Tag: Jersey Shore (81-90 of 162)

Oct 8 2010 03:20 AM ET

'Jersey Shore' recap: A wretched hive of scummy villains

The problem is that, with Angelina gone, the house has lost its scapegoat. You could blame anything on her. Our letter-writing campaign blew up in our faces? Blame Angelina! We couldn’t bring home any chicks? Blame Angelina! I’m a roid-addled botox-slurping man-child who unironically wears my sunglasses at night? Blame Angelina! But the Great Nemesis is gone now, and that leaves our beloved housemates in an awkward position. They are left with nothing but one stark truth: They are all quite awful people, actually. They lack even the most basic communication skills. They are vain, selfish, materialistic, proudly uneducated. They drink like college freshmen and smush like horny mutant bunny rabbits. But their self-proclaimed leader is the worst of them all. As last night’s episode proved, The Situation is the secret villain of Jersey Shore.

You could tell things were bad when Sitch put on his vest before he went out to the club. “Sitch wearing a vest” is like “Spider-Man wearing the black costume”: you just know some weird Freudian evil is going to happen. Sure enough, Mr. Circumstance attacked ladies with his trademark panzer-tank charm. One girl charmingly screamed, “Help me!” Another girl flirtatiously pleaded, “I’m, like, begging you. I’m trying to have fun, but you’re, like, too much.” Rargh! Women refusing Situation! Situation angry! Situation become passive-aggressive! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 7 2010 05:37 PM ET

'Bones' meets 'Jersey Shore' tonight. Does any single individual actually watch both shows?

Bones-Jersey-ShoreImage Credit: Brian Bowen Smith/Fox; MTVTonight’s episode of Bones promises to be the series’ most smush-tacular, tan-tastic, GTL-licious hour ever, because the skeleton-loving investigators of the Jeffersonian are solving a Jersey Shore-themed case. Since Jersey Shore itself will also air tonight, we got to thinking: Is there any overlapping viewership between these two utterly different shows? (Besides the unfortunate soul who recaps them both?) Praise Science! After long weeks of hard work, the PopWatch laboratory (led by the fearless Dr. Annie Q. Barrett) has finally come up with a helpful infographic to sum up our findings… READ FULL STORY »

Oct 7 2010 10:00 AM ET

'Jersey Shore: The RPG': So good, Ronnie would smush it

Hey, PopWatch clowns, haven’t had enough Jersey Shore between the weekly episodes, daily reruns, and countless articles about the Garden State royalty? (Sorry, Chris Christie; the laws of GTL reign supreme in PW HQ.) Well, prepare for tonight’s new episode by checking out College Humor’s totally poppin’ role-playing game, Jersey Shore: The RPG. In the video, The Situation, Pauly D, Vinny, and Ronnie — reduced to little more than a steroid-enhanced Tarzan negotiating the petrifying jungles of Seaside (works two ways!) — fight a pack of disrespecting clowns during their search for non-grenade hot tub companionship. Spoiler alert: Vinny doesn’t it make it through to the end, either because of post-traumatic stress related to Pauly D’s DJ-ing, or because the watermelon simply weighed him down too much. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 1 2010 02:26 AM ET

'Jersey Shore' recap: Angelina Vs.

Angelina-Jersey-ShoreImage Credit: Emily Shur/MTVWhat has this crazy world come to when a small orange girl with gigantic hair can’t find herself a handsome Gorilla Juicehead for to smush with? Poor, lovelorn Shnookums is feeling lonely. She knows the perfect man is out there. He is a romantical nympho. He frolics around dorkily. He wears an Ed Hardy shirt. In his left hand, he holds an iPhone, with speakers bumping out old-school Deadmau5. In his right hand, he holds a bucket of pickles. “Oh, Mr. Gorilla Juicehead,” said Snooks, “Won’t you send me a dream?”

But last night’s chapter of The Adventures of Mr. Circumstance and His Hooligan Gang wasn’t about puppy love. In fact, you could argue that last night was the most nihilistic episode of television MTV has ever produced, besides maybe the wedding episode of The Hills. Consider, if you will, the Three Trials of Angelina the Unwise:

Angelina Vs. The Situation

Sitch doesn’t get upset very easily. Sure, he’s offended by dirty things. Sure, he doesn’t like it when women are immune to his kryptonite charms. Sure, he pouts like a 12-year-old girl whenever anyone gives his self-esteem an ouchie. But he’s generally an even-keeled guy. Except around Angelina. He was angry at her. She called him names. Quoth The Situation: “How dare you speak to me like this? I’m the glue of this family!” READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2010 10:00 AM ET

'Jersey Shore' goes to Japan; Can you come up with a better title than 'Macaroni Rascals'?

