Welcome back to the Real World Reunion! Maria Menounous is our host, because she's a huge fan she tells us. Oh, nice that someone is. Or was at least paid enough to say it convincingly. She intros the roomies. Nothing new to report, except Sarah has a really cute new haircut with bangs, and Baya's trying to dress like a hip, NYC dancer, but...well, keep trying, Whitebread. Oh, and Chet's wearing hot pink shoes.
Why no matching sleeveless hoodie? Burning questions...
Maria immediately mentions that Ryan's not there, and everyone talks about how much they miss him. Maria Menounous is really pretty. And then she drops a bomb - oh, I'm sorry, inappropriate? Whatever. Ryan's there! He comes out, and Baya goes flying into his arms and wraps her legs around him. They're so doing it.
Ryan looks really cute, and he tells us that he's headed to Iraq in two weeks. No one in the Army realized who he was at first, but then he got some press in the hot publication, Army Times and the jig was up. What has it been like for everyone else? Well, Sarah's been recognized about five times. People in San Francisco could care less, she reports. She should definitely move. What was the point, if not to get recognized? Scotty says that Chet gets recognized the most. Out in the city. Interesting.
Of course, he's probably wearing his CHET hat every day.
Maria wants to pick up where we left up, with the big fight about the cereal and milk prank. They show a little clip, and then we really do pick up right where we left off. They continue to fight about it. No one's conceding and that's the short version. Then Maria tells us there's a "secret relationship" from the house. Chet and Katelynn?
Chet tells us that after coming home to Utah, he's moved to New York. It was a hard choice, there or LA, but New York is where his "contacts" are. We get another shot of Mama Mormon, always a treat. She wants to make sure Chet does his laundry. Loves her.
Well get new contacts so you can stop wearing those ridiculous fake glasses, poser.
Back in the studio, it's boys versus girls. It all comes down to the car trip to Gettysburg. Poor Maria Menounous, having to pretend to ask interested questions about this. She really earned her paycheck today. Did Baya just mention something about the "demographic"? Oh, and Ryan just called Sarah fake! And a bitch. Now Chet's picking on Sarah. Do I need to tell you what they're talking about? It just seems unimportant and I'm not totally paying attention cause I'm also eating a cookie.
And Devyn's singing, writing, building a website. "Building a br..." she starts to say, but then changes to "career". Her agent told her not to say "brand" at the reunion, too obvious. Too bad he forgot to mention to not sing on camera. That part doesn't go so well.
Katelynn is now working for the University of Montana. She says that the only reasons to leave Florida would be if she didn't have her great job or great apartment, but she wanted to move in with the boyfriend so she tricked herself by quitting her job and then not having money to pay her rent, and presto! Now she has no reason to stay in Florida! Wait, wasn't her "great job" cage dancing? I'm confused.
And then it's time for Katelynn's whole story. This was new for the Real World. We get all the other roomies reactions. Katelynn talks about having "taken one for the transgender team". She's the Jesus of trannies. How appropriate for Easter. They talk about JD outing Katelynn, and he does an awful lot of talking, which means he knows what he did but he won't admit it.
What'd I do?
Then there's a a disagreement between Ryan and Katelynn about their big conversation and how Katelynn "pulled the victim card" afterwards. Ryan insists that he asked her several times if she was okay with what they were talking about, but she argues that he approached her the wrong way. Whatever. I'm not covering it. They all need to make peace with these little things and move on. Ryan especially. War's making him mad at everyone.
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Comments (8)
Thanks CB for making this season as humorous as possible. Mostly nice people, but even their fights were boring. JD was an asshole but again not even in an interesting way. No story arc at all. Everyone left the house exactly as they came in. Better luck next season. Baya is adorable. Devyn will be doing porn within the next 5 years.
1 of 8 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on April 13, 2009 6:52 AM
Boring in not a strong enough word for how dull the season of RW was. The only funny thing was Chet living in a state of denial. I was watching the reunion flipped channels during a commercial and forgot the show was on. Just the 30 second preview for the RW/RR Challenge has been more interesting than this whole season of RW. I watched for 2 reasons; first I kept hoping something good would happen and 2nd so I could read the recaps. Should have just watched the first episode to learn everybody and stuck to only reading CB's recaps.
2 of 8 | Posted by dreamkeeper | Posted on April 13, 2009 9:07 AM
I bought a set of fatigues at a garage sale, and I wear them when I go out to do errands. Man, I'm scoring major chicks now, especially the jailbait working at Sonic!!
As far as the Real World.... yeah, I got nothin'. I think about this season and there's just a dial tone playing where thoughts about these kids should be.
3 of 8 | Posted by NotWithoutMyTV | Posted on April 13, 2009 9:10 AM
I liked this season. No, I wasn't on the edge of my seat every week, but it was so refreshing to get away from all the drinking and sex from the past to what The Real World was when it first aired. I know that boozing and sex are what some like to see...and it sells...but not all of us feel that way. Ryan and Chet were hilarious and kept me laughing all season.
4 of 8 | Posted by goldhorse71 | Posted on April 13, 2009 9:43 AM
Nobody wanted to see a sex filled season but damn this cast was just uninteresting. Even their fights were ridiculous, I mean all Real World fights are ridiculous but this group took it to another level where the fights became boring not exciting.
Remember last season RW Hollywood that season had everything and u can't beat that cast - a stripper, a steroid freak, and someone whose whole goal was to piss off his roomates. Who we have this season - Baya Who?, Chet - gay on the outside & straight on the inside, JD - personality of deadwood!!!
ChickBomb, ur better than me cause I think I would've gave up on recapping this season after epi. 5, so until next season CB - Peace & Luv!!!
5 of 8 | Posted by bigjr6633 | Posted on April 13, 2009 11:17 AM
So I'm trying to figure out the timeline for filming...and I'm pretty sure the cast was in brooklyn for Halloween of 08...are they really that boring that MTV didn't even show them dressing up in costumes??
6 of 8 | Posted by winks523 | Posted on April 13, 2009 1:57 PM
Winks,
Katelynn and Chet were in costume... the whole time.
7 of 8 | Posted by NotWithoutMyTV | Posted on April 13, 2009 2:10 PM
This season was so boring! And it started off with some semi-interesting topics: Sarah's almost-molestation, her dad's crazy phone calls. What happened to that?? We never learned anything more.
The show devolved from that point to stupid pranks and fights about the pranks.
And having a tranny on there didn't work out the way they were hoping. Katelynn was a mess, and shady to boot. She wasn't interesting at all. She made a website, big deal.
I was disappointed that Ryan and Belle broke up and he hooked up with Boring Baya. BOOOO! I feel bad for Belle, and I'm sure she wasn't told about Ryan and Baya's flirtation in the house that ultimately led to their breakup. I'm sure Ryan said it's because he's going off to war. How sad to have a documentary on why your relationship didn't work out.
8 of 8 | Posted by Thatswhatshesaid | Posted on April 14, 2009 10:14 AM