04x15 - Oral Examinations

[bunniefuu]

[male narrator] Previously on the "Real World.."

When it's six people on one person

you can be overwhelmed.

Stop it, no!

And, then, Sharon sits in this part here

where there's no planks.

We can bind her on with extra binding

and she can kick at the back.

[Mike] You can't get under her, it pisses you off.

[Lars] And then some day, she's going to break down.

[crying]

[Kate] This is the true story..

[Neil] Of seven strangers..

Seven strangers..

[Jacinda] Picked to live in a house..

[Jay] And have their lives taped..

[Lars] To find out what happens..

[Mike] When people stop being polite..

[Sharon] And start getting real.

"The Real World," London.

[Mike] 'Look at those couches, man.'

[Mike] All of us visited Sharon

at the ideal home show.

Its price is ..

[Sharon] I wanted a job and some money.

I mean, God, I was going mad

in the house doing nothing anyway.

I'd rather be working.

And you just tuck the nose in

and it's down, that's it.

She's like, "Oh, I've got an hour for my lunch."

And, next thing you know, we're ridin' motorcycles

callin' people on the telephones

and goin' on rides on rocket ships.

[Sharon] 'Whoa!'

We must have been out there for like two hours.

Oh, but it's quite jiggly.

Anyway, I've got five minutes.

Let's go get on it again. Yeah.

[Mike] I said to Sharon three times

"Sharon, don't you have to go back to work?"

And she's like, "Oh, no, I'll show you around

a little bit more.

Ah, I've still got time."

And the price is ..

[Sharon] You know, I was with my friends

and I was walking around, and we were having a good time.

And, the last thing I was thinking about

was getting back to work.

[Lars] The third time I reminded her

I was like, "Sharon, it's a quarter till : now.

Are you sure you don't have to be back at work?"

And she's like, "Oh, my God, I had to be back at o'clock."

[Sharon] My boss was least understanding.

I know her temperament very well

and she could really have gone off the roof a lot more

than she did, so..

But, uh, that was okay, really.

- Will she allow you in? - Oh, well, yeah, no.

Yes and no.

[Lars] She's not purposely being late

and purposely staying away for two hours.

She just forgets.

[woman over phone] 'Get yourself together, Sharon.'

I agree with you, but I just--

'It's the third one now, in two weeks.'

'I feel like putting the phone down on you.'

'That's exactly what I feel like doing right now.'

'Get yourself together, I, um, I'm meaning that.'

- Hmm. - 'Okay?'

- Yeah, bye. - 'Bye.'

Tragedy strikes.

[Sharon] It takes me a long while

to notice when I'm angry

or when I'm particularly upset.

It takes me a while for it

to kind of seep and sink in.

[instrumental music]

[Kat] I'm glad I did a semester abroad.

I'm glad I got to take some classes

that are kind of deviating from my standard

set academic classes.

- Can I make a suggestion? - Sure.

It's "Post-Modernism Theory and Practice."

So, it might be an interesting elective.

This class on Post-Modernism to me

is a really incredible, interesting subject.

My modern drama class I've gotten

a great deal out of

my drawing class is retraining my eye.

[female #] 'So, you think you know what a body looks like'

'until you start drawing it.'

Then you realize you don't know anything at all.

[Kat] I do care about what I'm doing.

This does mean something to me.

This education, this wonderful scholarship

I got at NYU, it means a lot to me.

I mean, there's no way I could go to college

without a scholarship, there's none.

[upbeat music]

- Need to just learn this part. - Okay.

[Kat] I'm a little bit worried about my drama class.

- And I don't know it at all. - Okay, so I'm Valmont.

I'm a little bit worried about my monologue.

"Women are obliged."

"Are obliged to.."

- Skill? - Read me the whole line.

I'll give you cue words.

"Women are obliged to be more skillful than men."

"I became a virtuoso of deceit."

"I consulted the best philosophers in France."

"It wasn't pleasure I was after."

I want to do well at it.

I-I want to show this teacher

that I do have some talent.

So, I'm nervous about it.

[shouting commands]

[Sharon] Do you really believe

that the average man in the street

'wantsto go to w*r?'

You're * * * simplifying it so ridiculously, Sharon.

'No, he is simplifying.'

- 'I'm not.' - I'm simplifying?

[Neil] You said everyone should just hang out

and be nice and love each other

and not get their weapons.

No, I did not, I said hypothetically speaking

if it were possible--

- Which it ain't. - For every country to disarm.

Would you go along with it?

And, of course, I should imagine

that most people

with a reasonable degree of intelligence--

But it's such a ridiculous concept, I mean

it's not even worth discussing.

It's so unlikely.

[Neil] Sharon always has an opinion and always

expresses her opinion.

