22 Best Moments From The First-Ever Episode Of The Real World

"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."

1. This fishtank in the opening scene.

"This is never gonna happen. They can't do this to seven people." Oh Eric, you sweet earnest aspiring male model.

2. When innocent southerner Julie's dad wants her to be a "computer operator."

3. When Julie's dad asks her, "When did you start saying 'butt?'"

Also any time there's a sepia-tinged flashback.

4. This baby.

5. Eric's hat.

6. Kevin's typewriter.

7. When Heather wears her cat.

8. Heather's rap career.

9. Heather's beeper, which sets off the first moment of drama when Julie asks if she's a drug dealer.

10. ...which gets resolved immediately when everyone sits down to politely, reasonably talk about their differences and experiences.

11. How much the entire house loves this book.

12. When Eric can remember his first kiss and can't remember the first girl he had sex with.

Also Eric's earring.

13. Heather's cat again.

14. Norman's dog.

His name is Gouda.

15. When Heather's cat bullies Norman's dog.

16. Becky's breakfast.

Coffee, wine, and a sandwich.

17. This woman who introduces Becky at her never-explained gig.

18. When Norman backhandedly compliments Becky's performance from this bathtub.

19. When they attempt to ride the subway and have to get off because apparently a man got his foot caught in the door of the next car and the train didn't stop.

20. ...and then when Julie (unsuccessfully) attempts to get her subway token back.

21. More respectful discourse about race, background and understanding one another as human beings.

22. When Julie rides away at the end of the episode with this random biker.

Whose friend snickers "I hope she's on birth control." This show is perfect.