Brooklyn Jumps The Shark
Run for the hills you fucking hipsters! MTV is coming and your peaceful existence of denouncing musical trends before they even escape from the broken amplifiers spewing them is all but over. Hope you like druken frat guy fights and tearful skanks crowding your sidewalks as they text their boyfriends about how the "slipped" and slept with one of their roommates.
The word is that the Valhalla of cool, Brooklyn, NYC, will be host of the next season of The Real World, which, let's face it, hasn't been real since Puck placed his booger-laced finger into Pedro's sacred gay-empowering jar of peanut butter.
From the Observer:
Riding high on the successful launch of an accelerated, action packed 13-week episode cycle with more favorite Real World drama packed into 1-hour episodes, MTV has greenlit the hit reality series for a 21st season. Production will move from the west coast to the east coast as Bunim-Murray Productions begins shooting in Brooklyn, NY this summer. Continuing with the new format of expanding the episodes to one-hour, the network has ordered 12 episodes of "The Real World: Brooklyn" which is scheduled to premiere in 2009.
"The Brooklyn season, like the Hollywood season, will focus on what people loved about 'The Real World' when it launched in 1992 - genuine people, meaningful conflict and powerful stories," Jon Murray, "The Real World" Co-Creator and Chairman & President of Bunim-Murray Productions. "We're thrilled that MTV is allowing 'The Real World' turn 21!"
Now allow me this little moment of schadenfreude, as I mentally picture thousands of hipsters, donned in pipe cleaner jeans, tortoiseshell glasses, intentionally tussled bed heads, and Members Only jackets jumping into the East River, looking to escape the eight total strangers who want to find out what happens when people stop being polite and starting getting real, on the streets of Williamsburg. It's enough to make the Bed-Stuy'ers declare Midtown the one true place left in New York, a perfect faux authentic denouement to that scene.
The MTV news special that likely inspired Bunim-Murray to pick the outer burrough:
And, the real victim of this announcement: The Hipster Olympics:


