Looking for advice on how to be on MTV’s “The Real World”?

Ask the Philadelphia season’s castmates, Landon and Sarah, who visited Bar One Thursday night.

“Be yourself,” said Landon. “The casting directors will see right through you.”

Landon said the current season of the groundbreaking reality show is moving toward its original purpose: to present the lives of seven strangers.

“I felt good coming into this season with the seven of us in the house. I think it was similar to the older seasons,” Landon said. “I felt more issues were discussed and they were showing people with stories.”

When the show wrapped up in late August, the seven strangers bonded over having their lives taped. Landon and Sarah agreed the experience made them close.

“I’ve had pretty good friends all my life, but with [my castmates], it’s different because you all go through the filming process together,” Sarah said. “I can really call them my friends who I’ll always be close to.”

“It bonded us because we’ve never done it before,” Landon said.

Sarah said the seven enjoy seeing one another.

“I was with all my castmates yesterday for the first time in a while, and it was great,” Sarah said. “We function like siblings.”

Just as siblings do, the two fought in a recent episode – but forgave each other long ago; that fight was out of sequence from what the audience saw.

“When you see us fight, you don’t see that Landon apologizes 20 minutes later,” Sarah said. “He actually apologized twice.”

Landon said that while most of what is shown on reality TV is true, editing can turn a small incident into an overblown drama.

“Everything you’ve seen up until the last few episodes is pretty accurate,” Landon said. “But you’ve got to keep in mind that it’s a soap opera-slash-reality show.”

Sarah said her portrayal on the show was accurate.

“I take full responsibility for all the episodes,” Sarah said.

Sarah is aware of and embraces the first impressions viewers had of her, she said.

“I know that after the first episode or two, a lot of people got the impression that I was the house slut. If you asked any of the other six of the housemates, none of them would have agreed,” Sarah said. “There is a sexual side to me and sex sells, so that’s what you saw in the beginning. But later on, I thanked the editors … because they showed other sides of me.”

Overall, each agreed the experience changed their lives, and they would do it again.

The duo arrived at the bar at 11 p.m. and were greeted by a small crowd of students eager for autographs and pictures.

“It’s cool they came here,” said Lacey Gones, a junior exercise science major. “They’re really down-to-earth people.”

Female bar-goers flirted with Landon, hoping to get know the reality TV star a little better.

“I think we’d make cute babies together, and I told him that too,” said Alyse Ruggiero, a junior elementary education major. “He’s in love with me and just doesn’t know it.”

Appearing as originally scheduled, Sarah made small talk with those who approached her.

“I like [that they came here] … they seem like people you could party with,” junior accountancy major Aaron Massey said. “I’m upset that Shavonda didn’t come.”

Chris Casey, account executive for StudentCity.com, the Spring Break company the castmates are touring with, said a scheduling conflict caused some confusion regarding whether Sarah or Shavonda would appear on Thursday.

“It was just a big mix-up,” Casey said. “Plans got changed and reversed.”

Casey claimed 500 people showed up at the bar by midnight. An impenetrable crowd of students surrounded Landon and Sarah as they mingled from the bar’s VIP room to the pole in the middle of the dance floor. Not everyone believed the hype was warranted.

“I think it’s insane that everyone is surrounding them; these people aren’t celebrities,” senior communication major Lisa Halverson said. “You or I could be one of them.”