Welcome back to the Real World Brooklyn! I could write a nice, opening paragraph about my thoughts on the week's episode...or I could just copy mine and Flippy's emails about it:
ChickBomb: you know I actually liked the rw this week! It was still dumb as hell but I kinda liked it!
Flippy: good! it's growing on you. if you watch anything for long enough that will happen. i still watch desperate housewives every single week for the same reason. ha
CB: Ok that's sad. oh wait, I just admitted to liking the real world so I should definitely not be shit talking.
Flippy: slutty skinny people who only care about themselves. they're kinda the same!
Dudes.
So there you have it. I enjoyed the Real World this week, Flippy is just as hilarious in real life as you think he is and neither one of us bothers with the Shift key.
I normally wouldn't bother wasting time recapping the "previously on the Real World" recap, but since this week they show Chet checking out Devyn's diamond ring when they first meet, I have to mention it. I don't recall this happening, not to say it didn't, but I don't know, I pay pretty close attention. And I don't think there would have been quite so much mileage forced upon us with this Devyn stalking Scotty thing had we known from the start that Dev had a ring. Anyway, Dev's got a diamond, and that's all the backstory we need to know right now.
We open with a bunch of spooky music...and mice. Tiny little mice scampering all over the Real World Brooklyn house. Everywhere. Seriously, I don't even think the cameraman had to try, they just seem to have scurried in and taken over. And I will tell you right now, I can't deal with vermin. I can totally kill a flying cockroach the size of your head, but I see a rodent and I will shriek like a little bitch.
As does my girl Devyn, resplendent as usual in a hot pink dress. I love how Devyn tarts up to sit around the house. Respect, doll. Seriously, I would never dream of sitting around my house in a t-shirt and baggy sweats and I don't think anyone else should either. Anyway, she freaks out over the mice, and Scotty tells us it's really becoming a problem, in case we couldn't see it for ourselves. Then he chases one of the mice around with a dustpan, in hopes of, I don't know, sweeping the thing to it's death?
They helped you make that dress, don't be rude Cinderella.
"It's freaking out the girls," Scotty informs us. And also JD, who jumps on top of the kitchen table, flaps around and screams like a bigger little bitch than me. The boys on the other hand, are on the prowl. Scotty and Ryan set a trap with some cheese, and watch in wait. It's like the crocodile hunter, only in Brooklyn and with mice. Finally, one of the mice takes the bait. Snap! Scotty brings the mouse out by the tail and asks the girls if they're hungry. Sarah, who's on my team with this mouse thing, screams. She doesn't mind a dead mouse, which is shocking, Sarah is the first one I'd expect to be a mouse right-to-lifer, but she just doesn't like them "dead and dangling over my head". Seriously, kill it and dump it in the East River. GE dumps their toxic chemicals there, what harm's a dead, diseased mouse gonna do?
And then we get to what should be a more interesting story for this episode, but kind of isn't, and that's Devyn. The player. She's on the phone with someone named David, who is identified as her "semi-fiance". I vaguely remember some girl I knew in college (oh, here's a story Dev can't relate to, so hope she's not reading) who got "pre-engaged" to her boyfriend. I didn't think there could be a stupider engagement that that, but hey what do you know? Sometimes, I'm wrong. Anyway, while Dev chats with her "semi-fiance" David, another call comes in, she clicks over and who's this? It's Jim! A "good friend" who she met before she moved to NY. They dated briefly, he wants to be her boyfriend, but he's just one of two men in her life. Also, Jim sounds like a total hayseed.
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Comments (14)
Great Recap ChickBomb...Its great to see that you can turn crap into gold!
First off, what kind of men did the real world scouts pick this season? These have got to be the most infantile men I have ever seen. Putting a rat in someone's bed isn't an old school prank...Its a rookie prank. Kids do that at camp! Why would you even waste money on a mice (because that's what it was...it was a mice and if JD had any sort of knowledge that he claims he had, he would have known that). The girls were already aware that there was an rodent infestation.
And quite frankly, the prank itself was just a means to start sh*t and even that didn't happen. So really, who are the bitches in the house?
Belle is ugly but I guess ugly people need to be loved too! Maybe Ryan should be a condom: he should be used and disposed!
Lastly, Chet is just mad that he couldn't have one girl and that's why he felt the need to chastise Devyn.
Unless someone gets beat up (my bets are on Chet and Ryan), I'm never watching another episode again.
But great recap Chickbomb
1 of 14 | Posted by sowhat1234 | Posted on February 21, 2009 8:35 PM
"Sugar Daddy...Sugar Daddy. With a big fat wallet and a brand new Caddy." Subtle, MTV!
Devyn: I'm gonna give this to our daughter when she turns 16.
David: Criiiinge.
And this spells romance/love how?
