09x13 - Apartheid and Abseiling and Safaris, Oh My!

[bunniefuu]

[theme music playing]

-[Jamie] This is the true story...
-[Matt] ...of seven strangers...

-[Melissa] ...picked to live in a mansion...
-[Kelley] ...work together...

[Danny] ...and have their lives taped.

-[David] To find out what happens...
-[Julie] ...when people stop being polite...

[Danny] ...and start getting real.

-The Real World...
-[Julie] New Orleans!

[music concludes]

[upbeat music playing]

[whirring]

[doorbell ringing]

[Matt] Okay, what's up? Thanks.

-Appreciate it.
-[delivery man] You're welcome.

It's like opening a Christmas gift.

[Julie] Wait, let me see that bag.

-[Matt] This is ready.
-Come on, come on, Kelley.

-[Kelley] What are you doing?
-[Danny] Hit play.

I didn't know
we had something to play.

-[Matt] Ready?
-Oh.

[static noise]

[woman] Congratulations.

You've gotten a handle
on the Big Easy, so how about trying

something a bit more difficult?
Pack your bags.

Your vacation adventure awaits you
in South Africa.

-[all cheer, laugh]
-We got it!

[all cheering]

No way!

-Oh!
-Julie!

I've never been off the Chicago block.
Now, I'm about to go to South Africa.

She's gonna sweat. She's gonna hate it.

I'm Melissa's nature sensei right now,
so I'm gonna show her the great wide open

of Mother Nature
and it's going to be a great time.

I can't believe we're going
to Africa in just a day.

That's so weird.

I don't even know
what it's going to be like at all.

-Well, I don't give a damn.
-[Julie] I wanna go...

I want to see, like,
the elephants and the giraffes and...

-You don't want to see that? I wanna see...
-[Kelley] You have no desire to see that?

[Melissa] In Tampa,
we have this thing called Busch Gardens.

-I've already seen all that mess.
-[Julie laughing]

[rock music playing]

Our car gets a flat tire
and David is driving when it happens.

We're planning
on just fixing the tire ourselves

'cause David obviously hasn't done it yet.

I've changed tires before
but nothing like a... a Yukon.

He's called some 30-year expert tire man
to come do it for, like, a 100 dollars.

He's coming at 1:30.
Might as well let him come.

-It's someone who's coming to tow it?
-Yeah. Someone to tow it away.

Well, who the hell?

We're not gonna get our car towed
'cause it has a flat tire.

-That's stupid.
-Exactly.

It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

-[Matt] David, you got the key?
-[indistinct chatter]

-[Julie] Do you have the key?
-Yeah, what for?

I mean, they already tried it.
That's what I'm saying.

[Julie] That's okay. Just let us try.

-Who's coming at 1:30?
-I don't [bleep]. Here.

-And do you know...
-[David] Whatever, whatever, whatever.

-Hey! Do you know where the...
-Whatever.

-I don't know.
-David, don't get angry.

Whatever, dude, whatever.

-[Julie] It's like this now.
-[Matt] That's right.

You're all right for a woman.

[Kelley] I was talking to David.

I'm, like, "Your attitude has to go
'cause you are pissing me off."

I feel like if you want to be friends
with me I'll nurture you, you nurture me.

That's what a friendship is.
It's not one-sided.

It's not, "I put up with all your moods
and you can treat me however you want."

There is a line drawn between David
and the rest of the household and that's...

that is a line
that David has built himself.

If he's in a bad mood
I used to be, like, "Hey, how are you?"

Da-da-da. Now, I just ignore him.

-[upbeat music playing]
-[birds chirping]

[Jamie] This has something
to do with Africa.

Oh, it's, like, mosquito nets
and that other stuff. Oh.

[chuckles] You don't know
what's in these boxes.

-[Melissa] I thought it was a present.
-Here, I'll open it.

[gasps]

-Ooh! That's awesome.
-Oh, look!

This shows us staying
in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Look, we can go wildlife hunting.

Oh, my gosh... [giggles] ...this is so cool.

[music concludes]

Everybody's talking safari and animals

-and heat and I just don't want to go.
-[ominous music playing]

I'm sorry.

[trimmer whirring]

What's going on with you?

Nothing. It's pretty cool to go to Africa.

-Totally.
-Right?

-Totally.
-[mutters] I can't wait for that.

[Julie] The thing about David is
if you get him in the right context

he actually can be
a nice person to talk to. [chuckles]

I kind of think this trip is going
to change a lot of things here.

It's going to change
a lot of things in everybody.

The true quality of the oil
is shown when the olive is pressed

and this trip might press all of us.

[David] I can see it, I can see it.

-I can see myself growing.
-Yeah.

