17x11 - Clarification

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Previously onThe Real World...

We've been together for almost three years.

I'm going to miss Martin a great deal.

I love you.

Ooh!Hey, gentlemen.

I have made a couple of bets

that I will not hook up

in Key West, and I know

I will lose those bets.

Listen to this argument-- it's insane.

Did I complain once about going to a straight bar?!

No, why can't we compromise?

Listen, my entire life

is abiding by the straight agenda.

God forbid you abide bymyagenda.

This is the true story...

Of seven strangers...

Picked to live in a house...

Work together and have their lives taped...

To find out what happens...

When people stop being polite...

And start getting real.

The Real World: Key West.

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Do you think heterosexuality is nature versus nurture?

What do you think it is?I don't think

people are just born not having a sexual preference

and then your environment makes you g*y or straight.

SVETLANA: I read a lot about being g*y.

I'm a biology student-- a major topic was always

if it's biological or if it has to do

with what your surroundings are,

and I believe that it's biological.

Your mom can't raise you to be g*y.

Absolutely not. Exactly.You are attracted,

your p*nis goes up because you see a guy, and that attracts you.

Martin's p*nis goes up 'cause he sees me

and it attracts him-- that's in his head.

It's not like I chose.

Right! It's just...

I've-I've tried it, at points in my life,

without coming out, to... not be attracted to men

when I was young.And it was hard.

Because it's hard.

I'm from an Evangelical Free family, like...

That's what Bush is, they're born-again.

I was brought up with that.

And so when you feel that shame, just kind of, like,

bashed into you, you, like, know that,

like, I was just not allowed.

You asked if I would ever choose to be straight-- I say, hell no,

because-because I'm g*y, I'm open, in that

I don't have to live by the strict standard

of heterosexual norms.

TYLER: We're on this island,

and we just don't know what to do-- so...

I decide to make some art...

and just kind of keep myself busy.

[phone rings]

JANELLE: Tyler!

TYLER: I started painting.

I'll be very honest: I think I'm the least

artistically inclined person ever.

You would be shocked at my painting.

Really?I was shocked when I saw it.

How big is Key West? Is it just like a city, like...?

Yeah, it's, like, it's not even...

It's , people.

There's no one in their s.

There's absolutely no g*y people under the age of .

And, like, the people I meet are, like,

"Oh, I have to introduce you to my friend."

And I meet the friend and I'm, like, "Were you born pre-JFK?"

[Kim laughs]

I think it's really difficult being a g*y man at this age,

because most g*y men aren't coming out

at , , .

So it's either date older men,

or just kind of wait for them all to catch up.

And so I think I'm at the point where I'm just gonna focus

on me and just have some fun.

I'm really late for a dinner date.

Oh, is that right?

Yeah, so... With who?

I was meeting my friend Steph.

So what's the deal with the car?

Um, 'cause I don't want to take it

and then have you guys no... no way to get...

How late are you gonna be out?Well, I don't know. I might...

We can cab it down, too.

Why don't you go out and be ready to be out for the whole night?

That's what I'm going...

That's fine, then. We'll take a cab down.

You sure?Yeah.

SVETLANA: Did you go to school or work today?

Neither.Why didn't you go

to school or work, though?

I wanted to be with my dad, 'cause he's not feeling good.

He's not?

No.

Martin and his dad are extremely close.

It's a huge deal to me that his dad is sick.

What's wrong with him?

What do you mean, what's wrong with him?

He's having a lot of trouble breathing.

He has pneumonia.

What are they saying is the outcome?

Oh, my... I don't know. They don't know.

They have to wait. He's really weak.

They don't know.

I'm sorry...

All right?I'm sorry.

[hangs up]Hello?

[dial tone drones]

I want to know what's going on with his dad.

Martin's dad was diagnosed with lung cancer.

That's all I know.

He's really not doing well at all.

Is he on life support?No, not yet.

Was this, like, a long time coming?

He just got diagnosed, like, uh, two months ago.

He just got home about a week ago from treatment.

And he came home, and he couldn't breathe,

and he went to the hospital, it ended up he had pneumonia

because the immune system was so low.

Martin's not telling me anything, so...

