"The Real World" Strikes Television Gold!

If you haven’t been watching “The Real World” this season, you honestly aren’t missing much. That is, much besides the biggest camera whore on basic cable.

Meet Frankie.

She started the show by saying that she has cystic fibrosis, while chain smoking. That didn’t get harped on too much though because she quickly showed signs of another disease. The one where you take a drink of alcohol, make out with people, and then can’t remember anything the next day. This brought a lot of tears because she is totally devoted to her long-term boyfriend at home. But there was one episode where she wasn’t the center of attention so she broke up with the boyfriend. So many tears.

Then the roommates got a job on a boat, and Frankie came clean about her crippling fear of large boats. It seems to be one of those one-time-crippling-fears since she has been near or on them since and it’s been a non-issue. More and more tears.

Then she bought a pet snake that is projected to grow to 220 pounds. While she is on a reality show far from home, she decides that she can take on a large pet responsibility. Mmm okay.

This means nothing though, because this week she iced her own cake by coming out as a not-so-secret cutter. She grabbed a knife, as cameras followed her, went into the bathroom, and then came out, dropped the knife at the feet of a roommate (with a SMILE ON HER FACE) then picked it up and placed the dirty knife in the sink of dirty dishes. Her cry for attention was heard around the world as she allowed camera crews to come with her to a single therapy session at the end of the episode. A camera crew in therapy. Did I mention the tears?

I can’t wait until later in the season when she has sex with a roommate , gets diagnosed with Lyme disease, confronts her troubles with alcoholism, and comes out of the closet.