Jersey-Shore-Macaroni-RascalsImage Credit: Emily Shur/MTV; James And James/FoodPix/Getty ImagesEach week, we at PopWatch HQ prepare for new episode of Jersey Shore by studying Nietzsche and reading international news websites. It was while doing the latter that we found a tasty item from March on CNN International. Apparently, in Japan, Jersey Shore‘s title is Jersey Shore: The New Jersey Life of Macaroni Rascals. (CNN admits to a bit of self-censorship; the actual title is closer to Macaronia A–holes, which sounds like a put-down from Deadwood.) That title is pretty hilarious…albeit just a wee bit offensive. Cultural sensitivity is our watchword, so to our friends across the Pacific, here are a few somewhat less touchy title possibilities: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 24 2010 11:56 AM ET

Zach Galifianakis teases Snooki on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

Zach Galifianakis was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and he was, perhaps predictably, extremely hilarious. He talked about his farm in North Carolina, pimped a few of his projects, and was generally just super silly and a little higher energy than usual. Also, Galifianakis alongside Snooki is so culturally dissonant that I think my brain is melting: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 24 2010 02:12 AM ET

'Jersey Shore' recap: Her monthly situation

Angelina gave Jose a gift certificate for his birthday: “One Evening in the Community Smush Room, Smushing Optional.” I don’t want to sound like a prude, viewers, but why, why, WHY would you spend an entire night in that dystopian disease factory, that laboratory of biological perversion, without once smushing? Ronnie happily noted that the bed had developed a local population: “My children, Pauly’s children, Snooki juice.” (Since there hasn’t been an outbreak of the bubonic plague yet, we can deduce that the room functions on the Mr. Burns Principle.)

Poor Jose walked away bangless. No sympathy bang. No birthday bang. No Bang the Drum Slowly DVD starring a young Robert De Niro. “Jose’s definitely getting played,” said Ronnie. (“Like a piano,” he explained. “That is getting cheated on by a girl piano,” he concluded.) Part of me thinks that Angelina is getting a bad rap. We all know that, if she were a guy, she’d basically be the Situation, except not 45 years old. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 21 2010 12:08 PM ET

'Bones': Warming up to the 'Jersey Shore'-inspired episode?

bonesImage Credit: Richard Foreman/FoxNews of Bones doing a Jersey Shore-inspired episode this fall was met with mixed reaction, even though exec producer Stephen Nathan made a pretty convincing argument to EW’s Michael Ausiello why even viewers who despise the MTV reality show should be entertained: “It will do what many people in America would like to see themselves — which is one of those people dead.” After watching Emily Deschanel’s chat with Access Hollywood (below), I’m on board. She confirms that Antonio Sabato Jr. will guest in the episode. (I was recently reminded of his dimples on an episode of TNT’s Rizzoli and Isles, when he guested as a male nurse too nice for Angie Harmon’s cop character to date) And though we’ve already heard that forensic anthropologist Brennan will be an expert on guidos and guidettes, Deschanel explains why — and it makes total, hilarious sense: “She watched what she thought was a documentary on television, which was obviously one of those reality shows that we’ve all seen or have avoided, either way. So it’s kind of funny: You don’t expect her to know about any of these things, but she kind of treats it as an anthropological study of cultures.”

I love that: Someone as intelligent and pop-culturally challenged as Brennan (does this mean she finally replaced her TV?), gets duped because it wouldn’t occur to her that television would sink that low. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 16 2010 06:17 PM ET

'Jersey Shore': Pauly D loses the gel and The Situation gets an App

The Jersey Shore has been on the air long enough for us to be familiar with the GTL routine. But I’m pretty convinced cast member Pauly D needs to update his acronym to GGTL (Gel, Gym, Tan, Laundry). How much product does he use to get his hair to stick up like that? And more importantly, why does he spend so much time and product on this look? I get it. It’s his signature. The Situation’s got his rockin’ abs. JWoww’s got her, umm, boobs. And Pauly D has hair that probably stores secrets just like Gretchen Weiners’.

Knowing DJ Pauly D’s signature style resembles a porcupine, I was pretty surprised when I saw him showing off a natural look for this GQ photo shoot. But what shocked me most was how he looks exponentially better with normal, non-gelified hair! I must admit, part of the new appeal is that little curl in the front, mostly because I think he kind of looks like he belongs in 1961′s West Side Story. Swoon. But in all seriousness (if there is such a thing when discussing Jersey Shore), why would he not sport this style more often? I’m no hair stylist, but this seems to be a big step in the right direction. Not to mention, think about how many bottles of gel he’d save! So please consider this my official PopWatch plea for Pauly D to retire his spiky hair. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 15 2010 02:33 PM ET

DVD rental stores with tanning beds. Now you can RMT! (Rent Movie, Tan)

video-store-tanningImage Credit: David Friedman/Getty ImagesIn the days of Netflix, Apple TV, and Redbox, brick and mortar DVD rental shops are slowly becoming a thing of the past. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that 33 percent of independently owned video rental stores boast tanning beds in order to boost revenue and remain in business. One third! That is an absolutely horrifying statistic.

I am completely blindsided by this strange pairing: tanning beds and DVD rentals. I can understand a couple of inspired shop owners creating this as a gimmick to attract customers, especially in an area near the Jersey Shore house, but one third of all video rental shop owners doing this? When did I miss the memo that this was the next biggest business venture? I guarantee that if I had pitched an idea like this in my college entrepreneurship class, my professor would’ve stared at me blankly and told me to go back to the drawing board. And more importantly, where are these stores? If more than 3,500 video rental stores have tanning beds, they must exist in places nowhere near The Situation’s orange abs.

Instead of installing some tanning beds to boost revenue, this past winter, my hometown’s mom and pop-owned DVD rental store opened a liquor store on the side. READ FULL STORY »

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