Rank the Musical Hotties of MTV's "The Real World" (First Four Seasons Only)

dude she definitely knew KRS! kenny parker produced her shit!

where's julie????

becky smashbang all the way

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/58/58061/so_over_it_png_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg

<3 <3

aw i voted neil instinctively but heather b!!!

someone vote heather b for me

done and done

<3

http://www.powerperformers.com/admin/speaker_images/neil.jpg

wait are we ranking them on how 90s hot they were or what? if it's for lols i gotta go with lars or reigndance homey

feel kinda bad for all these guys tbh because they were pioneers in the days before a reality show could give you a completely inexplicable celebrity career

sd: go with your heart.

becky smashbang all the way

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^^yeah becky all that and then some! talk to the hand rest of real world cast

season 4 was probably the last one i watched with any regularity, and my brother and i spent most of the time talking in a goofy Lars voice about heroin and techno

remember the outfit she wore to go clubbing daammmn girl

i think i watched for a little while after season four but there were no musicians in season five

also it got stupider real quick

she put some paper cups inside her bra just cause she was so down for whatever

i'd bang becky. and since that is presumptively what this thread is all about, that's my vote.

if there's nothing sexual ... as in, i'd like this individual ... then i'd vote for mohammad.

rest of the cast just could not hang, fuckin herbs

real world ny was so rad. heather b + julie 4eva

this thread is about being whoever you are inside, just like the first four seasons of the real world

these early seasons' tentative flirtations seem so chaste and innocent after the day 1 hot tub orgy era of the Real World kicked in

jon brennan was good for some serious lols -- the way he sang "truuuue storay" all twangy in the opening credits will still be tattooed on my brain when i'm 80

feel like someone should try a reality show like the original real world w/more varied/interesting types of people instead of the usual toned psychos cause hey why not dont worry be happy

eric nies was patient zero

haha yeah i'm kind of amazed it took four seasons for mtv to realize that "a bunch of weirdos with their own ambitions outside the house" made for less compelling tv than "pretty but mentally ill and/or drug-addicted sex fiends"

i forgot that tami was a singer

i guess wiring her jaw shut was a savvy career move then

these seasons were a little before my time, but i could really throw down when it comes to the early 2000s RW (New York 2 was the best of that lot btw... what a great mix of knuckleheads)

that jaw wiring thing was totally batshit

TAMI was totally batshit

she was crazy yeah

i totally had a senior moment a few years back when for a few seconds i though the black comedian dude who got kicked out of the house was dave chappelle and i had to go check online to be sure

lol @ what you did with Lars' last name btw

haha his name was david!

i forgot that tami was a singer

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re former pro baller kenny anderson: His daughters Lyric and Jazz are from his first marriage with Tami Akbar (now Tami Roman). Akbar was a cast member on The Real World: Los Angeles (the second season), and is currently on VH1's Basketball Wives. He and Akbar were married from 1994 to 2001.[14],[15] Akbar filed for divorce in Christmas 1998 citing Anderson's infidelity. She successfully challenged the 1995 $5.8 million pre-nup. As a result of the divorce Tami acquired a sizeable portion of his assets (reported to be half) in addition to $8500 monthly child support. Tami had a license plate custom-made to mark her victory with the phrase "HISCASH".

I remembering loving the way Jacinda dressed with her crazy flowy fairy skirts but realizing that I will never be that person in crazy flowy fairy skirts with flowers in my hair - that was a sad day for me.

i have definitely thought a few times in retrospect that the sarcastic black comedian named david on RW was kind of proto-chappelle

see erica shoulda been like me and wanted to be the drunken irish rock critic

i pick an achievable dream and then achieve it

was dominic a rock critic? i liked him.

I liked him too! He was funny and while I dind't want to be him I remember wanting to hand out with him.

he seemed like a real person

they're even both from D.C.! although back when david edwards was dragging tami out of bed and getting evicted from the RW house dave chappelle was already livin' large on the big screen in robin hood: men in tights

dominic was a real person but still totally hilarious

dominic was a rock cricket, yes. i think he took jon to some kind of madchester showcase or something?

former ILXor Ptee worked briefly on RW:London; apparently Sharon's laryngitis scare was a ploy to seize camera time

i just remember dom being real big into the happy mondays and all that shit

dominic from the rw, not passantino, but who knows

haha tami is on basketball wives now? that makes her maybe the longest career of any serial reality show star

god dammit am I going to have to start watching Basketball Wives now

i think dominic was sadly overshadowed by the SNL real world sketch where mike myers played him by simply saying "I'm FROM DUBLIN" over and over

I'm trying to remember when I stopped watching entirely.

Probably around 2000 when I mpved here and had my first real apt/job and was so poor that my cable got shut off and the only channel I got for year was PAX the Christian network. I don't think I ever got back on board after that. I have, however, seen every episode of both Highway to Heaven and 7th Heaven.

I am pretty sure we will all agree on this but I'm just gonna go ahead and say it - Beth was completely awful, right?

haha a GIS for 'becky blasbland', 1st hit is this thread

as soon as this poll ends im doing a 7th heaven poll

happy the dog in a landslide

beth was the kind of roommate who took sides based purely on whatever would instigate the most drama

... I watched almost the entirety of the most recent Las Vegas season

they had a homophobic dude on who had done gay pr0n

Beth was completely awful, right?

