This show has caused a lot of controversy. It's about a group of young adults who rent a house at Seaside Heights, a prime shore resort town, in New Jersey. It has a group of young people who are truly like the spawn of the New Jersey housewives. They have self-described themselves as "Guidos" and "Guidettes" which is an insult to Italian Americans. If I was Italian American, I would have been insulted by the NJ Housewives show. This group of young people are as desirable as lice. They have nothing to do but party, get tattoos, and hang out at the Jersey Shore. The men remind of Albie and Chris Manzo from the NJ Housewives show. They have nothing better to do. There is one good thing to come out of this mess. That is that Seaside Heights might profit next year as a tourist hot spot for young people. I'll probably have a hard time getting a parking space. I prefer the Northern Jersey Shore at Sandy Hook which doesn't have or need a Boardwalk and is a national park with a clothing optional section (Gunnison Beach). I don't go to that beach. If Seaside Heights prospers from it's sudden celebrity, good for the town. It's just bad that the young people on this show aren't that interesting to me.
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Absolutely ridiculous.....and I loooove it
angelbaby38385 August 2011
Reading these reviews just makes me laugh as much as the show does. Most reviewers on here have a trend in thinking that it is idiotic and unintelligent therefore it must be horrible. Whatevs!! LOL...If you want to watch something intelligent and mind inducing, watch Discovery Channel, History Channel, or National Geographic. This show was intended to be ridiculous. Its meant to be a "dramedy" if you will. For some reason people tend to think that America's youth will see them as some sort of idol and want to be like them...doubtful! I know TONS of people who watch this show and none for the purpose of watching their heroes on TV. Its mindless, entertaining, crap! I LOVE IT! I have a full time government job and am currently in school majoring in Political Science and International Relations with intentions of applying to law school at the end of next semester. I am by no means a fool, but lets face it, you can only be serious and "intellectual" for so long. Everyone needs a guilty pleasure!! I think people need to get the stick out of their butts and take this show for what it is. Ridiculous, mindless entertainment to help you laugh off a rough, serious day. All the people who are too "mature" and "serious" need to take a chill pill. Just get ready to fist pump until your arm falls off because ITS T-SHIRT TIIIIIMMMMEEE!!!!
Amusing and Trashy!
gabby0801 November 2013
So far I've seen about 6 or so episodes. Because I haven't seen the beginning, I had no idea what this show is all about. I'm still not sure. Obviously its meant to be reality T.V. but not really. In an everyday situation, I honestly don't see these people all really wanting to live together except for the guys (maybe), but I guess that's what the show is all about. The guys are cocky and are always on the lookout for easy sex. The women are shockers. Snooki is a mess. Jenni 'Jwoww' is vicious, Deena is a total loser, Sammi and Angelina are the only two who deserve any credit. They are the only two with any real human qualities. I can't see where this show is going. The drinking, partying, silly dancing, over exposed boobs, arguing, punch ups... its all amusing. I'm not bored with it yet, but i'm sure i'm not far off that point. Seriously, these people are all getting a bit old for this kind of stuff. 3 out of 10 for the amusement factor. LOL!
disturbing and sad
mythstate4 October 2010
I checked this show out because I heard it was about a group of young New York/ New Jersey Italian Americans living together. Being one myself, I am ashamed of these people and how badly they treat one another. I checked in about half way into season 2. One of the roommates, who was not well liked by everyone, decided to leave after being tormented throughout the entire season. I'd say that was about the smartest move any one of them made.
I don't think I've seen so much outright abuse and calculated disparagement amongst any group of people, ever.
Nice going MTV - go ahead and encourage bad behavior and verbal abuse amongst young adults. Show fighting, swearing, drunkenness, lies and manipulation as being cool and in amongst young adults in their 20s over and over again so other young people can act just like that thinking its something to capitalize on.
I don't think I've seen so much outright abuse and calculated disparagement amongst any group of people, ever.
