Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno

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The Inferno is a season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. It aired in 2004 on MTV, composed of twenty cast members, and took place in Acapulco, Mexico. In this challenge, the winning teams would receive a prize at the end of each mission. They would then nominate two players from their team to the Inferno elimination challenge. Unlike on the Gauntlet, there would be another challenge with an immunity life-saver up for grabs before the Inferno. Each team then got to select one out of the two nominees from the opposing team into the Inferno.

1 Cast
2 Final results
3 Memorable moments
4 Elimination order
5 External Links

[edit] Cast

Host: Dave Mirra

Real World team

Ace Amerson, Paris
Coral Smith, Back to New York
Chris "CT" Tamburello, Paris
David Burns, Seattle
Julie Stoffer, New Orleans
Leah Gillingwater, Paris
Mallory Snyder, Paris
Mike Mizanin, Back to New York
Syrus Yarborough, Boston
Trishelle Cannatella, Las Vegas

Road Rules team

Abram Boise, South Pacific
Christena Pyle, South Pacific*
Darrell Taylor, Campus Crawl
Holly Shand, Latin America
Jeremy Blossom, South Pacific
Katie Doyle, The Quest
Kendal Sheppard, Campus Crawl
Shane Landrum, Campus Crawl
Timmy Beggy, USA - The Second Adventure
Veronica Portillo, Semester at Sea

*Piggy from Road Rules: Down Under arrived to compete in The Inferno and can be seen in both footage and photos from the cast's arrival. Soon after arriving, she left to go home and was consequently never mentioned. Christena was flown in to replace her. The title credits reflect this, as they were filmed when Piggy was there and Christena's scenes were shot later. The official reason for her departure has been cited as "family reasons".

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[edit] Final results

The final Real World team consisted of Coral, CT, Mike and Syrus. The final Road Rules team consisted of Abram, Christena, Darrell, Holly, Katie, Kendal, Timmy and Veronica. The Road Rules team ended up winning the final mission.

[edit] Memorable moments

Katie went into two Infernos and won both. She crowned herself "Inferno Queen".
Katie had a huge fight with Veronica, in which Katie called Veronica a "bitch" and a "short, ugly, acne-faced SLUT!!!" In an aside moment, Katie said about Veronica "Go sleep with some more cast members, whore!"
During a challenge in which competitors were suspended high atop two skyscrapers, Julie and Veronica were paired up against each other. Julie needed to pull Veronica off her rope to disqualify her in the hopes that the Real World team would win the mission.(Both competitors were held up by safety harnesses.) Julie tried to grab Veronica by one of her leg extensions to her safety harness, but Veronica wiggled away, saying "Stop molesting my vagina, you f<bleep>ing Mormon." Julie, desperate and angry at the slight, tried harder to knock Veronica off the rope. Veronica said "What? You wanna punch me? You wanna punch me? Come on! Punch me!" Probably because of this, Julie got angry at Veronica and grabbed Veronica by the back of her safety harness and appeared to be either holding on to it to try to pull Veronica off or trying to undo the harness from behind.(There are conflicting stories about exactly what Julie was doing.) Veronica was terrified, screaming "What the f<bleep> are you doing? I f<bleep>ing hate you! What are you doing?" After time expired and both competitors were disqualified, Veronica nudged Julie away and yelled "Are you crazy? You are f<bleep>ing crazy!" Julie said "You are not going to die. Stop crying." When both competitors were safely back on the ledge, Julie insisted to Veronica that she was not trying to kill her and could not undo the harness if she wanted to. Veronica, still shaken and angry, said to her to "shut the f<bleep> up." Veronica then took the elevator to the ground, crying to herself. In an aside moment, Julie insisted that she was not trying to kill Veronica and "if I really wanted to kill her(Veronica) I would have taken out a knife and stabbed her in the heart." Despite this dangerous incident, Julie was neither penalized nor punished for this tactic.
Julie was a victim of Coral's ire, causing Julie to lose her temper one time, telling Coral to "shut her f<bleep>ing mouth". Coral yelled at Julie, telling her to "back the f<bleep> off". When Julie would not, Coral left the room in a huff, telling Veronica that she hoped that her team would send Julie home. Coral then said "I gave her (Julie) a freebie. Next time I make her pay, and I don't take credit cards!" Julie took offense to Coral's attitude, and challenged her to a wrestling match to settle the matter. Coral dismissed her, saying "I don't wrestle, I f<bleep>ing beat bitches up!" amd "Do you know how crazy you look right now, bitch?". When the argument ended and Julie was in another room, Coral continued to berate Julie, saying "She's gonna be leaving this house in a stretcher! I'm gonna be leaving this house in handcuffs!" When Julie was subsequently sent home, Coral openly gloated and laughed.
When Coral was to go into the final women's Inferno, she wanted to pick Katie to have in the final round rather than Veronica. The team voted her down, believing Katie to be a weak member of the Road Rules team and therefore an asset for them.(This was an agreed-upon practice by the Real World team.) Coral -in typical "bitch" fashion- then proceeded to throw a fit, believing she should have received preferential treatment from the practice, even though she was merciless towards Julie for the exact same reason. She then said that she was going to "get" the other members of the team for not allowing her to go up against Katie. The point was moot, however, because Coral won the final life-saver and sent in David in her place.
CT and David knew each other before their appearance on the Real World. David even coached CT before going in for his final interviews.
CT used his life-saver to save his friend David, then sent Shane home in the Inferno.
This season marked the beginning of the tactic of "throwing the mission" in which the Road Rules team would sabotage their own performance in order ensure that the life-shield would go to their hand-picked recipient.
- The first time it was attempted is when Christena was going into and Inferno against Mallory and in an endurance challenge Road Rules was going to let Christena win the Life Saver to send Katie in, however Katie lasted in the endurance challenge longer that Christena did, foiling Road Rules' plan.
- The first time it worked, sending Katie into the Inferno, though Katie beat Julie.
- The third time the team used the tactic, they failed to tell team member Kendal, who ended up winning the lifesaver. Wracked with guilt, Kendal threw herself into the Inferno so that stronger male Timmy would not have to risk himself. Her then-boyfriend Mike was so angry by her own team's manipulation and use of her guilt that during the Inferno, he drunkenly shouted profanities and insults. At the same time, the Real World team had used the Road Rules tactic and threw teammate Leah into the Inferno. CT, the proponent of the plan, was arguing with Leah during the Inferno as well, as if to break her concentration. In the end, Kendal won.
Leah had to be taken to a hospital because she hyperventilated during a mission.
David and Katie ended up dating after this show.