If you’re the drunkest, most sexually promiscuous person you know, get your ass to Boulder’s on Saturday, March 5 to try out for the next season of MTV’s proto-reality franchise “The Real World.”
The show’s 26th season (yep, TWENTY-SIXTH) is looking for 18-and-over types for yet another “incredible social experiment” where people get blackout drunk, fight, screw and otherwise engage in the sort of scintillating, scholarly behavior that enriches all of our lives.
Production company Bunim-Murray Productions is selling a feel-good story this time around, proudly touting the show’s ethnically diverse track record and dropping names like Pedro, Ryan and Danny from past seasons.
They want serious drama from this cast. In the press release, they reach out to such random elements as “those involved with goth, emo, or punk subculture” (’cause, you know, they’re all the same), obese people, folks “affected by a natural disaster, products of home or alternative schooling, followers of unrecognized or non-mainstream belief systems” (Scientologists, unite!), “elite athletes, recent graduates affected by the economic downturn, members of a pro-abstinence organization, those who are recently single due to a tragedy, someone who has recently gotten out of the foster care system, and individuals who want to bring the spotlight of ‘The Real World’ to a cause, condition, or social issue they care deeply about or are personally affected by.”
So, you know, pretty much everyone.
Get there between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. with a photo (which they won’t return), your ID and your naked, screaming ambition to humiliate yourself in front of the world. (Or at least the handful of people who still watch “The Real World.”)
Savvy readers and non-pot-smokers may remember when the show filmed in Denver for its 18th season, which led to a series of improbably combative encounters between myself and the cast and crew as I tried to get to the heart of their stay in LoDo. Feel free to remind yourself on my now-defunct blog.
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John Wenzel is an executive editor of and an award-winning A&E reporter for The Denver Post. He is the author of (Speck Press/Fulcrum) and maintains a of completely random song titles and band names.
