You know what? I love MTV’s Jersey Shore. It’s fantastic. I fell for the “it’s so bad, it’s good” categorization of Jersey Shore during its first season, but I’m no longer in denial about how terrific the show is. Let’s be honest — when someone created the idea of reality television, this is probably exactly what they were envisioning. Without further ado, my thoughts on the second episode of the second season, which aired on Thursday night…
-The episode started off with a dramatic flair, with a drunken Ronnie crawling into bed with Sammi and telling her that he loved her. I was kind of disppointed in this being the way the episode started, because I knew from that point on, the episode would essentially just revolve around those two. And sure enough, it did. The episode was good, anyway.
-Ronnie then compared a potential rift in the house stemming from his drunken admission that he loved Sammi to World War III. This, my friends, is Jersey Shore Historical Perspective.
-I spent too much time watching the Jersey Shore clowns cook. I don’t want to see them eating. I want to see them in the bars fighting random people. I’m really not interested in them discussing what to eat. But the cooking thing did result in one of the funniest moments of the episode, when Snooki opened the fridge and the chicken that was supposed to be for dinner came spilling out onto the floor. Then Snooki and another person asked The Situation what to do, and his reaction was so hysterical. I loved it.
-Speaking of The Situation, I feel like he’s the barometer of normalcy in the house. His reactions to any given situation immediately tells us what he thinks of something, and he comes off as being the most in-tune person in the house. I told this to my sister, Megan, yesterday (she doesn’t watch the show, shame on her) and she says, “The guy named The Situation is the most normal one in the house?” Yes, it’s true.
-Another funny part was when The Situation was on the phone telling some guy on the other line his name, and the guy couldn’t understand that his name was “Situation.” I found it quite humorous.
-Dramatic Scene Alert: Sammi looks in Ronnie’s phonebook and finds an ex-girlfriend’s number. She explodes, and her outburst leads to the two telling each other they love one another and officially getting back together. The house phone they all use took me aback because I forgot that they couldn’t have cell phones or any technology. Then I remembered the bizarre-looking house phone they had last season. Now I’m thinking that if I didn’t have a cell phone, computer or television, I might constantly bicker and fight with the people I live with, too.
-So the Jersey Shore clowns were introduced to their new job — they’ll be working at a gelato shop in Miami. I can’t wait to see how this turns out. How long do any of them last with an actual job? The over/under on Snooki has to be no more than 90 minutes.
-At a random point in the episode, Ronnie decided that he wanted to feel pain at a given moment, and for gratification of this desire, he decided to get a tattoo that would be on his body for the rest of his life. This, my friends, is Jersey Shore Logic!
-Angelina is now on the outs with everyone in the house. The producers of the show probably brought her back to manufacture some drama — by the end of the first season, everyone in the house was pretty much fine with each other, and they needed Angelina this season to spice things up again. And that’s exactly what the producers got. Angelina became cool with The Situation and Pauly D immediately upon her arrival to Miami, but none of the girls liked her. Now no one likes her. She got drunk and started messing with The Situation and Pauly D – crying at one point – and neither of them were too fond of it. Angelina touched Pauly D after he had purposely backed away from her and Pauly D screamed, “ARE YOU TOUCHING ME?!?!” Hysterical. This was the final scene to lead into next week’s episode, and I can’t wait to see what comes out of Angelina apparently having no more friends in the house.
-I love the overhead views of Miami. It makes it seem like these clowns in the house think they own Miami.
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The Situation and Pauly D are my favorites. Ronnie is an idiot. What’s up with Vinny, I haven’t heard too much from him? It is amusing that The Situation is the most normal person in the house.
As for the girls – I find Sammi to be cute, Angelina to be obnoxious, of course, and J WOWW to be real but also relatively insane. Snooki is bizarre – she seems nice enough, but rather strange.
I am officially hooked on this show. Thursday nights, right???