12x01 - Welcome to Las Vegas!

[bunniefuu]

Hi, I'm Steven
from San Marcos, Texas. I'm 23 years old.

I'm a bartender at a g*y bar
and I'm a heterosexual male.

Hi, my name is Trishelle.

I'm 22 years old,
and I'm from Cut Off, Louisiana.

The good thing
about coming from a small town is,

you become creative
with what you do

with your spare time. [chuckles]

Hi, I'm Irulan. I'm 21,
and I'm from New York City.

Gabe is my boyfriend.

Gabe and I have an open relationship.

We recently decided to see other people.

My name is Alton, from San Diego,
California. I'm 22 years old.

I enjoy goin' out
and puttin' on skates.

You know, go rock climbing.

Hey, good morning, Real World.
My name's Frank, I'm 22 years old.

Right now, I'm in between schools,
so I'm applying for graduate school.

A lot of my family went to Cornell.

I'm probably not gonna get accepted
because I'm a loser.

My name is Arissa.
I'm 22, and I'm from Boston.

I'm running out of reasons not
to wrap my lips around a g*n.

I could not wait
to get out of the projects.

I said, "Okay, hope to see you again
someday, 'cause I'm never coming back."

Hi, my name is Brynn, and I'm 21.
And I'm from Portland, Oregon.

I get really courageous when I drink.

I want that guy, and by the end
of the night, I will have him.

[upbeat music playing]

-[Arissa] This is the true story…
-[all] True story…

-[Frank] …of seven strangers…
-[Trishelle] …picked to live in a casino…

[Alton] …work together
and have their lives taped…

-[Brynn] …to find out what happens…
-[Steven] …when people stop being polite…

[Irulan] …and start getting real.

-[all] The Real World: Las Vegas.
-[Arissa] Baby, yeah!

[all laughing]

[soft music playing]

[Trishelle] The only time
I've ever been away from Cut Off

is when I moved away
to go to college,

and it makes me really nervous
being in a big city.

Las Vegas is named "Sin City," so I know
that they have a lot of sin here.

-[mid-tempo music playing]
-[Steven sighs]

[Steven] Sex is very important to me.

I'm really comfortable being
a sexual person.

Beautiful women, that's just my weakness.

If one of my roommates is really hot,
I don't know what I'm gonna do.

♪ I want to take your pants off ♪

-[Steven] What's up?
-[Trishelle] Hey.

[laughs] I'm so glad. Another human being.

I'm Steven.

-Trishelle. Nice to meet you.
-Trishelle. Nice to…

I'm very excited about meeting new men
because I've been seeing the same ones

for the past five years.

I'm attracted to people
who are romantic and really cute

and nice, but not too nice.

Sex is really not that important to me.

[Steven] I'm from everywhere.
I've lived in, like, five states,

-been to, like, 24 schools.
-You poor thing.

You've probably never had
a girlfriend before.

[Steven] Oh, I've had--

[Trishelle] I would be scared
to have a relationship--

I've had a few.
I'm actually married right now.

-We-- No, I'm serious. I'm serious.
-[laughs]

I was supposed to be divorced
last month, but…

-Are you serious?
-I'm totally serious.

I got married at the Paris Hotel
in Las Vegas, and--

-Were you drunk when you married her?
-No, we planned it.

We took 35 of our friends and family.
It was, like, a big wedding.

My wife's name is Christy.

Christy and I are currently still married.

And, yeah,
I came home one day from school

and had a little note
and stuff like that, and it was just--

She wrote you a "Dear John" letter?
[laughs]

[Steven] See the blue ball
and the Eiffel Tower?

That's where I got married.

[chuckles] I want to look out
at everything.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] Meanwhile,
in another part of town…

[upbeat music playing]

-[Frank] Hey.
-Hi.

-[Frank] How you doing?
-Good. How are you?

-I'm good. What's your name?
-Arissa.

-I'm Frank. Nice to meet you.
-[Arissa] Nice to meet you.

[Frank chuckles]

-Where you coming from?
-I'm coming from Central Pennsylvania.

-Oh, jeez.
-Yeah.

-No place big at all.
-[chuckles]

I come from a really, really small town.
So this is a bit of a change for me.

My hometown consists
of cows, Amish people,

and lots of people just like me.

-Where are you coming from?
-Boston.

Boston? I've never been there.