I think you're gonna see
how much influence you have on people

in the next little while.
I don't think you fully understand,

like, the magnitude
of your influence in this house.

Maybe I'm completely ignorant of that.

I think I am 'cause this is all news
to brother. [chuckles softly]

-[chuckles]
-It's all news to a brother.

[up-tempo techno music playing]

[Melissa] This whole thing
could make or break the trip

between David and the roommates.

And we're off!

♪ Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun ♪

We're going to South Africa, yay!

Mosquitoes, lions, zebras
and the aftermath of apartheid. Whoo-hoo!

Do I have to get my own bag again?

-[indistinct chatter]
-[music continues]

-Have a good trip.
-Thank you.

[Kelley] I just have a feeling
that the seven of us together, 24/7,

-this could be hairy.
-[music concludes]

[flute music playing]

-[indistinct chatter]
-[Chris] Contiki, Contiki.

-Hi, I'm Chris.
-I'm Danny.

-Pleased to meet you.
-What's up? How you doing?

-I'm good.
-Hi.

Chris is going to show us around Africa.

-[door slides open]
-Isaac will throw the luggage on.

You can just hop in.

This one's heavy.

-That's tuna.
-Damn, boy.

[Chris]

-[Julie] Okay.
-[Chris] What do you call it?

[Kelley] Oh, my God.

-[Chris]
-[Julie] Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh.

[Chris] Gonna show you
what it looks like inside.

[Kelley] That's unbelievable.

Every time you set foot
in a new place you realize

that there's this big world
out there that you never saw before.

It puts a lot of things into perspective.

So, there aren't, like, tigers and stuff
like that down in this... this park?

[Chris] No, no.

[Julie] Oh, my goodness.

[music continues]

[indistinct chatter]

-Nice place, eh?
-Yeah, it's pretty dapper.

-[rattling]
-[David] This place is beautiful.

-[music concludes]
-[upbeat music playing]

[sighs]

Just wanted
to introduce you guys to Sadiq.

He'll going to take us around
a place called District Six.

-[Sadiq] Okay, good morning, everybody.
-[all] Good morning.

We're going to take you
into an area today called District Six.

Now, in District Six, a community existed
that under our previous system...

which was the apartheid system...

to other parts of Cape Town
because of the color of their skins.

Under the Race Classification Act,
you were either white, you were Indian,

you were colored, or you were Black.

Some colored people wanted
to be white because obviously,

your privileges would be better,

so the government had
what they called the "pencil test."

They would put a pencil in your hair

and if you bent forward
and the pencil fell out,

you would be white.

If the pencil got stuck,
you would be colored.

And within the same family,
they found people

that were classified white
and classified colored.

District Six... was bulldozed,
and the people were forced to move

into townships... like a really bad ghetto,

if you were gonna compare it
to something in America.

This particular piece of tar is all that
remains of the main road of District Six.

If you look, you can see
the scrapings of the bulldozers...

on the tar.

Okay, if you can come inside.

It's almost like Harlem.

It's just so rich,
so cultured and they wiped it out.

These are the identity cards of people
of different racial classifications.

You would be a blanke, or white person.

"K" would be colored.
You would be a Malayan or a Malay.

Black people in this country, however,

weren't considered "real citizens"
of the country, so they were given passes.

I've already said to him,
"We are on the continent of Africa."

"We really need to put these bad feelings
that we have for each other aside

and experience this together."

This is a bench and you can see
that this is for use by white persons.

If I, as a colored person,
sat on a bench like this,

I would be arrested.

[music fades]

We are getting on the bus.
I look over at him, and he's crying.

The whole day today
was just, like, trauma city.

[dramatic music playing]

I understand how horrible apartheid was
but it doesn't hit me at the core.

It doesn't hit everything
that I represent. To her, it does.

Yeah, I'm a colored person here and, like,

in the States,
it would completely offend me

and here it's like, I would have
more rights than a Black person.

And we're talking about adults putting
this system into place in our lifetime.

-[gasps]
-[instrumental music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

David and a few
of the tour guides sit out on the patio.

You couldn't help
but visually define who sat where,

'cause it was the white table
and the Black table.

There's a lot of, like,
negative things going on in the townships.

That's what I wanna know about.
What's the...?

Like, drugs and, like,

-crime and things like that.
-[David] Crime a big thing here?

Yeah, and alcohol.
But I see, like, in ghettoes, it's like,

the whole situation is the same.

-Yeah.
-Probably even from where you're from.

[David] I'm from Chicago.

The same problems,
same issues, same negativity.

We just do what we can just to,
like, change the situation, you know.

-It's about surviving, man.
-[David] It is. It is.

