Comments on: Why ‘Real World: Cancun’ Makes Sense http://www.ypulse.com/why-real-world-cancun-makes-sense Daily news and insight into the Millennial generation for media and marketing professionals Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MM Agency http://www.ypulse.com/why-real-world-cancun-makes-sense/comment-page-1#comment-3357 MM Agency Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:49:33 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=7908#comment-3357 Production has already started at the ME Resort in Cancun building up to the Spring Breakers arrival in March. http://www.mm-agency.com/blog/mtv-real-world/the-22nd-season-of-the-real-world-goes-to-cancun-mexico/3445/ Production has already started at the ME Resort in Cancun building up to the Spring Breakers arrival in March.

http://www.mm-agency.com/blog/mtv-real-world/the-22nd-season-of-the-real-world-goes-to-cancun-mexico/3445/

]]> By: Alex Steed http://www.ypulse.com/why-real-world-cancun-makes-sense/comment-page-1#comment-3350 Alex Steed Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:25:55 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=7908#comment-3350 "Jon and Kate Plus 8 [Serb Nationalists]" anyone? “Jon and Kate Plus 8 [Serb Nationalists]” anyone?

]]> By: Alex Steed http://www.ypulse.com/why-real-world-cancun-makes-sense/comment-page-1#comment-3349 Alex Steed Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:21:46 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=7908#comment-3349 As a Portland, Mainer, I've always wanted to see a Portland, Maine Real World. I am pretty sure the Real World / Road Rules Challenge happened upon there a decade or so ago. Or maybe, for the sake of education, a war zone? The Real World Gaza, perhaps? That would shut everyone's petty drama up so fast: "Oh yeah? You're a conservative and I'm a gay kid from the back woods? You better put that on the back-burner for a second, sweetheart, because Hamas militants are camping out in our next door neighbor's abandoned home and we're getting shelled by the IDF. You might want to put your contrived and totally-predictable reactions to this artificial melding of personalities aside for a minute or two while we duck and cover." Remember when Anthony Bourdain was in Lebanon when Israel began shelling the crap out of the country? It was right about there - and I guess this seed was planted what back during the documentation of the tragic loss of Pedro Zemora - that I began to wish more "reality TV shows" incorporated elements of ACTUAL real world. If war is indeed how Americans learn geography, The Real World could very well be how Americans learn about war. Or maybe the tragic protagonist of next season (season 459, of course) of the Bachelor can be a veteran of one of the current conflicts, out of his mind on PTSD and amputated all over. I feel like there's got to be an authentic way to get reality shows to work for more people than the addicted (myself) and exploitive. As a Portland, Mainer, I’ve always wanted to see a Portland, Maine Real World. I am pretty sure the Real World / Road Rules Challenge happened upon there a decade or so ago.

Or maybe, for the sake of education, a war zone? The Real World Gaza, perhaps? That would shut everyone’s petty drama up so fast:

“Oh yeah? You’re a conservative and I’m a gay kid from the back woods? You better put that on the back-burner for a second, sweetheart, because Hamas militants are camping out in our next door neighbor’s abandoned home and we’re getting shelled by the IDF. You might want to put your contrived and totally-predictable reactions to this artificial melding of personalities aside for a minute or two while we duck and cover.”

Remember when Anthony Bourdain was in Lebanon when Israel began shelling the crap out of the country? It was right about there – and I guess this seed was planted what back during the documentation of the tragic loss of Pedro Zemora – that I began to wish more “reality TV shows” incorporated elements of ACTUAL real world. If war is indeed how Americans learn geography, The Real World could very well be how Americans learn about war.

Or maybe the tragic protagonist of next season (season 459, of course) of the Bachelor can be a veteran of one of the current conflicts, out of his mind on PTSD and amputated all over.

I feel like there’s got to be an authentic way to get reality shows to work for more people than the addicted (myself) and exploitive.

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