15x01 - Welcome to Philly!

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- Hey, y'all, my name's M.J., I'm from Nash-Vegas, Tennessee.

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- I got this right here, and I got this right here.

I've been an athlete all my life,

and that's what I'm kind known for.

What I'm really hoping to take away from my time in Philly,

will be some new friendships,

and also a better understanding of the North,

and of a diverse group of people.

- What's up, MTV? Thanks for stopping by.

So, this is my parent's house, and in Santa Cruz, California.

My name is Melanie, and I'm years old.

I've had boyfriends, serious boyfriends,

serious relationships all my life.

Hey, what's up, guys?

Um, just cleaning up after me and Andy's bike ride.

Andy's gonna clean up in here, too.

- Hey, what's up?

- MELANIE: I've never really done the single thing

because I'm a person who likes to attach myself

to other people.

Me and Andy have been friends for about--

- Six, seven years.

- I'm realizing that I need to get away from that,

and I need to be able to be myself,

and be independent.

- My name's Karamo, I'm , and I'm from Houston, Texas.

I describe myself as being handsome.

I got a little sex appeal out there,

so if you wanna put me on TV.

Intelligent, athletic, down to earth,

very motivated, very passionate.

- I'm Sarah, I'm years old, and I'm from Tampa, Florida.

My life's pretty good right now, look at me, I'm by the pool.

I think it's very hard for guys to understand a girl like me

who says, "Yeah, I want this sexual relationship,

but I don't want the emotions."

- Hi, I'm Landon, I'm , and from Riverfalls, Wisconsin.

Currently, I go to the University of Wisconsin Madison.

You're gonna find out I can be a little crazy sometimes.

[silly sounds]

But, definitely like to have a lot of fun.

Hell's Angels [laughing]!

My god, I'm off the hook.

- My name's Shavonda, I'm years old,

and I'm from San Diego, California.

I work at Hooter's, where it's fun,

and it's exciting, and there's cool people,

and I make lots of money there. [giggling]

My boyfriend's name is Shaun,

and we've been together for almost a year now.

I'm dating a white guy, it's hard,

and we've struggled with it,

but you gotta do what you gotta do.

- Hi, I'm Willie, I'm , and I'm from New York City.

Manhattan, New York City,

this is where I spent the majority

of my adolescence until I was years old.

This is where I learned how to ride my first bike,

this is where I started rollerblading.

Here's where I got mugged for the first time.

- [locomotive sounds]

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- MALE ANNOUNCER: Now boarding, New York to Philadelphia.

- WILLIE: Coming out to my parents,

definitely a bad experience.

I hope that dating in Philadelphia is gonna be easier.

I know that there's a big, g*y population.

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- I'm definitely open for a hot, fantastic, fabulous,

sexy relationship.

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- I'm very interested to see

how diverse my roommates are gonna be.

Being born and raised in a small town, such as Nashville,

you really not brought up around a good mix of people.

All I really know is Southern white.

My name's M.J.

- LANDON: M.J.? - Yeah.

- I'm Landon. - Landon.

- LANDON: Nice shorts. - [chuckling]

- LANDON: Man, where you from? - At last; Nashville, Tennessee.

- Nice. - How 'bout you?

- Uh, Madison, Wisconsin.

- LANDON: I'm hoping for a roommate

who's just basically, I guess,

a stick dynamite and is ready to blow,

and just wants everyone to blow up with him.

I've never been to the East Coast.

- Yeah, this my first time ever

really to the East and to the North.

- Yeah? - You got curly hair, I see it.

- [chuckling] - Dumb and dumber over here.

- Same with you. I am Midwest all the way.

I've not really been anywhere else.

I'm nervous about living in Philadelphia

'cuz it's such a--a large city.

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- We're gonna take the ferry across.

Then we get to meet someone else.

So what's the skinny, you single and all that?

- Uh, there's kind of a girl back home.

- LANDON: Uh-oh!

- I'm leaving a girl behind by the name of Ashley.

Not to get too serious,

but there's definitely some emotion there.

What about you?

