The Real World
...Lies, and Videotape
TV Flash files “...Lies, and Videotape” as hour 94 of 614 in the TV Flash guide — The Real World (1992–2017) on MTV, season 5, episode 17, aired 1996-10-30, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E17: listed hour 94 of 614 in the The Real World guide, hour 17 of 22 in season 5. It aired 1996-10-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (S05E16). Next is “Liars and Lovers” (S05E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does ...Lies, and Videotape sit in the The Real World guide?
S05E17 is listed hour 94 of 614 — hour 17 of 22 in season 5, season 5 episode 17.
When did The Real World S05E17 air?
...Lies, and Videotape aired 1996-10-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The 1992 New York season is the origin lab. Early seasons are the archaeology of reality grammar; later ones show the formula calcifying.
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Why this series still plays
Seven strangers picked to live in a house — cameras rolling, confessionals waiting, conflict cast as deliberately as any writers' room. Bunim/Murray's MTV series (from New York 1992) turns hookups, politics, identity, and rent into youth soap. The template for modern reality TV never really left the loft.
The first useful thing *The Real World* does is admit the writers' room is the casting session. Seven strangers picked to live in a house — cameras always rolling, confessionals always waiting — turn hookups, politics, identity, and rent into weekly soap. Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray's MTV series premiered May 21, 1992 in New York and recast conflict as deliberately as any scripted hour. Each season rebooted the experiment in a new city with a new mix of archetypes. Early seasons tackled AIDS, sexuality,…