Road Rules
Blood and Goats
TV Flash files “Blood and Goats” as hour 131 of 219 in the TV Flash guide — Road Rules (1995–2007) on MTV, season 9, episode 13, aired 2000-09-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E13: listed hour 131 of 219 in the Road Rules guide, hour 13 of 19 in season 9. It aired 2000-09-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Stranger in a Strange Land” (S09E12). Next is “Revenge in the Bush” (S09E14).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Blood and Goats sit in the Road Rules guide?
S09E13 is listed hour 131 of 219 — hour 13 of 19 in season 9, season 9 episode 13.
When did Road Rules S09E13 air?
Blood and Goats aired 2000-09-11 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this just The Real World in a van?
Companion format: same Bunim/Murray casting-for-conflict family, plus missions, an RV, and competition DNA the house show didn't score the same way.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Real World packed into an RV: missions, strangers, reality as a road trip. MTV turns docu-soap into competition — challenges, chemistry, and the pipeline that became The Challenge’s combat sport. Nineties youth TV learning to score conflict, ancestor of every later show that sent pretty people on a bus and called it a test.
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