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

so yes, completely awful

hahahahah :D Jess

I have big opinions on that show.

i almost felt a little bad for beth because she had one of the least appealing faces in history but then she was so awful i couldn't

haha a GIS for 'becky blasbland', 1st hit is this thread

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tbh that's because strongo misspelled her name

I hated everything about her and then she kept on appearing on all the challenge shows and stuff 10 years later and it was like bitch you're 45 go get a real job or something.

which season had the right-wing cubana and a gay dude screaming at each other? was that beth?

hahaha beth looked like bruce from kids in the hall in drag tbh

x-post Miami?

that was miami, i think. beth was l.a.

hahaha beth looked like bruce from kids in the hall in drag tbh

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YES

yeah i admit i wasn't so diligent on the spellings

that has been bugging me for over a decade!

"eric nice"

I feel like Beth was the last unambiguously FUGLY person to be cast on The Real World

like, there would be castmembers who were not to your taste but you would never say "that person has a face could melt mirrors"

i know god it was tragic

lol @ bruce in drag

also the Miami battlers were Melissa and Dan

WHY DO I KNOW THIS

yeah beth was old-school mtv in that way. sorta like phil collins.

i mean she wasn't like avert-your-eyes really but since every human female on mtv now looks like a gossip girl she's in john merrick territory

http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/onair/realworld/real_world_awards/then_now/beth_s.jpg?width=600

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Someone's had some work done, huh?

i think her horrible personality exacerbated her face

http://www.mtv.com/onair/realworld/archive/then_flipbook/images/then_rw2_2.jpg

ok the tap of nonstop 90s lols has been turned on, i'm officially not getting anything done for the rest of the day

since it was the 90s i'm assuming they cast beth because she was the "alternative" version of human beauty

Beth is a 24-year-old graduate of Ohio University,[10][9] where she studied film, television and radio production. She is an avid fan of the entertainment industry, and is in Los Angeles to pursue her career, to meet new people, and challenge herself. Her friends describe her as a "drama queen" whose life is like a soap opera. She has worked as a production assistant, worked in a casting office, but is not interested in acting. During the season, she clashes with David, and later, with Glen.[11]

going to put "avid fan of the entertainment industry" on my resume

haha can you really be a fan of the entertainment industry

it's like code for "worst person in the world"

she "clashed" with glen? i don't even remember glen!

i think her horrible personality exacerbated her face

this is my favorite sentence of the day

She made dumb annoying faces. Why? Because she was annoying.

Yeah - I'm not doing anything for the rest of today. I already decided that. It's summer and I have to work late and nobody is here so fuck that imo. In fact, I'm going to go take a walk and get some coffee.

That was like a million x-posts

Who the hell was glen?

was he the one who replaced david

Best thing about Becky is that she slept with the show's director while the show was filming.

he was there for five minutes, but beth clashed with him

Glen was the dude they brought in after Irene the cop got married and left the house; he was in some shitty band and when he moved in, they all moved in too and spent most of their time skateboarding in the living room. No one really enjoyed this.

her FACE clashed

OH SHIT GLEN!!

http://images.ctvdigital.com/images/pub2upload/45/2009_4_1/rw_la_bio_glen.jpg

I totally had a crush on that guy.

okay i feel like such a jerk now

irene the cop! she did not belong on mtv.

Glen was in a band called PERCH -- perfectly early '90s monosyllabic grunge band name

they all moved in too and spent most of their time skateboarding in the living room. No one really enjoyed this

I did! Why? Because I was like 16 and it was the 90s and well - look at him. Of course I had a crush on him. lol.

hahahahah perch

i miss the 90s you guys

otm

i do too, but mostly because i didn't have to do anything

except watch the real world, apparently

exactly

erica do you have Perch's album, is it good

lol yes

wait

omg erica

that was yes I miss the 90s

no, i do not have Perch's album

PERCH

fuck

xp wait you have this

xxp aw damn

DAMMIT they took Tami's rap off of Youtube

hahahaha

hahahahahahaha

Sorry to disappoint, guys.

there are like NO good real world clips on youtube

the man doesn't want us to hear perch

Maybe Al can upload it for us.

and by the man, i mean irene the cop

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R8DVBNZJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Perch/dp/B00000I0VT

Track Listings
1. food coupons
2. heart drop
3. push/again
4. who's sleeping
5. rick james brown
6. mocking bird
7. if animals could pray
8. jello
9. a to z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwvaCfjAHE

that is the shittiest album cover i've ever seen

omg

http://www.rhapsody.com/#/artist/perch-rockpop/album/planet-perch

"food coupons"

OMG DAN

arguing about that incident at school was some kind of proto-feminist moment

xp the tami thing, what was the guy's name?

that album cover is sub-sven vath

TS Forgotten 90s Sorta-Grungy Bands: Perch vs. Greta vs. Dig

oh man i want to start a rolling terrible 90s grunge band names thread

omfg you guys

now we know where 311 came from

the part where tami slams the door and it hits beth in the head is so wonderfully cathartic

it's a perfect storm of hilarious awful

you want to say "poor David" but then you remember... it's David

oh man i started a rolling terrible 90s grunge band names thread

i tuned out of this show pretty early, i have to say. other than the woman who said CAN YOU GET THE PHONE and eric nies and the crybaby 'playwright' on the london show, idk

isn't can you get the phone tami, too?

