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a light hearted look at what "reality-based" life in seattle(and elsewhere) can be like.
(particularly when you're surrounded by a camera crew)
(which, seriously now, how inconspicuous can that be??)

Read this if you think you're got a case against us..Cast Sightings, Pictures, etc.
Visit our message board and leave your sighting!Links to other related sites

 

2/26/2003 - Wednsdayday - "old news, but funny"

so, yeah, no updates for 3 years, because none of us have paid attention anymore, but yet the pages are still here and getting hits. amazing.

anyway, came across this tonight, and i know it's old, but i thought it was hilarious: stephen gets busted for prostitution, etc. -- bahahaha! what more can i say. --r

 

9/18/2000 - Monday - "this is still here?"

i honestly forgot about these pages until i was running some web server reports earlier tonight and noticed that this is by far the most hit part of the website (which makes perfect sense considering it's pretty much the only thing here at all right now..) -- anyway, i felt the need to put at least something up here - a little thanks out to the 30,000 some odd people that have been here perusing these pages over the last 6 months.  aside from that, some of you may ask (and some have in e-mail), what's going on with the next show, etc, etc. and i'll have to be honest with ya, we don't really care ;-)  once they left seattle the interest largely disappeared for us and we've moved on to other projects, etc.  (our most latest is ripping on the "big brother" website, check out http://www.smallbrother2000.com )(dead,not up anymore)

anyway, i'll leave these up indefinitely as a reference for the debacle that was RW7 - of which my opinion has largely increased since crap like "big brother" has been allowed to remain on TV in times of late.. at least the real world has good editing..   lates kids.. --rob

 

2/3/98 - Thursday - "confirmation"

a local(or at least someone dialing into a hawaiian ISP) - "K" - sent in a mail confirming the address and letting us know their girlfriend had worked inside the house and also dropped this bit of sighting info:

"I'm 99% sure that the cast showed up at the Ani DiFranco concert here in
Honolulu last night (2-2-98). Fairly low profile--one camera, one boom
mic, 2 semi-important looking people with headset walkie-talkies. I never
got a good look at who they were filming, however, and I don't know what
the cast looks like, so I couldn't pick them out. But we had better seats
than they did :)

also, Lindsay dropped us more info:

"The inside decorations (at least what you can see from the beach) are very
tacky. Like, very stereotypical Hawaiian. Bright blue walls, usual IKEA
furnishings. The interesting part is the backyard, which backs up to the
beach (which is public, just so you know.) There are two big spotlights from
the house that go out onto the beach all the way into the ocean. There is a
big pool with a volcano in the middle of it. The volcano actually shoots
fire! There's also a hot tub, and a work out room. The gym is sort of
outdoors... it's in a shed that they cut one wall off of. There you go.
Also, I heard, but I dont know for sure, that bands will be playing at the
coffee shop Monday through Wednesday, 7-9 pm. Like I said, not positive about
that, I read it somewhere. That's it for now"

thanks kids -- WE STILL NEED PICTURES -- if any of y'all living over there can visit the address below and snap some tele-photo images, we'll post them -- Rob

1/28/98 - Thursday - "this just in.."

quick update - our friend lindsay dropped us a note again today:  "The cafe that the RW'ers are running is located above a surf shop called Local Motion in Waikiki.  It's on the 2nd floor, and not open yet.  The vans the cast and crew drive, most of them have large Local Motion stickers on the back."

We're still hoping to hear from some 2nd and 3rd parties on these things, so if anyone is in the neighborhood, let us know! -- Rob

1/25/98 - Monday - "Cmonyawannalayme"

turns out we've got some spies out there after all >=]  - our friend anderson brings us more info(and of course, legalsmegal disclaimer: all of the following information is heresay and we cannot personally confirm any of it because we don't live in hawaii) : Apparently they began taping on the 19th and will continue through may (seems about right), the first episode should air around june 8th.  They are living in the Diamond Head area of Honolulu and they're going to be running a coffee shop in Waikiki.

and better yet, our new friend Lindsay throws an address on the plate:

