The Real World makes me both jealous (of the sweet houses/apartments they live in) and generally annoyed (and yes, I know it's not even currently airing). The show gathers together a group of people in their 20's into one house and films their every move for a few months as the housemates meet one another, get drunk with one another, and inevitably, sleep with each other. The people they pick to live in the house tend to be "different" from one another; the shows producers are apparently obsessed with having gays or lesbians featured on the show and continuously using their sexual orientation to cause stress among the people living in the house. It's obviously semi-scripted and edited to the point where the forced conversations you see and hear on screen probably didn't even happen. For example, if two of the show's stars are walking and talking, pay attention to the background and the things they pass on the street. From one moment to the next, nothing is consistent at all. They'll be walking next to a blue car and pass a woman walking a dog, and then all of a sudden they're near the beach being passed by a gang of bikers. You can't be sure if all of the drama that occurs in the house is real or just fabricated through tricky editing. Yet, somehow, The Real World is one the longest running shows on tv, and still manages to attract new audiences.
Maybe I'm just jealous though... who wouldn't want to live for free in an amazing house in a new city, party all day and night, and "work" for a few hours a day at some joke job. It's like every college kid's dream come true.
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