#1) If MTV decided to put it on one of the other channels it owns and put MUSIC back on its MUSIC channel.

#2) If they used REAL people and didn't audition. Auditioning basically destroys the idea of the participants being REAL. You might hate your roommate, but it's not the result of a third party thinking, "Hey - those two will wind up fighting - let's make them live together."

#3) If the participants found jobs on their OWN, paid for their OWN apartment, and had REAL problems like REAL people. How many all-expense-paid vacations to Jamaica have YOU had? BILLS are one of the biggest creators of conflict between REAL roommates.

#4) If they woke up one morning to find one of the participants mutilated, and another naked, covered entirely in blood, sitting on top of the refrigerator, beating on a drum he/she made from the skin of the dead co-participant.

#5) If one of the participants was a crack whore or bum.

#6) If one of the participants beat a cameraman to death with his camera and they showed the footage.

#7) If one of the cast members killed himself violently and left a note saying Britney Spears inspired him to do it.

#8) If any of the cast members acted like REAL 21 year olds with no jobs and sat around playing on a playstation eating doritos all day.

#9) If one of the cast members brought hookers home on a nightly basis (not including the escorts MTV pays to act like "dates").

#10) If MTV realized that most people see other people's lives and don't really care. I have my own life - why should I give a rat's ass if some stupid chick I'll never meet has a drinking problem?

#11) Most REAL people don't have copyright issues - why not let them rent a video or go to a movie like everyone in the ACTUAL real world does?

#12) If it wasn't the PRIMARY filler for airtime on a MUSIC channel (kinda like #1 - but seriously the most important factor of why that show sucks ass).

#13) If, on one of their stupid vacations to foreign countries, one of the members was held by customs and tortured by the military police before being released back to MTV.  Then for the rest of the series that person would suffer from deep emotional wounds and would have trouble with complicated sentences and multisyllabic words and would start screaming and crying anytime he saw a coat hangar.

#14) If viewers could vote on which one they wanted to see being eaten alive by fire ants.

#15) If one of the participants was morbidly obese - like 600 pounds.

#16) If ALLof the participants had trouble getting laid. There are always a couple that get no action - but I want a WHOLE group of people that couldn't get laid in a prison with a carton of cigarettes.

#17) When was the last time you met five 21 year olds who live together (not at a christian school) and none of them smoke pot? MTV needs to get over this whole "drugs don't exist" blurring the pot leaf off the baseball hat shit. MTV always pretends to be an anti-censorship advocate, yet their channel is so sterile and secure. They censor way beyond the FCC's requirements (though there should be no requirements in the first place). Fuck Them.

#18) THE MOST OBVIOUS THING THAT COULD MAKE "THE REAL WORLD" TOLERABLE..... ITS TOTAL ABSENCE FOREVER.