The house is located in Honolulu at 3169 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96815.. According to some locals, it's "very easy to spot at night." All of the lights are usually on. It's between Diamond Head (a volcano) and the beach. Beautiful location!

damn. gotta love the internet -- now granted, i'd love to drive by the place and verify this (hint, hint ;-) and if it isn't actually the house of the RW kids, i'm sure we'll all deeply apologize to the people that live there, but in the meantime, if anyone, oh, happens to be in the neighborhood, take a peek and see if there's any cameras around, will ya?  -- Rob

1/20/98 - Wednesday - "Holy Shit Batman, they updated the site!"

hey kids, no, we're not dead, we've just been paying attention to our real lives lately. Jeff's doing his thing and I'm looking for a new thing to do, hopefully in Austin - but enough about us.  We've put some more pictures up in the Sightings area, pictures we took at the IKEA appearance right before the kids left town.  I've also taken the time to put some of the more annoying and humourous messages we've gotten into the Hate Mail area as well - i'll have to say, we may be pathetic for putting this site up, but some of you are even more so for not only a) searching us out, but b) taking the time to send us email about it..  and we're the ones that think we need a life? =) 

HAWAII:  We had a report from someone that the new suckers are already over in hawaii and moved into their house and will be starting their job within the week - ANY info someone in hawaii might have would be appreciated.   We've gotten this from our spy Anderson so far, but that's about it:

Through a couple of my sources I have come by a little information. The 7 people
have been cast, but they don't know it yet. Also as you probably already
know they will be running a performance coffee shop. There were rumors of this
being the last season of the show, but that is not true, (thank god, ha ha)
but road rules from now on will not the part in two halves, (ex. first half ,
RR Australia, and the second half will be the up-coming RR Central America,
which has already been taped.) I heard one of the girls on this gets kicked
out in the beginning after a fight with Susie, imagine that. I 'm not sure,
but I am guessing that the RR Semester at Sea applicants were also already
cast from the left-overs of RW. A bit of good news though is next April I
will be making a business trip to Hawaii, at which time I hope to discover the
cafe.

-- rob

11/20/98 - Friday - "It's over?"

my god, what are we going to do with our lives now - any ideas feel free to mail us

well that's it, show's over kids - and what a thrilling ending it was. yawn.  i couldn't say anything that hasn't already been said on other sites about it, so all i can do is repeat again: yawn.  congrats to bunim-murray for beating the dead horse further.  where to go with the site now is the big question - we do have some more pictures to put up, i've even got some of them scanned in - and i suppose we could post some more mp3s of their horrible radio show for posterity's sake, who knows -- you can discuss it on our message board, which i'll probably reset soon because of clutter. -- rob

10/24/98 - Saturday - "MTV: Advocating domestic violence or marketing geniuses?"

as i flipped through the channels this afternoon every time i made the mistake of coming across MTV i seemed to catch the advertisement for some real world video thing on later in the day - i'm sure you've seen this ad, it shows stephen repeatedly hitting irene, in a seemingly glorfying manner with her appearing as the one who deserves it.  normally i'm not a very cause-related person, but this is just pissing me off to see the way mtv's marketing department has been handling the promotion on this and i'm sure some of you out there are too so i'm encouraging that you let mtv and bunim-murray know about it at [email protected] or [email protected].  this is the kind of media irresponsibility that caused me to avoid com as a major...  -- rob

10/21/98 - Wednesday - "Whereupon a Group of Nubile Young Vixens Contemplate the Shrinkage Factor; or, Oh Boy! Watersports!"

While last night's episode appeared to be nothing more than another shameless attempt to cross over the B/M productions, I must give those kids a hell of a lot of credit for getting into the frigid waters of Lake Washington in mid-May. Even if the temperature was in the mid-70's, that water is f&%ing COLD on an overcast day. For all you local yokels, the "Aqua Games" took place at the same location where the Stan Sayers Pits are located for the annual Seafair hydroplane race.

The games themselves took up the whole episode, so this episode merely proved why Road Rules: Australia was a hell of a better watch than Real World: Seattle.

