If you watched The Real World: SF, what was your true opinion of Puck at the time?

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unicorn-beard@reddit

Couldn't help but google him - apparently he's had some domestic violence charges, got in a bad card accident driving drunk with his 8 year old kid, stalking charges, etc... YIKES.

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garden__gate@reddit

I was 16 and haaaated him. He reminded me of every douchebag guy in a band I knew. Never mind the fact that he was in his mid-twenties and definitely should have outgrown that BS by that time.

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garden__gate@reddit

The fact that Pedro went on the show to educate people and then had to deal with this small little bully in his final days still makes me mad.

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HerRoyalRedness@reddit

I will never forgive Puck for how he treated Pedro.

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the complete lack of hygiene, picking nose and scabs and sticking those fingers in community food when you’re living with someone with IMMUNE DEFICIENCY is diabolical. Puck was from the Bay Area, he knew what HIV/AIDS meant.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Yesterday my husband had the peanut butter out and I almost stuck my finger in it for a scoop but I told myself not to pull a Puck and grabbed a spoon.

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GrizzlyAdam12@reddit

He dipped his unwashed fingers in Pedro's peanut butter. Pedro had full blown AIDS and a T cell count of like 18.

Pedro couldn't afford to get sic, but Puck didn't give any fucks about anyone but himself.

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BoboTurkey@reddit

Remind me, didn't Rachel want him so bad? (I was like 12 and I seem to remember church girl wanting the bad boy.)

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BoboTurkey@reddit

If true, her stereotype still stands. 🤮

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Biddy_Impeccadillo@reddit

Repulsive creep at the time. I felt a little empathy during the storyline where he found a lost dog and had to give it back to the real owners, but that was it. I could not understand in the least why Rachel was torn during the discussion about whether he or Pedro should move out.

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justsomeyeti@reddit

Fuck everyone that had anything to do with these shows.

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GalaxyRedRanger@reddit

More of a Road Rules guy, eh?

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General_Chest6714@reddit

😂😂

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VectorJones@reddit

It was obvious from the beginning that Puck was the odd man out in the house. The rest of the housemates got along pretty well, until Puck showed up. That's when the tension started to rise and everyone started to get on edge. I was glad when they got rid of him.

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username11585@reddit

I wondered what has happened in his life since then, so I just read his wiki and wow he’s an even bigger asshole than he was on the show. Dude did not mature whatsoever. Multiple convictions for domestic battery on his wife over the years including a felony, drunk driving with no license and gets in an accident where he injures his 8 year old son, and a few years later arrested for felony stalking and he’s on probation and not allowed to leave LA county now. What an absolute asshole. Poor kids.

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moissan2nite@reddit

I’m shocked he’s even still alive.

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General_Chest6714@reddit

The good die young. The rats and cockroaches endure.

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Physical-Name4836@reddit

He was my favorite character. I didn’t get the hate. He was the only one of them being “real”. I think Julie liked him right?

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Ok-Street7504@reddit

I went to grammar school with him, fourth grade. He wasn't the obnoxious person he grew into.

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thepuncroc@reddit

Do you have any strange tales of ProtoPuck?

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juju0010@reddit

I liked him but I was only 10 so I didn’t understand many of the social interactions. I just thought he was cool because he was counterculture and a wildcard.

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Purring4Krodos@reddit

Puck was such a try-hard, edge lord. Totally obnoxious and very inconsiderate.

Hilarious to me that the current transportation secretary and Rachel are married when she used to flirt with Puck. At least she maintains her type.

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MadameLeota604@reddit

Wut… sorry I live in Canada and do not pay attention to the US anymore. This sounds like a Simpsons episode or something.

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MontNasty@reddit

The Simpsons is zany. We're in an unending season of The Apprentice

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nnulll@reddit

For someone who doesn’t pay attention you sure are leaving a lot of comments about the US lmao

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WelcheMingziDarou@reddit

The U.S. is now basically a Simpsons episode, except worse.

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StaceyPfan@reddit

He was on The Real World: Boston and they met when MTV decided to put some Real World cast members on a Road Rules trip.

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Single-Prize5090@reddit

Sean Duffy and Puck are different flavors of douchebag. Rachel has a type.

