Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge is the fourth season of the MTVreality game show, The Challenge (at the time known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge).
Format
Extreme Challenge is the third and final six-on-six Real World/Road Rules Challenge. The cast was split up into two different six-person teams, one representing The Real World and the other representing Road Rules. The teams traveled via tour bus in the eastern U.S. and Europe competing in different challenges. Each time a team won an individual challenge, money would be added to a Monster.com team bank account. The last mission would be for the right to keep the money collected in the pot, an additional cash prize, and a car.
Cast
This was the only season without a regular alumni host/presenter introducing each challenge. Instead, various alumni provided audio clues.
Real World won the final challenge, winning brand new Toyota Celicas. They earned $110,000 with each team member receiving $18,833. For winning the "Human Foosball" mini-challenge, Dan, Julie, and Rebecca received an additional $1,000 for a total of $19,833.
Road Rules lost the final challenge, therefore losing their entire bank. For winning the "Human Foosball" mini-challenge, Christian, Emily, and James received an additional $1,000.
Teams
Rope Course (Ep.2)
Laterrian & Ayanna
Jamie & Kameelah
Human Foosball (Ep. 8)
Yellow Team
Black Team
James
Jamie
Christian
Syrus
Dan
Laterrian
Emily
Kameelah
Julie
Michelle
Rebecca
Susie
Famous Couples Fashion Show (Ep. 14)
Christian & Laterrian
Dan & Syrus
James & Emily
Kameelah & Rebecca
Michelle & Susie
Jamie & Julie
Toyota Motosports (Ep. 17)
Laterrian & Emily
Jamie & Syrus
Memorable moments
The episode entitled "Couple Fashion Show" featured both teams having to dress up as famous duos in a fetish club. This episode has never been aired following its original air date, for reasons that remain unknown.[1]
Episodes
No. overall
No. in season
Title
Original release date
23
1
"A Challenging Decision"
January 9, 2001 (2001-01-09)
24
2
"Blimp Water-Skiing"
January 16, 2001 (2001-01-16)
25
3
"Budding Romance"
January 23, 2001 (2001-01-23)
26
4
"No Laughing Matter"
January 30, 2001 (2001-01-30)
27
5
"Rollerball Resurrection"
February 6, 2001 (2001-02-06)
28
6
"Ayanna's Departure"
February 13, 2001 (2001-02-13)
29
7
"Wrestling with the Past"
February 20, 2001 (2001-02-20)
30
8
"Love and Foosball"
February 27, 2001 (2001-02-27)
31
9
"Yes Sir...I Mean, Yes Ma'am!"
March 6, 2001 (2001-03-06)
32
10
"Leader of the Pack"
March 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
33
11
"The Scariest Mission of All Time"
March 20, 2001 (2001-03-20)
34
12
"Tough Love"
March 27, 2001 (2001-03-27)
35
13
"Grudge Match"
April 3, 2001 (2001-04-03)
36
14
"Good Intentions"
April 10, 2001 (2001-04-10)
37
15
"Downward Spiral"
April 17, 2001 (2001-04-17)
38
16
"True to Himself"
April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24)
39
17
"Race to the Finish"
May 1, 2001 (2001-05-01)
Reunion special
The reunion special, Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge: Cease Fire, aired after the season finale and was attended by the entire cast. It was hosted by Melissa Howard from The Real World: New Orleans and Mark Long from Road Rules: USA – The First Adventure.
Notes
^ abcSusie replaced Ayanna in Episode 7 when the teams arrived in Boston. Ayanna physically attacked Christian in the Road Rules bus after Christian made a joke to Laterrian that Ayanna perceived to be racist. Though the cameras did not capture the incident, and Christian did not want to send Ayanna home, the producers asked Ayanna to leave in episode 6. Susie replaced Ayanna when their casts received their next clue at the Real World: Boston house. The Road Rules team later admitted on the reunion that Ayanna was a more valuable physical asset than Susie.
^In episode 15, a dispute over the Operation Human Shield mission caused an intense argument between James and Syrus. Neither team was awarded $10,000 at the end of that mission, but in episode 16, both teams got the chance to defend their actions in court on the set of Judge Mills Lane. Road Rules, with the exception of Laterrian, decides not to participate, so the judge, Mills Lane, granted the money to the Real World, although he acknowledged Laterrian for his admirable defense.
^Laterrian was honored by the judge and received a small gavel as a token, but there was no official MVP for this mission.
^In Episode 8, the mission had the contestants compete with three Real World cast members and three Road Rules cast members on two different teams. The Yellow team consisting of Christian, Dan, Emily, James, Julie, and Rebecca won the mission and were awarded with $1,000 in cash for each of them.