I know exactly what you're saying.
It's, like... not everybody does survive.

They're living what I'm living
except in a different country,

different continent.

I was watching him talk to them
and it was completely legitimate

and it's, like, why can't you spend
that energy on me when I ask nicely?

That's what so amazing is that, like,

he brings us all down,
and then at a heartbeat...

he'll turn and meet someone
and then be completely, like...

-[indistinct chatter]
-...energetic and... and sort of...

Articulate.

Articulate with them and,
you know, like, what the...

what's wrong with us, you know?

[upbeat music playing]

[Chris] In the afternoons,
we're going to start with the abseiling,

okay, with the rappelling.

They will give you a little bit
of an instruction beforehand.

All morning,
we've been discussing this abseiling,

-and it hasn't fully been...
-[Julie] Okay.

...explained to me.

[Chris] You guys know
what you're letting yourselves in for?

-No.
-[Matt] No.

It's probably best
that you don't know. [chuckles]

On the edge here is a 100-meter cliff.

You're gonna step off the edge of
that cliff and enjoy the descent. Happy?

-Yes.
-Yeah!

-Mm-hmm.
-[Melissa] No.

-[indistinct chatter]
-I need, like, a training wheel abseil.

I'm extremely nervous,
but I'm really trying to contain it

so that I can prove
to myself that I can do this,

because I've got nature sensei
on my back.

All I need today is,
if you think you've got a medical problem

like you're gonna have a heart attack
or you're allergic to something,

please speak up
and let us know in advance.

Okay, I'm allergic to abseiling,
so I'll just see you guys.

-[chuckles]
-You guys have a good old time.

[all laugh]

They strapped me in this harness.

-Are you in here?
-Oh!

So, you're gonna step over this huge roof,

and it's just going to be you
and a rope and lots of space.

-[Melissa] All right...
-[Danny] I'm terrified.

Danny, you're going to be okay
because, look, if you act brave,

you can actually pretend you are.

I'm terrified of heights.
It's not a fear of heights.

I'm terrified of heights.

-Oh, my God!
-[laughs]

-[laughs]
-It is pounding out of control.

-[indistinct]
-[Kelley] Oh.

There's no such thing
as turning back, right?

-[indistinct]
-[exhales]

[Melissa] Do people get cuts
and scrapes from this?

[Chris] Yep.

[Melissa] Do you have
a first-aid kit here?

Has anyone ever vomited on here?

This is going to be, like,
one of the coolest things we do here.

I want you to feel
the system holding you in the harness.

Okay, so you're going to
slowly start leaning back for me.

-The system is corrupt, I think. [laughs]
-[all laugh]

[guide] The system's not corrupt.
Okay, keep leaning back.

That's good. I want you to feel
that you can feel that it's secure,

that it's holding you.
Okay, you're gonna walk back a bit more.

Feet apart. Remember,
you've gotta lean back into it.

That's what I need.
I need you to lean into it.

-[pants nervously]
-You're doing good.

No, I'm not doing it. [chuckles nervously]

No, you don't understand
my fear of heights.

If you're remotely scared of heights
and you're 350 feet off of the ground,

it's big.

-I cannot do this.
-[Melissa] Oh, my God.

[guide] Okay, you're going to walk
your feet back a little bit more.

-No, no. No, there's no little bit more.
-[guide] Okay, lean back.

No, no. How about walking forward?

[Kelly] Melissa, you are so brave.
We are so proud of you.

I don't even know
if I'm gonna do it. You're awesome.

-[exhales sharply] Oh, God! Help me!
-That's good.

-[Melissa squeals] Oh, my God!
-You got it. You got it, girl!

[all cheering]

-[shrieks] Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
-[music concludes]

[Melissa pants, whispers]
Don't get scared.

Don't get scared.
You can do it. You can do it.

You can do it. You can do it.

-You can do it, girl. [whimpers]
-[upbeat music playing]

I was so proud
of Melissa going over the edge.

Although it took her an hour to get down
the side of the cliff, she did it.

[Melissa screams]

Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God!
Look, I'm doing it. [chuckles]

She'll remember that forever... done.

I did it, I did it, I did it. [laughs]

[music continues]

[screams] Yeah! Oh!

-Kelley, come on.
-[guide] Keep your feet down.

Walk those feet down. I've got you.

What's my name?
What's my name? [grunts] Whew!

This is beautiful. This is gorgeous.
[echoes] Whoa! Yeah, baby!

-Oh, yes!
-[music concludes]

See, do you see
what I mean about the nature thing?

-About the being outside and how it rocks?
-Oh, this rocks.

I mean, it's still not great,
but I mean, seriously,

-taking these large steps like this...
-[indistinct chatter]

...next thing you know,
I will really be petting dogs.

