The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (season)

"The Real World/Road Rules Challenge" was the first six-on-six "Challenge" in the series and is sometimes incorrectly remembered as the first season although one season officially preceded it. The teams traveled via tour bus and RV starting in San Francisco, California, ending in Universal City, California competing in different individual challenges. The winning team had the right to travel in a tour bus, while the losing team had to travel in an RV. Each time a team won an individual challenge, they won the right to spend time in a "money machine". The "money machine", set up outside Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California was a huge wind chamber that contained up to $150,000. Whatever the casts could keep on them, they were guaranteed to keep. This season also featured an additional challenge where the two teams competed over possession of a teddy bear. Whichever team had the teddy bear in their possession at an unknown, predetermined point in the challenge, would win the additional challenge.

Cast

Host: David Edwards, aka Mr. Big, from ""

"Real World" team:
* Beth Stolarczyk, ""
* Janet Choi, ""
* Jason Cornwell, ""
* Montana McGlynn, ""
* Nathan Blackburn, ""
* Neil Forrester, ""

"Road Rules" team:
* Anne Wharton, ""
* Kalle Dedolph, ""
* Kefla Hare, ""
* Mark Long, ""
* Noah Rickun, ""
* Roni Martin, ""

Final results

Team "Road Rules" wins the "money chamber" challenge walking away with the most money. Team "Real World" wins the teddy bear challenge, which ended in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Hard Rock Hotel.

Memorable moments

* Beth injures her ankle early on in the competition and refuses to go home. Although she cannot compete in various different challenges, the team is forced to carry her dead weight.
* Janet and Jason begin to date while on the show and attempt to keep it a secret from the cameras. While the cast is at the Playboy Mansion, the two are caught kissing on the tennis courts.
* Other couples included Kefla & Roni, Nathan and Kalle, and Noah and Montana. Like Janet and Jason, Noah and Montana were implied to be intimate during the Challenge.Fact|date=March 2008
* This Challenge begins the feud between Beth and Montana that would explode anew during "The Gauntlet II", which filmed in 2005. During a bungee jumping challenge in Lake Piru, California, both Beth and Montana refuse to jump. Beth refuses to jump because of her ankle injury, while Montana refuses to jump because of damaged vertebrae in her back. The refusal on both their parts brings animosity from the rest of the team and between the two.
* Neil is vehemently opposed to a mission at a U.S. military base and initially says he doesn't want to participate in it. While he expresses his philosophical issues during a talk with the military commander who is organizing the mission, he later agrees to take part because his team (still without injured Beth) would have had to forfeit if he didn't.
* The RV that Team "Real World" travels in frequently because of their frequent losses is blown up while the cast is in Los Angeles, California.
* Anne twists her ankle while jumping on the trampoline at the Playboy Mansion. Christina from "Road Rules: Down Under" steps in the "Money Chamber" as her replacement, although the editors fail to mention her presence.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184151/ Cast information and show data at the] Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.tv.com/the-real-world---road-rules-challenge/show/11492/episode_guide.html?season=2&tag=season_dropdown;dropdown;1 Episode summaries at] TV.com