2 of 14 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 21, 2009 8:51 PM
Sugarbutt is such a pimpstress...a pretty bad one. But she's got at least 2 guys fooled. If Devyn had been nicer to her roommates, they would feel more loyal to HER (the person they know) than David (some random dude).
Chet and Ryan are the best RW couple ever!
3 of 14 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 21, 2009 8:55 PM
Oh sweet, dear naive CB. You thought Devyn's boobs are real? I have natural(!) Double D's and trust me, it's hard to find little tiny shirts that can contain all of their gloriousness because the jiggle is quite obscene. Devyn has the plumpness with none of the jiggle factor = fake.
4 of 14 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 21, 2009 8:58 PM
""So who the hell is Jim?" asks Chet, steering the topic back to his player hating."
I really love you CB! (And how can you not fall in love with Chet?)
Can you tell I'm commenting as I read/watch the show?
5 of 14 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 21, 2009 9:00 PM
So Ryan's gf...didn't feel the need to make an appearance during the Gettysburg hometown visit??? Hmm...
6 of 14 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 21, 2009 9:02 PM
Hey chickbomb,
It's not important but I just wanted to show off my college edumacation. Katelynn said the moon was in a waning phase. Yes, I learned that in my intro astronomy class. I can also show you some constellations if you like. =]
7 of 14 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on February 21, 2009 11:06 PM
I would like to start this off by saying that I cannot stand Chet and I'm sick of the soapbox he has for everything. I in no way think it's his place to tell David what was up. I'm glad he didn't. He's known Devyn, what...a whole three weeks now? And David was around for a weekend? Guy code does not exist when you DON'T KNOW THE GUY. And Ryan? Really? Are you in on this? Because I'm thinking you feel a little foolish about your preaching now that you know your super-secret email to Baya wasn't so super-secret.
In their defense, though, (ick...I can't believe I'm saying that) it's also a lot of Devyn to ask her fairly new roommates to cover for her like she did. I used to have a roommate that cheated on her long-distance boyfriend all the time. Fine, whatever, not my business and I would never seek him out to tell him about it, but when he would visit she would expect us to all hang out as chums. We would be expected to cover for her and defend her if he ever found something shady and called her out on it. It was frustrating and exhausting and finally I told her to just leave me out of it. So I don't really think that's fair of Devyn to ask (or rather, demand as she did) of them.
And CB, I love your recaps so much but it just pains me how much you sing the praises of Devyn! She is exactly the girl I can't stand. She obviously has terrible taste in men and I really don't like how she expects to be pampered (although he seems perfectly content to show it off, which is just as skeezy). When it happens, it's nice, but to expect it? Ugh. Oh, well. Agree to disagree.
Also, I think she has just as much of a man face as Katelynn. I personally think we have two trannies on our hands here! Think about it...it makes perfect sense. It's why she got a boob job, won't let anyone into her pants, and covers up blaringly obvious insecurities with extreme self-righteousness.
8 of 14 | Posted by andreak1013 | Posted on February 22, 2009 11:48 AM
Devyn started off cool, got annoying, and because of this episode, I now despise her. Making your boyfriend pay for everything and then dumping him? If she was angry for things her semi-fiance has done in his past, then you forgive him or you don't. Don't make him suffer.
9 of 14 | Posted by heygirl | Posted on February 22, 2009 8:13 PM
Okay last week I made a comment I want to take back. I said I liked Chet and Ryan because they made the show less boring. After this episode I can't stand any of them. The boys are the annoying type that think girls are such "drama". Meanwhile the boys are more gossipy and bitchy than the girls.
10 of 14 | Posted by Baxter | Posted on February 23, 2009 12:44 PM
Is it me or has Devyn seemed to have gained about 15 pounds since the show started? Her massive boobs are in a losing battle with her gut and ass for supremacy. She should enjoy the flurry of male attention while she can, because the way she's porking up that phone is going to stop ringing pretty soon.
11 of 14 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on February 24, 2009 9:24 AM
I haven't been reading your recaps about this show recently, so I was surprised by the Devyn love. I CAN'T STAND HER!!! I dislike her more then Chet! Can you believe that? There is nothing cool about playing two guys and one of the guys supporting you financially and you play him like a fool. Besides her need to speak about her experience on a "collegiate" level, her giant boobs, terrible wig (ew) and messed up teeth. She really grates on my nerves.
12 of 14 | Posted by MrsBojangles | Posted on February 25, 2009 1:35 PM
I realize this is not the correct forum, but where the heck is the Mud Bowl ROL post? I'm on pins and needles!
13 of 14 | Posted by natural redhead | Posted on February 25, 2009 6:45 PM
^ditto
14 of 14 | Posted by spreadhead | Posted on February 26, 2009 3:50 AM