Yep, you read that right. If you haven't already been alerted, MTV's reality pioneer is returning to Vegas...again. The first Vegas season happened sometime while I was in high school. Then that same cast came BACK to Las Vegas, and now there's another season in Vegas with a new cast that premiers in March.
I find this odd for a few reasons. First of all, the obvious: Has any other city been host to three seasons of The Real World? I don't think so. Wouldn't MTV want to go back to London or Paris or maybe try something different like Topeka before giving us a third season of clueless twenty-somethings living in Vegas as so-called "locals" despite never leaving their penthouse?
Second, is this really the best time to tape here? I mean, if they want to see a real (excuse the pun) disaster, why don't they just tape in Egypt? I doubt foreclosed condos and deserted casinos are really going to provide the fun-loving party atmosphere MTV usually looks for. Although, they did just tape in New Orleans, so maybe it's like a big, fat, season-long public service announcement for our fair city. In which case, I guess I should be grateful that the network was willing to double our monthly tourist count from 7 to 14.
Lastly, they still haven't cleaned up the muck they left here after the first season. Any tourist is bound to trip over Trishelle at some D-list Strip event to this day. You think I kid. Well, in a way I do. Trishelle is actually very nice, from what I hear.
Maybe they decided to do Vegas again because they could buy a foreclosed house cheap.
ReplyDeleteThat was my initial thought, but they're living at Planet Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Maybe they plan to save money by sharing cameras with Rehab when those aren't already in use. Or, maybe they had somebody double booked on the two shows.
ReplyDeleteand isn't "the real world las vegas" sort of an oxymoron anyway?
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