Nice going MTV - go ahead and encourage bad behavior and verbal abuse amongst young adults. Show fighting, swearing, drunkenness, lies and manipulation as being cool and in amongst young adults in their 20s over and over again so other young people can act just like that thinking its something to capitalize on.
A documentary about a particular group of people I truly hate.
nickreaper16 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Jersey Shore....oh where to begin. I'll sum up the show from a first person perspective. I live a good 50 - 75 feet from the Jersey shore, and every summer we're treated to some vacationers from Pennsylvania, north Jersey, and New York. Our benefactors, if you will. For the most part, these people are considerably normal and don't cause any disruption or annoyance, but there are some people, mainly from the cities (or burros) of Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Newark, who are worse than the common fraternity brother, or fratboy, or, as for the females, worse than your typical jezebel, or slut. These people are usually in their early to mid 20's, their bodies covered in tattoos, skin spray tanned orange, men have nasty spiking hairs and steroid induced muscles, women are wearing very revealing clothing and they all act like meatheaded morons who only know beer, drugs, sex, and violence. Guidos, if you will. I often deal with these people up front, as I watch them destroy my town with their antics. A fair amount of the trash talking, and joking about what a "f**ked up" place it is comes from these people. So let me give you a short bio of the show, guidos come to New Jersey, trash the place, then get their own TV show, and then New Jersey gets joked about because of it, only because people don't bother to do the research to know that most of the cast isn't even from New Jersey! Does that sound fair? NO! I won't stand for this, the people who ruin my home town, and those surrounding, who pass out drunk in the streets, urinate in public, start fights, break stuff, They get their own show, on a famous network live MTV, and kids will watch this and think "hey that looks like fun, i should go to the jersey shore and do that!" In the end, the show is nothing more than a glorified documentary about the guidos who destroy my home state, who i have to deal with first hand. And it's been called "awesome"....It makes me sick to my stomach. It'll pass, but, no matter what, it will always be New Jersey that's the joke, the victim of the situation, and not the cause. Politicians from New Jersey forever damned to not be taken seriously by any others. And nonstop jokes about New Jersey from people who probably haven't even ever been to the state. Kids will look up to these people and think they're cool. Adults will find it entertaining and laugh at it when it's really quite sad, and to us, the citizens of New Jersey, the people who actually live there, will be forever enraging. And when people say they love the show, in the words of James Rolfe, "That brings my p!ss to a boil"...I hope you guidos are proud of yourselves.
Mindless. Mind-numbing. Mind-altering!
Art-Vandeley28 April 2010
I accidentally paused while channel surfing and couldn't believe the depths of this show. Drivel. Mindless. Mind-numbing. Mind-altering! But.... oddly alluring. Like the altered state you achieve after being kicked in the groin one too many times (is once not too many? Tune in and find out!), I was transfixed, until the automatic desire to both breathe and flex some muscles kicked in and I was able to get the hell out of there.
It is truly, TRULY awful. How many times need we say this - just what is wrong with people that they think their lives are enriched by going on shows like this?
It is truly, TRULY awful. How many times need we say this - just what is wrong with people that they think their lives are enriched by going on shows like this?
A Sad Representation of (New Jersey) Youth
lambiepie-21 January 2010
As a transplanted New Yorker who spent years in South Jersey while growing up; I am ashamed of this addition to its so-called reality programming roster for young people.
This show does seem like something The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel or Animal Planet should be showing. But MTV Networks thought it would be entertaining to show the social retardation and animalistic behavior of these humans raised in this little area by a shore in New Jersey. Understand it's not all of New Jersey, and it darn sure is not indicative of all Italians in New Jersey or living by an 'affluent' shore. (Sorry, I grew up in New Jersey and to this day, I'm still trying to find an 'affluent' shore. Who's kiddin' who here?) An example: New Jersey young women of 30 years ago had problems trying to find out what it is about them that makes them beautiful, wanted, intelligent factors of humankind. To be more than just punching bags, breeders and dolls for their husbands to parade around. 30 years later, this particular enclave never got the word or winds of change. Loooks like those women grew up, married the men that ticked them off and had children and here we go again. Same cycle. These young adults will have children too and 30 years from now you can bet...same cycle. This is appalling.
