The Real World Approaches

It seems like just yesterday MTV was searching for a home for their Real World Brooklyn cast, and now the show is ready to air! How fast these reality programs grow up. You've already met the cast, seen their home in Red Hook, and read all about our very own Billy Parker sending the show's first transgender into a blogging tizzy...so what's next? We've seen the first episode, which will air tomorrow, and here are a few "spoilers." First up: you'll know you're in Brooklyn when they start playing rap music and showing graffiti. Soon after that, Mormon roommate Chet refers to the borough as a place where you "don't want to end up" and worries about getting shot there (another spoiler alert: he doesn't). Later on the roommates will get some slices at L&B Spumoni Gardens, and ever further into the show there's some bonding over dinner at Elmo in Manhattan. Other than that, you'll hear things like how they like to sit out and look at the ocean from their Red Hook digs. By which they mean Buttermilk Channel or the Hudson Bay, of course. The NY Post has another look inside their temporary home, and the Daily News has a preview.