The Real World is een Amerikaanse realityserie van de zender MTV. De serie ging in première op 21 mei 1992.
The Real World gaat over zeven verschillende vreemden die samen voor een aantal maanden in een huis wonen, waarbij camera's hun leven registreren. Ieder seizoen verhuist het programma naar een andere stad binnen de Verenigde Staten. De enige vier seizoenen die zich buiten de Verenigde Staten afspeelden, waren The Real World Londen, The Real World Parijs, The Real World Sydney en The Real World Cancun. De introductie wordt elk seizoen door de zeven of acht huisgenoten voorgelezen:
"This is the true story, of seven strangers, picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped, to find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real. The Real World."
Black, White, And Sunburn All Over (a.k.a. The Great Divide)
As the gang heads to vacation in Martha's Vineyard, it's obvious that there are two camps. While Jason, Genesis and Kameelah hitchhike around the island, Sean, Syrus and Montana play in the house with Elka and have an old-time photo taken. Jason and Kameelah flirt heavily throughout the trip, including a ""show me"" session with Genesis where she sees a penis for the first time…Jason's, of course. Meanwhile, tensions rise and boil over between Sean and Kameelah. Sean finds a nasty note written by Kameelah about Montana and him and calls her on it. Kameelah claims she accidentally left it out. Sean tells Jason that Kameelah is racist and compares her to Hitler. Calling him the ""whitest of white boys,"" Kameelah feels Sean sees her only as a black person and not an individual. She is tired of representing Black America for Sean and eventually has it out with him. Sean feels Kameelah has put a wall up around her and he can't talk to her.