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boredlady819@reddit

omfg 🤯

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higglesworth@reddit

Snot rockets

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Roscoe_Farang@reddit

Peanut butter fingers

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PurplishPlatypus@reddit

He was gross. My favorite was I think it was Boston? With Stephen and the girl who had Lyme disease and acted crazy, Irene maybe? And she left the show and he slapped her face as she drove away. Love the drama.

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strange_stars@reddit

Puck might genuinely be one of the most universally disliked people I can think of who isn’t like a war criminal or something

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cbih@reddit

There was that asshole from Survivor too

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Cephalopod_Dropbear@reddit

What the hell’s wrong with Dave Bickler???

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bluev0lta@reddit

Richard Hatch?

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BIIIIIID-@reddit

FNF

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NicWester@reddit

Johnny Fairplay, I think.

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fictionalbandit@reddit

Fairplay’s grandma lie was iconic

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kathatter75@reddit

God how I hate that man.

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PreciousRoy666@reddit

Nah, that shit was brilliant

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bluev0lta@reddit

I didn’t watch that season, but I did just read about what he did and sounds right!

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twobootsranch@reddit

Yeah he made a career out of being on different reality shows and being a villain. Was on deal or no deal island last year and won I think.

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Solo4114@reddit

Yeah, I don't know how anyone doesn't end up with "This guy seems like a real asshole" after watching him.

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HAL_9OOO_@reddit

That's mostly true, but he was also the reason that people watched the show. The Real World changed television and Puck had a hand in that.

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strange_stars@reddit

Well yeah but that’s just all the more reason to hate him lol

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

💯 Puck is the OG reality TV agitator/villain. He walked so Tiffany “New York” Pollard could run.

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Impossible-Taco-769@reddit

Just like her bullshit, she hasn’t aged well. But Puck was a different kind of douche bag. The worst part: he has kids.

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Debbie-Hairy@reddit

He was a dick.

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Godawgs1009@reddit

Hated that fuck

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yungrii@reddit

I remember thinking he had kind of a cool punk vibe.

Then I grew up a little and realized he was just an attention seeking ass.

It's almost shocking that he isn't relevant at this crazy time of whoever can be the biggest asshole wins.

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

This show is the reason I can't take Sean Duffy seriously. I've seen that dude drunk on The Real World.

Now, he may be a genius (though I seriously doubt it since he's working for this current administration), all of those former actors/musicians/entertainers who get into big politics may have degrees upon degrees, but I just can't with Duffy.

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cidvard@reddit

I was a Real World fan but came to it a little too late for the legend that is RL: San Francisco. That season in general is legendary and from watching it in syndication actually lived up to the 'put a bunch of really different people in a house and see them get REAL.'

Also, Puck was a trash human.

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a-ha_partridge@reddit

He put his finger in Pedro’s peanut butter and I never forgave him.

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FestiveArtCollective@reddit

The first episode, I remember thinking he was cool but that changed very quickly. He was disgusting and so disrepsectful. He would do things like eat from the communal peanut butter straight from the jar with his unwashed fingers. The way he treated Pedro and tried to isolate him from the rest of the roomates was evil. I remember he also shot snot rockets on the ground so often that they made a compilation. Just a vile person.

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Few-Temperature7219@reddit

Made good TV by design

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caramelcoldbrew@reddit

Grode.

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kibfib@reddit

And scrode.

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Aimsicle-1@reddit

To the max

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EdwardRoivas@reddit

Great word

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BlueProcess@reddit

Honestly I had forgotten this person existed. Even now I just recall that it being a name that I was aware of and disliking the person attached to the name. But I don't remember why. But I didn't really watch those kind of shows.

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PSN-Colinp42@reddit

Messing with Pedro’s peanut butter? Unforgivable.

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Background_Ad2778@reddit

He put his finger in the peanut butter!

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ComeFromTheWater@reddit

Every white person on that show called Pedro “Perro” in an attempt to pronounce his name like a native speaker and they completely butchered it.

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wilko_johnson_lives@reddit

Unless it was intentional and meant to be doubly offensive

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Take-it-like-a-Taker@reddit

The twenty-something’s of the late nineteen hundreds were satisfied with good intentions. They wouldn’t have learned the word irony until 1995, and it would be several years after that for them to understand it.

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publiusrex888@reddit

Nobody eats Bob Dole’s peanut butter without asking

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MonkyKilnMonky@reddit

Bob Dole loves peanut butter. Never made a secret about that!