Which can be good, but

if you're talking loud and saying nothing

then maybe you should keep quiet for a while.

Why do you even bother initiating?

I didn't, I did not.

'You did initiate this discussion.'

- You said w*r is really bad-- - It is bad. Who likes w*r?

[Mike] I like Sharon a lot.

I-I really do and I really like

getting in fun arguments with her

but I think she just kind of ooh..

...without focus kind of.

[Sharon] People just may not be aware

that they can knock me

harder than they see.

"Talks too much, won't shut up."

- Everybody, shut up! - Shut the * * * up, everybody.

"Tries to be smart, but is not."

[laughter]

[Sharon] I can come across as this big

bold, confident thing

but it doesn't mean to say

that I haven't got my fears

and insecurities like everybody else.

Oh, stop it.

Jacey, stop it.

I don't find it funny.

- Hi. - Hello.

[Sharon] Amanda, you see, is my dearest

dearest friend, she's like a sister to me.

We're actually born the same day.

And that girl knows me inside out, upside down.

Thanks a lot.

People don't understand that

there's another side to me

a quieter side, a deeper side.

And, unless you're really with me on a one-to-one basis

that side doesn't really

get a chance to come out.

I think they find you, amusing.

Oh, this is..

Exactly, and I don't want to be

amusing to other people.

- Exactly, I'd rather be taken-- - Why not?

I mean, because amusing doesn't

bring any respect at all.

That's rubbish.

No, it's not.

Because then you're just a fool.

- And then-- - You're not, though.

You're certainly not a fool.

No way, Sharon.

[Sharon] I hold it all in.

So it mounts up

and then there's a point at which it breaks.

You know, the straw that breaks the donkey's back.

And, I think, by that point

I'd dealt with quite a bit.

'Sharon, please, don't be upset.'

'So many people love you, Sharon.'

[Amanda] You should be so happy about that.

I just think that

people just do not understand.

It ain't working.

I feel like I'm gonna go somewhere, okay?

- Addies. - Okay.

[Sharon] I woke up that morning

and basically felt the beginnings of it then

but had no idea what it was.

What the..?

[Lars] That is Sharon's spinach potato soup.

Let me just put that in her room for the night.

Well, seriously, she said

'she was gonna clean up but then she ended up not doing it'

'because she's really feeling bad.'

- 'Aww.' - 'She's really sick.'

[Mike] 'Like we should feel sorry for her.'

Originally, I just thought

she was just sick with a fever.

[Kat] It was like a different kind of sick

from what I've seen in Sharon before.

She was really quiet

and I was trying to be chatty with her

and it didn't seem to work.

And she was cold.

But she was running a high temperature.

I went straight to bed.

And slept right through Monday and Tuesday.

[instrumental music]

[Kat] I have to do my monologues tomorrow in drama class.

And Sharon and I were supposed to do a scene together

but she's ill.

- Jay, are you doing anything? - No, why--?

Do you, do you want to start

running it over with me?

- Sure. - Okay.

- It's not so very female scene. - That's cool.

You have to be weeping when you've lost your virginity.

Let's do this.

Come on, just let me read it at least.

Jay.

Alright, alright, alright.

[both laughing]

Lars, I've just lost my virginity.

You lost your virginity?

[weeping]

[Kat] I don't think people realize

that I can't afford to get a bad grade.

Financially, I can't afford it.

So, I'm really nervous.

This is a scene from "No Exit."

"To forget about the others?

"Don't be absurd.

I can feel you there in every pore."

I just lost it, I'm sorry.

Okay.

[Kat] If I don't have high enough grades

I can't go to university.

And, basically, if I can't go to university

that means I'm stuck back in Washington with no job skills

and stuck at home.

So, I get really frustrated sometimes.

- Take a deep breath, relax. - Yeah.

The first part was very, very good.

It was excellent, okay?

Try it again.

[Kate] '"It's all very well'

"skulking on your sofa like that.

But.." Oh, God, I can't.

[instrumental music]

Well, it's nice to know that I'm embarrassing

'awkward and clumsy as well as large'

and I don't occupy a space

with possession and confidence.

- No, you don't. - No, no.

I mean, he's quite fair, I suppose.

For what he saw of me in his class, so..

[instrumental music]

Is that enough?

Jacinda left you a note downstairs

saying that she hopes you felt better

and to take care of yourself.

You're scaring the whole household.

I can't swallow.

We're all getting kind of worried.

Do you want me to call a doctor for you?

[telephone ringing]

[woman on phone] 'Hello, patient information.'

[Lars over phone] 'Hello, my roommate is very sick.'

'I need a doctor.'

'Okay, one moment.'

[Lars] And no one was really taking her serious.

"Oh, her throat is swollen."

