‘The Real World’: Thai one on
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It’s vacation time! The Denver gang leaves the mountains for Thailand, where they learn to appreciate the cultural shock of Bangkok, the beauty of the outlying islands, and the mind-expanding intensity of traveling to a very different foreign land. Oh, who am I kidding? Brooke thinks she was stung by a jellyfish - and asks her housemates to urinate on her foot, in theory to numb the pain. They do, with a little more enthusiasm than I could stomach immediately after dinner.
The joke is, of course, that Brooke manages to be both a space cadet and a drama queen, and the likelihood that she was actually stung by a jellyfish is low - if so, it was the mildest form of swelling I’ve ever seen after being chomped. She probably actually stepped on a rock, and decided that because that minor malady wouldn’t get her enough attention from the roomies, a dose of urea probably would. And then, the phone rings. It’s Karma on line one....and Brooke actually does hurt herself. She takes a tumble in a rocky swimming pool, cracking her tailbone. I don’t know what the term is for crying wolf in Thai, but I think Brooke learned it first hand. Stephen notes that the trip was the last hurrah for the housemates, who have one week left before they disband. Hurrah! Hurrah!
(Photo courtesy MTV)