was it the playwright who was the obsessive blues traveller fan?

lol planet perch. correct answer is becky. god, i loved this show.

i guess he thought he'd be able to pull british chicks talking about this awesome band no one in that country had blessedly heard of?

please tell me someone else is listening to this Perch album with me

it basically sounds like someone with no talent trying to imitate Mike Patton

this show is STILL ON

I HAD NO IDEA

okay LOL @ this album

the mike patton-isms are OFF THE CHARTS

pick hit to click: "mockingbird"

4.0 out of 5 stars Tired of manufactured music get Perch totally unique, March 3, 2002
By
Neal D. - See all my reviews
This review is from: Planet Perch (Audio CD)
I had the privilege of interviewing Glen the lead singer in Philly for my show Journalist Viewpoint. I ultimately ended up becoming good friends with him. The album is totally unique and creative. Glen's voice is a cross between Jim Morrison and Anthony Kiedis of Chili Peppers.
The lyrics all originally written. The guitar riffs are kickin. In a time of boy bands and manufacture music. This album steps above and rocks, very original. Whats up Glen

did you guys just sign up for rhapsody to demo this shit or what

it's on itunes! 30 second samples are more than enough.

Whats up Glen indeed.

In a time of boy bands and manufacture music.

I think Real World only exists now to continue to provide grist for the neverending mill that it REAL WORLD/ROAD RULES CHALLENGE: THE GAUNTLET INFERNO FRESH MEAN RIVALS RUINS CUTTHROAT BATTLE OF THE SEXES

mtv is like esperanto to me now whenever i tune in

i watch those teen mom shows sometimes

Becky obv

How did this show/mtv manage to go to such crap? Feels rockist to note this but mtv did not transition into the 21st c very well imo.

also, REIGNDANCE YALL

when people stop being polite...and start shitting out babies before they can legally vote

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21HBDRAn8fL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
becky's album!

i didn't realize becky was the consensus hottie!

did you guys just sign up for rhapsody to demo this shit or what

yes, yes I did

thank you, disposable gmail address

becky waaaaaaaaaaay hotter than i remember

yeah might be hindsight, i don't know. becky seemed like the one who emerged with coolness intact? sort of?

so glad i'm googling former real world cast members rather than mass murderers now

Becky is almost the hottest of the early seasons by default, aside of course from JACINDA

jacinda was the manufacture music of human female beauty

haha

real world london was a lot of pretty and very little of interest

real world ny was so rad. heather b + julie 4eva

srsly! i watched it for the first time recently & made this thread about it: itt: we talk about the formative REAL WORLD: NEW YORK but mostly lol!!!!

anyway new york is the only 1 of these ive seen and becky is fucking pure style so her

i'm reading the synopsis of the DC series and i feel about 200 years old

Josh is a Puerto Rican/Italian singer/songwriter/dancer from South Philadelphia, specializing in glam rock, rap, and punk-funkadelic music.[32][58] He used to be the lead singer in a band called Whiskey Livin', and is currently working on a solo project.[30] He dropped out of high school twice and was jailed due to an association with gangs he says he longer retains[47][32] He likes to dress well, and is described as a quintessential ladies' man, though he concedes that his attraction to women is his main weakness, which may make it difficult to stay faithful to his girlfriend of three years,[59] Ashley.[58] After moving into the Real World house, Josh began working part-time as a bartender in Georgetown.[30] He also forms a band while in DC named Wicked Liquid.

like, this should not be shown on television to children, it will rot minds

aw i missed that thread! wkiw heather b and julie, then and (i assume) now

I think Becky was sort of a bitchy downer?

I remember her as having a really crappy personality.

come on, in the london season the nascar guy bit off dude's tongue while lars played carl craig records

julie was an airhead iirc

I didn't really watch that first one that much though so I might be wrong.

tongue biting, check; also neil's girlfriend gave him a pig's heart for valentine's day iirc

julie was great!

becky was a lil bitchy but in a way that guys dig

I remember one scene in the London one where the Nascar dude was at the grocery store and was completely dumbfounded that he couldn't find Ranch dressing.

hahaha YES THE PIG'S HEART

RW: London is what happens when you put people capable of reason together; no matter how ridiculous any of them got, all of them were willing to sit down and talk like adults and accept blame, and really when it comes to entertaining television fuck that, we want an angry black dude yelling at a farm girl (or, in modern terms, girls with implants making out before swapping partners, then running into the bathroom and cutting themselves while multiple male roommates beat the shit out of each other)

it was some 90s zeitgeist shit that pig's heart

except for the pig's heart, that wasn't reasonable but it was awesome

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/57041/julie_green_shirt_1_png_300x1000_q85.jpg

e beckys hilarious

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/57429/becky_in_disguise_png_300x1000_q85.jpg

i don't even have a funny caption or anything, that picture is just hilarious

xp

aw i just love her

yeah i remember becky as a total killjoy but in a hilarious above-it-all kinda way

i loved all those fools. norman!

yeah becky seemed like the only one who had any idea of how it would all actually look on tv

http://www.normankorpi.com/

when i said "aw i just love her" i meant julie btw honestly don't remember becky or andre partic well

confession: RW: NY1 is the only season of the show I have never seen

ok norman is hot

who is norman?

norman was gorgeous also so nice!