"Well, tell her to come tomorrow at o'clock."

[Mike] 'We got a doctor?'

[Lars] 'No, no, no.'

- 'It's really bad.' - 'I can't move.'

[Lars] 'Huh?'

[Kate] 'She can't move.'

[Lars] 'She.. You can't move?'

I haven't got the energy to..

[Lars] 'Sharon, I don't know what you feel like.'

'I guess, it's just that, that she just said.'

"Oh, if she, if she only has tonsillitis

then she can walk."

[Sharon] 'My throat has gotten bad'

and I'm getting nose bleeds and earache.

- And fevers-- - 'Sharon, it's okay.'

[Lars] 'Sharon, I'll-I'll call'

someone else again.

[Algo] 'Hello, Dr. Algo here.'

- Hello. Yes. - 'Hello.'

[Algo] 'How long has she been unwell like this?'

- 'Three days.' - 'Three days?'

- 'Yes.' - 'What's she been taking?'

Not really much of anything.

Just like honey and--

[Algo] 'And she's able to swallow that down, is she?'

'Well, she's able to, like, to, to drink'

but she's totally unable to like

swallow tablets or anything like that.

And she, like, she can't hardly speak.

'And just feels, feels just really bad'

'because, um, she hasn't eaten for days.'

[Algo] 'Right, okay.'

'I'll come to see her, um, at, um, about o'clock.'

Excellent.

[doorbell rings]

- Hello. - Hi.

[Neil] In England we have a National Health Service

which is paid for by the government.

Which means if you feel very ill you can

get a doctor to come to the house

which is what happened with Sharon.

Let's have a look.

Say "Ahh."

Ahh.

Sorry.

I was trying to have a look at your inside that's all.

Hold on, hold on.

Okay, well, you've got very nasty tonsillitis.

- I do? - Yeah.

You need antibiotics.

Penicillin, as long as you're not allergic to it.

You need a high dose

and you need to take it four times a day.

So, let me know if you're not getting better.

Bye.

Okay.

[Algo] 'Sometimes, it doesn't respond to antibiotics'

''cause they're not absorbed very well.'

'And I told her if she's not feeling better'

'significantly better by Thursday morning'

'to give me a phone call.'

Or before that if you're worried.

- 'Alright.' - Okay?

And get a thermometer.

So you can keep an eye on her temperature, okay?

Alright.

[instrumental music]

It's okay, Sharon.

She was upset and she was crying

'cause she felt so bad.

Did it get worse?

Poison.

That's okay.

She was unable to swallow her own spit.

She couldn't do anything.

Her throat was like swollen this big.

And she's right here now with me

and she's had a really rough night again.

'And she still feels as bad'

'if not worse, than she did before.'

And she can't get the penicillin down.

[man on phone] 'Really, the next thing to do is'

'for her to attend casualty.'

Okay.

Right, so let's get you loaded up.

[Kat] So, I called a mini-cab for her.

I got her dressed and put her in a cab.

[Kate] 'Bye, Sharon.'

I mean, I didn't go with her

because I had a class

but when they pulled away, I really wish I had.

[Sharon] The doctors took one look at me and said..

"You know, you're not going home.

This is too severe a case."

Now, obviously, you have to stay in the hospital.

What we'll do is

give you some antibiotics

through the feed.

'And because you aren't able to drink'

we'll give you some fluids through the arm.

And hopefully, you'll only be here

for two or three days

then you can go home.

[groaning]

[Sharon] If I had left the infection

any longer before coming in

he said I would have died because

the infection was like that far away

from, like, spreading into my neck

and he said "You just go, then."

- Is this it? - Yeah.

[Jay] We went and saw her at the hospital

and she's doing fine.

She's doing better, and she's gonna be okay.

[Jacinda] 'Do you want your mum to explain what it is?'

- What was wrong? - She had abscess.

'And they said it was one of the largest ones they've seen'

for a very long time.

So, the doctor had to lance it

and, you know, take out the pus.

- Was it terrible? - Hmm.

He just went, and it went..

And he used a metal pallet and went "Voom" on my tongue.

'And I started gagging.'

[Jay] 'Oh, Sharon.'

I never..

Even childbirth can't be that bad.

[Jacinda] When we were there

she was excited and happy

and just like Sharon, but without a voice.

Well, I guess that's not Sharon without a voice

but she was okay.

[Mike] 'Is there any word on Sharon?'

[Lars] She's coming back Sunday.

[Mike] 'Sunday?'

This is, like, pretty much

the worst case of tonsillitis

that these doctors have

ever seen in their career.

- That's what Jay said. - Oh, wow!

She had one of the hugest abscesses

the doctor had ever seen.

[Mike] 'I don't need the graphics.'

It was really, apparently, really horrible.

