MTV's The Real World: a drunken roommate sleeps with her
best friend's boyfriend and the next
morning, gets into an ugly fight with her friend. The production team breaks it up, the camera turns to clips of ambulances arriving at the house, and a week after it happened they act like nothing ever happened.
The actual real world: the friend sues the roommate on assault, battery, & defamation charges. The roommate is forced to
work 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs in order to pay for the court settlement & a cheap apartment right next to the airport in order to get by.