Although the show's goal was to find out what happened 'when people stop being polite, and start getting real,' the show's homes increasingly became over-the-top caricatures of the cities they resided in-fake volcanoes in the Hawaii beach house, ski chairs in the Denver loft, tiki bars in San Diego. The Real World also boasted some serious real estate eye candy. And for a generation of youths and young adults watching the early seasons, the show was a visual introduction into sex, racism, alcohol, religion, and politics. The idea was novel: throw seven strangers into a house for several months and film their every move.Created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, no one in 1992 could anticipate that the scripted reality show would become the longest-running program in MTV history. When 'The Real World' debuted in 1992, reality TV was in its infancy, people used pagers, and MTV still aired music videos.