-Are you a Mormon?
-No.

-[laughs]
-No, but that's a good question,

'cause there's, like, Mormons
and Amish people all around where I live.

-Really?
-Yeah, like,

when I'm in traffic, like,
it's not cars, it's a horse and buggy.

I was like, "Okay, Jebediah."

Frank is just all-American,
Abercrombie, Amish kid.

He's got a great sense of humor,
and he's really funny.

-Do you have any strip clubs in your town?
-Yeah, actually, we do.

I thought they were beautiful. I just,
like-- I'm not into that whole, like,

watching girls take off their clothing.
Seems, like, too trashy for me.

Okay. Well, I'm a stripper.

-You are a stripper?
-I'm sorry. I'm just kidding.

-Oh, yeah, I know.
-[laughs]

[Frank] I'm having
a fun time talking to Arissa.

She likes to have fun,
joking with me, making fun of me.

I think that's good for the both of us.

Like, I wonder if one of us
is going to be, like, the gambler.

[Arissa] I'm going to be in the casinos,

piss drunk and very upset
because I have no money.

-[chuckles]
-Like, sashaying up to some,

-like, old guy--
-"Come on, Frank, I need…"

-No, I'm gonna be like, "Hi."
-I know. [laughs]

-"What's your name?"
-[mid-tempo music playing]

[Steven] Are you kidding me?
I'm so happy to have

another person around.
I was going stir-crazy.

I know. Where the hell are we going?
I'm, like, nervous to meet everybody else.

I'm excited. This is the best.
This is the best.

[upbeat music playing]

-[coins clattering]
-[machines chiming]

-[man] Hello, welcome to the Palms.
-What's up?

[man] Should I grab your bags for you?

[uplifting music playing]

I've never even stayed
at a place like this before.

This is the best thing
that I've ever seen,

the colors and it's beautiful.

["Life Is Good" playing]
♪ Life is good and then you die ♪

♪ Don't ask questions, baby
Don't ask why ♪

♪ I won't trade places with no other guy ♪

♪ Because life is good ♪

[man] You guys gonna be staying
with us for a while?

-We have no clue.
-[man] Really?

-Just kind of play it by ear then?
-Yes.

[man] We're gonna go right in here, yeah.
I got your room keys for you.

-So there's your room numbers.
-Okay.

Just take these elevators
right up to the 28th floor.

-Okay, so we're 28.
-Yeah.

-[Trishelle] Do you want-- Push that?
-[Steven] I think that's it.

-[Trishelle laughs]
-Oh, that's it!

-Oh.
-God, I could have…

This is so cool.

♪ Life is good ♪

-[Trishelle laughing]
-[record scratching]

[hip-hop music playing]

-[Steven] Oh, this is the--
-[both] Oh, my God!

[Trishelle laughing]

-[Steven] Let's run around.
-[Trishelle] Oh, my gosh!

-Oh, look at the little-- oh, cool.
-[Trishelle] Holy cow.

My house in Cut Off
is pretty old-fashioned.

It's like a country house.

This is like a city house. [laughs]

Okay, wait.
We need to look at the bedrooms.

-[Trishelle laughs]
-Yeah, this is the pimp room right here.

[Trishelle] I don't know
if I could live with three people in one.

-[Steven] Oh. Oh, man.
-[Trishelle] Oh, my.

[Trishelle] Oh, my God, this is so--

-[Steven] Oh, wait! They have directions.
-[Trishelle laughs]

[Steven] How do you do this?

-How do you do this?
-Are they assorted colors? Oh, look.

Go-- Save--
I'm keeping this one for myself.

-Sweet. Oh, are you?
-[both laugh]

[Steven] Wow.

[mid-tempo music playing]

-Looks like you're checking in, huh?
-[Irulan] Yes.

I'll take you right up to the front desk.
Let's get you oriented

-and right up to your room.
-[Irulan] Okay, thank you.

You much of a gambler, then? Probably not?

Not so far.

It's beautiful. It's, like,
more than anything

that I could have hoped for.

[Trishelle] Hey!

-[Steven] This is the phone room.
-[Trishelle] Our other roommate's here.

-What's your name?
-Hi. Irulan.

-Irulan, Trishelle.
-Yeah.

[both] Nice to meet you.

-Trishelle?
-Yeah.

