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Last week we posited that the new Real World: Brooklyn would be filmed in Williamsburg, but suggested that the infamous hipster paradise that is the McKibbin "dorms" in Bushwick would be a better environment. Well, it looks like MTV is, in fact, not listening to us. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that the show is going to be filmed in downtown Brooklyn. Well, allegedly. The producers admitted to looking at a large apartment building called the BellTell Lofts (ooo, lofts! hip!) in the decidedly ho hum Brooklyn business and fancy courtroom district.
Though, they won't say this is definite, and do confirm that they're considering a lot of other safe, white borough neighborhoods like Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and DUMBO. Proximity to Manhattan is apparently a concern for the producers (and yet they also say they've been looking at Coney Island?), but they are totes committed to Brooklyn and its "cachet" and "vibrancy." Isn't "vibrancy" TV-code for "ethnic"? Ain't that much ethnic about Brooklyn Heights or Carroll Gardens or most of Park Slope at this point. Sigh. This sure-to-be disaster stumbles on. [Via Gothamist]
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"This sure-to-be disaster rumbles on" is what I think every time I look outside today. Ho fucking hum, everyone!
I hear East New York is wonderful this time of year.
MTV's just going to rent out the Brooklyn Brewery for the season. It's a loft, there's plenty of beer, one of those big barrells can easily be converted to a hot-tub. It's a done deal.
When do they start shooting?
Do I have fair time to rotten-up some eggs?
@luciluce666: July, Gothamist says.
And, can we get a mole in to plant one of these bad boys?
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@LolCait: Muhahahahaha!
I am going to figure out a way to get into that loft and invite everyone I know. Then poo in the hot tub.
What will their fake jobs be? I propose hip young authors. Or maybe bloggers. Is there anything else people who live in Brooklyn do?
@Lonesome_George: top shelf them. it will last longer.
@Lonesome_George: Only if you peace when you're gone.
And let's hope they don't shoot in Prospect Heights. I know we're all super gentrified by now, but it's hard enough to find parking without a craft services van taking up two spots.
Downtown Brooklyn?? HAHAHA. HA. They can all go shopping in the lovely Fulton Mall.
Once again, I send my beseeching cries into the internet ether... please no Carroll Gardens... please... Aw, fuckit, I call dibs on making out with the beefy one.
Real World: Staten Island!
Does anyone actually still watch this show?
@Astigmatism: Coke addled trust fund squanderers! Is that a job? I want that job.
BENNY
We're in Fort Greene, right?
JULIA
Yeah, but you pronouce it without the "e".
RICK
Yeah, don't you know anything, dicksmack?
KANAWA
We can say that on TV now?
IRV
Just basic cable.
PITITOO
Hey, anyone up for some drama?
RITA
Oh no, it's only the first episode. We're not even into the opening credits yet!
JON (country twang)
True stor-REH!
PITITOO
What the fuck was that?
BENNY
I think it came from - (POINTS) - over there.
KANAWA (afeard)
Bed-Stuy?
JULIA
East New York?
IRV
Dyker Heights?
RITA
Dyker Heights - is that what I think it is?
RICK
No, you idiot.
@BK_KT: Can't you just picture them storming the Zombie Hut? Or, Gowanus Yacht Club?
Though, actually, they'll probably only go out in Manhattan.
@BK_KT: Which beefy one? The blond from the mid-West or the blond from... another part of the mid-West?
They should do it in Marine Park, or even better, Gerritsen Beach. Now there's a part of Brooklyn you don't see on MTV very often.
@Lonesome_George: Wondering if they will knotice it floating amongst their own Real World (TM!) vommit?
@Astigmatism: "Hi guys, welcome to the Flatbush Avenue extension. I'm Bilbo. DON'T SAY IT! We're in an office above a carwash, so excuse the vibrating floor and the soap bubbles. That's the bad news. The good news: we're going to start a blog! It'll be called 'Blogklyn.' Get it? It's like the words 'Brooklyn' and 'blog' had a baby. A girl baby! Anyway, your job will be to garner as many unique pageviews as possible without mentioning those three words - 'Marty Markowitz' and 'fuhgeddaboutit!' so we can afford to eat ice cream at the end of the day. Dress however you want, and remember: less Twittering equals less content. Equals sad face. So, let's get out there and BLOG! And change the world. Mmmkay? Can someone fetch me a Red Bull?"
