Fist Pumping at MTV’s Joisey Shore

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MTV’s new “reality” show, Jersey Shore premiered last Thursday night. I really didn’t plan on watching it but managed to get my son in bed by 9:30 pm and had some “me time.”  I started surfing at channel 4 NBC, and by the time I got to 42, MTV, it was 10 pm and I was sucked into the train wreck that is Jersey Shore.

The premise of the show is this: four Guidos and four Guidettes will share a beach house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, work at a tee shirt shop, and drink all day. Sounds great doesn’t it?!? Now, for those who raised an eyebrow to the above names, let me help ya out. Wikipedia states:

Guido:
…a younger lower class or working class urban Italian-American. The Guido stereotype is often portrayed as humorously thuggish with an overtly macho attitude and an unyielding pride in his Italian ancestry.

So a Guidette is the female counterpart to the Guido. Both also have a specific fashion style that is a dead give-away. The men wear wife beaters or any type of extremely tight shirt that will expose their buff bodies and extreme tans. Their hair is gelled with maximum hold products and spiked up as high as possible. Their outfits are topped off with: a) tattoos reaffirming their Italian heritage and b) blinding gold/sterling silver neck chains or rosaries. Most Guidos can be found at the local gym, GNC stores, the tanning salon, and at any club that plays fist pumping dance/techno music. The females can be spotted in incredibly tight, body-hugging clothing, towering high heels, and too much makeup. They can be also be found at the tanning salon and the nightclub, except they would be the sloppy broads dancing on top of the bar or stage. They can easily be confused with a stripper or corner whore, so be careful!

It is obvious that MTV picked the cream of the Guido crop because these cast members fit the stereotype to a T! They are all from either North Joisey or one of New Yawk City’s Italian neighborhoods. All eight of them described themselves as a Guido, Guido lover, or Guidette. They looked the part and damn, they definitely talked with that heavy Tony Manero accent.

Once they got to “the Shore”, they went fucking crazy!! Everyone had the required red plastic cup in their hands, shots were taken and inhibitions went flying out the window. In less than 6 hours (maybe, since we don’t know if MTV does retakes of “reality”) clothes were off and one of the girls, Nicole, aka Snooki, was naked in the hot tub with all four douches, I mean dudes. She was sooo drunk that she fell asleep on a hammock on the deck and didn’t notice that everyone went out to the boardwalk. Ah, Snooki, she might be my favorite one in the cast.

I think this is gonna become my guilty pleasure. I don’t watch a lot of reality TV, because it’s not reality, it’s actually scripted (yes, Lauren and Heidi are acting!). Since I usually don’t have a choice of what we watch on TV because it’s either sports or children’s programming, I make sure that I pick quality shows. I am obsessed with Mad Men and Law and Order and anything on the History Channel or the Travel Channel. But once in a while, I like to watch mindless shows, like Flava of Love and Rock of Love. I see the potential in this show: potential for drunken fights, potential regret after hooking up, potential for drama with the female roommates, and potential arrests. Yes, so much potential…

Udothedishes…

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