SVETLANA: He's so consumed with being...

the man in the house and being there for his mom and his sister

that he can't ever just open up and be emotional to me

and tell me how he's feeling, and tell me what he's feeling

at that time, and what he needs from me.

All I know is that if he's been there since : in the morning

and didn't go to work and didn't go to school...

His dad's, like, .

He's still young.

I waited so long!Hi.

Stephanie is a very nice,

generous person, and she's fun to hang out with.

She's a real person, and she actually...

listens, she's very intelligent.

And she has a lot to, you know, a lot to give me.

Johnny's, like, he's like, "Frat boy,

spiky hair, frat boy."No, he was, like...

TYLER: Okay, I walked in the bathroom

last night, he was chemically straightening his hair.

What! Who does that?I was, like,

"Are you frosting your hair? That's against the rules."

He goes, "I'm chemically straightening it."

She knows a lot of people in the town,

and she's gonna introduce me to some younger people.

And so that night they found this, like, really ugly g*y guy

that like came up to Janelle, and they're, like,

served him, like, "Oh, here you go, Tyler."

And I was, like, "Are you serious?"

It makes me feel a lot better to kind of get out

and have other friends outside of the roommates.

We'll be back in ten minutes.Where you going?

To find Tyler.

You are walking all the way there,

on a... youthink that's where he is.

Tyler had promised me

before he left that he was gonna

meet everybody at :.

It's time to go home, and he's nowhere to be found.

You don't even know that's where he is for sure!

[speaks indistinctly]I don't know where he is.

There's a hundred other places that he could...

He could still be at dinner, for God's sake.

I don't want to create in-house politics

on anything because everyone in the house...

You don't want to be the one

that places everybody against one another.

Well, that's the thing, and like, the thing is,

I'm a very independent man.

My greatest fear is that I'm going to take myself away

from the roommates.

I want to share this experience with them

for better or for worse,

and I fear that I may distance myself from them.

Here we go.

SVETLANA: It's time to go home

and we start walking back towards the car,

and we can't find Tyler.

He had a responsibility to meet us

at a certain time to get in the car,

and he's nowhere to be found.

Tyler is, uh... No big deal.

M.I.A.

Janelle says to me, "Leave him."

He was supposed to be here, this isn't fair.

We're not going to be late because of him.

Listen, be quiet.

JANELLE: I don't want Tyler to yell at me.

He won't yell at you. About what?

If he starts yelling at you...

SVETLANA: You have my back?

I will start yelling at him.

ZACH: It's Tyler tonight and not about anybody.

'Cause he ditched us on purpose.

SVETLANA: Uh-oh, that's a cab in front of the house.

What was the point of that?

JOHN: What's funny

is when we get back,

there's a taxi waiting outside of our house.

I had no idea.

Fitz had no idea.

No one had any idea what you were doing.

How can you expect us to know...?

Where did you go?

Tyler tellsus that we left without him,

but, had that been the case,

Tyler wouldn't have got to the house before we did.

No, Zach. I'm not mad at you.

I'm not saying this is you guys' fault.

This is crap. You see, miscommunication.

I have a question.

Who are these people?

TYLER: These are my friends.

This is Stephanie, actually.

JOHN: You know, you got a couple girls, and then

Tyler brings home this nice little young man.

JOHN: Oh, my God, dude.

Tyler brought some a*s home.

I was embarrassed, but this was the first painting

I've ever painted before in my life, ever. Ever.

The first one?

This is the first I've ever done.

Nice.

I just started this today.

It's called "Red God."

"Red God."

And I'm, I'm definitely not finished,

but I'm just kind of experimenting with it.

Isn't painting awesome?

Like, you can keep going over it and...

Oh! I think that-- honestly?

Do you know where this came from?

I just started black from the bottom

and it kind of led up to that.

That's pretty chill.

So I was painting black...

SVETLANA: It doesn't register to me

that this is a boy that

Tyler's bringing home, because this boy

doesn't look g*y at all.

Is that boy g*y?

Every time it... Yeah.

Tyler and him are going to bang on the dock.

That's what I'm talking about, I can't see that stuff.

TYLER: Bhakti reminds me

of this studly, beefy, Russian hockey player.

