It’s the final episode of The Real World: Brooklyn, and I want to actually recap it on time. Hence, you will see none of the pictures, or at least not today. So here we go.
The roommates pack up to move out. I find it odd that Ryan is riding a bicycle in the house during this. Just what and… huh? There are stairs to get into that house, so the thing must not have been in there on a whim. Some shoes are apparently still affected by the shoelace prank. After all this time, they didn’t re-string the laces the right way?
Ryan meets with some army buddies at a bar. He talks about his impending deployment and the fact that the rest of the unit has never been to Iraq, so he will be someone that can help them through it.
Scott, Baya and Devyn have decided to get an apartment in New York together and talk with JD about it and what avenues to approach. Apparently, Scott and Baya had decided to be roommates and Devyn jumped into the action. Remembering her musings at the beginning towards Scott’s looks, I wonder where she is trying to go with this. She has definitely healed at least a bit of the bad feelings towards him that she had garnered.
Ryan wants one final dinner with the entire house. Scott, Baya and Devyn agree to go and then go apartment hunting. Hence, they are late for dinner. JD calls the house to say he has to work and can’t come. Eventually, Ryan, Chet, Sarah and Katelynn show up at the bar for the dinner as the first ones there. Some people show up and sit at their table, leaving no room for the soon to be arriving party. Scott shows up without Baya or Devyn, as Devyn wanted to get changed. The other bar patrons at the table will not move to let Scott in, despite the fact that the roommates’ table had been reserved. When Ryan gets up to talk to them, fists start to fly. Chet starts to get involved and the bar security breaks up the fight, tossing out the roommates. Afterwards, Chet feels like he is closer to Ryan and Scott, because he knows how they handle themselves in such a situation. I can’t help but think that just because the girls didn’t fight does not mean they were in the wrong. Even if action had been called for, those men were much bigger than them.
The next day, the show opens to Katelynn restringing the laces on her boots, annoyed at the situation. She talks about how the girls are going to get the boys back. A great line of hers: “It’s all fun and games until someone gets murdered in their sleep.” She then talks with Devyn about the plan, which JD hears. Later, the girls play cards and whisper amongst each other, causing suspicion in the boys who are not in the know. While JD is at the computer, the remaining boys get in the hot tub and the girls decide to get into action. They put milk in one of Chet’s boxes. Sarah orders JD to be on lookout duty and he obliges. Katelynn crushes up the puppy’s food and puts it in the cereal. Sarah squirts dish soap into Ryan’s milk. Someone (Devyn, I think) puts soap suds on Scott’s chicken. JD says he’s not going to say a word, that he’s “on team JD”.
The boys get out of the hot tub and JD rushes over to warn the girls. With a funny “caw caw” signal, Sarah alerts the other girls, who all scramble back to their card game. Almost as if compelled, Ryan immediately decides to have some cereal and offers some to Chet as well. Who has cereal at night, anyways? Ryan looks a little suspicious of his milk, but decides to still use it. He and Chet start to eat and then Ryan starts to notice something wrong. He smells the milk and Chet rinses his mouth out. Scott mentions that his chicken needs to be eaten.
Chet realizes that it’s soap in the milk and dumps it out. As the three pranked boys are gathered, Ryan says that it must have been JD. According to Ryan, JD is trying to make it look like the girls did it. The three boys convene in a bedroom to discuss this, with Scott bringing his chicken. When in the bedroom, Scott mentions that he would be quite angry if anybody messed with his chicken. I guess cooking it had rid the meat of any sudsy flavor, because he was still eating it and didn’t seem to realize that his chicken was messed with. After the boys decide that it was JD, Chet approaches the girls about retaliation. Katelynn actually firmly points the finger at JD, and this is probably the point in which the joke has officially turned from prank to malice, as you will see.
Chet sets up a very specific prank on JD, which the girls would be a part of. Ryan, meanwhile, talks to JD, who types out to Ryan everything about what the girls did on the computer. When Chet leaves the room, the girls gloat over their successful pranking. Chet enters the room again and tells the girls exactly what JD is doing in the other room. He leaves the room again and Ryan takes him to his boxes, and they inspect them, finding the milky clothes. Ryan tells the confessional that the praks have caused the house to be inundated with secrets and lies. And who is most guilty of this, Ryan? You brought the idea of pranks in.
Chet shows the girls the damage to his clothes. JD comes in and denys it, saying it was the girls’ doing. Katelynn, meanwhile, is now being more coy about it, as if she wants to confess now but has made the commitment of secrecy. Chet tells JD that he doesn’t trust him. Devyn says that she has never pranked anyone and that JD is evil and manipulative. The boys want the responsible party to admit to what they did, and Sarah says that she wishes she had something to admit to. By now it’s obvious the prank has gone too far, because the all-out lies are truly in full force. When Chet asks the girls to come clean if they did it, so he wouldn’t be blaming JD for what he didn’t do, Katelynn is the only one not to deny anything. She doesn’t confess, but it seems she sees where this is going and wants to back away now. Chet still believes JD, despite the fact that the girls have not confessed. JD says it was Devyn, and Katelynn denies this. Given that they are talking about the soap in the milk, this may be the truth, but I still believe she did put the suds on the chicken. After talking with JD, Scott believes him, as well, and by now, the boys are quite certain of who the real culprits are. Ryan confronts Sarah and she denies hurting anybody’s property. She now is not denying that the girls did the pranks, but Ryan is still upset that JD was thrown under the bus.
With everyone divided into their own parts of the house, Ryan tells Baya that he is willing to give up his friendship with the girls to save his friendship with JD because he does not think his friendship with the girls is genuine. He says that he doesn’t need them and needs to keep his head focused about what is to come, to make sure he does not die. Anybody with a brain would assume he is talking about Iraq here. When he leaves the room, Baya says that she thinks Ryan is scared about Iraq and that’s why he yells. Scott overhears and tells Ryan. Ryan is offended by this, saying that he is ready to go and that wasn’t why he was yelling. He confronts the girls about this, saying that he wasn’t talking about Iraq at all. After a little bit of shouting, Baya apologizes. In the ensuing conversation and a bit of a war of words, I notice that Katelynn has kind of shrunk back, as if she wants to escape the situation and doesn’t know how. The boys want the girls to apologize to JD, but they don’t. JD starts to yell at the girls and Ryan just leaves the room.
It is now time to leave for all the roommates. Considering it’s a leaving montage, I won’t recap every detail. It’s sad, and everybody cries. Everybody is sad to see each other go, despite the previous fight. The last person to leave the house is Katelynn, and she and Chet are the only ones for which we do not see the parents. I wonder if there is significance to this, or if her parents just did not want to be shown on TV. This I can understand.
The previews at the end are for The Real World: Road Rules Challenge. What the heck is this? I’ve heard of it, but don’t know about it. Maybe I should look it up before writing about it. As far as the next recap, I will try and do the reunion special, but might need to take some time before I do so.
