Jersey Shore (TV Show)

The five dumbest celebrity products ever pushed on the public

Maria Sharapova, the number two-ranked World Tennis Association player and former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, just launched a line of boutique candies -- including little lemon-lime tennis balls. This seems a little weird, considering Sharapova's athleticism and the nation's current examinati ... More >>

Abercrombie & Fitch will pay The Situation not to wear Abercrombie & Fitch

​With the half-exception of Pauly D, the entire case of The Jersey Shore is pretty repulsive -- but none more repulsive than Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, whose very pores pretty much ooze the stink of date-rape. Like many insufferable douchebags, The Situation is an obvious fan of Abercrom ... More >>

Five equally awful/awesome shows to watch now that Jersey Shore 3 is over

Like Jersey Shore but with better hair: Police Women of Broward County​After watching the Jersey Shore crew drink and fight and tan together just like a real family, they moved out of the house last week in a rather deflated thirteenth and final episode of the show's third season. Though the group ... More >>

Jersey Shore in Italy: Five disaster scenarios

Sorry about that priceless fountain, Italy. Eh, whaddaya?​The Jersey Shore's third season just wrapped up, and the crew is headed to Italy. In a statement last January, MTV announced that the show's fourth season will be shot in "the birthplace of the culture [the cast members] love and live b ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3 Episode 13, The Finale: Here's to never seeing The Situation ever again

King of the toolbox​Really? We mean, really? The Situation is still hooked on the Sammi and Ronnie fight drug? As if this guy needed to play himself out any more like the bored, oversexed, tan and drama-addicted freak show that he is, this finale episode opens to just that. He's on the duck phone ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3 Episode 11: The Sitch is a real bitch

Ugh.​My, how time flies. We can't believe we're already into the eleventh episode Jersey Shore, but it's true. Don't worry, if you missed the first ten, there was lots of tanning, fighting, clubbing, gyming and drunking. Oh, and fighting. We open this particular day to a virtually empty house- ... More >>

Top 5 Possible Names for MTV's 'O' Awards

​Fucking MTV. On the heels of its "extreme" strategy, we just heard the network is introducing another awards show that is apparently supposed to celebrate the "migration of music to the digital space." The show will honor tweets and best apps...uhhh...what?!? This isn't an awards show; this i ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3 Episode 9: The Meatballs go nuts

Snooki makes all her booty calls on the duck phone​Nothing like a flat bang of an episode opening--finally, Snooki has gotten hers (well, again.) But as soon as this dude is in, he's out--he won't cuddle. After Snooki tells him to head out, she gets on the duck phone to call up an old flame. Meanw ... More >>

Photos: Pauly D at Beta, 2/18/11

Pauly D last night at Beta. Pauly D at Beta: All the photos.​Jersey Shore's most drama-free character, Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio) attracted a capacity crowd last night at Beta. A crush of people gathered around the DJ both with cell phone cameras to get a photo of DelVecchio, who is also a club ... More >>

Borders goes bankrupt: Five overhauls to right the ship

​Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning in New York, making it one more casualty of the continuing slow death of physical media. Six Colorado stores will close in the coming weeks, though none of the Denver locations. They've still got some time to right this thing, but it will ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3 Episode 7: Even more fighting, even less funny

The Sammi monster​Guess what? Ronnie and Sammi are fighting. Again. Still. At this point, anyone who stomachs this show has to hate her, because she's turned Jersey Shore house into a petri dish of bizarre mind games, fighting and girlfriend doublespeak. The Situation has been sharing a room with ... More >>

The Situation wants to be in the movies. Here are five roles he could take

Step it Up's got a Situation.​In one of the most ridiculous overstatements since Michael Bay got compared to an "abstract artist," Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino offered this analogy on Friday, explaining to the E! Network why he'd be leaving The Jersey Shore after next season: "It's like Mic ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV: Ten bowls to counter-program

Lots of puns involved, unfortunately​The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year. And not just for the actual game -- it affords the host station a massive audience for the post-game show (Glee this year) and other stations the opportunity of 106 million potential channel surfers in Ame ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3, Episode 6: Sammi sucks the life out of Ronnie for the last time, again

