The Real World
The End of the Innocence
TV Flash files “The End of the Innocence” as hour 140 of 614 in the TV Flash guide — The Real World (1992–2017) on MTV, season 7, episode 18, aired 1998-10-13, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E18: listed hour 140 of 614 in the The Real World guide, hour 18 of 20 in season 7. It aired 1998-10-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Facing the Pain” (S07E17). Next is “The Real World / Road Rules Aqua Games 1998” (S07E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The End of the Innocence sit in the The Real World guide?
S07E18 is listed hour 140 of 614 — hour 18 of 20 in season 7, season 7 episode 18.
When did The Real World S07E18 air?
The End of the Innocence aired 1998-10-13 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.
In the series
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,…