- I just got out of a seven-year relationship last summer.

- M.J.: No way. - [chuckling] Yeah.

I've been in one substantial relationship in my life,

and it was a fabulous relationship,

very healthy, and I had a lot of fun,

and I look forward to finding somebody like that again.

- Well, I hope Philadelphia is ready for us.

- Yeah.

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- [sirens blaring]

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- SARAH: The first chapter in my life in Philadelphia

is me walking away from everything

that I've known for the past five years,

and starting something new.

- [locomotive sounds]

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- WILLIE: I'm really hoping

that there's gonna be one personality

that I immediately vibe with,

and most likely, it's gonna be a female.

Are you my roommate? - No.

- You're not my roommate? - Uh?

- You're not my roommate? - Yes, I am.

I thought you said, "Do you remember me?"

- [chuckling] What's up? - Hi.

- What's your name? - I'm Sarah.

- Hi, I'm Willie. - Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you. You excited?

- Yeah. - A little nervous?

I'm a little nervous, myself. - Really?

- Yeah. - Oh, yeah.

- So, we are to go to the house?

- Yeah.

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- LANDON: Dude, I am so pumped.

- Where is this person at?

- Ah!

- [laughing] - M.J.: Yes!

Finally. - What's up?

All I see is this really gorgeous black girl,

and we're like, "Holy cow, that's our roommate?"

Hello. - SHAVONDA: Hi.

- You don't have any bags.

- M.J.: Welcome to Philadelphia, that's what we were just saying.

- Shut up! Hi, I'm Shavonda.

- M.J.: M.J. - M.J., nice to meet you.

- Michael Jackson. - M.J.: Exactly!

- Hi, what's your name? - Landon.

- Landon, Shavonda, nice to meet you.

- Landon and M.J.

look like they just stepped out of an Abercrombie catalogue.

- So, where you from? - San Diego.

- Ah! - Where you from?

- I'm from Riverfalls, Wisconsin.

- Wisconsin, he's from Wisconsin.

Wait, where are you from?

- Have you not been able to tell yet?

Am I from the North, the South or the West?

- South? - Yes.

- M.J.: I think next to Vanessa Williams,

Shavonda's probably the next in line

to be the hottest black girl that I've ever met.

- [dinging sound] - [engine sounds]

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- SHAVONDA: Hi. - What's up, man?

- [locomotive sounds]

- Ooh, baby, take it off.

- So, what do you do?

- I am a personal shopper.

I get paid to shop-- - Oh, okay.

- --for clients, and it's--it's not really my passion.

My background and my passion is in the arts.

- Okay.

- WILLIE: When I was younger, I've acted in "Ghost Rider"--

and television show I was on.

And I definitely wanna create shows

and direct Broadway musicals, and put my passion into my work.

So we have to make a pact. - SARAH: Okay.

- WILLIE: 'Cuz you see mad cool.

If everyone else in the house is a d*uche bag,

I got your back and you got mine.

- Okay. - Deal?

- Definitely, okay. - Let's hug on it.

- Seriously.

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- SHAVONDA: Do you have a girlfriend?

- M.J.: Not really, there's, uh, kind of--

- [laughing] - Not really?

- Well, there's a--there's a girl back home

that I been seeing now for, I guess, about two months,

and so, we're just kinda seeing where it goes.

- SHAVONDA: Damn, two months? - M.J.: Yeah.

It's really not that long.

No boyfriend for you? - No, I do have a boyfriend.

- M.J.: You do have a boyfriend? - Yeah.

- LANDON: We're gonna get you guys in so much trouble.

- SHAVONDA: No, you guys really can't.

- M.J.: Immediately Shavonda starts talking

about her boyfriend.

I feel like she is trying to--to tell us right now,

"Stay away from me."

We're gonna be witnessing

all these mushy, late-night telephone calls?

- Yeah, you will. - Here we go.

- SHAVONDA: I am concerned about the distance

because I have never had to embark on a long stay

away from someone I love.

Only time will tell, and I don't know the future.

- [dinging sound]

- MALE DRIVER: Third and Arch!

