RW Bio - Puck, San Francisco
The Real World Season 03: San Francisco - Bio - Puck

By Whoopty
5/5/2001

The year is 1969. Half a million people sludge through the mud to experience a four day concert in Woodstock, New York that defines the music of a generation. Senator Ted Kennedy drives his car off a bridge in Massachusetts, killing his young female passenger and insuring that many Americans would never look at Kennedy the same way again. In Washington, D.C., a quarter of a million protesters march to protest the war in Vietnam. And Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step onto the surface of the moon, sending Americans into a frenzy of patriotic pride and wonder at the mysteries of space.

And somewhere in California, little David Edward Rainey is born. How would anyone know that this fresh-faced tot would go on to become THE PUCK?

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America's Sweetheart:
Cute lil' baby Puck

On The Real World's 1995 season, set in San Francisco, The Puck, as the radical, raging, and goshdarned gnarly bike messenger demanded to be called, single-handedly nauseated more basic cable viewers than any other cast member in the show's history until his record was broken in 1999 by Hawaii's Matt/Kaia double-gack-attack. While Puck's shenanigans could occasionally bring amusement (such as the Valentine's Day episode, in which he set up two dates for the big evening), they more often solicited bewilderment, repulsion, and the adoration of frat boys everywhere. Puck had not only been the kind of child who pulled the wings off of butterflies and made farting sounds with his armpit - he had grownup to be exactly the same type of scabby, maladjusted adult. No matter how much you might dislike any of the other San Francisco cast members, you can't help but feel sorry for anyone who ever had to live with a guy so fixated with snot rockets. Well, okay, anyone but Rachel.

Puck's senior prom, 1986.
(Hey, wasn't he supposed to be 23
when the Real World was filmed?)

Eventually Puck was driven from the house by his horror-stricken roommates, the last straw being Pedro's aversion to the prospect of more months of peanut-butter-and-Puck-booger sandwiches (a related incident, in which Cory heartily snarfed down a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby laced with Puck dingleberries, never aired). Butt Munching Pootyheads' cameras continued to follow Puck after his departure, of course, insuring that the fans at home could keep up with the mucous-filled fun for the remainder of the season. After the season ended, Puck fell into blessed obscurity, re-emerging only occasionally to flick boogers on some MTV reunion show or other. According to MTV Online, "Puck continues to pursue a career in modeling and acting and has been seen in national commercials as well as the film Jury Duty." Despite the breathtaking distinction of working with Hollywood legend Pauly Shore, the Puck has since fallen on hard times. In February of 1999, it was reported that he had been in the Los Angeles County Jail since October of the previous year for assaulting his girlfriend, who didn't deserve to be beaten up in spite of the apparent lack of judgement she has exhibited in choosing boyfriends.

Guess it's not so good to fuck the Puck.

Puck shortly before being
beat up by Bjork for
copying her hairstyle.

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