YES!!!!

I was 11. I really shouldn't have been watching this, but I was!

"Did it say Melissa, open me up?"

Hehe. Like this is Alice in Wonderland. Drink me! Open me up!

That was the best thing that's happened all day!

now THIS is the real world!

aaaah, such good memories!

I forgot about that girl, I always wanted to punch her & that Russian twat in the face. This is hilarious, thanks! He rocks!

Be still my heart! This was my favorite season of the Real World!!

I would be willing to wager that no one on the cast of this season's RW has envelopes filled with work documents ... at least nothing other than the test to become a server at Outback.

Yeah, 90's style, we knew how to throw down, with Gen X rage!I love Dan's reaction to "flamer" with the hand pressed against the chest,and his floppy 90's hair.
And Melissa in the little bolero jacket...priceless.
The best thing is that you can tell their both kind of shocked to find themselves in a screaming fight, so unjaded.

@hatepaperdoll: Well, maybe she wasn't so shocked...but he was.

I always thought she totally overreacted too it's lke, he just called you a bitch, that's not a reason to call him a faggot. if he called her crazy cuban or something like that then it would be different, but seriously!

also, Flora as my absolute fave! remember when she climbed through that window and it broke? priceless.

This is the last season I can remember watching. Ahh...the memories. How badly I wanted to bone that guy Joe...he was like an older doppleganger of my HS boyfriend.

I hated that she gave Melissas a bad name.

@AvgElitist: or std results.

@ineffable.me: @ae38: HAHA she climbed through the window to better hear Joe in the shower with, wait 1 or 2 girls?! I remember they heard slapping! I stopped watching shortly after this season. sigh.

the last good season was boston with montana, jason and elka. i loved it because they went to puerto rico on their vacation and i could be all 'OMG I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!" haha

@ineffable.me: Can you imagine today's brats living with Pedro? no way jose.

@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: yeah 2 girls! hahaha. now all the girls hook up with each other within 3 minutes of meeting eaach other. man, society todya is a shithole!

@hatepaperdoll:
I know, check out her Selena red lipstick.

Priceless.

I miss seeing people on TV who looked like they could have been in class with you, or maybe you'd see them out walking their dogs and what-have-you. It's all skinny, rich bitches now.

@JessicaLovejoy: I was also 11 when I saw this, but I never really understood why they both got so heated, which would be why I shouldn't have watched it. Then again, my older sister ruled the remote. So, I had no say.

LOVE IT. this was the season where flora's boobs got stuck in the window because she, melissa and cynthia i believe were spying on dan and his boytoy in the shower. oh, how i long for the real world of yesteryear

@MiseAmiee: They were also adults. Remember how it was a big deal that Sarah was in the house with them cause she was so young? Now they're all slutty babies!

@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: and they couldnt live with Pedro only cause after 5 minutes he'd be like. that's it, im out.

@ineffable.me: @Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: sorry didn't see your posts. great times.

@bess marvin, girl detective: melissa was IN the shower with joe and some other girl!

Remember when we shocked by the actions on this show? The slap heard round the world, anyone?

What an appropriate reminder of the baseness of Miami with Art Basel only a few days away. BEST. SEASON. EVER.

@ineffable.me: i loved how the boston kids all hated each other in the end. real world definitely took a sinister turn with hawaii. it was the highest rated season and producers took note that it was because of ruthie's alcohol problems and amaya's bullshit. consequently, casting directors started looking for people with mental issues to throw into the house.

Also: I actually saw Dan at a Playgirl issue release party at Happy Ending.

@bess marvin, girl detective: I agree with you 100%. Even by then everyone in the house was younger than before (and there was that weird girl that always walked around naked?)

god, i love dan.

The whole, "these are worth several... HUNDRED... DOLLARS... EEEACH!" is where I would have started amassing my F-words if I were Melissa. I don't understand why I initially thought Dan was right in this dispute.

Miami was a good one. I think Seattle was the last season I watched. Lyme disease! Local backlash!Slapping!