I would guess that the most boring show in the world to air on MTV Networks (et. al) right now would be the exploits of a teen trying to get into college (with no sex or violence involved) and the trials of trying to get that sheepskin; or a teen having to take a meaningless job instead of going to college as they wished. But maybe MTV should rethink that because this kind of programming for young people should cease. It's not helping them to understand each other. It's not helping them to love a fellow human being or accept them poor - or fat - or just regular. It shows them that young people have to have an ethnic label; they have to live in grandiose style in the lower middle income of areas. It's showing them how to become animals and fight over that piece of steak someone..like from MTV for example...tells them it is Kobe but is actually Kangaroo meat. And it's teaching them how to laugh at abuse instead of reporting it. It's showing them how to be verbally abusive as well as mentally and physically. And its showing them all this gritty behavior, promiscuity, violence, etc. is all okay as long as people laugh at it and you're on TV which makes them think they're the next Spencers or Kardasians or Hiltons instead of the next clowns.
Bottom line, its showing youth that you have no real value to each other or anyone else: male, female or otherwise. A terrible show among other terrible reality shows geared to young adults.
This show does seem like something The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel or Animal Planet should be showing. But MTV Networks thought it would be entertaining to show the social retardation and animalistic behavior of these humans raised in this little area by a shore in New Jersey. Understand it's not all of New Jersey, and it darn sure is not indicative of all Italians in New Jersey or living by an 'affluent' shore. (Sorry, I grew up in New Jersey and to this day, I'm still trying to find an 'affluent' shore. Who's kiddin' who here?) An example: New Jersey young women of 30 years ago had problems trying to find out what it is about them that makes them beautiful, wanted, intelligent factors of humankind. To be more than just punching bags, breeders and dolls for their husbands to parade around. 30 years later, this particular enclave never got the word or winds of change. Loooks like those women grew up, married the men that ticked them off and had children and here we go again. Same cycle. These young adults will have children too and 30 years from now you can bet...same cycle. This is appalling.
I would guess that the most boring show in the world to air on MTV Networks (et. al) right now would be the exploits of a teen trying to get into college (with no sex or violence involved) and the trials of trying to get that sheepskin; or a teen having to take a meaningless job instead of going to college as they wished. But maybe MTV should rethink that because this kind of programming for young people should cease. It's not helping them to understand each other. It's not helping them to love a fellow human being or accept them poor - or fat - or just regular. It shows them that young people have to have an ethnic label; they have to live in grandiose style in the lower middle income of areas. It's showing them how to become animals and fight over that piece of steak someone..like from MTV for example...tells them it is Kobe but is actually Kangaroo meat. And it's teaching them how to laugh at abuse instead of reporting it. It's showing them how to be verbally abusive as well as mentally and physically. And its showing them all this gritty behavior, promiscuity, violence, etc. is all okay as long as people laugh at it and you're on TV which makes them think they're the next Spencers or Kardasians or Hiltons instead of the next clowns.
Bottom line, its showing youth that you have no real value to each other or anyone else: male, female or otherwise. A terrible show among other terrible reality shows geared to young adults.
What the hell?!
Timothy_M_Nolan9 March 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I guess it is true when they said the cancer of Reality TV killed the actor & this is an exception.
I don't know if the Sumner Redstone & the MTV execs like creating Trash TV such as this. It's the fall of creativity & the rise of stars who become famous for doing nothing era in the TV business.
