'The Real World': A low night for the ladies

Oh Brooke. Oh Jenn. Please go feed starving children in Africa for a year. Get some perspective. Jenn's cat-and-mouse game with hometown honey Jared blew up most extravagantly, with her illicit Denver liaisons being revealed to him during his visit. Jenn, generally the most likable of the housemates, came off looking especially tawdry as one paramour after another popped up. Whoops.

She vented to Tyrie, threatening to kill Davis, who was the first to dish the dirt to Jared. (Because, of course, it's all Davis's fault that Jenn is the posterchild for infidelity.) In a win for maturity - or, at least a good TV arc - Jared and Jenn wound up hugging it out and giving their relationship another try. As for Brooke, her weekly hysterics have reached a new point of desperation. After bombing out with the gents in the Real World house - which is a sad side effect of Brooke focusing most her attention on the gay guy - she finally sparked with a fella she met in a sushi bar. After a night of drinking, he called her...but it wasn't a cause for celebration. "Kyle wants to go bowling tonight," Brooke snotted - as though he suggested sorting the recycling for a second date - and then she promptly burst into tears. "Do I look like the kind of girl that wants to go bowling tonight!?"

No. You look like the kind of girl who has the perfect level of self-awareness to go on "The Real World."

-- Ann Donahue