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This week centers largely around Devyn’s “career.” She wants to be an actress. It doesn’t seem to matter what kind of actress, either. She tells JD that she plans on moving to LA because she wants to be in movies and do “actual sitcom-y stuff.” Sure. Who hasn’t dreamed of “doing actual sitcom-y stuff”? Why is everyone on the Real World these days just that kid from Storytelling? I guess I don’t know a lot about acting, but it seems to me from what I’ve read that actual actors tend to focus on their craft, taking roles that challenge them and being excited by any work that comes their way. The kind of actor Devyn seems to want to be is the kind that thinks going on a date for Shipmates is a foot in the door. She actually says “I’m not just another girl on the street working in the restaurant who wants to be famous. I’m one with a theater background who…studied it at the collegiate level.” Perfect. Such a classic sign of great acting. That’s why they always list actors educational history in the credits.
I hope by movies and “actual sitcom-y stuff” she means Real World Road Rules Inferno Island challenges. She’s a classic noneple threat.
She is asked to come and audition for a casting agent and ends up driving through the Holland Tunnel. So she’s almost an hour late when she gets to the audition (after throwing Jersey under the bus with a “who wants to go to Jersey?” comment because of how she is the classiest). Not that it mattered what time she got there. She crushes the audition.
Seriously, though, if the casting director had just said “I want you to take the concept of 
and make it come alive,” it would have been the same thing. So much . She does a monologue about AIDS and then she screams the star-spangled banner. It’s basically perfect. I’m pretty sure she’s the most famous actress now. They give out Devyns at the Academy Awards now (and also at the Emmys).
Speaking of DRAMA, Sarah keeps getting creepy calls to the house. At first they are legitimately creepy. The caller will not say who he is and is just very ominous and stuff. It turns out that it’s Sarah’s dad, and she freaks out when she talks to him. She calls her mom in tears. What slowly unravels is Sarah’s story about how she suffered sexual abuse as a child and how she hasn’t seen her dad in 10 years but he calls every few months and it upsets her. Now, this would be a really sad story, except that there are a few things that don’t really add up. For one, if you really didn’t want to talk to your dad, and you really were terrified of hearing his voice, wouldn’t you just hang up on him right away? Instead, Sarah has long drawn out melodramatic arguments with him about how much she doesn’t want him to call and how much she doesn’t want to talk to him. That is a point that is very easily made by hanging up the phone. What’s more, the dad seems really calm and kind of pained and just wants to reconnect with his daughter. Listening to him talk, you can almost imagine a scenario in which the dad gets cut out of his child’s life Capturing the Friedmans-style and spends the rest of his miserable years trying to remove the stain of false accusation.
OBVIOUSLY, it is not my place to judge someone who’s been through any kind of abuse or to tell them how they should react. But things just keep getting weirder and less explained with Sarah. Like, she finally opens up about what happened with her dad, which is that she was actually molested by a day care teacher, but then after her parents got divorced she went on a camping trip with her dad…and he only brought one sleeping bag? And that’s it? That was the last time she saw him? And she can’t believe that he’s still trying to contact her? My dad only brought half a sleeping bag on our camping trips and you don’t see me going on the Real World about it. I’m sorry, I hope that Sarah figures it all out and leads a long and happy life but there’s something about this drama that just does not add up.
As with last week, there is simply not enough Chet this episode (enough=the whole thing). It’s like when you go to the zoo and all the animals are hidden away inside. Although, he does go on a date with Scott’s model friend, Alex. He appreciates that she is a model, whatever that means. Even the anonymous voice over lady at the top of the show seems to be in on the joke when she says “Chet declares his love for the ladies.” He has made his interest in women public. Sure. Ryan can’t believe he’s even bothering to go on dates with Alex because he’s gay never going to marry her, which is what most people in their early 20s go on dates for. They love to just settle down and get married. “The best part is that we both love Sparks!”
At the end of the episode, he is in the car with Katelynn and Sarah who are grilling him on his Mormonism-imposed celibacy and he admits that he’s never even touched a boob before. Fair enough. Hint: they feel like bags of sand.
Next Week: I told you guys Ryan had PTSD. I will accept your apology in writing.
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I was confused by her history of abuse, too. I feel like there’s a huge piece of the puzzle missing. What are these alleged “lies” the mom was making up?
