I was watching the season premiere of the new "Real World" and there's a scene where all of the new cast members are in a Hot Tub describing themselves. And as I'm watching, I'm thinking "oh boy, here we go again." Yet another season of the Real World where we're being given the exact same characters they always have- the sensitive gay male whose not sure about coming out, the black male playa, the bitchy black woman, the drunken out of control woman, the boring white-bred frat guy, etc. We all know they're gonna be getting these roles defined for them and I'm sure, by now, they all know what they're role is or how they're role is going to be. It makes me wonder if anyone goes "hey, wait, I'm not gonna be that person why BMP is going to make me be." When the season ends, everyone always complains about how they get typed, yet if you'd think by now that if you saw yourself as gonna be typed as the playa, you might think about not being such a playa while on screen.

For some strange reason, while watching that scene I though of the end of the "Breakfast Club" and started thinking how cool it would be if one of the season's ended the exact same way as the Breakfast Club did, with that voice-over of the essay that the Anthony Michael Hall character wrote:

Voice over of one of the cast members (let's say Cara because she's the one who seems to be the most normal, is kind of hot and Jewish to boot ) to shots of everyone packing and leaving the house:

Dear Mr. Bunim/Murray, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole four months out of our lives being filmed and made to look like idiots for everyone's amusement. But we think you're crazy to make an entire series telling everyone who you think we are. You see us as you want to see us...In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is….

Theo: a playa...

Kyle: ...and a frat boy...

Aneesa: ...and a basket case...

Tonya: ...a princess...

Chris: ...a gay male
Kari: and an out of control partier


Back to Cara: Does that answer your question?


Sincerely yours, the cast of the Real World