To be precise, Jersey Shore is more of an embarrassment to our society. It's showing not only Italian-Americans but also how ignorant half of the countries population can be when they are put on TV for being without any acting abilities or schooling. Is this how anyone can get famous now? For doing zero? Nothing? Zip? This is one viewer who won't on the Jersey Shore wagon, I'll forget it even exists, controversial or not.
I don't know if the Sumner Redstone & the MTV execs like creating Trash TV such as this. It's the fall of creativity & the rise of stars who become famous for doing nothing era in the TV business.
To be precise, Jersey Shore is more of an embarrassment to our society. It's showing not only Italian-Americans but also how ignorant half of the countries population can be when they are put on TV for being without any acting abilities or schooling. Is this how anyone can get famous now? For doing zero? Nothing? Zip? This is one viewer who won't on the Jersey Shore wagon, I'll forget it even exists, controversial or not.
pure entertainment for so many reasons you wouldnt even think
mattmalinov23 January 2018
These people are so disconnected from reality that they put themselves in these situations to create unnecessary drama. its fascinating to watch these people fail at being adults because they lack common sense. two of them are almost thirty years old in the show's first season, and they lack just any kind of rational thinking. its amazing. absolutely hilarious show on every single level, even when its not trying to be.
Hilarious trash tv
NicoleL8816 April 2019
I can't believe it only has a 3.6 rating. Sure it's no Game of Thrones but this is binge worthy, trash tv at its finest. Think Friends but everyone's drunk and arguing 70% of the time. It's hilarious, and always cheers me up. I love it!
Makes me embarrassed to call myself even partially Italian.
Oranges5641 August 2010
As I was scrolling through the comcast guide I saw this on MTV. I usually don't watch MTV but I had seen this parodied on SNL multiple times so I thought I'd check it out. I gave it 15 min and was mortified at these self absorbed idiots who pride themselves on Italian heritage. It was funny to watch them be idiots, but they shouldn't be rewarded for this behavior.
In all fairness I gave it another shot and watched a different episode. I admit I laughed at them but was still disgusted at their behaviors. Entertaining to someones who's not in the mood to think and just laugh at the losers. But the show all in all is trash and makes me embarrassed to call myself Italian.
In all fairness I gave it another shot and watched a different episode. I admit I laughed at them but was still disgusted at their behaviors. Entertaining to someones who's not in the mood to think and just laugh at the losers. But the show all in all is trash and makes me embarrassed to call myself Italian.
Best reality show there has ever been
theshny099 November 2019
I'm Scottish and had never heard of a guido before until I watched this show. At first I was disgusted at their vulgar antics, lack of class and drunken behaviour etc and decided to turn it off. But one night I was bored and decided to watch it again.. once you get to know the individuals and their personalities It's actually thoroughly entertaining! Some of them are surprisingly intelligent and very heartwarming. I became hooked on every season and fell in love with the cast. Yes there's booze, fights, drama, fake tans but once you get passed all that it's a very interesting observation of young people and growing up. It's about friendship and growth. There's also some very entertaining episodes and one-liners, heart warming and sad moments. Give it a chance before judging harshly
A Revelation
elizawallace25 January 2020
Season one of Jersey Shore is the pinnacle of reality television. The cast of characters ranging from the massive and alcoholic Mike "The Situation", to the iconic gremlin "Snooki" are pristine casting, reaching where trashy tv had never been before. From public urination to street fights with neanderthal strangers, this show is the perfect cocktail of grotesque entertainment.
The derelict Shore House becomes just as much of a character as any of the cast, functioning as a zoo-like observation deck for drama, messes, family arguments and fist fights.
This show is a masterpiece of garbage, with each ingredient elevating it to another level of iconic. A must-watch.
The derelict Shore House becomes just as much of a character as any of the cast, functioning as a zoo-like observation deck for drama, messes, family arguments and fist fights.
This show is a masterpiece of garbage, with each ingredient elevating it to another level of iconic. A must-watch.
