The Real World

I never saw it, but if it did usher in the era of reality television as other reviewers attest, then one nanosecond of it was too long.

The blueprint for today's reality TV shows. They should have burned the blueprint...

It hasn't gone on too long as far as I'm concerned. Then again, I've never watched it.

If you ever suspected that head impaction has reached epidemic proportions in twenty-somethings, watch this show and you will wonder no longer. Everybody has a guilty pleasure; this sure isn’t mine.

I loved this show back in the 90's. I believe 2002 season in chicago was the last season I really payed attention to it. When they started having 2 seasons in a year it was just too much,and could they possibly find more alcoholic slutty chicks with mental disorders? I mean come on don't even get me started on the guys!

10 seconds into the 1st episode was too long.The shows success is solid proof of the theory that people have been progressively "dumbed down" by the media.

The Real World was one of the first reality TV shows and I loved it. Now this method has been tried, tested and now it's just plain flogging as TV is now ruled by the reality TV genre. I stopped watching it back in 2000 and I was so shocked to hear it's still on the air. Let it go MTV.

I was a Road Rules fan. At least they did something on that show besides argue, get drunk and have sex.

It was on too long when they aired the Pilot.

Every year it's the same shit:" Kirby callously wounded my inner child by leaving the cap off of the milk." " Brenna doesn't understand my feelings." Every year they had a kid named Jeremy on the show. They just change the setting, and, as edt4 noted, it was the ancestor of reality tv. Every time I looked at it, I prayed that a savage horde of Vikings would interrupt the show bent on mayhem.

'The Real World' should have never been on MTV in the first place. It's pretty much responsible for the destruction and bastardization of music from MTV. I remember when 'Remote Control' was the only non-music program, and it was good because it was still music 23hrs out of the day..... but now MTV just deserves a place in hell (the no tv section of hell).

A marginally interested show for drunk-college days became simply an unwatchable group of shockingly selfish people with eating-disorders and remarkable shallow personalities. . .blame this show for part of the onslaught of bad reality television. . .what was meant to be a 20's something experiment became overgrown children acting for the camera and putting on airs at all times.

Voyeuristically fascinating when I first came upon it nearly 20 years ago-- seemed to me at the time to be a low-rent version of "An American Family" but that level of fascination didn't last long. How interested really am I in watching the conflicts and tensions involved in a house containing narcissistic overblown nothings? That it is still on to this day is both mind-boggling and depressing. It sort of ushered in the whole era of "reality-TV" and for that alone it should be heartily condemned. Side note: Dave Chappelle did a hilarious routine on the show in which he reversed the usual routine of one black person in a household of pampered whites and put one pampered white guy in a household of aggressive, streetwise blacks.

Like watching train wreck after train wreck. The show defiantly could make you feel good about yourself, who knew people were so screwed up. However one can only watch so much of this without losing all hope for humanity.

It's the same crap, but with different people. I think this is why I hate most reality tv anymore.

I realize part of the problem might be that I am older and my tastes have changed, but somebody needed to stab this thing in the heart about 7 or 8 years ago. It was an interesting idea when it was first presented, but it has run it's course.