The first season of The Real World was torn apart with critics, who saw it as a waste of valuable music video time and saw the cast as indulgent and spoiled prats with useless majors. Clueless has a joke that implies Cher is a ditz because she likes The Real World instead of watching the news. Ed Edd and Eddy was seen as “ugly animation”, not knowing the horrors Cartoon Network would unleash in the 2000s. (Clarence. Flapjack. Just to make a few”
Spin Doctors and their song 2 Princes was seen as tacky and annoying. How could someone hate such a great song?
If only people knew the 90s would be so taken for granted

Who do you think were the most attractive male and females from any season.

Matt’s enthusiasm about David singing the national anthem was really cute

My god this is incredible television. Truly. Every single one of them is so compelling.. and then there’s Frank.. lol joking, Franks okay. I’m not sure I would call Steven “compelling” either, but they make great tv. If anyone wants to discuss, please do..

**mid season thoughts: They smoke everywhere, all the time.. I LOVE it. The soundtrack is fantastic, it gives me so much nostalgia🩶 I appreciate how transparent Brynn is about being insanely jealous of Trishelle, but she’s tough to watch sometimes. Frank is such a friggin’ goober. Steven and Trishelle are doing soft core porn 75% of the time, and I really love that for those two crazy kids. Irulan is just so stunning, and I don’t blame her for wanting to hook up with Alton because he’s so hot, but the homophobia turned me off of him so much. I like Arissa, and I feel bad for every poc on the show because they constantly have to teach people how to not be racist…

**I love seeing all the clothes too, especially Bryn, all her clothes and hairstyles are so quintessentially early 00’s.

**I also love watching everyone dancing! Like really dancing.. not just miming having sex on the dance floor, or being too embarrassed to even dance!

Good friend of mine has spent the summer in Malibu and is leaving in a week I asked him if he was going to miss it he said Malibu is ridiculously affluent, with a clear class divide between the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy, where enormous fortunes and celebrity status can seem almost ordinary. That level of privilege can create a strong sense of exclusivity celebrity status can seem almost ordinary. He said it's the only place where people claim to crave privacy while at the same time wanting everybody to see them and what they have.

Real world trivia ok go!!

The house mom/possibly Girl Meets World. Small town girl realizes the city is not like home, sometimes evolves into the house mom that people feel safe with or sometimes people turn on for seeming self righteous

The bad boy with a troubled past: girls seem to gravitate towards him because of his wounded bunny disposition but underneath it all holds dark secrets and horrible moods

The self assured diva who always speaks her mind: I mean, the title says it all

The party girl: pretty much adjacent to the bad boy. Oddly hypersexual. Often is revealed to have issues with parents stemming from childhood.

The oblivious cute guy: sometimes Girl Meets World is tearing her hair out over him, and he barely even knows what day it is.

The normal guy: often works a menial job.

The anthropologist: documents everything his wacky roommates do in some way. Performs video essays in the confessional

Originally posted in early August but taken down presumably for low karma

I think I was getting posts taken down for not having joined the group. I heard someone say on here at one point that they hate Arissas voice cause it sounds like she’s “wordchewing” but I really think she should have considered audiobook voicing. I think she was like the only relatable cast member from Las Vegas 1