-Hello. Steven. Nice to meet you.
-Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Irulan.

Oh, I'm so glad to finally meet you guys.
I've been in suspense for so long.

-[Steven] I know. Were you not stir-crazy?
-I know. [laughs]

[Trishelle] I'm excited to get the chance
to live with people from other races.

In Cut Off, Louisiana,
there's not that much diversity.

[Steven] This is already getting bad,
'cause it's already, like,

two attractive women.
That's really-- That's--

-It's already getting uncomfortable.
-[laughs]

-[upbeat music playing]
-[car horn honking]

[man] Welcome to the Palms, folks.

-[Arissa] Hi.
-How you doing?

-Any luggage for you?
-[Arissa] Yeah.

Okay, I need my family
to wire me, like, 800 dollars,

-'cause I want to gamble.
-Yeah.

I am so broke.
I have 14 dollars in my pocket

and no clue when I'm getting money again.

Go all the way down to the end.
You'll see 28-101.

-That's your room number right there.
-[Arissa] Okay.

[Frank] Cool.

Are we going up?

No, we--
'Cause you haven't pressed the button.

-[Frank] I hit it, like, three times.
-Sure you did.

[Frank] Yo,
I'm an electrical engineering student.

-[Arissa laughs]
-[Frank] Oh, this is embarrassing.

-Close the doors.
-Close the door quick.

-[Frank] Okay, six…
-[Arissa] Six,

seven.

-[Frank] What's going on now?
-Now we're going down.

[Frank] What the [bleep] is going on?

I'm not taking the stairs.
You figure it out.

Look, now it's lit.
I think we're doing it.

I think it's going.

Got to be, like,
John Nash to get to our room.

-[Arissa] No, I don't know--
-[Frank] Okay, let's just leave.

Let's never take the elevators again
or leave our room.

-Okay, cool.
-[Irulan] I lived on my own for, like,

-a year.
-[Steven] Oh, there's somebody coming in.

-[indistinct chatter]
-[Frank] Yo, what's going on?

-What's up, dude? What's your name?
-Frank.

Frank, Steven.
You've got a pager down there.

-[Irulan] Hi. I'm Irulan.
-Hey, how you doing?

-Arissa, nice to meet you. I'm Steven.
-Trishelle.

[Steven] You got a pager over there.

-I'm Arissa.
-[Irulan] Hi. Irulan.

I already don't like this,
'cause there are already

-three pretty girls.
-[girls chuckle]

Did you leave anybody behind?

-[Frank] Me?
-Are you single?

[Frank] Uh, yeah. Just recently.

[indistinct chatter]

We're the only single people here.

I-- Well, wait
until the other two show up, then--

-I keep forgetting, two more people.
-We're both, like, recently single too.

[Steven] We still have
two more people coming.

We should be-- Be officially--
When everybody else gets here…

I think that we should wait
until everyone gets here.

[Frank] Yeah, we definitely should.

Let's not piss off everyone
on the same day.

[upbeat music playing]

-All right, man?
-All right, man.

-It was a pleasure. Definitely.
-[man] How you doing, sir?

-Welcome to the Palms.
-Hello.

My heart is in my throat.

I'm having trouble breathing,
and this whole casino is--

It's overwhelming me. It's just so big.

What did you guys bring for,
like, spending money or whatever?

-[Trishelle] Oh, my God.
-[Steven] What's up, man?

[all cheer]

-[Alton] How you doing?
-What's up, man? What's your name?

-Alton.
-Alton.

-[Alton] Nice to meet you.
-Alton, Trishelle.

-Alton.
-Irulan.

-What's up?
-What's going on, man?

-Frank.
-[Alton] Nice to meet you.

[Arissa] Arissa.

-Look at this place.
-Where are you from, Alton?

-San Diego, California.
-[Steven] San Diego.

-Definitely.
-I'm from south Louisiana.

-Louisiana?
-Yeah.

-Well, you got a mission, huh?
-I sure do.

[Frank] I'm wondering
about the seventh roommate,

and I'm very curious
as to who it's going to be.

["Boomshakalakalaka" playing]

♪ I said, three, four on the floor ♪

♪ I said, five, six, sex submit
Seven, Logan Seven, in the sheets now ♪

♪ Seven, Logan Seven, good to go now
Boom sha-ka-la-ka-la-ka ♪

-[man] Hello, welcome to the Palms.
-Hey, thanks.

