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17-19 2006.07.11 |
Mainly On The Plain The kids go to Spain. Svet whines a lot. |
| 5-12 Recap |
Don't Ever Call Melissa a Bitch! EVER!
Don't Ever Call Melissa a Bitch! EVER! - Melissa dares to suggest that Sarah's friends look slobby or something, and Sarah's friends totally burn Melissa by picking up the check with their American Express card, and Melissa has to eat her snooty words. |
1996.05.12 1996.05.12 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-11 Recap |
Flora Has No Class
Flora Has No Class - Sarah says, "Just because I'm using tools, and a hammer, and my BRAIN doesn't mean I have to ask permission." Rebel ramp builder! She kisses no one's ass. |
1996.05.11 1996.05.11 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-10 Recap |
You Make It So HARD, Nic! Part Two
You Make It So HARD, Nic! Part Two - Oh, I need someone to be my buddy and guide me now. God? Are you there? It's me...Alex. |
1996.05.10 1996.05.10 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-9 Recap |
You Make It So HARD, Nic!
You Make It So HARD, Nic! - Joe reveals the real reason he's at the airport: to pick up Ick. Oh, joy. |
1996.05.09 1996.05.09 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-8 Recap |
Flora's Got the Syphilis in Her Toe
Flora's Got the Syphilis in Her Toe - Flora gets in her hooker-mobile...I mean, "her Jeep." It won't start. She screams. |
1996.05.08 1996.05.08 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-7 Recap |
Sarah and Her Superpowers Rule!
Sarah and Her Superpowers Rule! - Joe comes up and says, "Even if we fail, you still were part of running the business." Running it where? Into the ground before it even started? |
1996.05.07 1996.05.07 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-6 Recap |
We Come to Dump Cesar, Not to Praise Him
We Come to Dump Cesar, Not to Praise Him - Melissa and Cesar snuggle at dinner, and she puts her head on his shoulder as he drives, and we learn that they've been dating for four months. She fell for him when he held out his hand for her to help her out of the car. Hooray for chivalry. Isn't snuggly love and dating incredibly boring for people not in it? I thought so. |
1996.05.06 1996.05.06 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-5 Recap |
A Two-Timer Primer
A Two-Timer Primer - Flora explains that she and Mitchell are in love and they "try to out-bitch each other; it's fun." Sounds like fun! Not. |
1996.05.05 1996.05.05 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-4 Recap |
Shut UP, Dan!
Shut UP, Dan! - Why does Dan get an enormous grin on his face at doing some kind of promotional activity? Because it has to do with modeling agencies, that's why. Glamour. He wants to sparkle. |
1996.05.04 1996.05.04 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-3 Recap |
Joe! Get Off the Phone!
Joe! Get Off the Phone! - So. Joe has a disgusting phone conversation with Nic. |
1996.05.03 1996.05.03 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-2 Recap |
Working Hard, or Hardly...oh, you know
Working Hard, or Hardly...oh, you know - Wait, here's Sarah with more: "With the help of Landon, we will start a business, and end up owning the business." Pretty sweet deal. Anyone else want to spell it out? |
1996.05.02 1996.05.02 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 5-1 Recap |
This House is HELLA Big!
This House is HELLA Big! - Following in the Bunim-Murray tradition of pointing out the obvious, Joe says, "I'm talking to the camera." Maybe he's a narc. |
1996.05.01 1996.05.01 |
D- |
Alex Richmond |
| 4-23 Recap |
Cheerio, Love!
Cheerio, Love! - So let's say goodbye to the London season by filling a final episode with clips of all the exciting things that happened during the other episodes. Oh, wait. Nothing happened this season. Okay, so let's just throw some shots together and play some Sarah McLachlan. No one will notice. |
1995.04.23 2002.01.09 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-22 Recap |
Sharon, the African Drama Queen
Sharon, the African Drama Queen - Hey, what's up with Sharon? What's she all about? What lurks beneath the perky surface? Well from what we see this week, she may or may not be a lesbian who may or may not have survived incest. Oh, and she's a friend of the goat population. |
1995.04.22 2001.11.10 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-21 Recap |
I Hear the Yawns Down in Africa!
I Hear the Yawns Down in Africa! - The gang goes to Africa. Neil over-identifies with the vanishing Masai warrior. Lars tells the anthropologists-in-residence what they're doing wrong. Jacinda gets her hair braided. Sharon doesn't like it when animals are slaughtered around her. |
1995.04.21 2001.10.22 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-20 Recap |
You Better Work, Part II
You Better Work, Part II - Jacinda gets a couple of modeling gigs. This takes us out of the Attention Deficit Manor to exotic locales like Milan and Rome. Then Mike has a race in St. Louis. This takes us out of Attention Deficit Manor to exotic locales like...um, St. Louis. |
1995.04.20 2001.10.02 |
D |
Gustave |
| 4-19 Recap |
Music Is My Life, Part II
Music Is My Life, Part II - Neil doesn't like working for a living, so he stops and pursues a recording contract instead. He fails. Sharon tries to get her band a recording contract. She fails, and her band breaks up. Lars tries to put together a party. He fails, but lands an important DJ gig. |
1995.04.19 2001.09.28 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-18 Recap |
More Hookups...Finally
More Hookups...Finally - Kat meets a guy she likes. He's kind of a jerk. Lars meets a girl he likes. She's kind of old. Mike meets twins. Yeah, twins. |
1995.04.18 2001.09.25 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-17 Recap |
I Confess
I Confess - It's a contentless, narrativeless series of "amusing" outtakes shot in letterbox format. Wait -- considering this is London, isn't calling this a "contentless" episode redundant? |
1995.04.17 2002.01.03 |
D |
Gustave |
| 4-16 Recap |
Jacinda's So Crazy!
