Tivo Travails: Real World Edition

 

So I pulled the plug on my season pass to MTV's mainstay, The Real World. How can you top the Dizzy Rooster, I ask? You can't. So Austin is the end of the series' stronghold on the Dabbler's remote control (though any 'Challenge'-style show featuring the likes of the Miz, Trishelle, Danny or Coral will certainly be grandfathered).

Also, a strange fascination with 'There and Back', the Ashley Parker Angel reality series, has developed -- though being in denial, the Dabbler only catches this particular program if happened upon by 'chance', and the former O-Towner will not be granted season pass status.

If anybody has insight into the following matter please pipe in: Ashley calls his bratty fiancee/mother of his child 'Tiff' but in Entertainment Weekly she was referred to as Lynn. What's up with that? And does it creep anybody else out that Ashley calls Tiff/Lynn's live-in mother 'mom'? Or is it just sweet? For a while I couldn't figure out if 'mom' was Ashley or Tiff/Lynn's parent.