- Whoa! - Yes, sir!

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- LANDON: Take care, man.

- M.J.: The corner of Third-- - UNISON: And Arch.

- Oh, right there.

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- M.J.: This is Third and Arch. - LANDON: Okay.

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- M.J.: Hello? Oh, shut up.

- LANDON: Oh my god!

- M.J.: Shut up! - [laughing]

- SHAVONDA: Oh my god!

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- SHAVONDA: Oh my god!

- ♪

- [laughing]

- M.J.: My god!

- Oh, dude, whatever.

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- Look at my man up there.

- We have a basketball court.

- LANDON: We have a bar.

- SHAVONDA: We can have a waitress.

- This is our home for the next four and a half months.

- M.J.: Whenever you have a tree that big

in the middle of your house,

it's almost like, "Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory."

- Smells like new house, too.

- M.J.: What about this?

- SHAVONDA: Our bathroom is the coolest thing

I've ever seen in my life.

- M.J.: It's a locker room. - We have lockers.

- [laughing]

- SHAVONDA: Throw back jersey.

- M.J.: I have goosebumps so big,

you could pitch a horse shoe on 'em.

- LANDON: I think we're gonna have

the most ultimate bachelor pad ever,

and it's gonna be like...heaven.

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- I don't know if I'ma be able to sleep in this room,

my feet'll be hanging off the edge of the thing.

Are we staying in the same room, Landon?

- Yeah, this is us. - I want to room with Landon

because I feel like we have a lot in common,

and he really wasn't a threat to me.

I am expecting at least one of my roommates to be h*m*.

- Oh my god!

- LANDON: Hello. [laughing]

- WILLIE: Hello. - Hello.

- LANDON: Come on in. - WILLIE: Oh my god!

- SARAH: Hi, I'm Sarah.

- WILLIE: Landon, I'm Willie, nice to meet you.

- LANDON: Willie, nice to meet you.

- Hi, honey. - I'm Shavonda.

- Nice to meet you. - I'm Sarah.

- LANDON: Sarah, nice to meet you.

- WILLIE: Oh my! - Come in, check it out.

- [shrieking]

- M.J.: Welcome to our palace.

- I'm Sarah. - M.J.

- Hey, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- SARAH: M.J. has one of the best bodies

that I've ever seen in person.

- It's overwhelming at first, there's no doubt about that.

- What's up, Willie? - M.J.

Very nice to meet you, Willie.

Willie walks in and as soon as I heard that high-pitch voice,

I was like--[popping sound]--

Willie, he's g*y.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- SARAH: We've got some tubs here.

- I am gagging at the house.

It's just like... ♪ Ah

Just this magnificent, glorious interior,

that right there just set it off for me.

We got fishies.

- One on this side. - Wow, these fish are beautiful.

- I know.

- Those two aren't taken, then I guess I'll--

- SARAH: I can share with you.

- WILLIE: You wanna share together, word?

- We can do that. - I can do that.

- SARAH: I love Willie,

and I couldn't be happier that I chose him to be my roommate.

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Okay, to Philly. - Cheers to Philadelphia.

- Yeah! - To the next two people.

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- MELANIE: I have no clue what to expect

'cuz I'm thinking there's gonna be somebody

that has totally opposite views as myself, you know,

so we can debate.

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- KARAMO: Bout to go pick up a roommate

at the Philadelphia Art Museum, and I'm thinking,

"I'm gonna have to run up these damn stairs?"

Better be you, all these damn stairs, it better me you.

- [laughing]

- What's your name? - Melanie.

- Melanie, Karamo.

- Karamo? - Karamo.

- Awesome. - UNISON: Nice to meet you.

- Guess I'll be a gentleman here.

First thing in my mind

is that she has to be a model or something

because she's in these jeans and these high heels,

and this cute little tank top,

so I'm like, "Oh, okay, we got a supermodel roommate."

- So, where you from?

- Texas, what about you?

- Nice. Santa Cruz, California.

- Oh, cool.

- MELANIE: This guy is so different from me.