[upbeat music playing]

[birds chirping]

[monkey screeching]

[Jamie] We're out there attempting

to see animals
in their natural environment.

Actually being 20 yards away from a lion,
it's a pretty cool thing.

[David] The cub, look, it's... it's Simba.

I'm used to a zoo. They have cages
and zookeepers and security and a phone

just in case an animal gets out
and mauls a small child.

-[indistinct chatter]
-[Jamie] Look at these guys.

-Wow, there's a ton of them.
-[rock music playing]

-Oh, my God.
-[Julie] Whoa! What are they doing?

-Geez! Easy, cobra.
-[guide] He's mating with his female.

X-rated. [chuckles]

[Melissa] Oh, wow.
What's wrong with that one's butt?

[guide] That's... nothing wrong with it.

The female shows
that butt of hers to the male

if she wants him to mate with her.

Yeah, that doesn't usually work
for me at home.

-[all laughing]
-[guide] See what she does? Look.

She's going to seduce him.

[Melissa] You know,
sometimes it's hard to perform

in front of an audience,
but I want to see some monkey porn.

-Come on, now.
-[guide] Look, there you go.

-[all exclaim]
-[Melissa shrieking] Oh, my God! Yeah!

[all laughing]

-Oh, my God!
-[indistinct chatter]

We were just kind of thrown

in this rawness of nature,
and we're seeing, like,

-buffalo r*pe over here...
-[grunts]

...and monkey screwing over here and just,

like, things you just don't see
in the Audubon Zoo.

[music concludes]

[African music playing]

[Julie] Victoria Falls is one
of the Seven Wonders of the World,

and it empties into
this gorgeous canyon.

-[water crashing]
-Whoa. That is beautiful.

My experience in Africa
is overwhelming in the sense

that I am stepping outside
of everything I've ever known

and doing things
and saying things and feeling things

-that I would not ever think were okay.
-[cheers] Yeah!

I see euphoria and elation
and just spiritual awakening

in Melissa's eyes.

I feel the same thing
and hugged her, and it's like, yeah.

-[both laugh]
-[music continues]

-[both cheering]
-[music concludes]

[drumbeat playing]

-[engine whirring]
-So...

[Melissa] This is something
to be appreciated,

and I would've
never understood this, you know?

I mean, I'm standing here,
and I smell like, bug spray...

-[chuckles]
-...I'm drinking a flat soda,

and I'm still happy.

It is shocking for me
that there's this whole other side of me.

The last thing I can think about
is my credit cards

or my cute shoe collection.

Want to meditate tonight?

-Yeah, yeah. [chuckles] Let's do it.
-I've never done it before.

Just for her to say that
in itself is just monumental.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

I don't understand trees,
I don't understand rivers,

I don't understand skies
and birds and animals,

but I'm on this boat
and I'm understanding something.

I don't know what. [laughs]

To the point where I was like,
"Let's go meditate, Julie."

-Something's up... you know?
-Mm-hmm.

[both giggling]

Something's definitely up.
It's pretty neat.

[music concludes]

-[dramatic music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]

[Melissa] Why can he talk to strangers
and give them this charming,

intelligent conversation
but he refuses to share

with the people that he lives with?

I'm just disappointed, you know,
that I'm alone in this situation.

Like, okay, we're the two Black people
in the situation. Let's deal.

We're on the continent of Africa.
When will this happen again, you know?

Let's be together on this.

It's really no mystery
as to why he's not opening up,

'cause he has it in him.
I saw tears in his eyes...

you know, when we were at the townships
and all. It's in him, but he is all about

this gangsta, hard, you know...
[exhales] ...this kind of guy.

And... [scoffs] ...that's a... that's a fake,
you know? It's a facade. It's a shield.

[Julie] I think it's silly
that we keep sitting around

and talking about it,
because I wanna just talk to him about it.

-We will. We will.
-You know?

My interest in confronting Dave
is because I really think there's a loss

if he leaves this experience
and continues to be the way he is.

-[sighs]
-[music concludes]

[Melissa] This is way too much right now.

Like, I keep having to remind myself
that I'm allowed to change my mind,

-you know what I mean?
-Yeah.

That's why you have
to come meditate with me right now.

-No. That's what I changed my mind about.
-[chuckles] No.

Come on, let's go meditate.

-Hell no.
-[chuckles] We'll meditate in here.

-How about that?
-I've been meditating all damn day.

[laughs] You have not.

I've been absolutely concentrating
silently in my mind

about how there are
too many damn bugs here...

-[chuckles]
-...and how it's too damn hot...

-[laughs]
-...so I can't meditate anymore.

[Julie laughs]