A Piece of horrendous crap
afijamesy2k22 September 2011
Out of all of the bad reality shows on the air today, this has got to be the absolute worst of the worst, there is not one single talent in this thing, makes operation repo look like a good TV show and that is lot better than this retread able piece of trash, these guidoly untalented people live in a jersey shore house for what else, sex, sex and more sex, all of them are embarrassing, the music is a mess, the editing is a waste of true absolute time and the scenes are atrocious, Ronnie Ortiz magro looks like a bodybuilder and is terrible, the rest of them are a mess too, bad scripts, silly situations, the whole thing is truly idiotic and I Really Think the state of new jersey is losing faith with it's audience, their too good of a state itself (Cake Boss & The Sopranos), not to know that this show really stunk NO STARS.
"Jersey Shore" - The very definition of a guilty pleasure
dee.reid7 September 2010
I'm not going to lie. I hate reality television. I really do. Everyday, everywhere you turn, there's a new reality show on the horizon for obnoxious (mostly young) people who clearly don't deserve the attention they're getting on their own reality show, only to have them become tabloid fodder for the next several months after the show has faltered or been replaced by a new one. Everybody knows about Paris Hilton, the Kardashians (Khloe, not Kim, is one curvaceous Armenian-American bombshell, by the way), Kendra Wilkinson, the various "Love" shows on VH1, and now MTV has put out their latest: "Jersey Shore."
Seriously, what is our American culture coming to? Have we really been reduced to an "idiocracy"? According to Mike Judge's 2006 film, yes we have.
"Jersey Shore" became a huge hit when it debuted in December 2009, and also sparked a myriad of controversies stemming from its negative portrayal of eight Italian-American young people (according to Wikipedia, only five of the eight 20-somethings are actually of genuine Italian ancestry), who have a summer share on New Jersey's Seaside Heights community and thus bringing a lot of unwelcome notoriety to the area. These eight self-proclaimed "Guidos/Guidettes" (four Italian-American men and four Italian-American women) - alpha male Mike "The Situation," DJ Pauly D, Ronnie, Vinny (my personal "favorite," meaning he's the least annoying and he is essentially a nice, good guy who for the most part stays out of the worst trouble), Sammi "Sweetheart" (the only one of the cast members who is actually from New Jersey), Jenni "JWoww," Angelina "Jolie," and fan-favorite Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi - spend their summer on Jersey Shore partying, hooking up, tanning, drinking, fixing their hair (guys and girls both), clubbing, fighting, and engaging in every other form of debauchery known to man while also finding some time taking turns working in a boardwalk t-shirt store.
"Jersey Shore" is pretty atypical when it comes to reality television. The show is pure trash, pure unbridled trash. But like most guilty pleasure television, "Jersey Shore" keeps you watching no matter how much it goes against your better judgment, and however many brain cells you might kill by tuning in to watch new episodes every week. It's an instance in which you'll be watching it one minute, and then kicking yourself the next for doing so. The characters are typical reality show fodder: the alpha male, the entertainer, the bitch/drama queen, the slut, the troublemaker, the instigator, the stalwart nice hero guy - you get the point, because we've seen it all before. None of the characters are particularly likable or sympathetic (except for my "favorite," of course, Vinny), but they are engaging and have over-sized egos and personalities that have launched them into pop culture stardom, whether they are deserving of it or not.
In other words, they're here to stay, whether we like it or not...
MTV really outdid themselves with "Jersey Shore"; not only was the show a ratings success (as of now, a third season is already in the works), but it has become a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon complete with t-shirts, endorsements, and its own "Jersey Shore"-esquire lingo ("yo, that ugly chick in the jacuzzi's a 'grenade'"). Already, "The Situation" is set to gain $5 million by the end of the year in a planned autobiography book deal, a workout fitness routine, and various other endorsements. Ronnie was charged with aggravated assault stemming from an incident in which he knocked out a guy who had confronted him at a nightclub. And poor little "Snooki" was recently charged with annoying people on the beach while heavily intoxicated; and she also got her lights punched out by some guy at a bar during the first season (poor "Snooki" - she's got a big mouth, all right, but no one deserves to get hit like she did by a big drunken coward like she did, no matter how annoying she was being).
