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At this point, we have spent enough time with these people, that the persistent cartoonishness of them has become normalized and faded into the background, like white noise. And so everyone appeared entirely reasonable in last night’s episode. Sure, there were unreasonable moments as well, like when Mike went outside of the gelato shop with his shirt off to lure in customers, or every time Angelina opened her mouth, or Ronnie’s face. But for the most part, people were working hard to find common solutions to their differences! The Situation as The Peacemaker. Snooki as human empathy. The problem, of course, is that no one enjoyed this show for its humanization of clowns. The humanization might have helped some people feel better about why they were watching (“it’s not just schadenfreude and gape-mouthed bemusement, there is real pathos here”), but it was the puerile drama and unapologetic clownishness that was the real appeal. Most of which is missing this time around. I keep waiting for it to shake off its neutered, co-opted, pre-watched VHS tone, but it doesn’t. It’s like Target Presents: Jersey Shore Miami. It’s friendly! And boring! We’re all on board? GTL is an actual thing now, that someone can just say and we’re all like “right, yes, of course, GTL, it’s Friday”? Perhaps the problem as that this show is now without surprise. It’s as if we are watching last season on repeat, but all the fights and duck phones have been edited out. Anyway, I hope Sammi and Ronnie
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I actually watched this show for the first time last night! I made a running list of my thoughts as the show went on, which I will list here:
-Why does this show exist?
That is all.
Nor do I. I have enough greasy Italians in my life
I saw 3 minutes of a show once. It was mostly:
Greasy Guy 1: “What happened last night?”
Greasy Guy 2: “You got really drunk.”
Greasy Guy 1: “Did I threeway kiss some girls?”
Greasy Guy 2: “Yeah, you don’t remember?”
Greasy Guy 1: “You’re supposed to stop me when I get that wasted.”
Greasy Guy 2: “There’s no stopping you, dawg.”
Greasy Girl 1 (just waking up): “blah blah blah” and proceeds to pick morning gunk out of her eyes for all of America to see.
I guess no one realizes I too am a greasy Italian (Sorta, more like MexItalianSpanIrishEnglFrancoNativeAmericano)
Boring fight! Boring Oswalt! Boring Jersey Shore! I smell a trend!
This comment bores me.
I guess we know what Gabe is going to do tonight.
Um, nope.
“…it’s not just schadenfreude and gape-mouthed bemusement, there is real pathos here”), but it was the puerile drama and unapologetic clownishness that was the real appeal.”
Somebody’s making good use of their word-a-day calendar.
Maybe Gabe’s studying for the GRE.
Sookie would be so proud.
that girl is a total grenade!
I like how they all generally accept that sleeping with Snooki, one of their good friends and supposedly part of their “family”, would be the absolute worst. Vinny saying “Did I do the unthinkable, did I sleep with Shnickookerapalees,” I mean Snookie’s going to see that footage right?~Qf
So wait, they all went drinking in last night’s show? Ugh, I always miss the good episodes!!
You were watching the Perseid meteor shower weren’t you!
Oh god, AWESOME as always.
I am upset that I just Googled ‘GTL’. What is wrong with me? I have better things to do.
You and me Both, Lew. Like Laundry and The Gym.
Jersey Shore is my new favorite thing to quietly admit enjoying and then watching as others around me sheepishly admit the same.
At the very least it is a show that makes me feel very, very, very good about myself as a person. Very good.
It’s funny that in the tags, Pauly D has been replaced by Gelato.
Every night I pray that some day I will find a man who will love me, marry me, carry me through the threshold to our honeymoon suite, and ask if he can, in fact, smoosh me. But he will say please, because he is a gentleman and I have married him.
Also, has the Situation ever seen his FACE? Pot calling the kettle ugly, if you ask me.
His face is a difficult situation to understand *horrible pun intended
I don’t believe Snookie and Vinnie actually had sex, unless they were practicing the Mad Men style of banging without removing clothes.