Salud.

He's a good hunk of beef,

and sometimes, that's what you need.

JOHN [whispering]: Come on...

Come on.

SVETLANA: Kiss him.

Oh, my G... If I throw up...

One of them is gonna give the other one

a handy, like, you know, dude

♪ Something about you on my mind... ♪

Oh, my God, no.

He doesn't even look g*y. It's so weird.

♪ I hold you close in my dreams ♪

[gasping]

JOHN: Fitz hasn't been exposed to

a whole lot of anything outside of the bubble

that she's grown up in,

and I think h*m*

interactions are pretty foreign to her, so...

this is a good little educational experience for her.

♪ And it's true, something that I want to give to you ♪

♪ And you know I do what you want me to do ♪

Oh, my God...

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

What is that?

JANELLE: Me and Svetlana, being nosy,

decide to go check out what's going on in the bathroom.

SVETLANA: It's one of those things

you don't want to watch,

but youcannot

take your eyes off of it, you just can't.

♪ Let me touch your body

♪ I know how to do it

♪ Ooh, I know what you need. ♪

Oh, guys.

I'm really queasy.

That's in your bathroom. Ha!

SVETLANA: I've never seen

in-my-face, two people having sex.

Like... here it is.

[whispering]: I thought that was a dryer or something.

[laughing]

There's no worries. We're like...

you know, we're in Key West, man.

You only got one life to live.

And you've got to live it well.

Rage.

Go crazy, man.

Do all the ... that you can do, quick.

'Cause you could die tomorrow.

That's why we're here.

Cheers to that.

Cheers.

I'll call you B, for short.

B-H-A...

K...

TYLER: At home, my group of friends and I have

what we call the beef-o-meter.

So any time we hook up with someone

that's really beefy, like,

we rank them on the beef-o-meter.

Right on, man.

Down on the dock.

I'd say he was an eight.

It wasn't quite a -ounce piece of New York sirloin steak.

More of a spiced Cajun turkey ham.

Hey, B!

Yeah.

I expect an encore.

But it was delicious, all the same.

[crowing]

[laughing] What is that?!

TYLER: I do not take myself seriously whatsoever.

I can laugh at any and all situations, including myself,

because when it's all said and done,

that's all you can really do at life.

Is that officially the ... machine right here?

Look at his eyes.

Tyler handles it with grace and he's

being a big man about it.

He's a very attractive guy.

He'll make someone very happy one day.

I would never in a million years thought he was g*y.

He has now changed my whole entire stereotype.

Everybody has stereotypes,

whether they want to admit it or not.

This kid Bhakti just

changed my perception of everything g*y.

So how'd you meet him, dude?

You guys just like...?

Our eyes met during Kelly Clarkson's

"Since You've Been Gone."

[laughing]: Oh, my God!

I knew it was meant to be.

I'll always be, like, he could be g*y

'cause there's no stereotype.

So what if they're g*y?

You just wouldn't want a g*y guy hitting on you?

No, I just don't know.

'Cause he could be.

I kind of always thought that I would be able to tell

if somebody was g*y.

When I saw that kid, like,

everything I knew just got swept off.

He scared the crap out of me.

He made me think

that every male I know in my life is g*y.

Anybody I know could be g*y.

My dad could be g*y. My uncle could be g*y.

Martin could be g*y.

The only reason I think about it

is 'cause I used to always think about, like,

why is he always sleeping at this kid's house.

And this kid is like so very touchy-feely.

And they have nothing in common, and yet they hang out.

Martin has this friend back at home that is obsessed with him,

to the point where he hates me because I date Martin,

because Martin can't sleep at his house all the time.

What kind of boys have sleepovers?

It's so weird.

It's so weird.

And ever since I've noticed that, I was like, this is,

this is a very, like, h*m*-type of thing.

Like really g*y.

He's in a relationship.Really g*y.

I'm freaking out, man.

[phone ringing]

Sveta?Hello?

I was up till : in the morning listening to g*y sex.

Martin, you would never in your life,

think that this kid was g*y.

He kind of even looked like you.

Even all night I was, like,

trying to convince myself you weren't g*y.

Did you really call me g*y?

