What’s up fellow members of the GFF? Have you guys got your official Jersey Shore Halloween costumes yet? You did? Why?
No no, you look good. Forget I said anything. Bust out your red joints, guys! It’s gonna be a fun guys’ night out!
This episode belonged to Vinny. Always the least douchey of the housemates, Vincenzo totally won my heart this episode with his adorable attempts at impressing his boss at the gelato shop, Enzo. Then he hooked up with Snooki somehow made it seem winning. Or did he? I mean, they had that romantic exchange together (“Wanna fuck?” “Sure.”) but they both looked stone cold and seemed to wake up with their clothes on.
It was not quite as romantic as Ronnie climbing into bed with Sam after bragging to Sitch and Pauly D about groping on that Cuban girl at the club. “Can we smoosh?” he asks her, pleadingly. Gag. I’ve already wrote enough about how Ronnie is a total dickface and Sammi deserves everything that’s coming to her by being a dickface enabler. What I think is interesting is how their actions – which aren’t that different from the first season – have taken a really dark tone. Ronnie is no stranger to getting blackout drunk and acting like a prick, but it’s beginning to look scary unhealthy and not fun unhealthy. Plus the emotionally abusive undercurrents to all the weird little games they play with each other are not funny at all. Bad scene.
More and more the little voice in my head that was silent through the first season is chiming in: “Won’t somebody think of the children?” We are putting fools on a pedestal, it tells me. And though I know we are laughing at these crazy kids, what about all the middle schoolers watching MTV? What do they make of the fact that our culture rewards people who act like this with fame and fortune?
Shut up voice, I can’t hear Angelina! She’s finally admitting to the girls that she talked shit about them. A lot of shit. That’s all they wanted, Angelina. Just admit that you suck and you can all suck together. I’m glad that drama got tied up neatly. The Angelina drama was feeling as old as the Ronnie/Sammi drama.
What else is there to say about this episode? Just another day in the MIA with the MVP supporting the GFF and giving counsel to members of the IFF before they GTL. I love this show!
Stray notes and quotes
Snooki thinks Situation looks like a “dirty old man” with his shirt off. It’s not that simple, but she’s not completely wrong.
“One of the hyenas had him hympnotized!”
“That’s a true pig right there. No offense to Ronnie.”
If I had a Jersey Shore drinking game, everyone would have to take a drink during the inevitable emo song that swells during whatever fight Ronnie and Sam are having and they couldn’t put the bottle down until it was over.
How about MVP running out on Angelina when she turned her back? That was some straight up grade school trickery.
“It goes back to when you thought the Tooth Fairy was alive.”
This show makes me feel oogy and conflicted. Not because it’s another bit of MTV reality artifice I’m sucked into watching. These are real people who, I believe, act this way with or without cameras. I feel oogy because I’m helpless to understand how they all kind of suck as people. But I also feel oogy because part of me thinks The Sitch doesn’t seem like bad guy at all. Vinnie certainly seems fine. Does JWOWW have a good side? Is Sammie more than she’s portrayed as? Does Angelina have a heart underneath that shrill, self-centered annoying-as-fuck exterior? MTV is forcing me to question my assumptions about their TV characters for the first time in 15 years. And for that, I feel defeated and gross.
ANYWAY,
Don’t forget the intro recap exchange between PD and A:
“You’re delusional!”
No, YOU’RE delushmional!”
I’m waiting for the GFF to actually prove they are a bona fide GFF. A season and a half in and still no evidence they’re anything other than a GF.
Oh Sammie. Such a drip. Such an awful drip. So far, shots of her on her bad smothered in blankets while the rest of the house is prepping for fun comprise 97% of her time on camera.
Dave,
Do you know what Vinnie was saying (presumably in Italian) when he doggy-styled the air right before he fell over drunk? Sounded like maybe just some drunk, italian sexy talk.
BONUS:
Apparently there’s an interview with the one and only J420 over at deadspin. Check it out!
@tsw
My interest in this show is forcing me to examine these people as more than cartoon characters and it is a little uncomfortable. I think the same things: could I hang out with Vinny? The Situation doesn’t seem like such a bad guy, despite all his delusions.
Thanks for reminding me! My computer crapped out halfway through and I lost my notes for the first half of the ep. I forgot about Angelina’s non-logic in her fight with Paulie. I love when she went “I have nothing to do with this!” referring to slapping Paulie and then everyone being mad at her for it.
I don’t understand their definitions of grenades. All the girls who deign to follow them back to their hot tub sorta fit in the same category for me.
I have no fucking idea what Vinny was saying. I bet Enzo could tell us.
I totally saw that Jay 420 interview. Seems like a nice enough guy. I can see why Jwoww is buddies with him. Where’s Johnny Yanks, though!?
Sorry, it was Ronnie who doggy-styled the air.
Yes, the grenades. They all seem to fall in the same category and are all of average appearance (by TV standards, anyway). I enjoy their consistently sudden hot-tub revelations about the quality of their ladies.
“I was like whoa, we have grenades!” Really, Sitch? Didn’t notice that 2 hours ago when you brought them back to your house?
This tells me they know their limits and are a little sheepish about not being capable of doing better.