I hated Glen so much! He represented every faux-alternative douchebro that existed back then.

I related a lot to Becky.

real world ny resident gay

norman was the "sophisticated center"

they have had THREE seasons in NYC now (OG, Back To NYC, Brooklyn)

watching the series in retrospect becky just kinda feels like the embodiment of the early 90s pretentious alternative bohemian thing. its like finding a time capsule idk

also her clothes omg just

there is no new york but heather b's new york to me

norman also showed remarkable restraint in not socking powell in the mouth if i recall correctly

Norman was the gay one? I thought he might have been. W totally S though if he weren't. Handsome!

Anyone who interacted with her showed restraint in that regard tbh. xp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World:_Miami

ha no wonder i tuned out

This was the first season in which the housemates were given a season-long assignment or task, an aspect of the series that would continue in almost all subsequent seasons (the Brooklyn season dispensed with it). This season the cast was given $50,000 startup money to begin a business of their choosing. The cast's efforts were marked by much disorganization and conflict, and while ideas such as a dessert delivery service and a fashion line were floated about, they were ultimately not able to start the business.

i hate this. why did they do this. i hate reality tv, because of this.

yeah this is when it all started to get bad

powell was kevin, though! did julie say something horrible to norman? she was so young! i don't know guys she was probably an idiot but i love her for some reason.

i thought kevin had a problem with norman being gay? maybe i invented that.

everyone in the first season was charming to me except eric

^^^

He represented every faux-alternative douchebro that existed back then

I was 15. Faux-alterna douchbros were probably my thing at that point.

haha the failed business was the best thing about the Miami season

their hopelessness at actually starting a business was hilarious to watch

also Cynthia was hot

i think kevin said some ill-advised stuff to several roommates but i still like him.

cynthia from miami was such a doll! nicest real world cast member ever?

mostly i hate eric for depriving us of downtown julie brown

Wasn't saying ill-advised stuff to his roommates Kevin's raison d'être on the show? That's all they ever show in highlight reels.

well he was "politicized"

which in fairness is more than i can say about anyone else on s1

i know, it's true. he seemed much more like a real person than the later real world iterations of the shit-starter, though.

xp

I am pretty sure the last season of The Real World to have actual human beings on it was New Orleans

after new orleans is when i checked out, yeah

Julie & Eric both annoyed me so much, I think my eye muscles still hurt from rmde at them during the first season.

no wait, actually Coral from Back to NYC was hilarious

from what i can tell now the show is basically jersey shore minus the hilarity

no wait, actually Coral from Back to NYC was hilarious

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oh i fucking loved her. i forgot that was in new york.

wait

Wasn't saying ill-advised stuff to his roommates Kevin's raison d'être on the show? That's all they ever show in highlight reels.

he also wrote them hilarious letters! & threatened to quit the show because they made fun of him...

again watching in retrospect i found it totally charming how earnest & sincere they all seemed to take kevin + his racial politics + just gender/race stuff generally

there are still new ones being made?

yeah that was part of what made that season great

xp

YES

to erica

and julie was an integral part of that because she was an idiot about all of it at the beginning, but she learned!

guys i just love her i'm sorry!

yeah, the 90s viacom liberal brainwashing stuff was all rad and i miss it.

what was their sex show called? not real sex but whatever it was.

xp to lamp i think

I had no idea!

To be clear - I'm not above reality tv or anything - I'm all over 16 and preg and teen mom I just honestly didn't realize that RW was still going.

this is essentially what you'll get on a more recent season

Despite growing up in a small town, Dustin considers himself "a city boy at heart".[9] Characterized by what MTV describes as a "boyish charm and southern gentleman demeanor", Dustin grew up with a bi-polar, drug addicted mom and an abusive stepfather. Although he was constantly shuttled between parents, relatives and various friends' houses, he worked hard to maintain relationships with his family,[14] though his brother Quay visits in Episode 8.[15] He worries as to whether he will develop bipolar disorder, which his mother suffers from.[5] He attended Lamar University,[13] and once lived in the house featured on Frat Pad, a live webcam site in which he and other men engage in sexual activities with one another,[16][17] though he stresses that he is straight and did this purely for a living, and he hopes to put that past behind him.[9] He further explains that his mother's Pentecostal beliefs precluded him from playing sports, and that not wanting to work in oil fields or sell drugs, he chose that line of work because of limited options.[15][18] An avid fan of racing,[10] his friends see him as a highly competitive young man whose good looks help him socialize with women.[14][13] Although he initially expresses an aversion to romance with his housemates in the premiere, he later begins a romantic relationship with Heather in that same episode,[9][16] which later becomes sexual,[5] but when she and the rest of the cast learn he has concealed a past in gay porn, Heather breaks up with him, and the others feel betrayed.[15]

erica have we talked about sixteen and pregnant? that show is amazing!

basically the real world's new method follows the basic method of modern reality shows, i.e. find the most damaged people you possibly can and stick them in a house together

also goole that was SEX IN THE 90S

based on this thread can i assume that there would be strong ilx support for the 'mtv news anchors past & present' poll i've been marinating on

omg sex in the 90s. also, yes, ade, would vote.

which i swear to god there's a guy named "lou" on that sex in the 90s show and if it's not lou barlow i will eat this chair cushion

lol I guess everyone glossed over my post on the other thread about the dude on this season's Real World (Las Vegas II) who was a homophobic gay porn star

xp: strongo with the deets

HS we have not but we should. I have a lot of ideas about that show.