Glad to see that Kit and Mark still have plenty of time to spend doing guest appearances on RR and RW. I hope that this doesn't cast a pall over the other cast members, who may start to realize that they have to spend the rest of their lives as former RW/RR has-beens. Can't wait to see Dave and Lindsay host the Aqua Games on RW XIII: Juneau.

Oh yeah, and one more thing: I got to check out the "Real World You Never Saw II" tape. It had some funny bits, and ultimately demonstrated something I've known for about four months now. RW Boston good. RW Seattle not good.

And that's all I got to say about that.

Next week: The final episode, as the kids say their last good-byes. Well, at least until they do their press day back at Pier 70 a couple days later...and then their appearance at IKEA a couple days after that...and then a wrap party later that night...oh yeah, and they flew them all back for a KNDD concert later that summer...

The week after that: Rob and I try to figure out what to do with our empty, pathetic lives. -- J-Dawg

10/13/98 - Tuesday - "C'mon baby my girlfriend's not here..."

no update last week because not even we're dick enough to say anything about suicide.

this week however...  2 things happen (and only 2 things) - nate cheats on his girlfriend by kissing her in the back of a pathfinder, we can only speculate if this was the chick that he supposedly got on in a UW sorority sleeping porch (complete rumour, but has come from numerous semi reliable sources..) - Stephanie comes up and we get to see her in her panties - whee.   then she gets pissed because they were going to be late for their plane..

the other thing that happened was a too little, too late attempt to bring rebecca to the lime light - you can't tell me that over 5 months they could only come up with 15 minutes or so focusing on her.. gotta love editing - she was hangin' with sir mix-a-lot though, so she can't be all that bad in our book.

look though, not even a single mention of Stephen's bitch slap episode this time around, guess they have already forgotten that violence, typical mtv... --r

10/4/98 - Sunday - "Angry black man."

This week we got to see Stephen the abuse factory go to anger management sessions and the cast be informed on the details of lyme disease - why this all didn't happen far earlier is still beyond us.  Next week, bad boy Dave goes to the hospital.  maybe we'll even watch the whole episode..

we've gotten some shit lately for our use of derogatory terms on the site lately in reference to our opinions of Stephen and his behavior.  wah.  unless your name is Stephen, and happened to be on the RW cast in seattle, then you've really got no leg to stand on.  we never claimed to be a PC website, and frankly we're not about to start now, we will just continue to call things as we see them, which means if someone is being an idiot, they're going to get called for it, whether it's some woman beating closet case or the white trash welfare moochin piece of shit that backed into my new car yesterday and took off while i watched.  the world is a mean place - stick up for yourselves, not the idiots around you.  --r

9/22/98 - Tuesday - "Bitch slap."

i'm sorry - but if stephen isn't flaming, then san francisco is the straight capital of the world.  irene leaves the show this week - pointing out that she apparently is the only one who realizes that the show's existance is as pointless as the rest of us do.  stephen pulls two moves that remind me of cat fights between sorority girls:  he steals a stuffed animal of irene's and throws it into the sound, and after she informs him of the obvious (that he's in the closet), he runs up to her car as she's driving away, opens the door (while the car is moving) and bitch slaps her..  hard to figure out just who the bitch is here, irene or stephen.. my money's on the latter..

next week we get to see if they're going to kick him out (they don't) and see what kind of fun reactions the rest of the house has to stephen's firm affirmation that he belongs in an all girls school. --Rob

9/20/98 - Sunday - "Irene gets interviewed. not."

ok, so we didn't exactly break this (rocketcharged did) - but in case you actually believed it, the Irene "interview" up on one of the pro-real world sites was a complete fake.. surprise surprise, imagine that, someone misrepresenting themself on the internet, what a shock.

9/17/98 - Thursday - "Irene gets ticked off."

Irene freaked, and a lot of sculptures were concerned. And they cut a promo for REI that no one has ever heard.  And Rebecca decided to make a contribution and explain Lyme Disease to us.  And that's about it.