Gawd, I miss the old-school RW with that lovable drunk Irishman, the Simple Country Boy who rocked a mullet, the GOP surfer-dude who felt raped after seeing pinups of himself, and Puck who reminded me of all the guys I encountered in SF pubs that I wanted to kick the shite out of, shake hands with and then grab a beer together.

From what I recall about the Miami shower incident, Dan claimed that Melissa and the stranger actually hooked-up while whats-his-nuts drunkenly watched.

THAT WAS 11 YEARS AGO.

holy shit!

@JessiRamsey: And he didn't just slap her, he made her stop her car, opened the door, and THEN he slapped her... At least thats how I remember it.

@ineffable.me: Uh, but "bitch" is a misogynistic slur. Seriously. Think: "wetback." Just b/c someone includes vice (illegal immigration) in the definition doesn't make it any less racist. With "bitch," femaleness is the target of attack with supposed misbehavior used as an excuse to justify it. All slurs work like that (Back in the day, even the n-word was just considered "foul language").

That being said and in spite of the fact the f-word was accepted as just common profanity back then, it was wrong of her to lash out at him like that.

/end

With regard to my favorite Real World: Seattle. Why? The Slap.

Me too thinks that I saw this when I was 11...maybe ten depending. Oh I remember this vividly.

I too remember "the slap heard 'round the world" and the lyme disease.

My sister also controlled the remote, LaNera.

Puck....nobody has mentioned Puck! What a serious trainwreck of a human being he was.

PS,

Dear SM,

Can this please please please be a regular thing?

Lurve,

MSB2

@Andalucía: I understand that, but I guess i never saw it with the gender connotation so it was just like calling someone mean or stuck up and faggot was just the most absolute insult you could call a gay person.

I never cared for the Seattle real world and kinda hated both lyme disease girl and secretly gay black dude.

that was fucking amazing. i forgot all about melissa vs. dan. he is so damn adorable, " thats a cheap shot. thats a cheap shot." aww...but I dont like the whole bitch thing,either. at least he apologized!?!

steven! that was his name.

OK, Miami Melissa is the one that said, "You are dead in my eyes! Dead!" right? God, I loved that. It made me think of my family reunions.

In the Seattle season, I always got creeped out by that Napoleonic twit from military school who chewed out a housemate for allegedly defiling his character on-camera even though he was an utter jackass 80% of the time. I remember when he went batshit insane on his GF in a car. I heard that the cast usually got catcalled by Seattle locals on the street - still bitter about MTV's over-coverage of grunge, I suppose.

@Cam/ron: omg, dan. yeah he punched a windshield, the girl worked for mtv and they had to keep it secret..ahahaha so fucking nutty

Oh lord, I can't believe I even remember this, but it was *Mike* in the shower with Melissa and the waitress, not Joe. Joe had some really annoying girlfriend from New York.

@foree: David, not Dan. I could probably have learned about a million foriegn languages or something if I didn't have so much RW trivia crowding up my brain.

aw, dan-from-miami. i've seen him in various locations in the many years since his 'real world.' seemed like a pretty fun dude.

i miss the old real world. remember when they were all grown-ups with jobs and stuff? sigh.

@ewabeachbum: YES. my bad. it was david. holy crazypants that guy was...thanks for the correction..im glad you have mad RW memory skills...its awesome.

Is it safe to say that the RW has gone downhill since the Hawaii season? Man, that was a rough one: a trainwreck alcoholic who always denied her problem, a law school "prodigy" who was uber-PC but had no qualms about dissing his housemates, gratuidous nudity that MTV sold on a "RW Uncensored" DVD.

I loved Beth #2 from LA. "Ain't nothin' wrong with being a lezzzzzzzzbian Beth!"

I used to live in the same apartment building as Montana. The first time I saw her, she was at the mailboxes and I almost said, "Hey, what's up?" before remembering I did not, in fact, know her in real life, but only from reality television.

Holy shit. I was a junior in college when this episode aired.

salad days.

my favorite season of all time ever, though, was Boston. Because Montana's weirdo boyfriend awesome flipping out on her and screaming WHORE!!! WHORE!!!!! can never be duplicated.

@heidiho: um. holy shit. SO DID I. wtf!?!