IT WAS LOU BARLOW!!

SERENA ALTSCHUL

HE WAS WEARING A JOY DIVISION T SHIRT

YESSSS THE JOY DIV SHIRT

remember the dude on RW:Hollywood who left for rehab due to his massive coke benders

god i feel so much better now that this has been confirmed

HS we have not but we should. I have a lot of ideas about that show.

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i want to hear them! it's my middle sister's fave show.

xp wait that was really lou barlow

During that interview and I remember being like wtf why is lou barlow on this episode of Sex in the 90s?! They never explained it and it's sort of perplexed me to this very day.

philly was the last season i watched, which was a great year because it brought us Karamo - i tried to do my part at the time to popularize "no karamo" as a substitute for no homo but it never took off

this was like my version of tuomas's mystery movie

HAHAHAHA

i don't understand, lou barlow was just on sex in the 90s opining?

philly was the last season i watched, which was a great year because it brought us Karamo - i tried to do my part at the time to popularize "no karamo" as a substitute for no homo but it never took off

actual in-office belly lol

The episode was "Breaking Up" btw and he was discussing the end of a relationship with someone named Kathleen.

sex in the 90s also gave us christine o'donnell of course, so take a penny/leave a penny

horseshoe yes he was being interviewed about his sex/love life

aw. but also, what?

xp

btw "kathleen" was really just code for "j. mascis"

ahahahaha

for some reason i think i knew of lou barlow as 'that guy' before i had ever heard his music and it really put me off wanting to hear it

No HS Sex in the 90s was a series where each show had diff themes like "Breaking Up" or "I have HIV". The shows would consist of interviews/stories of like 5 or 6 people. Lou Barlow was one of the people profiled on the Breaking Up ep but they never mentioned that he was in a band. He was just some dude named Lou.

yeah you had to be "in the know," i.e. a fucking nerd

i remember sex in the 90s! it's just that lou barlow being on it without being lou barlow is so weird.

mtv used to be so good, man

i actually was gonna interview him for one of the sebadoh reissues recently and it didn't happen but that was totally on my questions list

"so listen, lou, settle a bet..."

...like i think i saw a photo of sebadoh in ALTERNATIVE PRESS and was like "oh, that's the guy from the sex show"

i know for a fact he used the phrase "it was a toy love"

xps

IT WAS A TOY LOVE

this thread has made my day i love you guys

It was totally weird. I liked Sebadoh at that point and I remember being like WTF why is this happening and nobody is talking about the fact that that's him?! It has bothered me for a very long time. I am glad someone else has seen this. *daps Jess*

OMG GOOLE

is it just me or did the "twentysomethings" on mtv back in the day actually resemble real adults?

this may be a cultural problem, rather than mtv's

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/57041/julie_green_shirt_1_png_300x1000_q85.jpg

"y'all need to grow up. jeez."

tell 'em julie

Oh btw the real sex "I have HIV" featured a blonde straight girl who got HIV from her live in boyfriend and I made me so paranoid that I didn't have sex for years and when I finally did I was totally convinced I was going to get AIDS and die immediately.

like i remember watching these shows and being like "oh, it's a bunch of people in their 20s livin their lives in the real world, that looks pretty cool and i can't wait to get there" and now everyone between the ages of 20 to 29 on mtv looks like a disgusting overgrown high school junior with a buy-ten-and-the-next-one's-free card at a tanning salon

is it just me or did the "twentysomethings" on mtv back in the day actually resemble real adults?

part of it is that they were our age or older when the show started, and now they are all much much younger than us

</andy rooney>

i think that's about how we used to be teenagers and aspired to be twentysomethings and then we got old and the reality left something to be desired

lol xp

What do cast members of "The Real World" do after "The Real World"?

i've reached an age where i'm totally comfortable bitching about the decline of youth culture in a totally uninformed and cranky way

real talk: Heather B. has some dope songs

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:14 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm!

lol

i've reached an age where i'm totally comfortable bitching about the decline of youth culture in a totally uninformed and cranky way

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:37 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark

I got all up in arms the other day about the length (or lack therof) of shorts parents are letting their daughters parade around in these days.

lol

old.

also between perch and the lou barlow revelation i feel almost okay with not having left the house except to buy cigarettes this morning

i had a similar moment shopping the other day where everything i thought was a skirt was actually a dress and i was like what

julie from real world new york needs to tell these girls to put some damn clothes on

hahahaha seriously

i am jealous of jh's cigarettes

BTW I had the same skirt/dress confusion recently.

I hate shopping so much.

don't be, i sound like bea arthur these days

that's pretty awesome tbh

lol

I quit a couple months ago but I'm drinking coffee and still have weird coffee/smoke associations going on so it sounded good.

"The cast of a new 'The Real World' season gathers in Vancouver to begin their communal living experience in this parody of the popular MTV series. But while en route, cast members from previous seasons of the show are kidnapped by Roland, an obsessed fan. They are then taken to a secret, camera-filled compound and forced to participate in Roland's own twisted version of 'The Real World.'"

