A reason to watch non-Philly ‘Real World’

I finally caught the season premiere of The Real World last night and I have found my reason to watch this year: Svetlana. The 19-year-old (last name Shusterman) is a sophomore biology major from Richboro who totally seems like she should live in Northeast Philly. Like any good Philly resident, she goes to a city school, namely Temple.

Svetlana, who’s been called Slutlana — ho ho! — by another cast member, is the youngest cast member and also the neediest. In the premiere, she walked over to two of the guys and asked them if they wanted to play charades. Charades. A cast member on the show said she was totally a Russian mafia daughter.

She told the Temple News that she “left the experience a new person. The one on the show is not necessarily [one] I like,” although on the show she seemed like hundreds of other Northeast Philly girls I’ve met — uhh, we guys are worse, just in case you were about to fire off an angry letter — although her accent wasn’t that strong.

Anyway, with a nickname like Slutlana and a Northeast Philly girl attitude, she’s clearly the highlight of the show — which includes a guy who walked in with a blow-up doll (hi-larious).

After the jump, a kinda sorta maybe not safe for work clip (if you work in a chapel or a place that doesn’t like cleavage). It’s from the pilot.

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Blogicized: Seriously… Scott Rolen?

• Best baseball promotion ever? The Reading Phillies are giving out pint glasses of former players, including Mike Schmidt, Bob Boone, Darren Daulton, Scott Rolen (Ha!) and Ryan Howard. [Beerleaguer]

• All the Penn kids are excited about O.A.R. playing the school’s Spring Fling. When I find out who O.A.R. is, I will make up my mind on whether it’s a good band choice or not. [Philly Future]

• What Real World: Key West has that Real World: Philadelphia didn’t? A buxom 19-year old who might have mob connections. [SteveSilver.net]

• Pennsylvania got a D+ in mental health (apparently a new subject at school). As one of my college friends said when he got his final grade, enabling him to graduate: “That’s D for Di-ploma!” [The Trouble With Spikol]

Maybe we can call him Dr. Gray

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Dan Gross reports today in the Daily News that, during a special recapping The Real World: Austin Tuesday night on MTV, a female castmember recounted being hit on by “this old guy” while in Costa Rica. (Why The Real World: Austin was in Costa Rica, I won’t speculate.)

“This old guy” turned out to be none other than 76ers great Dr. J. The Doctor wasn’t shown on the episode, which featured footage that didn’t make the cut on regular episodes. The female castmembers rebuffed the advances of “this old guy” — to note, Dr. J is only 55 — and the male castmembers seemed surprised they didn’t welcome his advances. (I imagine the conversation would be something like, “You turned down a hall-of-famer?)

Still, though: The Real World: Austin? Couldn’t he have at least hit on castmembers from America’s Next Top Model? Sigh.

Dr. J strikes out with MTV girls [DN, 2nd item]