[Mike] I really didn't even wanna go to the hospital

because, you know, I hate hospitals.

I went to the hospital to see her

and just being there was, ugh..

Like, not like my kind of thing.

[Sharon] They went like that

and they took out all this pus.

Four times.

[Sharon] Mike, I could tell was

very uncomfortable being in the hospital.

And while I was telling him about this doctor

like, you know, slitting my throat and things

he was just like, "Oh, oh, oh."

He just couldn't listen.

And so, it was, it was

extra brave of him to come to see me.

I am so glad

you guys came to visit me today.

[Lars] It was good seeing her again

because even though she's so sick

she was, I don't know, having a good time.

[Sharon] I really appreciated and liked

the fact that everybody came to see me

because it was a real treat.

I wasn't expecting it, really.

That cheered me up immensely.

[Jacinda] Kat's being really down

and she's just kind of

hating herself at the moment

and not happy with anything.

Everybody just kind of gets that

feeling about Kat that she

needs something or somebody

to love or to love her or to like

give her some kind of feeling.

♪ Well don't worry baby ♪

♪ What the world may bring ♪♪

[Jacinda] So, I went off to get her a kitten.

Look, we're nearly there.

It's just up here.

[knock on door]

Oh, they're so cute. You've got three?

[lady] 'A black and a black-and-white.'

[Jacinda] She wanted to have a kitten

but because of the practicalities

you know, she wouldn't have got one.

Oh, I like the little black one.

Oh, that's a nice one, yeah.

- Thanks. - Goodnight. Have fun.

- Bye. - Bye.

So, when are you going to give it to Kat?

Tonight.

Look, Legend.

I've got a little kitten.

I've got a kitten.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

- He's here. - Let me see him.

Oh!

Lars is gonna be like

"Jacinda

"have you thought about this?

I don't know if a cat's a good idea."

[Jacinda] Kitty.

[Mike] Let's go give it to her.

Okay.

[Kat giggling]

- He's for you, Kat. - Oh, Jacinda.

Oh, my God.

It's okay.

You knew, didn't you?

No.

Look.

They're already sniffing each other's butts, how cute.

Alright, so it's not practical

and I already got that lecture from my mom.

But it's not like I expected her to go and get me a cat.

I wasn't dropping hints or anything.

I was just talking, you know.

I've never had a kitten.

- Thank you so much. - That's okay, it's okay.

[instrumental music]

She turned the guys into huge, big softies.

The first couple nights I had her

I lost her in the house, I couldn't find her.

And I found her upstairs, asleep with Mike.

Which is, yeah, of course that's the first place I'd check.

[Neil] There seems to have been a kind of change in Sharon

since she came out of hospital.

She was, like, packed full of confidence

and different, I think.

What did they do to you? Tell me all the gory details.

Oh, you're gonna love this Neil. Oh, yes.

She seems a bit more cynical, which is good.

Sharon, you're not doing this thing now, are you?

I'm doing everything.

It's only been three weeks since that's been

sitting on the counter.

Would somebody come up with an original joke perhaps?

[Mike] All of a sudden, she's making fun of people

and telling people what to do

and like full of confidence.

Move!

The word is "Excuse me," Lars.

What?

In England.

No, I said "Move" to..

I didn't say that to you.

I said "Move" to the stupid dog.

[Mike] Usually she just sits and takes it.

And, now, all of a sudden, she was giving it out.

No, no, no!

I said two centimeter cubes, Neil!

So you don't mean millimeters at all, did you?

No, I lied entirely just to confuse you.

I always used to think of myself as this softy

this like total wuss, but..

...I may not, I really do feel quite hard now

because, I mean, oh, God

what I've lived through this past week

has just been quite excruciating.

I can honestly say now

I really do have some real friends here.

- Pull them! - Ah!

[Jacinda] Oh, you got me, God.

[male narrator] On the next "Real World.."

You wanna get her like a little negligee thing.

[Jacinda] 'Come on, Jay, go away a boy, and come back a man.'

[Jay] I'm going back to Portland.

[Jacinda] I kind of decided just

to get my tongue pierced today.

Neil, come and hold my hand.

What's wrong with your mouth?

[screaming]

Oh, my God!

[Sharon] Now, you've got the camera the right way up.

To get me, you need to go back.

- Upside down. - Upside down.

- Like this? - Okay, and now askew, right?

So it looks like we're hanging.

Okay, and now you have to look like, "Ah!"

Okay.

Oh, my God! I look so evil!

[laughter]

[Jacinda] 'I got your laugh, listen.'

[Sharon laughing]

[Sharon] 'Jay, you wanna come make jungle noises for the Polaroid?'

[all screeching]

[Jay] How bored are we?

[laughter]