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The Real World lands in cow town Denver

Contributed by: Marcelo Duran on 11/28/2006

"I love to make out, it's my thing"
-Alex, Real World Denver

The reality show that set the standard for dysfunctionality is back and this time it's doing the Mile High City.

Now I know how the other residents of the 17 Real World locales felt when their respective show premiered. Wow this is our city and ain't it cool. But one question keeps pestering, now that I am light years out of the Real World demographic (I'm 28): Can I survive past the times when it starts getting real and stuff?

And I feel I can say yea, since the show appears to have a bunch of bright-eyed optimistic folk that may like each other at first but might be tearing each other's eyeballs out by the season finale.

The show starts off with the usual one-door closes another opens with Colie's college graduation from Tulane. She, like the other six cast members, are looking for a fresh and exciting start in Denver.

You can never take anything for granted when The Real Worldites are cast. If MTV could spawn the cast in a Petri dish they would, but since that is only a few months away they have to settle for selecting.

Here is a brief description of how I see the cast and their possible upcoming issue that should arise if the Real World research crew did their homework.

• Colie: A fresh faced college grad that has a little puppy love crush on Alex who would like nothing more than to just make out and not shop for promise rings.

• Tyrie: The house player looking for some fun. One of the two black men in house and we'll see if they can survive a house with just five crazy white people. He appears to have a crush on every woman in the house but they are giving him the cold shoulder, at least initially.

• Brooke: The southern belle looking for a nice gay person to hang with. Looks to be the party girl who wants to have fun kiss anything for the hell of it, including female roommates.

• Alex: The player looking to sleep with every girl in the house. Part one of the love triangle when he makes out with two of the three women and almost burns a pizza in the process.

• David: The gay guy who might have a conflict with religious Stephen. He and Stephen appear to be headed towards BFF, but then issues might arise since Stephen is a staunch hard-core anti-homosexual religious guy.

• Stephen: The "second" black guy, possibly a Real World first. He is the achiever of the group, student leader and very religious. He is surprised to see there are two black men in the house but that is the least of his worries since he appears to have the most issues over David being gay.

• Jenn: Former Raiderette looking for some love in Denver. She lost a few points because she cheered for the evil Raiders but even that shouldn't stop her from multiple hookups and is Alex's fun girl, not the one looking to buy China patterns. She starts the love triangle by making out with Alex in the guesthouse, but that shouldn't be a surprise since being a Raiderette she's the devil.

Meeting fellow roommates: Best Friends Forever?
The cast members enter Denver by trains, planes and automobiles. And each wind up at the house on 19th and Market through various modes of transportation. Colie, Stephen and David have to hoof it over. Before Jenn shows up Stephen and David find some common background when they both discover they are southern Baptists, but little does Stephen know that his new buddy is a bad Baptist.

Tyrie and Jenn are given the horse drawn carriage treatment, which is weird since they came by train and Union Station was only a few blocks from the "house." Brooke and Alex enter the city by way of Denver International Airport and are given the posh treatment when they arrive by limousine.

I can only imagine the Real World strategists spent months determining what would be the best setup on introductions and to pair up certain cast mates while choosing to let the chemistry fly once the whole group gets together.

The House: A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Home on the Range
All seven cast member's show up to the former site of B-52s, but it hardly resembles the former billiard hall and dance club. The house is decked out with at least 20 elk heads and all the amenities a 20-something would have at their first house, pool table, hot tubs, basketball court, pine trees, fireplaces, a Jeep-turn-functioning bar stocked with enough liquor to give each cast member die of alcohol poising a few times over.

Shameless plug of the episode: Subway.
Lucky for the roommates, the local Subway shop dropped a few huge sandwiches and wraps in case the everyone was hungry from their long journey to Denver. I think the amount of they left could've fed near homeless people hanging by the Samaritan house a few blocks away.

Oh the drama part 1: Gay guy in the house!
Sparks nearly erupted when David came out to his fellow roommates. He described how it's been tough on him and Stephen is shocked and his view on "those people" and how they look and act. The two have a heated discussion on the rights and wrongs of being homosexual. Maybe Stephen has issues since they are now roommates. But the two to agree to disagree and they all head out on the town. I can't believe that a heterosexual southern Baptist would have issues with another guy claiming to be Baptist and is gay? What are the odds that they would cast two finest example of the odd couple?

Oh the drama part 2 The burgeoning love triangle, octagon....
The love triangle heats up when Jenn and Alex plan to have a sleepover party, while moments early Jenn professes to the audience that she is probably closest to Colie since they are so alike. That can be a blessing and curse since I'm sure fisticuffs will break out over Alex at quite possibly one of your favorite bars. Jenn and Alex have a serious make out session after Colie heads off to dreamland. Jenn jumps on hunky guy's guy and then before they head over to the guesthouse to start the sleepover they toss back a few more dozen drinks and put a pizza in the oven?

Which is odd unless you want a good plot device to get Colie out of bed and nearly catch the two, but they scramble and scatter to make it look like they passed out drunk from all the fun.

I can only imagine how Colie will react the next morning, stay tuned for episode 2 to see how real it can get.

Stay tuned...


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Submitted By: Brendan Leonard
posted on 11/29/2006 @ 4:38:45 PM
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You know, I haven't watched the Real World in years -- I think when they were in Seattle. But now I'm looking forward to being able to follow the show without actually having to watch the show.
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Marcelo Duran has posted 6 stories and 0 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Marcelo Duran's average story rating is 5.
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