I'm going on record as saying this is the most boring cast ever. Chickbomb, I've been reading your RW recaps since the Australia season, and I can't even remember anything this pathetic. I mean, there's no Parisa/Trasha dynamic from Australia, no delusional violent stripper dynamic from Hollywood... it's just eight nice people doing nothing. This season should have gone back to the half-hour eppy way it used to be. It worked for Hollywood because that season was infinitely more interesting than this one. If they didn't need new cast members for the Challenges, I'm sure the Real World would have been over by now.

And, for the record, some guys carry Magnum condoms even if they can't use them as a way to intimidate other guys (and it worked in JD's case with Chet.)

I'm really confused...did you leave out like the last half of the first episode? Didn't everyone go out together after JD and Katelynn had dinner? And Ryan got super drunk, and everyone made him drink water? That's how I knew this season was lame, when they were encouraging sobriety...the wastoids are far more entertaining!

Chet is much too concerned with penises. His scarf collection is astounding. Do straight men own this many scarves in Utah? He's not from NYC, he's from Utah! Maybe he's just trying to look cool on TV.

Your right, this is the most boring cast ever and this maked me long for last season.

Last season they had a stripper, a steriod freak, a possibe racist, and an asshole who just liked to mess with his roomates. Who do they have this season, honestly I can't even describe this cast because these people because their so boring.

Chickbomb, I like reading you recaps but they can't even help me on how uninteresting this season is. Hopefully this show pick up, but I doubt it.

does anyone else think that ryan looks like Zack Braff a lil bit?

This is weird. I'm liking this season actually. Its different. Not the fun train wreck, but we still have Rock of Love Bus for that.

ChickBomb! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I vote for "make shit up", pretty please? Like, Baya discovers she's part black, and while hip-hop dancing still eludes her, it turns out she's a real whiz at the polka... Devyn turns out to ALSO be a tranny, except she still has her penis (it's a huge one) and she's also a sexual addict with a penchant for inflatable sheep... JD gets fired from his dolphin training job, because it turns out he was having sex with several of them, making them all jealous, and none of them would do that synchronized jumping shit any more... Katelynn discovers too late that she was really just a femmy gayboy, wants her dick back, and has to travel back to Thailand to have penis-reconstruction-surgery... Chet gets hooked on Pez and Jolt Cola (that shit is like Vicodin and Everclear in Mormonia!) and has to go to detox at a Vegan farm, where he falls into a seriously codependent kind of love with the farmer's son... Ryan's contact with the drag queens stirs his soul (and his desire to wear hose and heels) and he joins the cast of Drag Bingo as it's newest star, Claire Voyant... and the other two fall through a hole in the earth and discover a magical land filled with faeries and sprites and nymphs and are never heard from again... THE END.

love, J-Mo :) (a.k.a. Chickgay)

P.S. I know your made up ideas would be way better than these, but I just thought I'd take a little mental exercise. Seriously? This bunch is super-boring! Can't there be a happy medium where everybody drinks and gets in fights, but still has enough humanity left that we don't wind up hating them completely? Sad... but I still love you!

I second the vote for making shit up!! Seriously, why does it feel like every episode this season is going to be A Very Special Episode?? I can't sit through many more of Katelynn's coming out "reveals".

ChickBomb, I cracked up so freaking bad over African Ant Eater Ritual - LMFAO.

this season totally sucks balls. i miss the drunks and the sluts. sigh.

well, i like this season. people are actually DOING things. this is... depressing. tvgasm just wants to see everyone get drunk and fight. i get it, it just sucks.

So far I'm liking this season much better than the usual let's all get drunk and fight/ screw/ get arrested. I hated Denver, Austin, etc., because it seems like that's all they ever did.

The people so far don't strike me as very interesting, though... they all just seem very young and pretty ignorant IMO. Maybe I'm just too old to watch this crap anymore. :(

ChickBomb - great recap of a shitty show! Get those ideas working in your head for more interesting antics for the roomies.

ChickGay (J-Mo) - Loves your made-up storylines. So much more interesting than the actuality that is this season.

BTW - Yay!! for Magnums!

Jesshloly - it's just that we don't know how to act this season. The past several years have been nothing but BOOZE and DRAMA and we just don't know how to deal with anything resembling the REAL world on Real World. 'Nuff said.

I agree with a lot of you, this is by far the most boring cast and season of TRW ever. If you guys love to hate this show, I'd also recommend MTVixen Jill's recaps over at pophangover . They're brutally sarcastic and mean and she doesn't hold back, I personally can't stand Chet so I love it.

