Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno
The Inferno is the eighth season of 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 selected one of the two nominees from the opposing team to go into the Inferno.
Cast
Host: Dave Mirra
Game summary
Episode |
Challenge Winner |
Selections For The Inferno |
Aztec Life Saver Winners |
Inferno Outcome |
# |
Challenge |
Real World |
Road Rules |
Real World |
Road Rules |
Winner |
Loser |
1 |
Grope the Rope |
|
Road Rules |
Ace/Syrus |
Jeremy/Timmy |
|
2 |
Bird Feeder |
|
Real World |
Syrus |
Jeremy |
Syrus |
Darrell |
|
Jeremy |
|
Ace |
3 |
Wreck N' Roll |
|
Road Rules |
Leah/Trishelle |
Holly/Katie |
|
4 |
Climbing Wall |
|
Road Rules |
Trishelle |
Holly |
CT |
Timmy |
|
Holly |
|
Trishelle |
5 |
Disco Domino Derby |
|
Real World |
David/Mike |
Abram/Jeremy |
|
6 |
Balls Out |
|
Real World |
Mike |
Jeremy |
CT |
Veronica |
|
Mike |
|
Jeremy |
7 |
Ultimate Saturn Road Trip |
|
Road Rules |
Coral/Mallory |
Christena/Katie |
|
8 |
Don't Yank My Chain |
|
Road Rules |
Mallory |
Christena |
Mike |
Veronica |
|
Christena |
|
Mallory |
9 |
Come Sail Away |
|
Road Rules |
CT/David |
Abram/Shane |
|
10 |
Bungee Bound |
|
Road Rules |
David |
Shane |
CT |
Holly |
|
CT |
|
Shane |
11 |
Twist And Shoot |
|
Road Rules |
Julie/Leah |
Katie/Veronica |
|
12 |
Balcony Swing |
|
Real World |
Julie |
Veronica |
CT |
Veronica |
|
Katie |
|
Julie |
13 |
Fallen Angels |
|
Road Rules |
David/Syrus |
Darrell/Timmy |
|
14 |
Saturn Valet Ballet |
|
Road Rules |
David |
Timmy |
David |
Kendal |
|
Kendal |
|
Leah |
15 |
Window Washing |
|
Road Rules |
Coral |
Veronica |
Coral |
Veronica |
|
Katie |
|
David |
16 |
Final Burn |
|
Road Rules |
|
- Real World won the challenge.
- Road Rules won the challenge.
- The contestant won the Life Saver and saved themselves.
- The contestant was placed in the Inferno by the Life Saver winner.
- The contestant won the Life Saver and put themselves in the Inferno.
- The contestant was saved by another contestant with a Life Saver.
Infernos
- Ace and Jeremy: Bug Helmet
The contestants put their heads into glass boxes filled with hundreds of cockroaches with syrup covering their face. The player who stays in their box the longest wins.
- Holly and Trishelle: Chili Counter
The player who eats the most chili's in a one hour sitting wins.
- Jeremy and Mike: Human Candelabra
The two players have a candle in each hand while holding their arm's out straight, the player who holds that position the longest wins.
- Christena and Mallory: Noise Pollution
Each player must wear a set of headphones while standing on a two-foot high platform for two hours. If there is a tie, then the players must stand on a four inch block with one leg, the last person standing wins.
- CT and Shane: Don't Toss Your Cookies
The players must eat cookies and drink milk, then get onto a spinning platform for 10 minutes, they continue this until one of the players vomits. The player who does not vomit wins the Inferno.
- Julie and Katie: Scratchathon
Each player is covered in itching powder and must walk on a treadmill for three hours, whoever outlasts there opponent wins. In the event of a tie, each contestant must jump rope, whoever jump ropes the longest wins the Inferno.
- Kendal and Leah: Brick by Brick
The players must transfer their bricks one at a time from one pile to the next, while walking across a plank. Players are disqualified if they drop a brick, break one, or fall off the plank. Whoever has transferred the most bricks at the end of three and a half hours wins.
- David and Katie: Smell You Later
The contestants are each placed into their own plexiglass coffins, after every half hour for the first hour and a half, another layer of bad smelling substances are added to the coffins. At the end of four hours, if both players are still in their coffins, each player must hold their breath in the water, whoever holds it the longest wins the Inferno.
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 won the final challenge.
- Bank Accounts
- Real World - $40,000
- Road Rules - $260,000
Memorable moments
- 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".
- Katie went into two Infernos and won both, eliminating a male player (David) in the process. She crowned herself "Inferno Queen".
- CT used his life-saver to save his friend David, then sent Shane home in the Inferno.
- Leah had to be taken to a hospital because she hyperventilated during a challenge.
- The Road Rules team won every female Inferno and all five females made it to the final.
- A feud broke out between Katie and Veronica, and there was tension between the two throughout the entire show. The rivalry culminated in a very heated shouting match the night before the final mission, and the two almost came to blows.
- Being fed up with what she perceived as bullying, Julie lashed out at Coral and challenged her to a wrestling match, to which Coral remarked, "I don't wrestle, I f*cking beat bitches up!"
- During the Kendal and Leah Inferno, Mike openly berated Kendal, sparking an argument between Katie and Veronica. CT then denounced Leah as weak, and David jumped in the Inferno nude.
- The first mission had the challengers on a zipline. In an attempt to secure a Real World win, Julie began to yank on Veronica's safety harness, sending Veronica and the rest of the challengers into a panic.
- After Trishelle claimed she would physically assault them in a jealous tirade, Coral and Mike voted her into the Inferno, which would result in an argument between Coral and Trishelle later that night.
- Coral became infuriated with her team when they forced her to pick Veronica for the final Inferno.
- The "Bird Feeder" mission saw challengers dress up in chicken suits.
- Julie accused Coral of throwing Mallory under the bus following an Inferno deliberation.
- The Real World called Katie their mascot after she performed poorly in the "Balls Out" mission.
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