MTV's "The Real World" Contract Is No Joke

And sort of scary.

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We've got a lot of love for The Real World and everything it represents, which is, of course, the comfort it brings in knowing that, as bad as things get in our own lives, we will never be as messed up as the folks in the respective house. But reading over the show's 30-page standard contract, recently acquired and published by The Village Voice, we can't help but feel more thankful than ever that we're just viewers, not participants.

Disguised by legal jargon, the gist is basically as follows (as paraphrased in our own words):

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Well, damn.

[Via The Village Voice]

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