Next week: Irene freaks some more.  I'm just wondering if they will show Stephen bitch-slapping her.  --Dawg

9/8/98 - Tuesday - "Noses are red, Stephen is blue.."

(or, "Don't make me kick your ass")

Tonight's episode was almost interesting - Good Will Hunting (David for those of you not in the know) defends the honor of a girl (who's starting shit to begin with) and whoops ass on a couple locals outside the loc stock -  - i'll have to give it to him, he's got a mean left hook.  In the meantime, Stephen crys. again.  he also takes the time to read us some of his sad poetry - dissapointingly enough having nothing to do with violence, sex or relationships, so it really didn't fit into the season.  kira also calls and it tweaked her off that bad boy dave was still out at 3am (oh my god, heaven forbid he be out past curfew)   GWH also gets in trouble (again) for not pulling his weight at the radio station.. hmm.. other than the fight it was pretty much like the week before last..

on another note - we still haven't gotten any tapes yet for our unreal world so we're anxiously awaiting contestants... --rob

9/3/98 - Thursday - "Sex and Avacados; or, Janet makes an analogy and an audience of millions collectively scratch their heads.."

The kids start their radio show. Rebecca tries to take some control, and the boys get snippy. I guess nobody explained to the fellas what the hell it is that a producer does. In case you're curious about what their show sounded like, be sure to check out our clips on the previous post.

In other news, Janet meets a guy, almost falls for him, he screws up before things get interesting, and I breathe a sigh of relief.

I was bummed to see that Bunim-Murray decided to cut out the horse-drawn carriage ride that Janet took with her family, and Rob and I oh-so-meticulously stalkerazzied. I was hoping for at least one shot of my buddy's 'Stang tearing away, but what are you gonna do...we still have a couple pictures of the event in our sightings area.

Next week: Good Will Hunting gets sucked in by the mean streets of Seattle, and we get our preliminary bout before the Stephen vs. Irene main event. Where's Mills Lane and Michael Buffer when you need them? Stay tuned! -- Dawg

8/31/98 - Monday - "You've got to be fucking kidding me.."

what can i say, i used the title before when they actually were handed the radio show - it still applies.  the kids got "selected" for their radio show last week, the girls won, the guys lost and stephen whined about it - wah, wah, wah.  - he got to go on the radio anyway, doing a "review" (and i use that term loosely, it sounds like someone trying to "fit in" to the seattle music scene) of Jerry Cantrell's Boggy Depot album(which is good, i will give him that..), listen to this poorly recorded MP3 of it (if you don't have an MP3 player, where have you been? go to http://www.winamp.com  and get the best player around)

also take lindsay's advice and "get a life" after listening to this clip it of their show, with Nate-doggy-dogg doing the concert calendar at the end.

more to come, stay tuned to this here (hear? =) website -- rob
(oh and webmasters, unless your URL contains a product of the Estes company in it, i don't expect to see these clips on your site, get your own damn content.)

8/27/98 - Thursday - yes, we were down.

.. for a couple hours. thank you US West for hooking up the damn T1's again. -- rob

8/26/98 - Wednesday - "Nate sucks, but Stephanie swallows."

...well, the second part we can only assume, but that pretty much sums up this week's episode. The seven "overacheivers" (that's Lindsay's quote, I damn near spit out my beer when she said it) compete for three on-air spots on their radio show. But whoops, Lindsay forgot to mention, she's had about five years of on-air experience in her past. Anyways, Stephanie visits so a "distracted" Nate turns in a lousy demo tape, Stephen forgets to do his, Dave admits he's unworthy, Rebecca never seems to get a chance in the booth, and Lindsay, Janet, and Irene get the DJ parts by default. And then Stephen bitches and moans in the same way that I bitched and moaned when I was nine years old and my aunt gave me Darth Vader Underoos. But I digress. Oh yeah, Stephane and Irene became pals and for a second I thought they were going to do a lesbian thing and the whole season would suddenly be worthwhile, but alas, no such luck.