He is tall, and African-American,

seems like, really like hip hop, kinda like Philly to me.

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- So what do you think, like,

the rest of them are gonna be like?

- I don't know,

I'm just expecting someone totally different than me.

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- SARAH: I'm gonna have a problem

with walking around naked.

'Cuz I'm a naked girl.

I was like,

"I don't know if I should wear a strapless bra or not

'cuz I don't wanna be that girl

with the hard n*pples on the first day."

- [laughing] - [bleep] girl.

Make-up, bras. - No, you're home, see.

- Like, I took off my shoes 'cuz I'm home.

- WILLIE: Fabulous, much better. - So much better.

Every since I was a little girl, I wanted to be sexy.

When I was live five, I wanted to be sexy,

so I think being sexual is something that I've always been.

- ♪ She's so blush

♪ Take it from me

- The party started without them.

- [chuckling] Right.

- MELANIE: This is it right here.

- KARAMO: Pop the trunk for us, man.

- ♪

- KARAMO: Oh [bleep]!

- MELANIE: [laughing] Oh my god!

- Welcome. - Hi. [laughing]

- How are you doing? Very good to see ya.

- What's up, hi. - I'm Landon.

- How you doing, Landon? - How you doing, man?

- What's up, man, I'm Karamo? - Karamo, M.J.?

- Very nice to meet you. - What's your name?

- M.J. - M.J., I'm Mel.

- Mel, very nice to meet you.

- Holy [bleep].

- LANDON: You guys got a roommate.

- What's your name? - Shavonda, what's your name?

- I'm Mel. - Hi.

- M.J.: We finally have them all.

- Mel. Hi. - Karamo.

- Karamo, Shavonda. - KARAMO: Shavonda is gorgeous.

She has a beautiful smile that lights up the room.

Wow! This girl is hot. - We've been waiting --

- SHAVONDA: Karamo, he's like your typical athlete.

He's just really confident about himself, you know,

he's really a man's man.

- I'm Willie, nice to meet you.

- What's up, man? Willie, Karamo, man.

Willie, I was like, "Oh, okay, here's a g*y roommate."

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- M.J.: We just got the rooms figured out.

I guess, you and Sarah, right there,

is that what y'all wanted?

- Yeah, whatever. - M.J.: Landon and I.

- WILLIE: And them three over there?

- M.J.: Them three over there.

Is that straight? - Sound good to me,

well, I'm not straight, but, uh, it sounds good to me.

- [laughing]

- Ha, ha, ha, very funny, mother [bleep].

- WILLIE: [laughing]

- ♪

- Oh, naked boy. Ah, naked boy.

- Is there a naked boy in here?

The guys in the house definitely have great bodies.

Just being a female,

it's really hard to look at guys like M.J. and Landon,

and not have an appreciation for their form.

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- They have great bodies.

- What's up, man? - [unintelligible]

- WILLIE: I'm chillin', yo. Yo, you felt this mattress?

It's that foam.

- Feels, yeah.

Yeah, this is hot, we're gonna enjoy it,

what do you think, man? - Oh, man.

- I'm still waiting to do our confessional, man.

- What do you wanna confess?

- Wanna confess to the world.

Everyone seems so cool so far.

M.J., I see that's gon' be my boy,

my road dog, cool as hell.

- [slurping] - One more.

- Are you serious?

We gon' get in some trouble, he's from a little country town.

I'm gonna literally keep myself open and wide,

you know what I mean,

just so, you know, I can make sure that, you know,

we learn something from each other.

- To the past and the future, and to a better understanding.

- To a better understanding.

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- MELANIE: I definitely like everybody,

they're 'bout to go out,

I can just see so many fun times

happening with these crazy, crazy people.

You guys would get plastic surgery?

- Never.

- SARAH: I've had plastic surgery.

- MELANIE: They're big girls. - [laughing]

- SARAH: I've always been somebody

who's very comfortable with my body,

especially with my boobs because they're not really mine.

- WILLIE: No, they're not fake.

- SARAH: Yeah, they are. - WILLIE: No, they're not.