???

oh you don't remember that? the Real World horror movie?

wut

mtv you go to hell, you go to hell and you die

They are then taken to a secret, camera-filled compound and forced to participate in Roland's own twisted version of 'The Real World.'"

he makes them sit down and discuss their problems with each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5Y5QT4w0o

start here

hahaha "boomer"

just came to post

"lol this guy's name is boomer"

That's not actually worth watching, right?

of course not

i'm guessing not. ws of shame for liz, though.

proto jersey shore innit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmN4-V8xPFI

goole...i love you

this is like discovering a children's book in the attic that you loved as a kid but totally forgot about until you find it while moving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fUxaImTas

I KNOW THIS WAS THE EPISODE W/ LOU BARLOW. I'M PRETTY SURE

iirc the little shrimp who goes out with the two player guys was a bigger dickhead really

OMG THE DOG BROTHERS

I remember that SO WELL and, yeah, the shrimp they take out with him was awful.

hahahaha

I am dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gniNjPXHt5k

we need to start a support group for exposure to this shit

you know it dawns on me that one reason mtv was probably better back in the day is because kurt loder was around silently judging everything and everybody related to the network.

THOSE GUYS ARE MY LONG ISLAND BRETHREN

it's sad he's a libertarian now

well not that sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QT0NI-0t-c

i would still sex you

in the spirit of full 90s disclosure

lol high school

<3 tabitha soren

aw, E, your red hair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg_e7fF97ao

CHOOSE OR LOSE

i feel like i should scan some 90s photos of me but so not gonna happen

x-post - yeah - I went through a lot of different hair colors between like 95-98.

I feel like the ball chain necklaces, JNCOs, dark red/brown lipstick, and the little hair clips were p damn 90s.

otm

i miss 90s lipstick i think i am just going to start wearing it again

from a male perspective these were not necessarily bad things

though it seems like until the mid-90s girls wore their pants so high they looked like fred from i love lucy

pretty good look though, maybe?

Bastards i was in meetings all day
this was my shit!!

ws fred mertz

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/05/18/5/192/1922283/4477ce4805caebbd_mom-jeans.jpg

hottt

also

chokers

in my recollection girls dressed like drew barrymore if she was a raver

haha when you mentioned ball chain necklaces it reminded me of the janeane garofalo line in reality bites when she's talking about the cast of melrose place showing up to her funeral in "chokers and shit"

and by "my recollection" i mean "my dreams"

sounds about right

drew was def a style icon

why am i actually too busy with work, today of all days

my first college girlfriend always imitated that line!

xp re "chokers and shit"

i hated that fuckin movie btw

x-post - LOL when she's waiting for the results of the HIV test and they're talking in the dinner right before Lelaina gets the phone call on the house phone from Ben Stiller.

What?

._.

itt people who are all roughly the same age

my sister left seventeen magazine around the house all the time so i guess i was pretty up on ladies fashion in the 90s

that movie is terrible but it is such a thing

diner not dinner

x-post - OTM

it has to be reckoned with

drew barrymore would've been a great real world cast member

there's a lot of stuff from the 90s we're just not ready to deal with yet

it has to be reckoned with

― horseshoe, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:11 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol

like for example the outfit that can be easily shorthanded the "elaine benes"

You're right.

I am not ready for that.

come on, e. long flower-print dress, white socks, mary janes.

elaine benes wore the fuck out of some 90s lipstick, though; i'll tell you what

Man sometimes when I'm watching Seinfeld I just get completely sidetracked staring at how fucking awful everyone's clothing was. It was all SO BAD.

skirt over jeans

why did we all wear those long flower-print dresses? i had, like, four. i haven't been able to wear flower prints at all since.

indicted for crimes against humanity for wearing all-white sneakers with tapered-leg light denim jeans

OK ok ok the floral dresses and mary janes I can deal with but I feel like she wore a lot of vests or something. idk the overall effect - it was not good.

I never did the skirt over jeans thing. It was a little too hippie for me maybe? idk. I had friends that did it but I never actually did it myself.

she wore a lot of vests but she was no miyam bialik when it came to the vests

half the time she looked awesome, though. i feel like entertainment weekly did an elaine fashion review and it was like every so often she'd clean up really good for like ten episodes.

omg omg omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpXiG2dkIPk

chokers were hot

btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWQgb015Lc

basically every day between 1993 and 1997 i wore: jeans, chucks, pocket t-shirt.

but then i was a man-mountain with limited clothing choices.

i guess you could call that the "fat ramones" look.

I mean maybe I should have because then I might not have lived in JNCOs, ringer tees and polyester shirts from the 70s for a good couple years there.