"Jersey Shore" is trash entertainment, purely. I'm addicted to this show now, I think, after having purchased the first season on DVD after scattered viewings on TV got my mouth watery for 20-something New Jersey-style antics and debauchery. I can't stop thinking or talking about it with people who care for it. Yes, sir, that's reality TV infamy for you, and it worked its magic on yet another poor soul who will be feeling very sorry for having watched it on an ultra-curious whim...
Seriously, what is our American culture coming to? Have we really been reduced to an "idiocracy"? According to Mike Judge's 2006 film, yes we have.
"Jersey Shore" became a huge hit when it debuted in December 2009, and also sparked a myriad of controversies stemming from its negative portrayal of eight Italian-American young people (according to Wikipedia, only five of the eight 20-somethings are actually of genuine Italian ancestry), who have a summer share on New Jersey's Seaside Heights community and thus bringing a lot of unwelcome notoriety to the area. These eight self-proclaimed "Guidos/Guidettes" (four Italian-American men and four Italian-American women) - alpha male Mike "The Situation," DJ Pauly D, Ronnie, Vinny (my personal "favorite," meaning he's the least annoying and he is essentially a nice, good guy who for the most part stays out of the worst trouble), Sammi "Sweetheart" (the only one of the cast members who is actually from New Jersey), Jenni "JWoww," Angelina "Jolie," and fan-favorite Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi - spend their summer on Jersey Shore partying, hooking up, tanning, drinking, fixing their hair (guys and girls both), clubbing, fighting, and engaging in every other form of debauchery known to man while also finding some time taking turns working in a boardwalk t-shirt store.
"Jersey Shore" is pretty atypical when it comes to reality television. The show is pure trash, pure unbridled trash. But like most guilty pleasure television, "Jersey Shore" keeps you watching no matter how much it goes against your better judgment, and however many brain cells you might kill by tuning in to watch new episodes every week. It's an instance in which you'll be watching it one minute, and then kicking yourself the next for doing so. The characters are typical reality show fodder: the alpha male, the entertainer, the bitch/drama queen, the slut, the troublemaker, the instigator, the stalwart nice hero guy - you get the point, because we've seen it all before. None of the characters are particularly likable or sympathetic (except for my "favorite," of course, Vinny), but they are engaging and have over-sized egos and personalities that have launched them into pop culture stardom, whether they are deserving of it or not.
In other words, they're here to stay, whether we like it or not...
MTV really outdid themselves with "Jersey Shore"; not only was the show a ratings success (as of now, a third season is already in the works), but it has become a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon complete with t-shirts, endorsements, and its own "Jersey Shore"-esquire lingo ("yo, that ugly chick in the jacuzzi's a 'grenade'"). Already, "The Situation" is set to gain $5 million by the end of the year in a planned autobiography book deal, a workout fitness routine, and various other endorsements. Ronnie was charged with aggravated assault stemming from an incident in which he knocked out a guy who had confronted him at a nightclub. And poor little "Snooki" was recently charged with annoying people on the beach while heavily intoxicated; and she also got her lights punched out by some guy at a bar during the first season (poor "Snooki" - she's got a big mouth, all right, but no one deserves to get hit like she did by a big drunken coward like she did, no matter how annoying she was being).
"Jersey Shore" is trash entertainment, purely. I'm addicted to this show now, I think, after having purchased the first season on DVD after scattered viewings on TV got my mouth watery for 20-something New Jersey-style antics and debauchery. I can't stop thinking or talking about it with people who care for it. Yes, sir, that's reality TV infamy for you, and it worked its magic on yet another poor soul who will be feeling very sorry for having watched it on an ultra-curious whim...
