'The Real World': Outward bind

Awwwww group hug! The Real World gang finally finished their Outward Bound work assignment Wednesday night without seriously injuring any of their campers or each other. Hooray! No Med-Evac copters! Of course, one girl -- a survivor of Hurricane Katrina -- hyperventilated and had to be taken down the mountain; Colie thought she had a recurrence of mono and had to be taken down the mountain, and Brooke pitched an Amazing Race-style hissy fit over her fear of heights when forced to rappel down the mountain...but that's pretty much a typical week for the Real Worlders when they encounter nature.

ntI've mentioned before how lackluster this work assignment has been -- again, it didn't reveal anything about the house mates except that they actually are able to get through five days without drinking and that most of the women are prettier without spackled-on makeup. Instead of a one-shot deal working with disadvantaged children, why not make them deal with their kids' issues week in and week out, perhaps forcing the cast to grow over the course of the season along with their charges?

Brooke says she was changed forever by her Outward Bound experience -- I somehow still think she'll be just as shrill next week when they're back in the pad.

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Comments

[Sheryl]

Isn't it time for this to be OVER, already?

I can't remember the last time I paused in my channel surfing to actually watch more than 15 seconds of this show. Everytime I surf past it, it seems like some whore/manwhore is hooking up with a bar-groupie or another one of their equally whorish/manwhorish room mates.

This started out as with some promise--that first year in NY with Kevin Powell's young militancy vs. that innocent southern girl's naivte, the second season's controversy calling one guy a rapist because he took a joke too far, the abortion, the unrequited love of the kid in the cowboy hat for the female cop. And the third season's pretty unflinching look at a good kid dying of AIDS while some of the 7 strangers became his family. It was a worthy social experiment at one point.

It's devolved into a social disease.

Where do we get a big enough dose of penicllin to kill this thing?