What is wrong with The Jersey Shore?

[KeyMaster45]

I don't need to watch, I just need to see "The Situation" and "Snookie" get interviewed on TV and I am filled with a seething hatred for all things Jersey. I think South Park said it best.

 

[Harkonnen64]

This:


That is unfortunatly, all I can say.
If one of the PARODY movies is calling you a douchebag, you are officially a douchebag. (BTW, I think I am the only one who actually LIKES the parody movies)

I like them too, I just wait til' they come on T.V. to watch them. Sure, it may not be as relevant by then, but at the same time I don't think they're good enough to pay movie-ticket price to see.

 

[individual11]

Glorifying everything in modern culture that should be mocked and derided, for a start.
The show and its stars have no redeeming qualities.
I think it's an experiment to weed out the stupid and classless - I can guarantee any fans of the show are not what you would call fine examples of the human race, mentioning the show makes them easier to pick out of a crowd or party.

 

[infohippie]

one of my friend's family hosts a foreign exchange student every year. This year, the girl who came was expecting to be walking into an episode of jersey shore. I kid you not, she thought all of america acted like that. (btw They live in western Pennsylvania)

Take note, America. Your TV shows are your first ambassadors to other countries. This is why so many people around the world have the opinions about the US that they do. I think this reputation is mostly undeserved, by the way, but shows like Jersey Shore are not going to help.

 

[automatron]

This sums it up pretty well I think:
http://tvdex.org/shows/south-park/season-14/its-a-jersey-thing
That episode (my favourite) depicts everything wrong with new jersey

 

[Dags90]

Take note, America. Your TV shows are your first ambassadors to other countries. This is why so many people around the world have the opinions about the US that they do. I think this reputation is mostly undeserved, by the way, but shows like Jersey Shore are not going to help.

Are people really that gullible and superfi-

Never mind, everything makes sense now.

This sums it up pretty well I think:
http://tvdex.org/shows/south-park/season-14/its-a-jersey-thing
That episode (my favourite) depicts everything wrong with new jersey

You know that's fiction, right? It's the equivalent of thinking Australians ride on the backs of kangaroos to work.
[sub]Everyone knows you ride in the pouch.[/sub]

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

it's a show about the lives idiots thats made for idiots
any more questions?

edit: also it horribly represents new jersey

that, even though I've heard they aren't even in Jersey anymore (false titles ftw?)

but yea, I found a complete lack of intelligence. and honestly, New Jersey is already considered a dump, why the need to make it look worse?

 

[Klarinette]

Spoiler: Snip!

That pretty well sums it up. That, put into an hour, and there are eight other people like this. I've never facepalmed so hard while watching a roast. I'm pretty sure I was more embarrassed than he was. I'm also pretty sure orange skin and spiky hair just generally piss me off.

Oh and Snookey doesn't get hit every episode anymore.

That, too.

 

[Nexus4]

I have never seen it, but the ads tell me to steer well clear of it.

 

[LFC Scouser]

To quote a parody series on youtube about a different show but it still applies

"You did so bad on an IQ test you owe points? I did bad?

 

[MrMoustaffa]

What's wrong with it? WHAT'S RIGHT WITH IT!?

For starters all the guys on the show look like this:

Spoiler

Only less awesome.
It puts douchebags on a pedestal rather than shoving them into a darkened corner.

I'm assuming it leads to melanoma in other people's attempts to make themselves as orange as the monkeys in the show.

Probably raising the price of hair gel across the planet, those hairgel trees aren't infinite y'know!

And finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is the most notable pop culture thing to come out of jersey. To the rest of the world, that entire state is defined by a bunch of musclebound, big titted, orange people. That is not the kind of image you want your state to be associated with.

What about Bon Jovi, or were we trying to forget him lol

 

[Hatchet90]

The world would benefit from the people (and MTV for that matter) in that show never being born at all. They represent the downfall of American culture, or lack thereof. The people who watch it should be ashamed of themselves for putting them into the spotlight.

Just... watch this, for it truly is prophetic. And if you don't think it's relevant, watch it anyway.

 

[MrGalactus]

The douche bags on that show do nothing but be dicks all the time and they make more money and are better known than some of our greatest people.

 

[OrokuSaki]

The problem with it is that all the creatures that populate the cast are horrific parodies of human beings that remind me oddly of how I wanted to murder everyone in high school.

 

[MorsePacific]

I happen to like Jersey Shore because I think idiots are funny, but in case of emergency I have a prepared rant to answer with.

Jersey Shore is a television show featuring several adults who supposedly personify the "guido" culture. The word guido was originally used half as a slur and half as a term to describe working class Italian-Americans. The term is very rarely used in its original context anymore and now describes the kind of people Jersey Shore follows, i.e. self-absorbed loud-mouths concerned only with self-indulgence and fake tans (and I assure you, that is all they are after). I won't go on to insult their IQ or some other arbitrary statistic, but I will tell you that they lack any form of common sense. It's like peering into a black pit of idiocy with no bottom. Over the course of three seasons, I've seen them start fights in clubs, get drunk to the point of arrest, counsel one of the cast members who had a "drinking problem" that lasted all of three days, and sleep with anyone in the immediate vicinity. They don't embody any type of culture anyone in the USA should want to identify with; they embody Hedonistic tendencies we should want to shy away from.

 

[ZeroKaiser]

Too much smush-smush.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I know it's a horrible show, I'd just like a list of things that makes it a shitty show, soooo your thoughts? So yeah, I'd like to hear your thoughts on why you think it sucks.

Horrible = shitty, no? If you already know it's horrible, then why do you need a list from us?

I've never seen it, but since I've seen The Apprentice and Survivor and The Real World I think I've seen about all I need to see of reality TV to safely say it's all crap. They just pretend it's not scripted even though the writers are credited at the end of the show. I have, however, seen the roast of Donald dipshit Trump (that was very Id, but I couldn't resist), during which "The Situation" made an appearance, and had the rare treat of discovering that every horrible thing people have said about a particular person is absolutely true.

(the best part is when Jeff Ross stands up and says "It's also your last night")

But OK, fine, if that's not enough, here's your list.

Worship of insipidity = bad.
Pandering to vapid stereotypes = bad.
Telling a national audience that you like men who abuse steroids and Human Growth Hormone, which makes your genitals shrink, by the way = bad.
Wearing a giant medallion = bad.
Telling young men that they should cease being men and start applying spray-on tan = bad.
While we're at it, spray-on tan and all who wear it = bad.
Asking this question when the show's been on for 2 years = bad.
Rewarding bad behavior by individuals who can afford birth control and visits to the doc to clear up STDs = bad.
Saying, hey, they're getting paid = bad, and very very stupid.

That about sums it up!

A few times in that clip you can hear people go "Aww," you almost expect them to follow it up with something along the lines of "Isn't that slow boy special?"

 

[Greatjusticeman]

What's wrong with it?

Everything. Not just that show, but most stuff on MTV in general. It's kind of scary that the most popular show for teenagers are about girls who were stupid and got knocked up at sixteen, or a bunch of italian dipshits yelling and screwing eachother in a house.

That's the problem. Problem?