More improv lessons on MTV's 'The Real World'. There was no iO West in last week's show (at least as far as I could tell while fast forwarding through it) but this week the cast had their second class, which was basically a quick montage of, again, solid advice from Charna. "Improv is writing on your feet." "Make characters really you with some extra added information." "When someone's trying to enlighten you or teach, do your best to catch on quickly." Also... if you need to go to rehab, go to rehab.

I'm kind of fascinated by the idea of people trying to figure out improv from these short clips and sound bites.

Again, the cast went to see a show at the theater and again MTV showed about two seconds of it. A blip. Like an establishing shot, or that part in a movie where someone is half-watching TV late at night in a hotel room, and the camera cuts to the TV for a second to show an old fashioned cartoon. Like that.

This week's blip was an improv team on stage slow motion fighting.

I could complain that they're not really, you know, showing improv... but they kind of are. You go to some improv shows... you're going to see some slow motion fighting.