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rogue54321@reddit

He was my favorite. Mentally unstable lunatic but made it interesting

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PropertyTraining4790@reddit

As a 13 year old bike punk I was extremely excited for the representation when this season debuted, then I realized soon after he was literally a man child with poor judgment and lack of empathy, then I was over it.

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USAF_Retired2017@reddit

He was so gross.

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chillybew@reddit

i read the book Cue The Sun about the creation of reality tv and it talked about him. he was truly the POS he was in the show - maybe even more so in real life. so much so that the producers still feel guilty about putting him on TV

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bloodpriestt@reddit

I was a 16 year old hesher in redneck country, and everyone I knew thought Puck was awesome.

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deadmeat6@reddit

Weird Beard!

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mistermorrison@reddit

Fucking asshat, that guy

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sneezhousing@reddit

I hated him at the time. He was so gross and mean

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Texas_Mike_CowboyFan@reddit

snot rocket

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strange_stars@reddit

I used to hate him. I still do, but I used to, too.

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HeyBird33@reddit

r/unexpectedhedberg

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Quiet_Ordinary7289@reddit

Around 1998 or so, some cast members from various seasons of the Real World came to my college for an event. Puck was in prison at the time, but Rachel was there. She gave out his mailing address, saying Puck would appreciate mail while in prison. I cringe looking back at this time…but I was pen pals with Puck for awhile. He would not answer any questions about why he was in prison. He requested postcards of girls in bikinis and often asked that I make my letters “smell nice.” Ew.

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C_est_la_vie9707@reddit

I thought he was a disgusting POS.

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MrFMF@reddit

He was awful. Not even awful TV person that makes good TV.

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a_phantom_limb@reddit

I was also thirteen, but I couldn't stand him. I was a sensitive, nerdy kid, and he rubbed me the wrong way from the start. But once he started drama with Pedro, I wanted him to go away forever.

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MudOpposite8277@reddit

He came back with his tattoos blazin’

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defective_toaster@reddit

Insufferable. The general population fawning over him was a sign of the brainrot to come.

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NotBornYesterday420@reddit

He was a pos

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lll_lll_lll@reddit

Ok I will go against the grain, I thought he was an interesting character and added a lot to the show.

I remember his scenes of urban biking were so cool to me as a child, and I ended up spending 2 decades doing similar biking in nyc myself.

Having said that I would not want to hang out with him.

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EmperorGrinnar@reddit

I'm too young to know anything other than one thing. The only thing I remember from that show: he would stick his fingers in the peanut butter and just lick them clean. Probably several times in one sitting. It made other people mad, and honestly pretty gross if it's communal food.

I wanna say I was like 7 or 8 when that was still on. I do still think of this tidbit every so often when I'm in the kitchen.

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deadcells5b@reddit

He's a piece of shit and always has been

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tomato_soup_noodles@reddit

Sociopath

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FionaGoodeEnough@reddit

Gross.

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Salt-N-Vinegar-Lover@reddit

He was ahead of his time. To me this is when “reality tv” truly began. You see the influence of Puck reverberate with so many influencers, because his style of confrontation has been replicated and expanded on in countless shows and online since. Puck found the formula that got eyeballs, and the producers knew they stumbled on a type of person that could propel shows further and longer with an almost bad-faith antagonist. I hate him.

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Delicious_Tea3999@reddit

He was the perfect example of that kind of crusty slacker everybody knew at the time. Overconfident, probably smarter than he seemed, funny a lot of the time, but also disgusting and rude the other times. Basically, the show’s version of Pauly Shore or the prototype for Jackass. It was brilliant casting, really, but I’ll always dislike him for how he treated Pedro

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FungiStudent@reddit

You're way off base with the Pauly Shore comment.

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Delicious_Tea3999@reddit

“The show’s version”

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likeusontweeters@reddit

the show’s version of Pauly Shore

Don't you dare slander Pauly Shore that way... he's always been about being a Buuuud-dy to others

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Delicious_Tea3999@reddit

Pauly Shore was a lovable rascal on screen and a well known asshole off screen. Idk what he’s like now

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YeetThermometer@reddit

Just missing the “but with a heart of gold” twist.

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FajitaTits@reddit (OP)

There's a guy on Instagram who does these videos where he plays a character exactly as you just described and it's hilarious. PhatWes I think is his screenname on there.