No lesbos, no good fights, no public nudity, no total bitches. So far, RW Seattle it's doing its very best to lay the smack down on RW Miami and take the title of the worst season of all time.

This week: If Rob can remember how to use his tape recorder, we're going to try to have some excerpts of the radio show up on the website.

Next week: Janet starts dating a guy, and I do my best Travis Bickle.

-- Dawg

8/18/98 - Tuesday Evening - "You missed it.."

Doesn't matter, we got it(well, ok, most of it, i missed the 1st 4 lines or so, deal with it =) - read it here -- rob

8/18/98 - Tuesday Afternoon - "Chat call"

Janet is doing a live chat at 7pm Central (so like now.) up at http://communities.chicago.digitalcity.com/evanston/special/1,1575,janet_Schools,00.frm - go ask her why. -- rob

8/16/98 - Sunday - "Send in those tapes! "
(in light of some of the messages we've gotten about being offensive lately, this should confirm that =)

...so I was checking our e-mail today and I am amazed at the number of people who write into us wanting to audition for the next season. It's quite an honor to know that so many of you would actually entrust your lives and sanity to Rob and myself for four months. We weren't going to annouce this right away, but do to overwhelming demand, we must announce our open auditions for next year's season of "The Unreal World of Seattle." (not to be confused with a similar show rumoured to be being filmed in Hawaii..)

Next season is going to be a little different, as the seven cast members will be working on the set of a lesbian porn film, so we need to lay down the following requirements...

1) You MUST be female.
2) You MUST be 18 years of age or older (and have two pieces of I.D. to prove it).
3) You MUST be able to provide your own room and board (hey, we'll try to accomodate as many as possible, but there's only so many people we can fit in our beds at one time).
4) You MUST NOT be married or have a boyfriend (well, at least not a possessive and/or sociopathic husband or boyfriend, we're fragile).
5) Your standards MUST NOT be incredibly high.
6) Your ability to help finance the film is preferred, but not essential. Filming will begin when we get around to it.

Send your audition tape (along with full-body nude photos) to:
UNReal World of Seattle
attn: Scott Whitman
2319 N. 45th St. #162
Seattle, WA 98103

Remember, all submissions become the property of the UNReal World of Seattle, and we reserve the right to publish videos and/or photos to the newsgroups and/or public access stations of our choice.  Besides, from what we've heard that's the only way to really make any money on the Internet anyways...

In advance, good luck, we're really, REALLY looking forward to getting those tapes.  -- Dawg

8/11/98 - Tuesday - "Dead Monkeys Fuckin. Give me a cigarette. "
Ok, not exactly the most appropriate title, but after tonights thrilling episode I couldn't think of anything more creative (apparently neither could they..).  I also moved a lot of the comments, updates, etc that we made while the kids were here over to an "old news" page, so check it out if you're new..

Dead: This episode is clearly the "Lindsay" episode - situations set up clearly to invoke some kind of emotional response from the girl about her deceased father (getting shots in the Cancer ward at UW, seeing a funeral procession in Nepal.  They must have been dissapointed when they didn't get the complete breakdown they were obviously vieing for.  Also, her brother visits town - aspiring musician (what, coming to seattle, imagine that..) if you listen to his music, and then watch the movie "Singles," I think you'll find a distinct similarity between his sound and that of the fictious band Citizen Dick in some of its more mellow moments.  We also get to see Lindsay "invest time" in Janet - aww..

Monkeys Fuckin: Brief moment in tonights episode and next weeks preview, but I had to mention it because comes back to our original "sex" theory about this season, watch for the large snakes too.   Plus it's just damn funny.

Give me a cigarette: Hey, I got an idea, let's go to an oxygen deprived altitude and reduce our airflow even more.  So the kids got to go to Nepal - that's just bright - let's take a bunch of innexperienced climbers to one of the most dangerous areas in the world - Two movies they should have watched before planning this trip: "Everest" (the IMAX movie) and "Alive" (would have been a good one for the plane.. =)

Next week: Watch MTV take advantage of the residents of Nepal some more...

