The Real World isn't an elimination contest, but this season is sure starting to feel like one. We've lost Shauvon Torres to a fiancé and Trisha Cummings' shoving of Parisa meant she got the boot. ‘Tis not the season to be blonde and female on The Real World.  I wonder how many times they're going to have to re-shoot the group shot of the housemates?

Well, a shaved-headed guy is making his way back to the house. Isaac Stout returns to the happy welcome on the next episode of The Real World.

He's returning from the funeral of his grandfather, but is glad to be away from the somberness of that time and is ready to enjoy his youth a bit more with his housemates.

He learns that Trisha has left and, while, surprised, he isn't too upset about it. As he discusses her departure with Kelly Anne Judd, he tells her that nobody really cared for Trisha anyway. Parisa Montazaran enters and clarifies for him that now she is the pariah of the group. Isaac says in interview that he can't argue with her rationale for getting rid of Trisha, and he has no problem hanging out and talking to Parisa, unlike the girls of the house.

As the two catch up, Parisa tells Isaac that in the blonde vacuum that now exists, Kelly Anne has become the new Trisha and Ashli is the new Kelly Anne. She tells him about them spitting on the phone booth, and Isaac shrugs, saying, “Can't hate; I peed in there.” Isaac thinks that the guys of the house are all glad to see Trisha gone, and that really, the girls are too, but they need something to do, so they've ganged up on Parisa. He pretty much just described the mechanism of most teen female cliques (sorry, ladies, I hate to say that about my own gender, but I have to respect the truth when I hear it).

He also says they'll make up and break up a bunch more times, and he's right on track with that too. (Note to producers: every reality show needs an Isaac as a kind of no-BS Greek chorus/voice of sanity. Just stick one in the corner to comment on the action.)

Kelly Anne says she can't respect Parisa any longer, but because she doesn't want there to be tension, she pulls yet another classic clique move: the unexpected olive branch of meaningless chatter from the female in power in the clique. She tries to discuss purses with Parisa, but Parisa does NOT perform the usual ritual usually performed by the outcast, i.e., grasping at the branch desperately.

She instead bluntly points out that the two girls ostracized (um, hello, SPIT at her?) for the past 72 hours, and does Kelly Anne want to acknowledge that? Kelly Anne lamely says it was only 24 hours, and then tries to make it sound like she's trying to be the bigger person by moving past it. It is much easier to move past when you're not the one who was spit at, I guess. I was neither here nor there about Parisa before, but this ballsy move of calling Kelly Anne directly out won her big points in my book.

Meanwhile, Ashli is also lamely trying to defend her treatment of Parisa by resurrecting Trisha's image in retrospect, saying she was “fun to party with.” Isaac isn't buying it.

But this drama is really tangential to what's foremost in Ashli's mind. She's been spooning nightly with Dunbar Flinn – you know, the guy with the girlfriend. She tells a friend on the phone that she thinks he's getting uncomfortable with it and is about to kick her out of the bed…this whole thing all has very bad idea written all over it.

What will Ashli and Dunbar's increasing intimacy result in? (Here's a guess: bad stuff?)  Tune into this week's episode of The Real World to find out.

- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: MTV
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