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After 11 seasons, this guilty pleasure became a little too guilty for me. The London house had been a dud, and so was Chicago. But they were dull, well-meaning duds. Once the show went to Las Vegas, it never came back from obnoxiousness and self-consciousness. Getting naked, getting drunk, making out in the elevator, Trishelle — it was a season of constant spring-break-like antics. The days of "Real World" poignancy and young-life melodrama were officially dead.