Drew Barrymore, Alicia Silverstone, Donald Faison, Jerry O'Connell, Irene Ng, Amy Jo Johnson and Ben Savage in The Real World: Toronto

"the world's first cyber sitcom"

chunky shoes. i wore so many chunky shoes.

lol dan i would watch all of that

would watchhhhh

julia louis-dreyfus really deserves some kind of award for still being hot in those old episodes even as the outfits date more and more badly with each passing year

guys guys do NOT get me started on Boy Meets World, seriously

chunky shoes. i wore so many chunky shoes.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:18 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark

My dad called them my shitkickers.

julia louis-dreyfus is uber-hot is how she secretly pulled that off

i spent two years of my adult life, one being unemployed after college and then being a stay-at-home dad, watching an hour of Boy Meets World reruns every single day

my ex-roommate from dc still thinks topanga is the epitome of female beauty

like for example the outfit that can be easily shorthanded the "elaine benes"

it was totally a hipster/fashion thing to dress exactly like elaine benes circa 94 last summer. like s0 many girls at shows or parties or w/e wearing flowery dresses and saddle shoes or boxy blazers over grandma dresses and shit. it was awesome to me tbh

your ex-roommate otm

Yeah well I think that those boobs fooled a lot of impressionable young men into feeling similarly tbh.

she was a girl! and sad because she would never look like topanga! an adult woman!

i have worn a boxy blazer or two in my time

a girl! interesting!

guys I hate to break this to you but Topanga is bangin'

hs - come on gmail pls

i think she is very pretty but i don't know about all-time classic beauty

xp haha erica this is the roommate who i had the duchovny conversation with btw

i was so sad when topanga's the soup spinoff show got canceled a few months ago

also i think i have gone on record before on ilx as totally directly stealing outfit ideas from whomever dressed matthew perry during the first two seasons of friends

the early/mid 90s fashion revival is happening ime

http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/topanga-from-boy-meets-world-totally-looks-like-fiona-from-shrek.jpg?w=401&h=271&h=271

if I could link the video of Topanga doing "Gimme Some More" on MTV faster than Busta's original tempo, I would

HS otm re: topanga

goole I hate to break this to you but Fiona is bangin'

hahahahaha

i guess i can't disagree

Topanga was no Staci Keanan.

al you know i have your back until the end of time in regards to boy meets world

high five

btw

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good work guys

after the 7th heaven poll i should do a t(een)nbc poll

btw the real world philly was located next to the betsy ross house and my friend m1chell3 was curating there at the time and wow her hatred of that time span is legendary

haha I can just imagine

Hang Time (1995-2001)
Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993-2000)
Running the Halls (1993)
Name Your Adventure (1993-1995)
Brains & Brawn (1993)
California Dreams (1992-1996)
One World (1998-2001)
All About Us (2001)
City Guys (1997-2000)
Just Deal (2000-2002)
USA High (1997-1999; originally for TNBC line-up, aired on USA Network.)
Sk8 (2001-2002)
NBA Inside Stuff (1993-2002; Moved to ABC)

^^ was too old to be watching any of these btw

like i dont think i have ever heard the phrase "tour bus full of assholes" used that many times in a single breath

pretty sure i watched some of saved by the bell the new class. california dreams sounds familiar, too.

http://sharetv.org/images/california_dreams-show.jpg

yes i totally watched this show

ah, the leather beret

I totally watched it too.

I didn't have real access to cable television until I was in college, and even then didn't really see TRW until 2000. So thanks for cluing me in that New Orleans was the last decent one, guys, because that was the first I saw :(

Homophobic guy who was in gay porn was a slow-burn until they figured it out. I think a couple seasons ago they had a guy who had an alcoholic mother he hadn't seen in years, and he managed to get in a bar fight and get his face broken in the first episode.

speaking of things i probably watched for less-than-pure reasons: the sweet valley high tv show.

CA Dreams - their band used to perform in a diner or something but I can't remember why.

me three!

yes they had a band in a diner

that's all i remember

it was so sad in the 90s bands played in diners

http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/122/988/759/california-dreams-complete-tv-show-series-dvd-free-ship-493be.jpg

i guess the peach pit wasnt really a diner per se

seriously california dreams, saved by the bell, 90210, all these fake diners. do you know what would have made these shows more realistic? if these kids had just gone to a fucking dennys.

and demanded free coffee refills until they were eventually kicked out.

i just assumed it was part of the magic of california

y'all are jealous you didn't have a day-glo diner to chill out in, see some bands.

it's true, the flaming lips never showed up at dennys

need to remember "it was a toy love" and wait for an occasion to say it irl btw

my favorite 90s diner-based TV show: Jim J. Bullock-starring Canadian series Boogie's Diner

haha i just dumped this post in a lou barlow thread, whoops

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=56482

Re: Lou Barlow on Albini, Pavement and 90s sound

Postby Sowley on Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:39 am
I find a certain amount of frustration that I can't find the clip from MTV's "Sex In The '90s" of Lou Barlow sitting in a dark room queening out about his lady cheating on him.

He was wearing a Joy Division t-shirt no less.
Stephen Sowley
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lol!

steve albini is just mad he wasn't asked to be on sex in the 90s

I am so happy about that whole thing btw.

Also that clip with Perry and Aniston PTT posted is great.

yeah he seems like an asshole

xp about albini

he would have worn a jesus lizard shirt and talked about how love was a scam and then wept in the green room when nobody was around

lol

http://geektyrant.com/storage/post-images/goliath.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1261292159661

this threadddd

guys, moment of silence, come on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hl2pBVv9EI

lol i was just watchin the gargoyles intro on youtube the other day

kurt loder is 66 years old, btw.

kurt loder is enjoying that a little too much

in his defense it was the most serious thing he'd been able to report about in almost ten years

66!

