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Road Rules
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Seeing the popularity of Reality TV granddaddy The Real World, MTV rolled out a new version that took place on an RV. The series followed six (originally five) strangers, similar in age and varied demographics of its sister program, as they traveled the country (or other countries, on occasion). At the start of each season, the cast members were required to surrender all of their money, and had to earn money to survive on as they traveled by either completing missions or performing odd jobs.Of course, like The Real World, this show also slowly evolved into a shell of its former self. Whereas the show was originally meant to resemble "The Real World on an RV", it eventually became more like "Fear Factor on an RV". The missions originally seemed to emphasize experiencing new things, especially in the context of travel, with the last usually an "ultimate ending" such as a bungee jump; in addition, mission failures were infrequent. However, by the show's end, almost all of the stunts were usually either incredibly hard or incredibly gross, and with them came "punishments" for the team that failed them, the most obvious being a requirement to vote someone off, who would then promptly be replaced.A long-standing tradition of the show involved interaction with the cast of the currently-taping season of The Real World, usually involving a "sabotage mission" of some sort. Together the two shows would eventually spawn what is now The Real World/Road Rules Challenge. | |
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Voted Off the Island | |
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Voted Off the Island: Penalty for failing missions in the last few seasons. | |
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Gotta Catch Them All | |
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Gotta Catch Them All: The "Road Keys" in the second season, which when assembled directed the cast to their final destination. Revisited in the tenth season with a slightly different mechanic. | |
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Foodfight! | |
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Food Fight: Most notably in Campus Crawl, where the cast had to endure being pelted with cafeteria fare from the Alabama student body. | |
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Pixellation | |
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Pixellation: Plenty of body parts to edit out, much like RW. | |
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Reality TV Show Mansion | |
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Reality TV Show Mansion: Subverted, in that the Roadies shared an RV. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: Some of the stunts in later seasons, including one in which the cast had to climb the staircase of a skyscraper. Combined with the fact that one of the castmates was obese... | |
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Don't Try This at Home | |
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Don't Try This at Home: Certainly true of the gross-out stunts in later seasons, but an early-season incident prompted MTV to pause the show with a full-screen warning viewers not to imitate what they were about to see: The travelers were sick of smelling like they lived in an RV, but hadn't fared well in recent challenges, so they had no money for a place to stay. They stopped at a motel and asked if they could preview one of the rooms. The manager let them borrow a key, which they used to let their RV-mates into the room. They then returned the key, hid the RV, and snuck back to the motel room. As MTV noted, this is misdemeanor theft, and could have caused a Non-Standard Game Over for the cast if they'd been caught. | |
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Non-Gameplay Elimination | |
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Non-Gameplay Elimination: Several. Season 7 (Latin America): Gladys Sanabria attacked Abe Ingersoll and was sent home. Season 12 (South Pacific): Abram Boise was forced to leave after physically attacking Donell Langham. Season 13 (X-Treme): Ibis Nieves volunteers to go home after she feels like she lost the mission for the team. Season 14 (Viewers' Revenge): Abram Boise is sent home (yes, again) for hitting Adam Larson. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: The friendship of Piggy Thomas and Chadwick Pelletier; both were best buds in season six (Road Rules Down Under), with Chadwick offering much support to the homesick Thomas. But when they met again in the first season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Piggy was heartbroken to find out that Chadwick was now an egotistical jerk who dumped his longtime girlfriend after becoming "famous". | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Major point of the show; can a group of normal, everyday people, who initially don't know each other, work together to accomplish the missions, or will drama keep them from doing so? | |
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Confession Cam | |
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Confession Cam | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled In Space: As stated above, the show started out as The Real World on an RV, with later seasons switching Real World out for Fear Factor. | |
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Elimination Statement | |
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Elimination Statement | |
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Mascot | |
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Mascot: The bull head skull on the front of the RV. | |
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Corrupt the Cutie | |
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Corrupt the Cutie: This was the entire story of Susie from Down Under. Cute, blonde, and freshly turned 18, they played her up as a sweet, naive, Christian farmer's daughter, and the majority of the season showed her doing things like performing in a drag show, getting a butterfly tattoo, and stealing a pair of bowling shoes. | |
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Linked List Clue Methodology | |
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Linked List Clue Methodology: The entire premise; at the end of one mission, a clue would be given for the location of the next. | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone, and please place your belongings here before boarding the Winnie. | |
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Treasure Map | |
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Treasure Map: Although the cast was only given a clue to the next location after completing a task at the current one. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
Road Rules / int_d2aa7d09 | comment |
Littlest Cancer Patient: Well, not the "littlest" since he was a teenager, but one mission during the "Maximum Velocity" season involved a boy with cancer who always wanted to be on the show, but would probably not live long enough to meet the minimum age. Through the Make A Wish Foundation, he got to meet the cast and got them to prank the Real World cast in New Orleans, providing that season's crossover episode. | |
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Spin-Off | |
Road Rules / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: See Recycled In Space. The two shows later started crossing over with Real World/Road Rules Challenge (now known simply as The Challenge following Road Rules' cancellation), which is a Game Show competition between past and present housemates from the shows. | |
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Eat That | |
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Eat That, especially in later seasons. | |
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Animal Chick Magnet | |
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Animal Chick Magnet: In season 7, Abe Ingersoll used Menudo, the group's pet Chihuahua, to meet girls. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: The producers added standard Reality TV tropes (Eat That, Voted Off the Island, politicking/alliances/betrayals, etc) to the later seasons to catch up in the wake of Survivor and other reality shows' success in the 2000s- you know, despite the fact Road Rules practically pioneered competitive Reality TV. And even with the competitive element, the show was a candid reality show on an RV where the cast had to work together to pass challenges without turning on one another. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Winnebago being the most obvious. | |
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