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rarselfaire2023@reddit

"They're showing me this douche when they could be playing music?"

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No_Cow_4544@reddit

This was before scripted reality was known to the general public. The producers needed a villain to make things more interesting to the viewers. Some things were done on his own and some forced by the show . Reality TV is the absolute worst . I did watch that season though .

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sleepsymphonic@reddit

Puck was the candle that burned to brightly in terms of Real-World villain-y. Rachel Campos is the actual real-world long-term villain. Especially when she joined forces with Sean Duffy.

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outofthegates@reddit

Didn't really have an opinion back then, but I'm shocked he's not on Fox/in the administration.

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idkidc28@reddit

Shh don’t give them any ideas.

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the_amazing_spork@reddit

Pedro was a pretty influential person to me. He was the first gay guy I ever “met”. I was in my early teens, grew up Southern Baptist. He definitely blew apart stereotypes I held at the time. I was sad when he passed. I wanted him and his husband (I think his name was Sean) to have that story book ending. I hated Puck for being such a dick to Pedro.

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wrenwood2018@reddit

Same.

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wrenwood2018@reddit

Hated the dude but he was entertaining.

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Roaminsooner@reddit

He was an asshole

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Winthefuturenow@reddit

He was a good template for who not to be.

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Immediate-Agency6101@reddit

entitled instigator white horrible

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DaikinYB@reddit

The absolute worst. A garbage human being.

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MoonlitBlossoms@reddit

Puck was just.. gross. Gross, rude and seriously I could understand why the others had a hard time around him. I couldn’t imagine living with the guy. He was just so very disrespectful.

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NicWester@reddit

My thoughts in 1995: What a piece of shit.

My thoughts in 2025: What a massive piece of shit.

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cubanito_nj@reddit

I was also 13 and I thought he was a dikkkkkkkk. Luckily I never admired any bullies thanks to my dad teaching me to never punch down.

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CaptianBrasiliano@reddit

I don't remember liking any of them particularly much. But Puck, asshole that he was, did seem like the most "Real," person on The Real World.

This show kind of represents the beginning of the end for me. In the years following this I really came to hate reality TV. Like I thought it was just neither reality or entertainment even... It was just Bleh.

I always knew something bad would come of it but, I didn't realize the full implications. Here we are today with a bunch of kids who grew up on it, and with social media being an absolute fixture of their lives from day one. Insta, TikTok, Reddit, Facebook and whatever else is more real to them than actual reality and... Look where we're at... We even have a Reality Show President who's just fucking our country relentlessly, day after day and he just says Everything's going great! and enough people accept it, despite obvious evidence to the contrary because it's what they want to believe. We've entered the age of Hyper Reality where nothing is really real anymore. And it's scary and dystopian.

OK, rant over.

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bluev0lta@reddit

It’s been 30ish years and I still remember that he was obnoxious.

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KittenUp@reddit

He was gross and shot snot rockets everywhere.

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PuzzleheadedAbies678@reddit

gif

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Blubbernuts_@reddit

Loathe

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soopirV@reddit

Shit, haven’t thought about this guy in decades…where is he now?

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MyageEDH@reddit

Thought he was a douche but man that was good TV.

Thought that show was better before they gave them the job where they had to work together. They didn’t have a reason to try to get along and fake. Seemed more real.

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SevyVerna88@reddit

Fucking jerk-off

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JamarcusFarcus@reddit

You Eskimo bother to our current Secretary of Transportation, Puck?

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NimbexWaitress@reddit

I hated him and his boogers were disgusting

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Beneficial-Sky946@reddit

He was an asshole and briefly dated the wife of our current Republican transportation secretary…checks out 😏

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lsp2005@reddit

He was an absolute AH. I found no redeeming qualities in the person he played on the real world. I have no idea if he was that way in real life.

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EternalSunshineClem@reddit

Couldn't stand that loser prick, terrorizing Pedro in his final chapter

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cloudydays2021@reddit

He grossed me out in so many ways. I hate that he is remembered more than Pedro.

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twodexy82@reddit

Such a dummy

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Sea_Ganache620@reddit

Jerk.

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

Puck was the absolute worst. If you were to look up douchebag in the dictionary, you see a picture of Puck next to it.

