The Real World
Sweet Tarts and Sour Hearts (a.k.a. Valentine's Day)
TV Flash files “Sweet Tarts and Sour Hearts (a.k.a. Valentine's Day)” as hour 111 of 614 in the TV Flash guide — The Real World (1992–2017) on MTV, season 6, episode 12, aired 1997-09-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E12: listed hour 111 of 614 in the The Real World guide, hour 12 of 23 in season 6. It aired 1997-09-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Don't Look Under This Sequined Tee, with Anyone Else But Me” (S06E11). Next is “No Man is an Island (a.k.a. Puerto Rico)” (S06E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Sweet Tarts and Sour Hearts (a.k.a. Valentine's Day) sit in the The Real World guide?
S06E12 is listed hour 111 of 614 — hour 12 of 23 in season 6, season 6 episode 12.
When did The Real World S06E12 air?
Sweet Tarts and Sour Hearts (a.k.a. Valentine's Day) aired 1997-09-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
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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,…