This is the true story?

Posted on January 14, 2004 @ 7:34 am

MTV’s reality-television pioneer The Real World has never shied away from manufactured drama, but I think the new San Diego season hit an all-time high (low?) with last night’s episode. As has been the norm for the past eight or nine seasons, the seven strangers are required to work together at a pre-arranged job in order to remain in the house. This time around, they’re crewing a couple of charter sailboats in the San Diego Bay, which admittedly seems to have more in common with actual, you know, work than the other jobs they’ve held in recent years. Still, it just doesn’t get much better than this revelation from last night’s episode:

It turns out that one of the members of the San Diego cast is afraid of boats.

That’s right–Frankie, the alterna-rock chick who managed to drink herself into unconsciousness in the premiere episode, is deathly afraid of boats. She’s boataphobic. Now, this isn’t just a fear of being on boats; it’s a fear of being in the general vicinity of boats–so much so that she hides her head and cowers whenever she hears one toot its horn while passing in the distance. Just imagine what happens when she comes face-to-face with the things. To make the situation even more implausible, she’s only afraid of seeing/hearing/talking about large boats like cruise liners. Absolutely petrified. And their job, as noted above, is crewing a boat that shares a dock (and a bay) with dozens of terrifyingly large boats. What are the odds?

Yet, my ongoing 13-year addiction to The Real World continues.

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