Can I feel? - Yeah.

- What a fierce job, I would have never known.

- SARAH: Yeah, I know, right.

- If I was only g*y, I'd do the same thing.

- KARAMO: Your boobs are fake?

- [laughing]

- LANDON: Shut up. - Okay.

- Damn, they feel real.

- Yeah.

Everyone, come squeeze 'em.

- LANDON: I've never touched fake boobs.

- SARAH: Here, you can touch 'em.

- But these aren't gonna feel like--[laughing]

- [laughing]

- He like over here all nervous, he like [bleep].

- Shaking. - Oh my gosh [bleep].

- [cross talking]

- SARAH: [laughing] I don't think you can handle this.

- KARAMO: He's turning red, are you okay?

- I might have to do this later.

- SARAH: It's so cute how he is so nervous

about touching a girl's fake breasts.

- LANDON: No, I'm not scared of Sarah's boobs,

they just caught me off guard. [laughing]

- Save it for the hot tub.

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- [laughing] - [screaming]

- [laughing]

- I'm victorious!

I'm victorious, victorious!

- White guys are slow.

- That's gonna be--

- Oh, sh**t. - Yee-hoo!

- M.J.: White guys are slow!

- [Unintelligible].

- [laughing]

- ♪

- I'm gon' sit here and tell you this right now.

- What? - You--

No, I can't, I can't.

- WILLIE: What! - I can't.

- WILLIE: I've definitely thought about

what it would be like

to maybe have one or two or all of the people

not be okay with the fact that I'm g*y.

- M.J.: Yeah, I've never really hung out

with a h*m* before, but this is cool, though.

- Alright, man. - And I respect you.

- I appreciate that. - --first night, no, seriously.

- I appreciate that.

- 'Cuz that was like a big deal, like, whenever I came down here.

- I don't hang out with that many h*m* myself,

you know? - [laughing]

- Willie is g*y,

and he's very--he's very open about it,

and, but actually I've taken it pretty--pretty well.

It's just kinda neat to be around somebody

who's h*m* for the first time ever,

it's not quite as bad as I thought it would be.

- I respect you, without a doubt.

I really do.

Let's have fun for the next four and a half months.

- It works both ways, man, mad respect forever and always.

- Exactly, exactly.

- WILLIE: M.J. really impressed me.

I totally appreciate the fact that he's extending his hand,

and really his heart out to me.

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- SHAVONDA: Karamo starts asking me

about me and Shaun's relationship, you know,

"I --I know how it is to be different, you know."

Being in an interracial relationship,

I know how it feels.

I say, "Oh, so you date interracially?"

He says, "No."

So, what is it?

- KARAMO: But I'm--

- Okay, no way.

- So, it's crazy, dead a*s.

So, it's always like the biggest thing always.

- No way. - Seriously.

- I would have never guessed.

- KARAMO: Being g*y in African-American community

is such a taboo.

We've spent so many years in this country

trying to prove that we were equal

because of our race alone,

and to add the fact that you're g*y,

sorta makes you less of a man,

and sort of takes the culture back two steps.

We really have to broaden our minds,

like, especially in our community, like, seriously.

We can date outside of our race, we can date our same sexes,

and still be proud, proud black.

- SHAVONDA: I appreciate the gesture

that he--he says, "You know,

"I feel like we have a lot in common,

that is why I'm telling you in confidence that I'm g*y."

Then I'm like,

I've got this huge secret on my shoulder.

Please don't let anyone in the house ask me,

"Do you think Karamo's g*y?"

- ♪

- WOMAN: On the next "Real World"--

- Hook-ups in the house. - SARAH: Yeah.

- Possibility or not a possibility?

- SARAH: Possibility, just because I'm the type of person

who doesn't get weird about it.

- M.J.: Sarah, I can tell that she's probably gonna be trouble.

- KARAMO: Two dudes that I chill with,

they don't know that I'm g*y yet,

so I don't know if like, the minute I tell them,

they gon' start acting different.

- Are you h*m*? - Yeah, I'm g*y.