitar, but it doesn't really break. He also says that he can figure anyone out in the first five minutes of knowing them.
So can I! You do a good Beavis face, your cap is on sideways, and you can't rhyme anything with Iraq. You're a dick.
Next we journey to Missoula, Montana to meet Katelynn. Katelynn is from West Palm Beach, Florida but has recently relocated to be with her boyfriend Mike, who whether he knows it or not, is the man she's going to marry. She tells us in her audition tape that she's the girl next door...except that she's transgender. Way to put it out there, girl. She just returned from Thailand where she had her official surgery. She bugs her boyfriend who she moved cross-country for about crying over her and if he's going to miss her. "Of course," he answers after a noticeable pause that I'm sure was probably unintentional. As was the move to Boys Don't Cry country, I'm sure.
In Thailand, they're still performing "The Rachel Cut" procedure.
Well hello, Brooklyn! What a cute montage featuring all the local culture. And then we meet Chet from Salt Lake City, Utah. And his...sewing machine? He models a suit and "pops the collar". Which is pink, by the way. Hot pink. Chet's impression of Brooklyn is that it's the part of New York you never want to go to, and he just doesn't want to get shot out here.
Then you might wanna change the fauxhawk. That's frowned upon in Brooklyn everywhere.
Next up is Devyn prancing the streets of Brooklyn. She's a beauty queen. Life's a pageant. Until she poses on the street in a bikini and tells us that just because she has boobs doesn't mean she's not smart. She's highly educated. As are all chicks who pose with video cameras in bikinis on city streets. Chet and Devyn meet up on the pier in Brooklyn, and Chet tells her she's a "breath of fresh air", probably meaning that she's the first black person he's ever seen up close.
OMG are you Jennifer Hudson! I drove an hour out of Utah to see your movie, girl!
Devyn and Chet totally hit it off. Chet has the ill-fated dream of wanting to someday host TRL. Devyn too is in New York to pursue acting. She tells him he seems like he's a player, which he denies with the excuse that he's Mormon. He's a highly religious person, he tells us, but he's here on the Real World to show that Mormons can be fun. Ugh, everyone's got an agenda.
Next we meet Baya, posing on a park bench on the beach. Coney Island? She tells us she's moving to NYC to be a dancer, and backs it up with an audition tape of her moves, and wow. Perhaps Baya should try Scores. Ryan walks up, and she calls him over. Baya is not shy, I like it. "I never met a Baya before," he tells her smoothly. They hop into their Prius and coast off.
Well, she knows how to show off her good side.
Ryan and Baya have fun in the car, and he finds out that like Chet, Baya is from Salt Lake City as well. Ryan immediately wants to know if she's Mormon. She giggles and flips her hair and tells him that's what everyone wants to know but she isn't. Ryan can tell immediately - because remember, he can figure out anyone in five minutes - that Baya totally gets him. They make goofy flirty faces at each other, and we're moving on.
Why read books when you can read girls, you know what I'm sayin' toots?
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Comments (2)
Love ya ChickBomb!! When I saw Baya's "dance moves" on her audition tape, my mind immediately went to Scores as well. Can't wait to see how this "dance career" pans out for her!
1 of 2 | Posted by LNNC92 | Posted on January 14, 2009 12:00 PM
Baya has the same stiff no- talent moves as Julie from the Original Real World. Can this be any more manufactured and rehashed? Didn't Real World Hollywood have a meathead trainer in it? I just hope Scotty doesn't end up leaving b/c of issues. So far he seems pretty cool. He doesn't seem into Devyn yet though (if he'll even get there).
I liked Ryan. I thought he was honest. Just because he had no prior experience with people of alternative lifestyles didn't mean he wasn't willing to get to know someone like that. I think these days it should be taken for granted that if you walk into the Real World or any MTV show you're going to bump into a few LGTB people. I'm sure we'll see him become more comfortable as the shows go on. If not, we would have seen snippits of MTV exploiting it like the mother on Momma's Boys.
2 of 2 | Posted by Thatswhatshesaid | Posted on January 14, 2009 7:56 PM