A reality TV show that airs on MTV. A show that started out with some noble goals about diversity, social issues, etc. It has, however, devolved into a mindless homo erotic hot tub party of drunken twenty-somethings. All cast members think they'll never have to work a real job after they've been on the show. Former Real World "stars" wind up broke and being pimped out to "make an appearance" at seedy nightclubs for a few hundred bucks. Totally pathetic.
The continued success of the Real World shocks even the most jaded MTV programming director. "People actually still watch this crap?"
by Joseph N Marks August 17, 2007
An oxymoronic depiction of seven young adults who are paid to live together and squabble over rediculous subjects. These seven people in no way represent a typical cross-section of their peers.
There is absolutely nothing real about the real world. Wanna see the real world? Try watching a guy work his way through college by surviving off of 25 cent ramen noodles. That's the real world beeyaitch!
by Action Squirrel July 10, 2003
War is immanent. Crime is wide spread. Corruption is law. And money is power. That's just how it all works, as human beings are consumed by there own greed, the world changes along with them. Those who try to call for a change are always struck down by the sword we have come to know as the government. Then again, the majority elect those in government. So it's safe to conclude that those we elect are only elected because we think they will benifit us, but the selfish way we think makes us only think of the benefits of one and not the many. With this type of power looming over us, it's only a matter of time before national calamaty grips this pathetic country.
In the real world, there are no heroes. Only those who benifit the majority,those who benifit from the majority, and those who are layed down by the majority.
by Xero _ Manifest December 26, 2010
I turned on my tv this morning and the real world was on. I turned on my tv 7 hours later and the real world was still on. I turned on my tv 23 hours later and the real world was still on. I shoot my tv.
by Don't Say a Word October 03, 2003
a metaphorical place in which no one lives but yourself. often used as a guilt-inducer by parental units.
by Anonymous July 10, 2003
What we live in. Touch your desk, punch your keyboard, stare at your monitor, work in your cubicle, drive home in bumper to bumper traffic, eak out a living, try to go out on the weekend with your friends, this is all part of the real world.
A show where 7 strangers are placed in a mansion, with jobs, and free food and alcohol, and are constantly filmed for no other reason other than they are pretty, is not the real world.
A show where 7 strangers are placed in a mansion, with jobs, and free food and alcohol, and are constantly filmed for no other reason other than they are pretty, is not the real world.
by The Angry Juan April 18, 2006
title picked by MTV to somehow foist the public into buying the concept that 7 strangers living in a house rent-free for months on end is somehow real.
by Shawn E. July 14, 2003