The Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge

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The Extreme Challenge was the third and last six-on-six Challenge. The casts were split up into two different six-person teams, one representing The Real World and the other representing Road Rules. The teams traveled via tour bus in the eastern U.S. and Europe competing in different individual challenges. Each time a team won an individual challenge, money would be added to an E-Trade account. Each time they won a challenge, they had the chance to invest those winnings in the stock market for the duration of the challenge. The last mission would be for the right to keep the money collected in the pot, an additional cash prize, and a car.

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[edit] Cast

This was the only season without a host of different alumni introduced each challenge.

Real World team:

Road Rules team:

^ Susie replaced Ayanna when the teams arrived in Boston. Ayanna physically attacked Christian in the Road Rules bus after Christian made a joke to Laterrian that Ayanna perceived to be racist. Although the cameras didn't capture the incident and Christian didn't want to send Ayanna home, producers asked Ayanna to leave. Susie replaced Ayanna when their casts received their next clue at the Boston firehouse where the sixth season of the Real World took place. The Road Rules team later admitted on the reunion that Ayanna was a more valuable physical asset than Susie.

[edit] Final results

Team Real World wins their first challenge ever. Both teams took home a profit from their E-Trade challenge.

[edit] Memorable moments

  • Rebecca and James begin a relationship while on the show.
  • This was Julie's first appearance on a Challenge, which marks an aggressive, competitive side to the devout Mormon, which stuns much of the cast.
  • The episode entitled "Couple Fashion Show" featured both teams having to dress up as famous duos in a fetish club. Julie had an emotional breakdown when hearing about the task, because she felt it would conflict with her Mormon beliefs and embarrass her family. She received encouragement from her teammates and ended up performing (and winning) in the mission. This episode has never been aired following its original air date, for reasons that remain unknown.[1] It was on this show that Julie learns that she is in fact being kicked out of Brigham Young University for appearing on the New Orleans season of The Real World.
  • This was Michelle's last appearance on a Bunim/Murray show before being killed in a car crash several years later.
  • After a paintball challenge went awry, both teams were given an opportunity to defend their actions in the court of Judge Mills Lane. Fed up with his team's refusal to defend themselves, Laterrian decided to present his team's case alone. Although he provided a strong defense, he lost because his entire team was required to appear before the court. Laterrian, however, did earn the respect of the judge and was presented the judge's gavel for his efforts.
  • This was the first challenge that the Real World team has won.
  • A mission was hosted by LL Cool J and Chris Klein. That mission involved doing a stunt similar to those done in the 2002 film Rollerball, which was being filmed at the time. Christian won this mission, and ended up winning an uncredited cameo in the film.
  • This was the first Real World vs. Road Rules Challenge where a team (Real World) actually banked $100,000 in their team bank account. It was also the first Challenge in which a team beat the opposing team so badly in the missions, with Real World winning 10 challenges over Road Rules.
  • Jon Holmes made an uninvited cameo appearance during mud wrestling mission in Boston. He was apparently wearing a "Beefy L'Ox" costume from the Monster Wrestling art/performance/comedy/sports group *Kaiju Big Battel , and jumped into the ring during a match between Michelle and a male model. Jon was ejected from the ring by security, as the producers of the show were not previously told by Jon that he would be "pulling this stunt", and all footage of Jon was edited from the episode, except for a brief shot of one of Jon's feet that can be seen briefly in the background. Jon was wearing a pair of white Pumas with red stripes, they can be seen for just a few frames during a close up of Michelle's face during her match against male models. Coincidentally, these shoes were given to Jon by Eric Nies during the Road Rules Season 5/Real World All-Stars competition of the RR Season 5 finale'.'
  • This was the first and only time a there was a mission that was tested beforehand and the contestants got to it, but they couldn't do it because it proved to be dangerous and the producers nixed it at the last minute. The mission was a "human catapult" where there was no safety harness, just protective gear and a net to fall into. A tester broke their leg and another broke an arm.

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