Oh, by the way - Real World 8 is in Hawaii.. aloha (of course, they changed it at the last minute for seattle..)

-- rob

8/5/98 - Wednesday - "Matt Damon and Dave Burns: Coincidence or Conspiracy?"
holy shit - it's been almost a month since we've put anything up here? indications that we actually do have lives after RW left seattle? nah, of course not - rob just moved to seattle and didn't get a vcr again until this week (vcr=important because at rob's house RW is on at 7pm, but rob is rarely home by then from his "real" job) - some things we've got on the burners:

In the meantime, here's a little scenario jeff would like to present:

As I watched Dave hog all the attention the last couple weeks, I cam to realize something: He's there because of his resemblence to one of Hollywood's hottest young stars, Matt Damon. You don't believe me? Check out the evidence for yourself...

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Matt: Considered one of Hollywood's hottest sex symbols.
Dave: Considered to be the hottest sex symbol on RW Seattle.

Matt: Played Charlie Dillon, student at an all-male prep school in "School Ties".
Dave: Attends (nearly) all-male Virginia Military Institute.

Matt: Character Will Hunting grew up in the Boston ghettos in "Good Will Hunting".
Dave: Grew up in the Boston ghettos.

Matt: Dated castmate Minnie Driver.
Dave: Pined for castmate Rebecca Lord.

Matt: Co-starred with real-life buddy Ben Affleck in "Good Will Hunting".
Dave: Co-stars with real-life buddy Nate Blackburn on RW Seattle.

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I'm sure the resemblence was purely unintentional. Ponder that one, in the meantime I'm working on Rebecca vs. Jewel, Stephen vs. Sammy Davis, and Lindsay vs. The Tasmanian Devil. - J-Dawg

7/13/98 - Monday - "<yawn...>"
I'd like to apologize for my lack of posts lately, but frankly, this season really, really sucks. I think they should scrap the episodes and just show the videos of locals chanting "F&%K THE REAL WORLD!" at a Posies concert, or Nate coming on to/sleeping with UW sorority chicks, or any of the other stupid crap that happened while they were up here, it would make for more interesting TV than this smegma that is being carted out to us every week...well, except for last week, of course, and the reason why they delayed the episode had become a proverbial X-File. Of course, I did manage to find out the truth: MTV was so happy with episode #3 (Where the kids scrape a doorway and spend most of the episode patching it up), that B-M did some re-editing. On the next episode, Nate will accidently knock an IKEA coffee mug off the counter, and then spend 20 minutes putting it back together with super glue. It should make for some riveting TV, folks, I mean I'm talking Emmy award here (or at least Cable ACE).

As far as REALity checks go, I would like to point out a couple of things:

1) Notice how all of the local guys that they have on the show (like the band and the contractor) fit the stereotypical mold of a grungy Seattle guy? News flash, MTV, that look left this town, for the most part, years ago. Now all you see is Eddie Bauer jackets, Timberland shoes, and Microsoft polo shirts. The dime-store flannel thing became a cliche a long time ago.

2) To Mr. Dave Burns, who went on a jealousy-fueled diatrabe about "seedy Seattle guys" on the second episode. On behalf of all of my seedy Seattle guy friends, please keep your stupid-bad-accent-Good-Will-Hunting-cracker-ass on the right coast and stay the F#$K outta Seattle.

3) When the cast first went to KNDD and got briefed on the station, I had to laugh when the Program Director tells them that The End is an "alternative" station. Of course "alternative" can be easily switched with "top 40" in the current music scene, so let's stick with the truth here, people...KNDD is a top 40 station that like to think it's alternative because it plays bands like REM and Green Day. News flash: I walked into a Safeway a few days ago and they were playing Green Day on the canned music. Have I ranted about this enough yet?

