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In just a few short weeks, Joey has officially been made The Real World’s most hot-headed, out of control, male cast member in the history of the show.

There may have been more scary cast members in the past, but the way that he was portrayed this past week was beyond scary for his roommates on what has been anything but the productive, career-driven season that we were supposed to get in the show’s 20th version.

After going on one of the most unbelievable drinking sprees every caught on camera, Joey literally became the worst roommate I have every seen in my whole life.

While other Real World cast members have gone on rage-enduced sprees, Joey’s put them all to shame. He threatened the guys (Dave and Greg), along with the girls (Sarah and Kimberly, who apparently has stopped caring about trying to look cute on camera as made obvious by how she just curls up in a blanket with no makeup on all the time). Wasn’t Greg supposed to be the house psycho?

As Joey went around banging his head on everything in site, punching walls, and throwing anything that he could get his hands on in between Tourettes syndrome-like words from Satan coming from his mouth, you wondered if he was somehow going to do something unbelievable, like attack Sarah, this season’s voice of reason. Both Sarah and Kim were fearing for their safety, trying to hide from The Incredible Hulk that Joey had transformed into, while Dave braved the storm and tried to bring the house crazy to some form of sanity.

While Brianna and Will were in Philadelphia trying to figure out the situation with the warrant for her arrest, the housemates were dealing with a suicidal, alcoholic, addiction plagued roommate who is probably the craziest that the show has seen in 20 seasons. After his psycho tirade, the guy slept with his eyes wide open!! Not only did he sleep with his eyes open, but he had no idea what had happened the night before after he woke up the next morning with all the roommates looking at him in total fear.

Some of the people closest to me know that I tried out for The Real World’s 21st season. I turned in an application and they asked me to fill out the extended questionnaire, and I actually received a call back from one of the show’s casting people. While I didn’t make it to the in-person interview, I knew that I was going to be a little too normal for them and I’m positive that it came out during the phone interview.

So yes, I’m not a psycho, but is casting someone who is completely impossible to control a smarter move? Somehow, casting Joey seems like a mistake, but his absence in the house during his 30 day rehab stint could do a lot of good for the house. I’m not at all bitter, but I just feel like Joey is completely insane, that’s all.

However, with rumors swirling that Greg will soon be leaving the house as well, something tells me that the drama and tears are no where near stopping this season. It took me 3 whole days to gather myself to watch another episode of the train wreck that is The Real World Hollywood because of how insanely bipolar Joey has been. Now that he’s out of the house, I’m hoping to learn some more about the other roommates and see how Will is somehow brought to snap considering he is probably the most patient roommate in the house.

And at least Sarah is really cute.

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