^ Shite, I need to go back to typo check. Fast fingers doing me wrong. My appologies.
I can't wait to see how long it takes for the first of the white cast members to develop some sort of issue with the black male cast member. This time.
@LolCait: I hope they go drinking at Boat and get an STD if they don't already have them which they probably do.
@LolCait: Yeah, they'll spend most of their whoring hours in Manhattan and their loft will be MTV-pimped up so much you won't be able to tell it's Brooklyn other than the obligatory shots of the Bridge, and the Coney Island Cyclone, and a Hassidic Jew or two that are thrown in for color...
@In Other News...: Yes.
@BK_KT: BellTell is about 1 block off of Fulton, so... yup!
@LolCait: And please oh please oh please let them just go out in Manhattan! (Though I gotta admit that I sorta can see them storming the Zombie Hut... Is that wrong?)
They don't care where they stick these kids -- the current version has them neck deep in Hollywood. And not, like, Old Glamor Hollywood, either, but New Rape-and-Stab Hollywood.
Prize to the first Gawker commenter to go back to the Real World house and take secret video footage?
@ richard: do you reall y consider fulton mall to be safe & white?
Just wondering.
@hypocriteoath: It really is. This should be set in the Pink Houses.
@luciluce666: the question is not so much "when do they" as it is "when do we?"
@riskybusiness: That's not really the downtown they're talking about, I don't think. Fulton St. mall adjacent would be interesting.
@Astigmatism: It could be fun to watch them do weekend and late night track work on the L line.
@DorothyMantooth: I just realized what building Bell Tell is. I used to buy weed from the ages of oh, 12 to 15, on that stretch of Willoughby from an old lady who was known as Rambo. Those were the days.
@LolCait: @DorothyMantooth: The Zombie Hut is the only place they will be interested in! Scorpion Bowls all around! Though my heart would be touched if Steve from Boat gets to be a recurring friendly neighborhood bartender, but since they don't serve Red Bull and only play mopey indie mix cds, I doubt any RWers will frequent the joint.
@CaptainHangNail: Uh, either one is fine. Just not the Rage Guido.
"...fancy courtroom district."
Did all the Court Street lawyers move out?
@FitnessMadeSimple: Yes! Do it! Do it!
@ratherbesleeping: You leave Boat alone. I'm desperately trying to get into Renata's pants. Sometimes I even sneak over to her party at ten eleven for a shot at one of the STDs of which you speak.
@Seeräuber Jenny:
[query.nytimes.com]
@AuntPeniston: They are living in Brooklyn to ensure that trains continue to operate safely along the G and L lines.
@ Gawker: Apparently you mean ethnically ethnic, not, like, immigrant ethnic.
Had to call you out on this one. Carroll Gardens is home to a ton of Italians.
I was really hoping for Bushwick. Now I am going to have to walk around my neighborhood signing release forms all day long.
Do you think that if I already live in Brooklyn I can audition?
It would beat my apartment and I want a hot tub.
I know they are going to help the homeless as their job.
You know what their job is going to be, don't you? They're going to be the stars of a WB reality show about the cast of a separate reality TV show living together in Brooklyn and getting into all kinds of crazy hi jinx with real New Yorkers like hipsters, homeless subway performers, JA, and Gawker commenters trying to infiltrate their reality show home to get secret video footage for a prize.
@In Other News...: @
@BK_KT: Why did this happen? Where is the rest of my comment? I DID type something here... NeverMIND! I am not saying it now!
@BK_KT: Is that code for "I'll meet you at the corner of Court and Atlantic with a cameraphone, ninja suits and rope"?
Damn, I was hoping they would do it in BedStuy. The token conservative white girl would be totes shitting herself.
@In Other News...:
if you're right...you're a genius!
@In Other News...: Um no, I was going to tell you I loved your TRUE STO-REH Jon from LA reference. BUT now that you mention it, I'm going to scurry home to put on my shiny black leggings and grab the ninja stars.
Seriously? Wouldn't this show be more appropriate to be filmed in Hoboken? Being a drunk mess is a requirement to get a lease there. It'll be like the show is going to the mothership. For the love of all that's holy, please keep this show out of Brooklyn.
@LolCait: What about Karaoke in Red Hook?