IMHO: "Real World: Brooklyn" (Ep. 5) "Guys Gone Wild"

We can all be a little hypocritical sometimes, but not all of us get the opportunity to have it documented and broadcast to our fellow citizens.

With all the good reality TV that’s born out of videotaped hypocrisy, why am I displaying indifference towards this episode of the Real World: Brooklyn?

Unfortunately, it’s our pal JD, the only gay in the house, who has taken advantage of the opportunity.

"Revenge is best served ... creamy?"

Responding to one of Ryan's boyish pranks, JD retaliates by spraying shaving cream across him while he’s sleeping in bed. Yes, this is the same JD who only a few episodes back reprimanded Chet for placing a condom in the aquarium, calling it a childish prank that didn’t belong in the house. How quickly we forget. Maybe it’s all the alcohol he’s been drinking…

Well, Ryan explodes on JD in a tirade, after Chet gives him a facial (of shaving cream). 

“Look at my room … Get in there and clean it up!” he screams at a decibel beyond what any blog could accurately describe.

NSFW?

The next day, trying to make sense of the blowup, Scott shows that there is some brain in all that brawn.

“Maybe, like, he was woken up by bombs going off in Iraq or something, and it just bothers him when he gets woke up when he sleeps.”

His words, still fresh in our minds, prove insightful as Ryan soon receives a call bearing bleak news: his buddy has shot himself. Perhaps motivated by the call, he has what amounts to a roundtable interview with JD, a friend of JD’s, and his fellow roommates, and describes his combat experience. Judging by JD’s silence and stone-cold expression, I think Ryan’s soul-spilling speech hits home, and perhaps inflicts a bit of guilt.

This episode isn’t all pranks, however. There’s a bit of "skank" (per Devyn) in the storyline too.

We fans of fit boys are treated to some eye candy as we travel with Scott to a modeling audition … an underwear modeling audition, to be erotic exact. Yup, nothing between him and the steamy lens but a pair of black Calvins.

Showing the goods #1

That night, at a fashion show and fresh out of a relationship, he shamelessly flirts with the waifish models, and receives the ultimate prize: a phone number.

As any redblooded straight boy would do, Scott dials the number at breakneck speed. The cute model comes for a visit, and endures what seems like an hour of being force-fed Scott’s half-naked modeling pictures (which is my idea of a great date).

Showing the goods #2

The next night, Scott brings home a different girl. Devyn – who’s had a crush on Scott from the beginning – puts her game face on. “I don’t think he’s going to have sex. He just loves the attention. He’s not skankalicious,” she tells her fellow female roommates, though with a tone that implies she doesn’t fully believe herself.

"He's not skankalicious."

As the show wraps up, Scott admits that the random girls he brings home don’t do anything for him. “I don’t need to be worrying about girls right now.” I wish this statement meant more than it truly does.

Thankfully, next week looks to be packed with LGBT content, as depicted by a preview that shows Ryan asking Katelynn rather bluntly, “You were born a guy, weren’t you?” Can’t wait!

Each episode brings more disappointment with JD, hence our indifference. How do you feel about JD’s newfound joy in pranks? Do you think he’ll lighten up with Ryan after hearing more about his combat experience? Are you still as into Scott as we are after finally having an episode devoted to him?