Road Rules: USA - The First Adventure (1995)
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Road Rules: USA was the inaugural season of Road Rules. The show featured five young people traveling the country, completing various tasks to get their next clue to their next mission.
[edit] Cast
- Allison Jones - 21 year old pre-med student from New York.
- Kit Hoover - 24 year old from Atlanta, Georgia.
- Carlos "Los" Jackson - 21 year old college student at Howard University.
- Mark Long - 23 year old recent grad from the University of Florida at Gainesville. Viewers originally saw Mark try out as Puck's replacement on The Real World: San Francisco.
- Shelly Spottedhorse - 19 year old recent high school grad from Oklahoma. She is proud of her Native American heritage.
[edit] Episode List
Episode 1: Five Strangers find themselves on a hilltop near Malibu, California. A suitcase is dropped from a helicopter. In the suitcase is a tape and tape player. The tape instructs the cast members to put all their money, including credit cards, in plastic bags which will be given back to them at the end of the trip. The cast is then instructed to go to Ivanpah Lake, Nevada for a land sailing competition. Winners of the competition are given two hotel rooms in the Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas. In Vegas the cast gambles some of their money and is given a clue to visit the youngest mayor in the USA to get the key to his city. After some phone calls the cast finds they need to visit Mayor Louis Valdez in Nogales, Arizona.
Episode 2: The cast participates in a pentathlon to attempt to get the key to the city of Nogales. They lose the competition, however they are given honorary keys to the city. Mayor Louis Valdez takes a liking to Allison, however Allison is later left embarrassed because she acted "very drunk" with the mayor during the evening celebrations. The cast then leaves for Flagstaff, Arizona to look for their next clue. The cast finds a banner in Flagstaff stating they should drive to Gunnison, Colorado to walk dogs. The cast then goes to Colorado to learn how to dogsled.
Episode 3: The cast visit Shelly's hometown of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The cast conflicts with Los over money issues. The rest of the cast they no longer want Los to hold the money. Los agrees, but wants his share of the money.
Episode 4: The cast visits Hammond, Louisiana, to work at an alligator farm. Mark and Kit work at the town drug store dishing out ice cream. Allison is given the task of counducting public tours of the farm while Shelly and Los box up gator meat.
Episode 5: The cast visits New Orleans, Louisiana in search of the father of jazz, Buddy Bolden. A laid back New Orleans cabbie leads them around to Buddy's past hangouts. The cast discovers that Buddy is no longer alive and try to contact him through a seance. The cast find they have to spend the night in a cemetery to accomplish their mission and get their next clue. Shelly decides that she is uncomfortable at the cemetery and goes back to the RV.
Episode 6: The cast goes to Pace, Florida, to visit a nudist campground. They find they will have to get naked to retrieve their next clue from their host in the jacuzzi. Mark, Allison, and Kit decide to get nude in the dark to retrieve the clue. Their next mission is to visit Americus, Georgia, to participate in building a house for Habitat for Humanity. During their visit the cast participates in a worship service which upsets Allison.
