History YMMV / TheRealWorld

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: These days, it's hard to believe this series and ''Series/RoadRules'' were once innovative, ground-breaking reality television shows, especially after the entire genre broke out in the 2000s. ''The Real World'' had to add twists to its formula to create conflict and stir up interest by the end of its run which wasn't enough to keep the show on the air.

** Creator/JuddWinick, from ''San Francisco'', has since become a well-known comic-book writer, plus the creator of the animation show ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee''.

** Creator/JuddWinick, from ''San Francisco'', has since become a well-known comic-book writer.

** [[Series/{{Grimm}} David Giuntoli]] appeared on the show because [[MoneyDearBoy he needed the money to pay off his student loans]]. He cites his experience on this show as sparking his interest in pursuing acting as a career.

* HarsherInHindsifght: in Ex-Plosion, Arrows (known as Arielle in the season), expressed his discomfort with online speculation that he is transgender. Fast forward years later, Arrows changed his name from Arielle, and is now living as a transmasculine person.

** For all of the horrible things he said to Pedro, Puck did have a point when he pointed out that Pedro having AIDS was his own fault due to him not using protection when he had sex. Granted, it was still a needlessly judgmental thing to say, especially when you consider that, before the show began, Pedro worked as a lecturer on the importance of safe sex to young people after finding out that he had AIDS and was quite open with the foolishness of his actions when it came to having unprotected sex. Pedro even famously has an onstage trick where he would stick both of his hands inside a regular condom to show how far it could stretch without breaking.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The show was reality television before "reality television" was even coined as a term. Several of the older seasons play out like a [[UnbuiltTrope deconstruction of a reality show]], long before the usual reality TV tropes made their way into the show after the medium broke out in the TurnOfTheMillennium.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny/: The show was reality television before "reality television" was even coined as a term. Several of the older seasons play out like a [[UnbuiltTrope deconstruction of a reality show]], long before the usual reality TV tropes made their way into the show after the medium broke out in the TurnOfTheMillennium.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The show was reality television before "reality television" was even coined as a term. Several of the older seasons play out like a deconstruction of a reality show, long before the usual reality TV tropes made their way into the show after the medium broke out in the TurnOfTheMillennium.

** Genesis from ''The Read World: Boston'' revealed years later that the producers invoked this trope and pushed ''hard'' for her to hook up with her transgender best friend. Genesis vehemently refused to do so, and expressed frustration that they edited scenes between them that implied they were more than friends.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all of the bad things he said to Pedro, Puck did have a point when he pointed out that Pedro having AIDS was his own fault due to him not using protection when he had sex. Granted, it was still a needlessly judgmental thing to say, especially when you consider that, before the show began, Pedro worked as a lecturer on the importance of safe sex to young people after finding out that he had AIDS and was quite open with the foolishness of his actions when it came to having unprotected sex. Pedro even famously has an onstage trick where he would stick both of his hands inside a regular condom to show how far it could stretch without breaking.
** Neil of ''The Real World: London'' has defended his season of the show (which was considered so boring by the producers, that the following season saw the introduction of the first of several gimmicks to make things more exciting) by pointing out that it was not so much boring as true to the original premise of the series (watching the lives of seven strangers in a house).