The Real World: San Francisco

The Real World: San Francisco
The initial cast of The Real World: San Francisco
Created by	Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray
Starring	Pedro Zamora David "Puck" Rainey Rachel Campos Cory Murphy Pam Ling Mohammed Bilal Judd Winick Jo Rhodes
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	20
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	MTV Syndication
Original release	June 30 – November 10, 1994
Chronology
Preceded by	The Real World: Los Angeles
Followed by	The Real World: London

The Real World: San Francisco is the third season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the second season of The Real World to be filmed in the Pacific States region of the United States, specifically in California after The Real World: Los Angeles.

The season featured a total of eight cast members over the course of the season, as one cast member was evicted and replaced. This is the first of two seasons to be filmed in San Francisco. Twenty years later, the show made a return to the city in the twenty-ninth season, The Real World: Ex-Plosion.

Casting was completed by January 1994, by which time the cast was informed that one of their housemates would be HIV-positive, though they did not learn which one it was until the day they moved into their Russian Hill house, on February 12, 1994. The cast was filmed until they moved out on June 19. The season premiered on June 30 of that year and consisted of 20 episodes.

The Real World: San Francisco is noteworthy for the depiction of Pedro Zamora's struggle with AIDS, and his and other cast members' confrontations with David "Puck" Rainey, which led to Rainey's eviction. This conflict provided considered what Entertainment Weekly calls emotional high points for the season, and are credited with making The Real World a hit, for which it was ranked #7 on Time magazine's list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History. The season is also notable for featuring the first-ever same-sex commitment ceremony on TV, between Zamora and his partner, Sean Sasser.