AFTERBUZZ TV -- Real World: Go Big Or Go Home edition is a weekly "after show" for fans of MTV's Real World. In this episode Michael Rippe and Lem Gonsalves discuss episodes 8 & 9.



The Real World (also known as simply Real World) is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the longest-running reality series in history, credited with launching the modern reality TV genre.



The series was hailed in its early years for depicting issues of contemporary young-adulthood relevant to its core audience, such assex, prejudice, religion, abortion, illness, sexuality, AIDS, death, politics, and substance abuse, but later garnered a reputation as a showcase for immature and irresponsible behavior.



Following Bunim's death from breast canc

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