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Horror_Garbage_9888@reddit

The first media troll. RW was pretty popular by the third season and Puck used the opportunity to make a name for himself. I’m not sure how much of an asshole he was in real life but he definitely turned it up in front of the cameras.

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blove135@reddit

Had a few "friends" just like Puck. It was interesting see someone on TV that was like them.

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Fraggle_Rockers@reddit

He was alright, but grossed me out with his snot rockets!!!

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randomhero1980@reddit

He was dirty, like not hygiene literate.

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PopCultureOlogist@reddit

At the time - detested him. If it aired originally in today’s world - wouldn’t be a blip on the radar.

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Forward_Damage4779@reddit

Dirt bag

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

He wasn’t the first puck that crossed me in the 90’s.

But he was the only one I didn’t hit as hard as I could with a hockey stick.

And I’m still disappointed I never got the chance.

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AngryVegetarian@reddit

Puck was a complete asshole and relished in making people upset!

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Letsgogehls@reddit

I have to admit, I didn’t 100% understand what was happening in the moment. I thought he was cool and maybe a bit misunderstood.

On rewatches over the years (not streaming, like rerun marathons that MTV used to do). Even only a few years later, I had matured enough to actually understand the situation and I couldn’t stand him.

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Dwayne_@reddit

Insane that he banged the secretary of transportation’s wife, legit bad person.

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PuzzleheadedMud6028@reddit

nasty

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garygnu@reddit

Fucking disgusting dick.

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Greybinson@reddit

I couldn’t stand him. Tried way too hard. I was 13 or 14 whether aired and I just remember him annoying me whenever he was in screen. I think he tried to redeem himself at one point but he was just obnoxious

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sassyfontaine@reddit

The worst! So gross.

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nola_mike@reddit

I was 11 and I hated him. I'm 42 now and still hate him.

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KopitarFan@reddit

I hated him. He was fun at first but became obnoxious really fast. I don’t blame them for kicking him out

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Sodamyte@reddit

Then as now, I found him an insufferable prick that didn't deserve the spot he was given.

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onwardtomanagua@reddit

I thought he was a dick.

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skornd713@reddit

gif

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The_BSharps@reddit

Eeeeeewwww

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Insufferable piece of shit.

Seems like he continued this trend after the Real World as well.

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Top_Jump_6387@reddit

Could not stand him.

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impeesa75@reddit

Dick

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TehPatch@reddit

People blame the Harambe assassination for the darkest timeline, I blame Puck.

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The_BSharps@reddit

You can’t convince me he wasn’t involved in some way with Harambe’s death.

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OldCreezy@reddit

Huge douche. I remember it well.

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vetiverbreath@reddit

Puck was a fuck.

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

I did not care for Puck.

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Creampuffwrestler@reddit

A giant piece of shit and the moment I knew MTV was all about selling the drama and not at all about “keeping it real”

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481126@reddit

He's the type of guy we all know that guy who is an asshole but swears he's simply being authentic or real. He was also gross. Dudes like that are just icky and then act hurt when people don't want to be around them.

Only thing that saved him is when he drank Blue Kool-Aid bc it looked like Windex.

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DoctorFenix@reddit

Puck was every 20 year old at the time.

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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

I thought he was a loser and a massive tool. As I got older and he'd pop up in other places, I was vindicated. Meth trash.

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PhoneJazz@reddit

He was basically the OG Reality Villain. Total heel.

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Jebgogh@reddit

I worked in LA at a travel agency at the time after this came out. He was living in LA and had a manager we worked with so I got to know him a little bit from that. I would deliver him tickets to a place he was renting in Hollywood adjacent (not a great area) and it was like visiting a dealer. There was never a simple hand off. I would ring doorbell and hope no answer so could leave at the door but he was always there. He would invite me in and would have to discuss the tickets the trip smoke a joint and drink a bit before I could go. He often seemed like he was bogarting the “better” stash and doing himself as he always seemed twitchy and edgy. The place he lived in seemed like it never got cleaned and looked like a smoke house without graffiti. He was alone except one or two times and those people did not seem like real friends but party friends. Seeing your post made me remember how he was always being “puck” and it must have been exhausting looking back. But he wasn’t a good guy. I (a male) got the job if delivery ticket boy cause the 2 girls in the office did not want him in. He made passes at them both within short visits to the office. He made his bed and laid in it.

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