The Real World D.C.: Episode #9

Thoughts:

-- The whole sequence with Andrew and the tattooed chick he brought home was all kinds of uncomfortable to watch. Made all the more so by Andrew acting like this was a sexual conquest akin to climbing Mt. Everest, when--let's face it--he basically just walked up a small hill.

-- I kind of miss the days when Josh was only on for about five minutes an episode. But so long as he is going to be on, I hope they show more phone calls between him and his mom. You don't encounter many mothers advising their sons to treat their girlfriends like crap. Or calling their sons "dude."

-- It seems like MTV cut out some potentially useful context in that fight between Emily and Chelsea, Josh's one night stand. Like, what was said before Josh came into the room? Who are those two guys sitting in the kitchen? I guess it's possible Chelsea was just a psycho (and wouldn't you kind of have to be to go home with someone on this show in the first place?), but it seems likely there was something we didn't see.

-- "I want to have sex with her again. Why else would you take a girl on a date?" In roughly one half of one episode, Andrew has used up all the goodwill he and his panda hat built up over the previous eight. The only thing worse than a misogynist is a guy who isn't a misogynist going out of his way to act like he is. It's great that Andrew has finally figured out how to leverage being on a reality show into regular sex, but the cockiness is misplaced.

-- I know there's a school of thought that says if you break-up with your girlfriend prior to sleeping with another woman, that's somehow more honorable than sleeping with another woman prior to breaking up with your girlfriend. And I guess I see the logic in that. But I think when you do it right before you sleep with someone else--over the phone, no less--you don't really get to pat yourself on the back.

-- That was a really awkward goodbye between Josh and Kelly Ann. If you're not prepared to do the walk of shame in front of not just the other people in the house, but indeed, all of America, it's probably best not to go home with someone on the show.

-- Andrew's drunken wail of pain after getting pushed off the porch was brutal to listen to. But since we know he comes out of it okay--or if he didn't, MTV's done a fucking great job of keeping his death under wraps--and because he was acting like such an asshole throughout the episode, I was able to laugh at it, pretty much entirely guilt-free.

Real World Wisdom:

Andrew: I meet this girl named Erica. She's so dumb. Oh, my God. But, you know, I'm not going to hold that against her."

Ashley: "The guys here don't act like men."

Josh: "I'm only a man and I can't help myself. I don't know what else to tell you."

Erika: "Kelly Ann is nice. But she's old. And she's a home wrecker."