One more thing...don't patronize RW sites where the idiots are so unoriginal that they can't post their own goddamn material. If you want the good stuff, come here, or Rocketcharged, or The Stranger. I'm praying something interesting happens on Tuesday's episode, otherwise until next week... --J-Dawg

7/7/98 - Tuesday - "hey?! where you been?"
Ok, ok, we haven't done crap to the site lately - we know, you don't need to remind us =)  Rob has a computer again and is almost settled into the new place so in theory things will be updated a little more often.  Keep your eye open for a reorg here soon.

SO.. what's happened in the last 2 weeks? Well, we've seen a thrilling episode involving a DOOR - woo hoo.. i'm so excited - at least they were saved by the token grunge guy/contractor that happen to show up.   And Irene and Nathan are playing dangerously close (didn't we tell you before the season started that they're trying to get them all to fire each other up in the sack? =)

Tonight, at least on the East Coast feed of MTV, there was no RW - i can't tell you how miffed i was as i rushed across the 520 bridge in rush hour traffic because i haven't gotten my dish set up to automagically record things again, and since it's on at 7pm my time.. some crap about Axl Rose wanting to kick the guy from Motely Crue's ass.. whee..   anyways, if they are so smart as to fix it on the west coast feed, jeff should have an update.. some BS about valentines day.

ALSO.. it seems that certain people out there feel the need to steal our pictures, info, etc without any creditation - as stated in our disclaimer, everything here is copyrighted, and shit, it's not like anyone with half a brain won't figure out that you stole it from another site, whether it's ours, rocketcharged's, kookykids or the stranger's site... be original kids, there's enough replication on the net.

6/23/98 - Tuesday - "blah."
I'm not going to go into the details of the first episode...hell, if you didn't watch it, what are you doing here anyways? :)

Instead, I'm just going to nitpick on a few points for those of you who are already mesmerized by Seattle in the first episode.  That's right kids, it's time for the...

Episode #1 REALity Check!

  1. If you think you're going to move to Seattle and live on the water...DREAM ON.  First off, you will never live on Pier 70...it is a commerically-zoned property and the only reason they were able to do the show there was because it was declared a 24-hour film set.  There are numerous condos and apartments close to the waterfront.  Keep in mind that a 1 bedroom 1 bath will run a minimum of $175,000 and a 1 bedroom 1 bath apartment will rent for a minimum of $800/month...and trust me, you won't be able to afford that while you intern at KNDD 107.7 "The End"...
  2. Lindsay and Steven first meet at a trolley station.  This is the King Street Station of the WATERFRONT trolley, which runs a total of 1.5 miles between the International District and Pier 70.  Since Lindsay is from Michigan and Steven is from Berkeley, that means that they had to fly up to Seattle and then take a cab or van or whatever to the King Street Station in order to take a trolley to Pier 70.  I guess that whole myth about the crew never interfering is put to bed immediately.
  3. That place where Rebecca and Steven get to catch fish?  That's the world's famous fish stand at the Pike Place Market, the same one featured in a Levi's commerical directed by Spike Lee.  And if you are an average citizen that is not accompanied by an MTV-backed camera crew, you will stand a ghost's of a chance of actually getting behind the counter and catching fish.  They are a business, and by the very defenition, they are BUSY, and they don't want or need to spend time on your cracker ass getting back there and wasting their inventory.  You'll be lucky if one of the fish throwers will waggle a salmon in your Sony Hi-8.
  4. I feel sorry for The [withheld for a good reason] which actually ALLOWED Stephen and Rebecca in during the casts'  first jaunt to Pioneer Square.  Washington State has some of the toughest liquor laws in the country, and bars would not be caught dead with a couple of minors in the establishment on camera.  The Fenix Underground would not admit them for a good reason, because their liquor license would have been toast.  I feel sorry for the management of The [withheld for a good reason], because if anyone from the Washington State Liquor Control Board is watching tonight's episode, their liquor license is as good as gone.  If you are under 21, you have about 5 clubs to chose from in Seattle.  Everything else is 21 and over, period.
  5. And by the way, Nate and Dave...the reason why those two girls were so anxious to join you that night?  It's not because you are a couple of stud-boys from the right coast...it's because you're living in the Real World house, and they wanted to get a look.  Duh! --J-Dawg

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