Sarah's smugness really disturbs me. Devyn and Scott are nonexistent, JD and Baya are mindnumbingly boring, Katelynn's the must uninteresting transgendered person ever, and Chet is just pathetic.

i think it's hilarious that during the denver season people were complaining that it was all about sex and drinking and that they miss the old school real worlds where there were people with actual intellect and goals and differences.
and then we get 8 of those people and everyone is crying a river that they aren't getting drunk and having sex and having meaningless conversations.
LOL. i love these
good grief. it's only episode two.
but i forgot, we live in a shallow generation who lives for shows like the hills and bromance 'where they make shit up'.
i enjoyed the recap!

It's so obvious that the MTV producers are trying to pick a couple of the biggest freaks they can in order to start drama. Why is it that if it's an alternative life style it has to be forced on people until they accept it & if they don't accept it, they end up being portrayed as an ass?? Doesn't everyone have the right to feel the way they want to feel? This is the worst Real World yet, so dissapointed!!! And what is up with Transgender girl walking around in her pink underwear??? Talk about trying to shove it down people's throats, the average person doesn't walk around in their underwear!!! Get over yourself transgender girl, we get it..you used to have a penis and now you don't...GREAT!!

just out of curiosity sharonly23....
did you have a problem when melinda walked around in her underwear from austin? or when aneesa did? or when kelly anne from sydney did? katelyn sees herself as a girl and has a name... as much as im sure she loves being referred to as 'it' or 'transgendered girl' she's acting like herself. i doubt she's shoving it down people's throats... but perhaps you would rather her not act herself or deny that part of personality because it is too alternative for your small mindedness to swallow.
just because someone is not like you... doesn't mean they are alternative or not normal. for them that's who they are.... it sounds like this is the perfect season for you to watch. maybe it will help you become less judgmental. at least i hope so.

Hey hollagirl2, did you just chew out sharonly23 for being judgemental by being judgemental yourself?

Careful everyone! There are pots and kettles all up in this bitch! :p

And I think most people watch "reality" tv to see crazy stuff. I mean, if I wanted to see people sitting around having meaningful conversations about their emotional growth etc, I could go to my neighbor's house, or church, or the local coffee house etc. OR.. I could turn the channel to something besides MTV or VH1. I could watch the friggin Lifetime Movie channel and get all of the schmaltz I can handle. If MTV is trying to tone it down the only result will be that people will turn the channel to VH1.

snooty bootches
im simply responding to what's been remarked about in the string of commets... if calling someone out or questioning someone is close-minded, then, i guess, color me judgmental...
just saying... you don't watch reality t.v. hoping everyone is exactly like yourself... at least i'd hope i didn't find a replica of my self on there. so give people different than you a far chance, all im saying.

Response to hollagirl2: You are right, the Katelyn situation may be to alternative for me, I'm fine with that. I'm sure that whenever we watch katelyn open her mouth this entire season it will be about one thing, her being a transgender & why she's so mistreated for that, can't wait. Also, no I didn't have a problem with all of those other girls walking around in their underwear probably because none of those girls had a penis at one point in time. JUST BECAUSE I DON'T THINK KATELYN BEING A TRANSGENDER IS A WONDERFUL THING DOESN'T MEAN I HAVE A SMALL MIND, EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO THEIR OWN OPINION.

Oh, one more thing before I get torn into for not being supportive of transgenders. In response to Katelyn's stupid ass comment, "we live in a male dominated, sort of chauvinistic, misogynistic sort of society". What is up with that comment, where does she live, Iraq? Last time I checked I didn't live in a society where they had hatred for women. Maybe she feels as if she uses a bunch of big words that it will make her seem like she has a valid point. In my opinion, she was talking out of her ass.

Believe me, I don't want to get caught up in this "debate" (discussion) but it's interesting that Katelyn feels the way she does about the world we live in, yet she had surgery to officially become one of the "down-trodden women" she feels society dominates. She isn't more confident now even though she feels more comfortable in her skin. I would hedge a bet that she's still every bit as insecure as she was before her surgery. It seems like next week we're going to explore some of her feelings of loneliness. It's not what you look like on the outside that determines who you are, it's all about who you are on the inside. If you know who that is, it doesn't matter what you look like. IMO, She hasn't changed inside yet.

when is JD gonna spill about dating anderson cooper?? he must get drunk enough at some point in the season to talk about it!

It is sad that my two favorites on the show are Ryan and Chet. I think they are hilarious compared to the other "intellectuals". They are just too deep for my blood.

Funny recap as always, CB.

If you won't say it, I will:

Non-English speakers (who have been in America for years) are annoying as hell. I live in CA and this happens a lot. I'm not talking about the accented English, but just not knowing a single word at all. My friend's grandmother has been in America for FIFTY YEARS and doesn't know a word of English. WTF? Why go to a new country TO LIVE only to isolate yourself from the country's culture?