Are you ... out of mind?

I'm dead serious.

Sveta, if you really, honestly,

if you really think that...

I got scared because I looked at that kid

and I was like... It's weird, Martin.

You're a grown man.

You shouldn't sleep at a boy's house.

Oh, yeah, I'm a grown man

sleeping at a boy's house.

Sveta, please-- if I don't want to drive too far,

I go to my friend's house. They have a huge basement.

Instead of driving all the way home,

I chill on his couch and...

No, you don't.

TYLER: Just because I got a*s last night,

she thinks her boyfriend's g*y.

You try and make the connection. I don't know.

Okay, you know what, honestly?

Sveta, I don't even need to argue about it.

I'm not going to make an excuse about it.

If you don't like something about it,

or if you think something about it,

I don't even care, all right?

I don't need to put up with it right now.

If you think I'm g*y or something,

then just say it and leave me, please.

Go get with whoever you want over there... all right?

Yeah. Are you done?

I don't need you to ask me these crazy-a*s questions.

[scoffs, slams phone down]

[phone ringing]

Can you get that, Jose?

Can you just tell him I'll call him later?

Hello?

Can I talk to Sveta, please?

Yeah, she said she'll call you later, man.

That's what she said?Yeah.

All right, can you tell her not to bother?

Yeah, no doubt. All right.

He said don't bother.

Ha-ha.

Fine, I won't.

See how he [bleep] likes it.

SVETLANA: Martin got really mad.

You wouldn't tell him that you miss him.

You wouldn't tell him that you wanted him to come visit.

SVETLANA: Yes, I did. I wrote him e-mails.

Okay, well, you're saying you wouldn't tell on the phone,

because you want him to feel bad

and you want to be selfish, because it's not about you.

Yet you would have the audacity

to question his sexuality?

I do not understand Svetlana. She is crazy.

For her to say, you know, "Ha-ha-ha, maybe you're g*y,"

during a very, very emotional time for Martin.

It's so rude and insensitive and selfish.

When a guy is, when his sexuality is questioned,

especially a guy who has a girlfriend...

You're making a big deal out of nothing.

Honestly, you really are.

This is not an issue at all.

Tell Martin I masturbated thinking of him. I should.

But either way, I know that, like, if I was, if someone...

I'm not questioning his sexuality, dude,

I just said it's weird

that he sleeps at his friend's all the time.

That's all I said. Zach, drama queen.

Drama queen.

[Tyler laughing]

That's the h*m* calling a straight man g*y.

It's so funny,

growing up, and even in college,

I would look at people that had one-night stands

with such disdain.

I would just, like, "Oh! You are just trash."

How else do you get, you know,

the physical pleasure without the commitment?

If you're not looking to get into a relationship...

Are you supposed to not do anything with anybody forever?

PAULA: Tyler just wants some kind of physical affection, like me,

but he went about it in a different way.

I call ex-boyfriends.

He has sex with random guys.

No big deal.

I was telling him, I was, like, "What bothers me

is that I'm not bothered by what happened."

And what's so funny

is that I'm so judgmental about other people,

but I'm also judgmental of myself.

But I just can live with that.

I do not bring men home from clubs ever.

Just one thing led to another.

It's all about moderation.

A one-night stand is good if it's, like, once a year.

Next onThe Real World:

JOHN: I've designated myself the lab rat

for this Mystic Tanning process.

PAULA: I'm so[ snoring ]

pissed off.

Everybody's just letting John

sleep in the closet.

My name is John Bananas.

I have a small wiener.

I haven't eaten for a week!

And I pick my scabs

'cause they don't heal, dude.

So continue on, Paula.

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JOHN: ♪ We got some booty snacks, booty snacks ♪

♪ Booty snacks, booty snacks... ♪

I'm not lifting today.

I'm doing cardio.

I couldn't lift if my life depended on it right now.

ZACH:Yeah, it'd be pretty tough

to get it up today, wouldn't it, Ty?

It was an innocent shower between two friends.

ZACH:Yeah, just a little cleaning was going on.

Yeah, that's it. No big deal.

Exactly. We were cleaning the shower.

Cleaning some pipes.

[laughs]