Slog - Comments on Did The Stranger Run The Real World Out of the Country? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1 That's what AOL's TV Squad is suggesting. After mentioning the possible relocation of MTV's bracingly shameless "reality TV" monolith to Australia for its next season, TV Squad member Julia Ward muses: Actually, it's a pretty wise move to beat it for foreign shores. The alternative newsweeklies in American cities, like The Stranger in Seattle, have made it harder and harder for the Real World crew to shoot without interruption and open hostility from the locals. Granted, it's been almost 45 years since The Stranger devoted itself to punking The Real World: Seattle, but still, anything we can do to help... Copyright 2008 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:12:15 -0800 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:56:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by me 45 years, really?

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588596 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:22:14 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Maybe 47...

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588597 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588597 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:23:12 -0800 Comment by london's still my favorite It feels like it has been at least 53 years since those first few seasons, before it turned into an all out "Let's see how drunk I can get!"/"How many people can I tongue at a time?" fest.

]]> london's still my favorite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588612 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588612 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:51:03 -0800 Comment by hyperlinker Links to The Stranger coverage of this?

]]> hyperlinker http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588613 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:52:13 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Re: #3: True, and I feel a little bad about slagging The Real World. Before it became an alcohol-fueled STD swap meet, the show did more for real-life gay visibility than 1,001 pride parades....

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588619 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:54:53 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Re: 4: Unfortunately, the Stranger/Real World hubbub happened years before the internet was invented, and the coverage isn't included in our current archive database.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588620 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588620 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:57:28 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew I really liked the 1st season in New York and the San Francisco cast because it was about real people with real lives learning about each other and trying to get along.

Ever since then it's been about vapid, shallow and pointless cat fighting as the cast has gotten younger, dumber and hornier. Yick.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588626 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588626 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:01:05 -0800 Comment by Explorer I still have my "SEATTLE SAYS: THE REAL WORLD SUCKS" t-shirt that a friend gave me, though I've never actually worn it.

]]> Explorer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588629 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:03:38 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I have mixed emotions about what we did to them.

First, MTV deserved it. But the actual people - who I ran into at some pro-choice events - were not as loathesome as we depicted them.

Bygones.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588638 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:19:58 -0800 Comment by Huntress That show completely lost me when they started giving its cast a fake job to all do together rather than having them each do their own thing. Wasn't the Seattle season the first time that they did this?

]]> Huntress http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588644 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588644 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:26:35 -0800 Comment by sp
I remember the Real World vitriol. It was a weekly item in the TTS column ("This Town Sucks", if I recall)

]]> sp http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588656 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:42:48 -0800 Comment by golob This will probably be my stupidest public admission yet, but I got fairly far in the inteview process for what would have been the Hawaii season. On (about) the third telephone interview, the poor person who made the call got me started on our bombing of Serbia. At the end of a long and dense tirade they told me I'd probably be better for the Discovery Channel, and that was that.

In retrospect, I'm *very* happy with the outcome.

]]> golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588664 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:47:59 -0800 Comment by Callie @10 I don't know if Seattle was the first season that they all did a job together, but they definitely did all do a job together here - they worked for the End. Heh.

]]> Callie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588665 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588665 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:50:53 -0800 Comment by Gitai I think another real indictment of the Real World's most recent seasons has been what's happened to the cast members. In the first, second, and third seasons, the cast members went on to establish real careers. I read montly comics written and drawn by Judd Winick, and they covered real issues, like AIDS, gay rights, race, and abortion.

Now, if you're on the Real World, your future consists of Real World/Road Rules Challenge and people seeing your most petty moments blown up into grand melodrama.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588669 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:54:47 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO forgive me for having not watched MTV since ~1989, and for not being hooked on Slog before '06, but would someone gimme a synopsis of what happened. it sounds interesting...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588691 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588691 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:17:22 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Dear Mike in Mo and everyone else: Synopsis coming, along with some dug-from-the-archives old text on the fracas, dug up by Ms. Ari Spool...check back in an hour or so..

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588694 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:20:05 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist Judd Winick is a great comics writer. I heart his Shazam comics.

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588703 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:26:44 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO the suspense is (not) killing me

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588762 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:57:15 -0800 Comment by treacle good riddance. don't come back, "real world".

]]> treacle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588989 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c588989 Media Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:44:42 -0800 Comment by Michael Martin You can see the production assistant job posting placed in Australia for the Real World in December last year in this Real World Sydney Post.

For years the production has been interrupted by the locals and reporters in the US cities, even had to assign security to the cast after the San Diego season.

]]> Michael Martin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c589515 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/did_the_stranger_run_the_real_world_out_1#c589515 Media Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:56:00 -0800