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BOSTWICK B. MAXIMIZED V/O: The following contains selected highlights from this weeks episode of the Real World: Denver…
(CUTTO: A built up blonde guy in jeans and a grey sweat shirt that says “College” throwing a football and smiling. White lettering in the corner of the screen reads “MIKE”…)
MIKE V/O: This is the true story…
(CUTTO: A foxy blonde broad in all Old Navy sipping a soda, also smiling)
JEN V/O: of Seven strangers…
(CUTTO: M.W. Grossard, frolicking in an evening gown…equally happy looking.)
MWG V/O: picked to live in a house…
(CUTTO: masked girl in Ninja garb sitting on front steps…)
SUZANNE V/O: and have our lives exploited
(CUTTO: A guy with no legs eating an egg, ham, and cheese sandwich)
V/O: to find out what happens
(CUTTO: Angry black guy stereotype…)
BOBBY V/O: when people stop being polite..
(CUTTO: Kinda scary Skinhead chick in a Screwdriver T-shirt handing out white power literature in front of a record store…)
ABIGAIL V/O: and start being watched…
(all seven embracing and grinning)
ALL SEVEN V/O: THE REAL WORLD…DENVER!!!
(Ernie in the confessional room…)
ERNIE: Hi my name’s Ernie, I’m from Suburbia Flordia, and my legs fell off last year.
(CUTTO: Ernie meeting Mike and Jen in front of their big ass po mo art decorated house…)
ERNIE: Hi, I’m Ernie. (offers his hand)
MIKE: HOLLY SH(bleep) DOOD!! What happened to your legs?!?!?!
JEN: Are they like…folded up behind your back or something?
(Ernie in the confessional again…)
ERNIE: Sometimes I think people look at me and think…”Hey, check it out. That guy doesn’t have any legs…”
(CUTTO: Ernie meeting Abigail in the sexy room..)
ERNIE: Hi. I’m Ernie. (extends his hand…)
ABBY: Why don’t you slit your wrists in the bath tub? I can’t look at you and believe there’s a god!!!!
(confessional room again…)
ERNIE: Sometimes I just wish that…y’know. My legs hadn’t fallen off. That way I could walk, and dance around, ‘n all that…
(CUTTO: Ernie meeting M.W….)
ERNIE: Hi. I’m Ernie.
M.W.: Hiya…(awkward pause) So….Wanna smoke banana peals and watch cartoons?
ERNIE: Sure.
(Mike in the confessional…)
MIKE: I donno ‘bout that guy M.W. He’s all like (goofy voice) “eeeeeh, my name’s M.W.” And then he dances around…
(CUTTO: MWG dancing around while Jen sits in a chair on the other side of the room…M.W. notices and screams in despair…)
(CUTTO: MWG in the confessional, black Squee T-shirt cut off at the stomach, smoking a cigarette, looking somewhere between amused and detached…)
“the American Idol” M.W. Grossard: -I guess I overreacted a little. But, I mean…like, they wouldn’t call it a five minute “rule,” if it wasn’t a “rule.” You’re sposda receive consequences for breaking rules, right? And that was a really cozy chair…(sighs) Well, I’ve got a match with Jarred Justice on TV next week. I guess I feel pretty good about that. He’s not like, y’know, one of those guys that I’ll impress people by beating or anything…Throughout his whole career he’s had to be carried by somebody. The dozens of tag partners he's had, The bah-gillions of stables he’s been part of, Promoters he succeeded in…(clears his throat) “sucking” up to…Ohmigod, that had a TRIPLE meaning. As in, the usual meaning of the phrase; that he's a brown noser, what saying “he sucks,” refers to in the parlance of our times, AND that he prolly blows doods for stuff all the time…Anyway, my point was other people have been the only thing that gave his bland little identity any real sense of purpose. Left to his own devices, he’ll always be mediocre. Another half sincere freak, Lost in the shuffle. Barely visible…Soeyeguess, What has me super psyched for this match, isn’t so much a professional or career furthering factor. It’s mostly that, ah…(chuckles) hmmmm...Fire gets me excited…
(trances out and puts his cigarette out on the soft side of his forearm…) mmmm……hee hee…(voice slips into a dreamy tone…) And like, duh, I didn’t used to be mediocre and maybe after a while I wont be anymore, and my whole career it’s basically been me versus everybody else…So I guess that makes me better than Jarred Justice, but if he manages to watch this, I want him to know that’s not what’s important to me…And I’m not gonna bother telling him about how badly I’m going to hurt him. OF COURSE I’M GONNA HURT HIM a whole bunch but he’s like totally ceeerazy and will prolly giddily laugh and spray his pants while I peal off his skin to make a costume so I can be Jarred Justice for Halloween this year……What’s important to me Jarred, if you’re watching, is that you give this one 200%. The match itself is like…blah, y’know? What I think is indispensably important is ah…how the prospect of humping your hollow eye socket while you’re trying to incinerate me is getting me soooooo hot…And I will NOT let a shabby performance slide. If you fall all to pieces after 10 minutes, and I’m anything less than satisfied, I’m going to break stuff against the back of your head until I’ve gotten mine…The rapture of dancing while an inferno snaps and crackles up everything around, while you scream and cry and ask “Why me?!”…Oh, gaawd. (groans and slides a hand down his pants..) Giving me an erection will probably be the only thing of value or substance you’ll ever accomplish. So don’t pussy out…mmmm…Yeeeeah. C’mon baby… light my fire…
(CUTTO: Jen in the confessional…)
JEN: So I come back from the liquor store, and that guy who wears dresses was giving that guy with no legs a b(bleep)ob while the legless guy fingered his a(bleep)le right on my bed…At first I was very upset, but I guess that’s just his way of showing me that he really takes the five minute rule seriously, and I guess I should learn to respect that in the future…