Call me crazy, but I'm liking the frat boys: Ryan and Chet. They're funny and they say what's on their (ignorant) minds instead of trying to be fake open-minded PCers (*cough* Sarah, Baya *cough). By contrast, JD is a genuine PCer. I forgot where Sarah is from but I bet she's from CA.

Speaking of really annoying people, Baya and Sarah are really annoying me. And Katelynn...not annoying but I don't like her. My problem with her is that she's an UGLY transgender.

Has Devyn been kicked out of the house? Because so far, she's filling the Token Black Person spot in quite well. I hate when the RW doesn't even try to get the Token involved in a storyline.

That's all.

RW is so not what it used to be...*sigh*

"Devyn turns out to ALSO be a tranny, except she still has her penis (it's a huge one) and she's also a sexual addict with a penchant for inflatable sheep..."

Sorry, both the "inflatable" and "sheep" part of that fantasy is strictly a white thing. I'll buy into the tranny part, though.

Ok, that was not all...

"...where there were people with actual intellect and goals and differences.
and then we get 8 of those people and everyone is crying a river..."

Show me the people on this show with "actual intellect".
I'm with here4beer. I must be getting too old to watch this crap if this is what passes for smarts these days.

sharonly23
perhaps the way you first expressed your opinion came off as small minded. i respect your right to have your own opinion, i just dont see that because people are being their 'alternative' selves, that means they are shoving it down your throat.
you must be very fortunate to have grown up in a community where there is no discrimination of any kind....
while there is not the hatred of women today as there was back then, all parts of the country are different.
i think it's great you have such strong opinions... but hopefully this will at least help you to maybe see a different lifestyle to yours as something other than alternative. thats all.

Dear Snootchy Bootches:

Exaaaaactly! I'm so sick of people who pride themselves on being "open-minded" who are actually being closed-minded by not allowing "ignorant" people to be ignorant. You can force enlightenment (aka total acceptance of alternative lifestyles) on people. Thank God, God loves judgmental people, too.

And I'm gonna jump in here and answer a question not directed at me: I have a problem with the women walk around in their underwear on a reality TV show that's not about modeling. That goes for ANY woman, biological or not. ESPECIALLY when that woman is a post-op transgender who's supposedly keeping that fact a "secret". At least Chet admits he's an attention whore. Is that a RW first?

Sorry for all of my follow-ups but there's so many interesting comments here.

"It's not what you look like on the outside that determines who you are, it's all about who you are on the inside. If you know who that is, it doesn't matter what you look like. IMO, She hasn't changed inside yet."

I agree. (Good) cosmetic surgeons do a psych consult on potential patients before operating, especially with transgenders. If the problem is psychological (e.g., low self-esteem), the doctor is ethically required to recommend therapy BEFORE operating. Seems like they don't care about those things in Thailand (from what I hear, they don't). It's also interesting that Katelynn had to go to Thailand to get her surgery when they do it here. In Thailand, they don't even have malpractice laws...so I'm gonna guess that Katelynn couldn't find a good surgeon who would perform the surgery on her in the US.

Interesting how Katelynn went from being the awkward, uncomfortable self-loathing male to the awkward, uncomfortable self-loathing female. Plus, does she really think that the whole season is going to go by without anyone knowing.

I have to say, Chet is winning me over. Maybe because he seems more open-minded than the "moral police" that are actually just the drama kids from high school who all complained about the preppies being the same, yet they too all wore the same makeup and carried a retro lunch box to school. The whole lame bus commentary was hilarious.

I think that MTV really is trying to make this season more like the older ones. Usually it's 2 or 3 really hot girls and one girl who is pretty, but lives in the shadows of the other girls. All in all, I'm actually liking this season.

blahblah,
you're right, perhaps i need to be more open-minded towards 'ignorant people and their ignorant views!' lol Thank you for enlightening me!! from here on out, ill do my best.

"Oops sorry, still not commenting. I mean it."

well then i really dont mind commenting for you=]

i wouldn't say id get as mad as JD was, but ive been in that situation before and gotten pretty pissed.i live in San Diego, and aside from english, Spanish is all i hear. (i dont speak it) and while i really wanna get mad when someone assumes i speak spanish or can't speak english to me, i control myself. I dont let them see that im pissed.... Yet i can not tell you how many time ive been at work and had a spanish speaker come up to me saying "habla espanol?" and when i say no, they get pissed!! like seriously mad. ive even had one customer say "why not? you should really learn." in english. and its like if you can speak english why are speaking spanish to me the first place??!?!?

i mean wtf is that..
im sorry i thought this was america. ....

and i am actually half mexican... so dont anybody tell me that im being racist or prejudice or anything. My grandparents learned english, they can too.