I mean he was older then but still

woah

haha yeah

xp

he was good at gravitas not so good at simulating human emotion

MTV sux now. Bring back the 90's when they actually played videos. So sad that Kurt committed suicide. But why? Why Kurt? Hope that you are truly happy now.

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you can tell that this person doesnt remember the 90s, because people were complaining that they didnt play videos back then too

I am sort of surprised that Loder is older than my dad.

what happened to john norris's HAIR?
http://www.petatv.com/swf/splash_images/john_norris_veg_high.jpg

I used to watch "USA High." One of the girls on that show went on to do voices for "Team America:World Police."

oh john norris

omg

john norris is not of this world

MTV played hella videos until at least like 1996

haha aside from the cobain thing the mtv news clips on youtube are so random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPnJ7UBDNSY

i remember in '92 when they have this big "NEW MUSIC REVOLUTION" ad campaign to signal that they were finally retiring all those old Whitesnake videos and only keeping recent vids in rotation

the music programming on mtv was all anyone really talked about (other than the real world) until at least 96/97.

i was actually thinking of just starting a john norris vs. kurt loder poll instead of polling all the mtv news personalities

unless you were like REALLY into liquid television or something.

and b&b of course, but that was music programming too in its way.

but i dont really want to leave all the soren partisans out in the cold

kurt loder would destroy john norris in that poll

would vote soren if she were an option!

would vote altschul

Loder would totally win.

the music programming on mtv was all anyone really talked about (other than the real world) until at least 96/97.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:54 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark

i dunno i feel like 'remember when they showed videos' as a jokey thing to say was gaining traction around 95ish

r.i.p. alison stewart

yeah as old fogeyish as we sound itt i had an english professor who complained about missing the adam curry/martha whatshername days

i also liked alison stewart

also you're probably right? didn't mtv 2 come on the air in like '96?

man this is bringing back how powerfully envious i was of all my friends who had cable in the 90s

x-post - I remember that being the case too re videos not being played

martha quinn!

would vote altschul

― tylerw, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also

TEAM JESSIE

http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/w/where_ya_been/jesse_camp/press3.jpg

as always, wikipedia holds the key

"Launched on August 1, 1996, the original purpose of the channel was to give music fans a place to see constant, commercial-free music videos, once the original MTV had started to change its direction from music and concentrate on reality television and soap operas."

jk that guy was an asshat

oh christ that guy

no no no

oh erica i was so concerned for a moment!

Yeah I remember MTV being awesome because it was all music all the time and some pretty good music too even

wait MTV2

MTV2 showing only videos didn't last past 2000, did it?

charming schlub dave holmes was robbed thereby putting all of us charming schlubs back in our place

man this is bringing back how powerfully envious i was of all my friends who had cable in the 90s

― Lamp, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:58 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha ikr. i only experienced this stuff when i was at their houses (in which case we only watched scrambled porn) or when i was staying with my grandparents during summer break.

I attended the National Association of College Broadcasters convention in Providence in 1994 as manager of my college station, and at a panel hosted by some MTV people, I won a beach towel for being able to name all the original MTV veejays. I still have that towel.

http://www.dlcache.indiatimes.com/imageserve/03sNfh18vDcFZ/350x.jpg

man jesse camps wiki is some sad shit

haha ikr. i only experienced this stuff when i was at their houses (in which case we only watched scrambled porn) or when i was staying with my grandparents during summer break.

haha i used to voluntarily stay with my grandmother over summer break because it meant unlimited cable television (including scrambled cinemax). also because shed give me a fifty to bike into town and get her cigarettes and diet pepsi and let me keep the change

that's one sweet tip

there's a special sadness reserved for anecdotes that end with the sentence "I still have that towel."

Jesse Camp
Born November 4, 1979 (age 31)
Internet Garage, Brooklyn, NY, USA

???

In late 2006, he was reportedly working at a Los Angeles–area pet supply store called Centinela Feed & Supply.

in retrospect dave holmes is doing just fine in comparison

Xp you won't say that when the Vogons show up.

yeah dave holmes has a dvd on tv gig on one of the cable channels when they show movies.

he has given me valuable information about mark ruffalo and for that i cherish him

i still see Dave Holmes introducing DVD extras on FX now and again. good dude, i'm glad he's getting TV checks somewhere.

lol xpost

yeah even apart from the ruffalo he is a likable dude

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/04/spotted-former-mtv-vj-jesse-camp.html

i have heard the jesse camp album

i forget who gave it to me tho

apparently dave holmes came out of the closet! that's a real 'tree falls in the forest' outing

omg i didn't know that!

hahaha how is this jesse camp still on itunes?

xpost

somehow i knew dave holmes was gay?

"somehow."

aw

sorry guys dave holmes and i are lovers i meant to tell you

you have vjaydar

you make an adorable couple

but the dvd on tv couple had such great chemistry!!

especially because strongo is a dead ringer for jesse camp (xpost)

sorry guys im jesse camp i meant to tell you

i don't need to read all 500+ post itt to know the answer is heather b

posts even

otm!

but also, this

jon brennan was good for some serious lols -- the way he sang "truuuue storay" all twangy in the opening credits will still be tattooed on my brain when i'm 80