-Are you much of a gambler?
-I'm more of a party animal.

["I Wanna Be Bad" playing]
♪ I want to be bad ♪

I am a troublemaker. [chuckles]

I don't think I realize
that I'm making trouble,

but I make trouble all the time.

One of my roommates
could be really hot

and try to get the really other
hot guy roommate before me.

I have fought over
a guy with a roommate before.

♪ I'm about to break the rules ♪

♪ 'Cause I want to be bad ♪

[dramatic music playing]

[Steven] I have a feeling we will have
to draw straws for the rooms.

-[Irulan] Yeah.
-I think we should too.

[Steven] When I got here,
you guys were like,

-"Totally got this room. Got this one."
-[indistinct chatter]

-Hey, guys.
-[all cheer]

-Hi, hi.
-[Trishelle] Hello.

-Brynn, nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.

-[Irulan] Irulan.
-Brynn.

-[Steven] Steven.
-Brynn.

All I see
are these pretty little skinny girls,

and I'm thinking, "They're all cute."
I'm a little jealous.

I was hoping
there was going to be someone

that wasn't that cute,
but they're all hot.

-[door knocking]
-[Alton] Who is it? Room service, really?

-[hotel employee] Hi.
-Awesome.

Right this way.
Welcome to our humble abode.

-I mean, we're a humble family.
-[chuckles]

[all cheering]

-[Alton] There's champagne!
-[Irulan] Whoo!

[upbeat music playing]

George Maloof is the owner
of the entire Palms Casino and Hotel.

"Welcome to the Palms Casino and Resort."

"Tonight, you are my guests
for a special evening."

"At 9:30 p.m.,
there's c*ck at the Ghost Bar."

-Upstairs.
-[Arlon] It's exactly 9:05.

-That's at 9:30.
-[Steven] Okay.

"At 10:00 p.m.,
there's dinner at our rooftop restaurant."

"At 12:00, there's a spa treatment
at our luxurious…"

[all scream]

Yes!

[Frank] Yo, that's 25 minutes
from now, and it says,

-"Please come dressed in dinner attire."
-[Alton] All right.

[Steven] Yeah, we have to do rooms
in five minutes, guys.

-Yeah.
-[indistinct chatter]

-[Steven] This is to all of us.
-[all cheer]

["Lipstick and Bruises" playing]
♪ These are all your new friends ♪

♪ Baby, you're a rock star now ♪

♪ Kiss me when the lights go down ♪

[Alton] Man.

-Okay, rooms.
-Okay.

[Steven] Just pick rooms--
Just put the rooms in a hat.

All right, here--
Yeah, just don't look at it or whatever.

We decide the best way to choose rooms

is just to put numbers
in a hat, draw 'em out,

and then that number you see
is the room you're living in.

All right, don't look, don't--
Oh, you already looked.

I'm hoping to share a room with Arissa.
I think that we have a lot in common,

and I feel like we can relate
to each other on that level.

-Look what I got. "Z" too!
-[laughs]

[Trishelle] I am in the room that I want.
Brynn and I have the zebra room.

I think the zebra room
will see lots of excitement.

-I'm three.
-[Frank] Three, three, three.

-Yeah, it's us.
-[Steven] Oh, that's cool.

Are we all happy with this?

I have a number two.

Arissa has a number two.
Irulan, she drew a number three.

-It's all good.
-[Arissa] All right,

so are we gonna get ready
for this night or what?

-Yeah, let's go. Fall out.
-[indistinct chatter]

And I just looked at the situation,
let's start this off on a good note.

It's much easier
for me just to trade places.

You want a two?
Do you want a two,

so you guys can have the room?

-I don't care.
-I would rather be in the two.

[upbeat music playing]

Yeah, this is better.

[Arissa] We are in a penthouse
on the 28th floor.

I'm never going to leave.

This means that I cannot settle
to go back and live

in Bowdoin Street Projects.

Coming to Las Vegas is my ticket
to get away from the projects.

My boyfriend believes
that I will leave him.

After this, I'm going
to want bigger and better things.

[upbeat music playing]

[Brynn] Trishelle has awesome boobs.

I am jealous of women with large breasts.

Boobs are great,
and I don't have any, and they do.

Yo, do you guys want to get out of here?
'Cause we're already ten minutes late.