Jacinda's So Crazy! - Jay returns to Oregon to see a high-school play and gets a hero's welcome...and some nookie from Alicia and/or Bruce, his high-school drama teacher. Jacinda helps Jay get some lingerie for his girlfriend, makes prank phone calls with Sharon, and gets her tongue pierced to impress Neil. |
1995.04.16 2001.09.10 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-15 Recap |
God Tells Sharon To Shut Up...Again
God Tells Sharon To Shut Up...Again - Everyone starts to hate Sharon. Luckily she gets a nasty case of tonsillitis, so the housemates have to feel sorry for her. Kat is stressed out about passing her drama class, so Jacinda surprises her with a kitten. |
1995.04.15 2001.09.07 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-14 Recap |
Would You Be So Kind as to Wave Your Hands in the Air?
Would You Be So Kind as to Wave Your Hands in the Air? - Mike's butt takes center stage in an episode that explores the love 'em and leave 'em ways of Kat and Mike, following a big party. Mike toys with the mind of one of Sharon's friends. Kat flirts with a couple of guys. Neil raps. |
1995.04.14 2001.08.17 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-13 Recap |
In Bed with Jay
In Bed with Jay - When Jay was in high school, he wrote a play. We haven't heard too much about it, because he's too shy to talk about it much. When the legitimate London theaters pass on mounting this award-winning masterpiece, Mike helps him perform it at the Attention Deficit Manor, and finally two people in the house hook up...maybe. |
1995.04.13 2001.08.12 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-12 Recap |
Vroom! Vroom!
Vroom! Vroom! - Mike finally gets to race a real car on a real track. To mark this auspicious occasion, his hairdo becomes almost steroidal in its stupendous grandeur. Jacinda flies a plane all by herself. Kat almost hooks up with a friend of Mike's as a favor to Bunim-Murray, but pulls out when the merchandise doesn't quite measure up to expectations. |
1995.04.12 2001.08.04 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-11 Recap |
Outward Bound (but not gagged)
Outward Bound (But Not Gagged) - Nothing is going on inside the house, so Bunim-Murray decides to heat up the action by rounding everyone up and sending them into the country to commune with nature, share a single room, crawl around on rope courses, and otherwise re-enact a lukewarm version of Lord of the Flies starring Sharon as Piggy. |
1995.04.11 2001.07.23 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-10 Recap |
Shit Happens
Shit Happens - But then sometimes it doesn't, like on The Real World London. So sometimes Bunim-Murray has to string together a story line from a series of yawn-inducing activities, including the paying of a late phone bill, the failed housetraining of Legend, the loss of some housemates' property, and the playing of a non-sexual version of Truth or Dare. |
1995.04.10 2001.07.10 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-9 Recap |
The Loins Mike Sprang From
The Loins Mike Sprang From - Mike's family comes to visit and injects fresh new meaning into the expression "ugly American." Some girl who never gave Jay the time of day back in "writing camp" decides to pay him a visit now that he's a Real World cast member. |
1995.04.09 2001.06.16 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-8 Recap |
The Dog, the Slag, The Wuss, the Supermodel, and the Dubious Hookup
The Dog, the Slag, The Wuss, the Supermodel, and the Dubious Hookup - Now that Jacinda is no longer hampered by her duties as a supermodel of the world, she takes flying lessons, adopts a dog, and spends some quality time with her stunningly passive boyfriend. Mike wants to get laid. And thanks to some creative Bumin-Murray editing techniques, he kind of does. |
1995.04.08 2001.06.13 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-7 Recap |
The One Where Something Actually Happens
The One Where Something Actually Happens - Jay and Neil share the "Slacker of the Week" award from the rest of the house, which inspires them to get off their asses and...um, do stuff. Jay sees Blues Traveler and tries to find a venue for his play. Not that he's written anything, mind you. Neil gets his tongue bitten off, becoming the second blowhard housemate to be silenced this season. |
1995.04.07 2001.06.04 |
C |
Gustave |
| 4-6 Recap |
You Better Work!
You Better Work! - The opening strains of Supermodel by RuPaul start chirping. I guess we're focusing on Jacinda now because, after all, she is a supermodel. Well, except for one tiny problem -- you know, the fact that she doesn't walk for major designers or pose for magazines that are read in non-third-world countries. |
1995.04.06 1995.04.06 |
D- |
Gustave |