An embarrassment
TheLittleSongbird13 July 2011
I am an avid movie and television goer, but there has been projects from both film and television I dislike intensely. Jersey Shore is one of those. The photography and editing are nothing to write home about, and the theme tune is forgettable, annoying and dull. Jersey Shore also feels fake and self-absorbed, both in how its written and delivered, the show shows drunkenness, verbal abuse, swearing to a sickening, degrading degree and the people presented are little more than stereotypes that I took an instant dislike to.
All in all, Jersey Shore is an embarrassment. It does not fit into the so-bad-it's-good category, to me it's just so bad-it's-bad. 1/10 Bethany Cox
All in all, Jersey Shore is an embarrassment. It does not fit into the so-bad-it's-good category, to me it's just so bad-it's-bad. 1/10 Bethany Cox
Horrible!
jaiami23 November 2011
I can't imagine anyone finding any entertainment value in this train wreck at all. Please people, RAISE YOUR STANDARDS! Fake fights. Fake personalities. Wretched acting. No redeeming value whatsoever. I can only imagine a group of fifty or sixty-something pseudo-executives at MTV dreaming up this drivel and allowing it to be put on the air knowing that teens and preteens will be watching. SHAMEFUL! How do they sleep at night? I bet they don't let their grandchildren watch this. And, the cast looks like they photo-shopped fifty year old faces on thirty-five year old bodies. I shudder to think how these so-called executives think they will be able to top this, or to what lengths they will go to do that. Maybe they should be cancelled along with this embarrassment.
Gee, What A Surprise...
Greatornot28 December 2009
... Another bad reality show. Stereotypes of Italians or not, this was awful. First off, It reminded me of one of those Animal Planet Shows where they take animals and put them in special environment, to strive in awesome conditions for the particular species of animal. Also, It reminded me of some of those Twilight Zone Eps where humans are lured to certain situations supposedly conducive to human behaviour and than like that .. end of the world type scenario. In other words, This show was degrading. The whole guido and guidette theme was ridiculous. NJ is just like any other state with a multitude of different ethnicities , religions and races. These early 20 something folks had to be the dumbest of the dumb to not realize how they were being used. Paycheck or not, dignity is most important. At least in my opinion. I must be honest , I watched just the first half of the first episode. I got bored quickly. It was basically one f bomb after another...bleeped out of course. I am far from a prude. I just felt the language got old quickly. I truly felt I was watching 'Animal Planet' with animals being substituted by people.The kicker is , the animals are smarter than this gang of assorted nuts. None of these people were even likable. I wonder if these folks realize that most viewers are laughing AT them.They were a caricature and a bad one at that. Very depressing. This was just a bad show , with lousy stereotypes and skimpy clothing.Contrived or not they did offer ,somewhat of a plot. I wont give away here. Thus the 2 rating instead of a 1.Still this was very lame . Summertime on the Jersey Shores , has to be better than this.
Absolute drivel, yet entertaining for some
mclea0111 January 2012
Let's put it this way, a massive amount of the population is simply stupid, horribly educated or too blatantly lazy to use their minds to think further than their next breath... This show was designed for them, aka the MTV fans...
It is, honestly, the worst piece of mainstream TV ever produced. People who enjoy it are people who relate to the characters, who are borderline retarded, scummy and practically sub-human.
The producers should be almost as ashamed as the actors. I say actors because SURELY there can't be people out there like this?
If you can read, use a computer, do a maths sum, speak English properly and have some feint semblance of class then this REALLY isn't for you!
If not, enjoy the glorified excuses for human life on this show.
It is, honestly, the worst piece of mainstream TV ever produced. People who enjoy it are people who relate to the characters, who are borderline retarded, scummy and practically sub-human.
The producers should be almost as ashamed as the actors. I say actors because SURELY there can't be people out there like this?
If you can read, use a computer, do a maths sum, speak English properly and have some feint semblance of class then this REALLY isn't for you!