-Okay, I'm really here.
-[Steven exclaims]

I think these girls are so hot,
and I just can't wait to go out

and show off
that I'm friends with these girls.

[rock music playing]

-Wow!
-[Alton] Irulan is my type, to a "T."

I'm just attracted to her, you know?
And I don't know if she knows. [chuckles]

[Steven] Are we following someone?

[indistinct chatter]

[Brynn] See my panties.

-[all cheer]
-[Frank] God.

[Brynn] Do you-- What do you guys think
about everybody else?

.-I don't know yet. I really like Alton.
-Mm-hmm.

-He seems really cool and polite.
-[Brynn] He plays the violin.

He plays the violin.

-[indistinct chatter]
-[soft music playing]

[Irulan] I think that Alton is great,
and I enjoy spending time with him.

I'm excited to get to know more about him.

-[Frank] It's funny.
-[Steven] Yeah.

No, that's the--
It is kind of weird, like, nobody's, like,

-a r*cist jerk-off or anything.
-Hmm. You don't know that yet.

[Trishelle] I'm not.
I just don't have any Black friends,

and, like, I want to get
to know other people, but it's like,

I've never had the chance to.
You know what I'm saying?

After I start talking with my roommates,
I'm afraid that they just think

that I'm a dumb girl from the South.

Well, I'm excited to learn.

Trishelle is gorgeous,
and I really like her personality too,

so she seems like someone
who I can get along with real well.

[indistinct chatter]

Those late nights… [laughs]

…we'll set you guys up with everything.

Do you have tattoos?

-[speaking indistinctly]
-Let me see your tattoos.

We're in the hot tub, naked.

We're just chillin', naked,
in the hot tub. It's all good.

Nice.

-I have one.
-[Trishelle] I've never had one.

Brynn is a really attractive girl.

She gives off a lot
of sexual energy, maybe.

I have had sex with a girl before.

It was fun.

I know I'm gonna get
in trouble in the house.

[Trishelle] Who do you think
you're gonna kiss?

I don't know. Probably you.

[Trishelle] When Brynn tells me
that she is going to kiss me,

I'm thinking
that she's a little conceited,

but I'm also thinking that,

yeah, maybe she's a little right,
that something might happen.

["Androgyny" playing]

[Brynn] And so we're sitting there,
and we're like,

"Dude, we want the boys to come in."
The next thing we know,

here comes all three guys
with towels around their waists.

-♪ Boys ♪
-♪ Boys in the girls' room ♪

-♪ Girls ♪
-♪ Girls in the men's room ♪

♪ You free your mind in your androgyny ♪

[Brynn] And we're like,
"Okay, cool, boys,

you know, they're going to get in.
We're gonna get to see stuff."

-[Steven] Everyone close their eyes.
-[Alton laughs]

-[Steven] Joking, joking.
-[Brynn] They're in shorts!

Sure enough, they take off their towels,
and they're in boxer shorts.

[indistinct chatter]

Come here!

I live with people who have no problem

with getting down in a jacuzzi
with mad people watching.

-You've never skinny-dipped before?
-[Irulan] No.

[soft music playing]

Yo, they threw me back down there
with the girls. They were all naked again.

-See them standing up naked?
-Yeah, yeah.

-[Steven] Trishelle?
-[Frank] Trishelle, that's right, yeah.

She just kind of like,
stands up, like, all naked.

[chuckles] I'm just like, "Okay,
if you want to do that or whatever."

-That girl's so hot, man.
-[Steven] Yeah, she's pretty amazing.

I totally think that girl's unbelievable.

Oh, she's on your jock, dude.
It's all good.

Trishelle and Frank have
a little thing for each other.

That's really cute.
They make a really nice couple.

-They're sweet. They're sweet kids.
-[Frank] Yeah, you know I'm going

to be crying in the confessional
when you get her. [laughs]

No, she digs you. She digs you.
She likes the really sporty guys.

-I give off false appearances, I guess.
-No, no, trust me, dude. It's all good.

["Love at First Sight" playing]

[Frank] I really don't know
if something is going to work out

between Trishelle and I,
because I'm not an aggressive person.

I just want to let things happen.

♪ 'Cause, baby, when I heard you ♪

♪ For the first time I knew ♪

♪ We were meant to be as one ♪

[music fades]