As always, it looks like next week they drop this subject entirely and move onto something else.
That screenshot of Silly Billy’s not actually from this episode is it? (I haven’t watched this season, nor have I watched the previous 67 seasons since whichever one had the girl with Cystic Fibrosis).
Dude, don’t forget when that one transgendered was way better than Katelynn.
Also, Daddy getting the house number and Devyn taking the Tunnel reek of producer-forced drama.
Agreed, was “Real World House” listed on yellowpages.com or something?
Also, I love how Chet, obviously having never been to bars before, loves wearing his wristbands from the past three nights at Angels & Kings as a badge of honor. Such a rookie move.
1. Producers gave her number to her pops. Period.
2. What is the criteria for being a better transgendered person? I am confused.
3. JD likes Grandpa’s old cough syrup a little too much.
4. Given how these things are edited it’s impossible to know what she actually said, but I hope to heaven that Sarah’s dad did more than only bring one sleeping bag on a camping trip. Because sometimes when you go camping you forget stuff. Even non-pedophiles occasionally do that.
5. I am Mormon. I will almost gaurantee you that Chet has touched him some boobies.
Please, gabe. Because dude yelled about getting woken up by shaven cream, he has PTSD? you’re falling for the MTV tricks like a 12 year old girl. “Maybe like, Iraqi terrorists woke him up one day by spraying shaving cream into his room, and like, it was too late so save his roommate from getting the shaving cream in his eyes. .
I forgot that MTV invented PTSD as a goof. My baaaaad.
This episode was the best/most retarded.
Sarah’s plotline was especially perplexing for the reasons you mentioned.
- Her dad got the Real World house phone number from someone! A family member?
- What was with her mom’s reaction when Sarah called sobbing? It was like, “UGH, WHAT NOW?”
- They definitely edited out some of the conversation explaining her history of abuse so it didn’t make a lot of sense. Maybe MTV didn’t want a lawsuit from Sarah’s dad for being accused of being a child molester on TV. Because he only brought one sleeping bag on a camping trip. WHAT?
- Doesn’t Sarah seem like the type of person who would misrepresent a history of sexual abuse?
LOL @ JD being such a douchebag when he’s drunk.
These people went to Angels & Kings MORE THAN ONCE. FAIL.
Your Devyn recap was perfect.
Couldn’t sarah have just ended the conversation at “he only brought one sleeping bag” because she didn’t want to go into the gorey details about her dad seducing her into the sleeping bag and then sexually molesting her, and she figured people would catch on?
Well, if you watched the episode, she actually made a point about how her dad didn’t molest her, but “tried to,” which is obviously horrible and
but also if your only evidence that he attempted to molest you is the fact that he brought one sleeping bag on a camping trip then you are going to need to spell it out as if I am a dummy, because on the face of it that sounds reactionary and melodramatic and evidence of what the dad kept saying about Sarah’s mom feeding her lies about him.
I’m on your side Sarah(tentatively) but it’s solely based on the SAW impression your Dad gave on the phone the first time he called. I don’t need diagrams and steamy details of the molestation but it’s either irresponsible of the editors not to make the Sarah/Dad rift more understandable or Sarah’s only given explanation is the sleeping bag story.My head tilted like dog hearing a whistle upon hearing that.
Also I second Gabe’s PTSD diagnosis so that makes it official. End of discussion.
Something’s fishy w/ Sarah.
Sure, even a Mormon boy most likely touched some boobie at some point, but if Chet IS gay, he may never had the interest. And being gay is most certainly a bigger thing to deal with while being of the Mormon faith. Denial might not be denial, but in his eyes, self-preservation.
You seemed to forget to mention that Chet has absolutely no social skills whatsoever. I guess I wasen’t sold on this a few weeks ago when he got into a arguement with a drunken JD over the assimalation of immigrants into society. Him essentially telling Sarah she is being a crybaby and melodramatic about being molested as a child took it another level entirely.
A few stray observations:
Alex is now Chet’s beard.
How does one actually become the #1 transsexual in the world?
Chet totally has apprecation for the profession of modeling.
hahaha, they go to angels and kings?? perfect. also: OH, THAT’S where ‘who’s on top and who’s on bottom now’ comes from….i swear i have seen storytelling but for some reason that scene felt like something i had never watched before, odd.