If not, enjoy the glorified excuses for human life on this show.
It is what it is.
jcthomas1013 January 2010
I gave this a high rating based on one thing and one thing alone. Comedy.
The cast members are blatantly stereotypical, self-absorbed, and completely ridiculous. This is a show about a group of young individuals that are spending the summer working and partying in Seaside Heights. By working, I mean selling novelty garbage from a tee shirt store; where they seem to never be. By partying, that is another story. This group seems to he almost hell bent on drinking as much alcohol as humanly possible between the hours of right before Noon until finding some sort of something to pass out in. Be it a bed, gutter, jail cell, or orifice.
If you are looking for television with no substance, no intelligence, no real morals or complexity. This is the show for you.
At the very least, you will be truly grateful that this is not your life. You will also thank the cast members for providing you with social banter when you are out with your seasonally pale and sensibly dressed friends.
The cast members are blatantly stereotypical, self-absorbed, and completely ridiculous. This is a show about a group of young individuals that are spending the summer working and partying in Seaside Heights. By working, I mean selling novelty garbage from a tee shirt store; where they seem to never be. By partying, that is another story. This group seems to he almost hell bent on drinking as much alcohol as humanly possible between the hours of right before Noon until finding some sort of something to pass out in. Be it a bed, gutter, jail cell, or orifice.
If you are looking for television with no substance, no intelligence, no real morals or complexity. This is the show for you.
At the very least, you will be truly grateful that this is not your life. You will also thank the cast members for providing you with social banter when you are out with your seasonally pale and sensibly dressed friends.
harmless silliness
wandabdickens28 March 2022
Should be Banned from TV
nickcluxton5 May 2012
I normally don't have a problem with stuff like this. Usually, I can watch any reality show and laugh at the stupid problem that the characters make up. But somehow, I just get irritated when I think of Jersey Shore. It's not entirely because it's bad, or that people actually watch it. The problem arose when I saw people taking after it and acting like arrogant idiots. I'm 17, and I can safely say, for the sake of everyone older than me and every generation to come, I apologize for my generation because clearly, if we are able to sustain a show like Jersey Shore, then we are the worst that humanity has to offer.
I propose that we Ban Jersey Shore from Television.
I propose that we Ban Jersey Shore from Television.
A glorious piece of modern documentary television
tipsyonvodkatonic14 December 2009
Jersey Shore is the most heart-wrenching show spawned by the reality television craze. Watch as desperate 20-somethings with names like Snooki, JWOWWW, and The Situation slave in a t-shirt shop by day and infect the Garden State's club scene by night. They search for meaning in their tristate-confined lives using alcohol, herpes-infested hot tubs, and melanoma. Whose heart will Sammi "Sweetheart" play jump-rope with next? Will The Situation let his six-pack fly to the wind, just as his morals did long ago? And will JWOWWW ever realize that her vile extensions look like Pepe LePew camped out on her head? These, viewers, are the questions that grip our generation.
Totally outrageous
briancham19946 August 2020
This is not my usual kind of show but we watched it for high school to study reality TV. Wow, what a blast. The character are in a whole other world from what I inhabit and it is like peering through the glass of a museum exhibit. They are outrageous, irresponsible and all round terrible - and this is what makes it so fascinating to watch.
OMG how low can you go.
nojunk_321 March 2011
I was a little curious about this show after seeing the Southpark ripping. I had no idea what was going on because i don't watch most TV shows. I've never seen any of the people on the show except the "Snookie", i had to google that after seeing southpark. So anyway last night i was watching a show at a friends house and they had "the situation" on it. It was a roast for Trump on Comedy Central (DAMN they can say anything on TV nowadays) I didn't know most of the people on there but was well acquainted with them by the time "the situation" came up to do his "comedy" OH MY GOD he was so awful, i think people started feeling sorry for him after he wouldn't stop. It was like seeing a little baby laying on the train tracks, the trains coming but you can't stop it.
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