We catch Snooki "working." ​Last week, Sammi and JWoww made amends, everyone got drunk, and Deena's taste in men's backsides was the rumor around the barbershop. Basically, business as usual. This week, we join up with the Jersey Shore crew as they're doing the usual group drunk walk home fro ... More >>

Jersey Shore 3, Episode 5 recap: Ronnie, the broken man

Deena does not toss salads. She repeats, does not toss salads.​So, we missed last week's episode of Jersey Shore. Our bad. Yes, we know, MTV replayed it at least thirty times since, but we just forgot, okay? From the commercials and pre-show recaps, it looks like Snooki possibly realized she had a ... More >>

American Skins Versus U.K. Skins: Looks like MTV forgot that the boobs were the best part

Hey MTV: Give Tony his naked bedspread back!​There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good gra ... More >>

Top five foods the cast of Jersey Shore should be eating

There's more coming out of their mouths than going in.​I had never seen an episode of Jersey Shore until last week, and now that I've watched both the season-three opener and the second episode, I have come to a few conclusions. (Read Jersey Shore episode recaps in Show and Tell.) First, I a ... More >>

Jersey Shore Three Episode two recap: Guess what? Sammi and Ronnie are still fighting

​Last week, we met up with the old crew and were introduced to Deena, the "dirty chihuahua" (Sammi's nickname, not ours) who came attached to Snooki. This week, we pick back up with the Jersey Shorians mid-fight, with Jwoww and Sammi coming to actual blows as Ronnie and MVP (Michael "The Situation ... More >>

Top three foods for Carmelo Anthony when he gets traded

​It's only a matter of time till Melo gets his All-Star game out of this cowtown and takes his talents to Sopranoland on the East Coast. The Denver Nuggets are close to trading their best player for the last seven years for a pack of bubble gum, a couple of B-grade b-ballers and a few draft pi ... More >>

The Jersey Shore Season Three premiere re-cap: Snooki gets duplicated

Meet Jersey's newbie, Deena.​The gang's all here -- well, minus Angelina and plus the new and terrifying, droopy-eyed Snooki part two, Deena -- and after a stint in Miami, they're back at the actual Jersey Shore. Thank god.

Jersey Shore Cast: Where will they be in ten years?

The end of your fame draws nigh.​Lower Snooki in a ball in Times Square on New Year's Eve while The Situation and other cast members lead a Guinness-breaking fist pump. That was MTV's original plan, but the authorities shot it down. They're doing it in Jersey instead. Season three of the sho ... More >>

The Situation: Creepiest possible Victoria's Secret Fashion Show correspondent?

​Judge me if you will: I love The Jersey Shore. I love the uber-clever film editing designed to highlight the characters' duplicity and incompetence, I love the fact that it's inexplicably in Miami instead of New Jersey this season, hell, I even, in a weird way, love the Guido gang -- and whil ... More >>

All bets are off: Westword writers head up the hill to Black Hawk and Central City

Jersey Shore: Five reasons why Pauly D is the best cast member to hit Denver tonight

​Guido and guidettes, have you heard the news? Pauly D, the super-creepin', GTL-in' cast member from the cultural phenomenon Jersey Shore will be beatin' up the beat tonight at Beta. Personally, we haven't been this excited about anything since Walgreens offered two-for-one spray tan in a can. ... More >>

MTV sheds the "Music Television" portion of its identity

Jeremyville.com​In terms of startling revelations, news that MTV has dropped "Music Television" from its brand ranks right up there with the results of Michael Jackson's recent autopsy revealing that the King of Pop was indeed rather gaunt at the time of his death. Anyone who's caught even t ... More >>

Jersey Shore nicknames for Colorado's political contenders, bro: Guido for Governor!

J-Muscle, indeed.​Is the media beating this whole Jersey Shore thing to death? Definitely. Are we here at Westword going to join in on beatin' up the beat? Damn right. Being the thoughtful and responsible journalists that we are, we decided to use the "Jersey Shore Nickname Generator" to crea ... More >>

The Top 10 Jersey Shore Parodies

Jersey Shore is over. The fact that a 10-episode reality TV show needs no introduction and that its conclusion is an event is shocking. Whether the show was so successful because it was Freud's wet dream or because we secretly love stereotypes or because of some unrepeatable Gladwellian cultural coc ... More >>

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