mind. There is a sign-up sheet in an MTV wastebasket somewhere with lines
through names like Scott, Keith, Tabitha and Cathy, while every Angelo, Tony,
Gina and Marcella got circled.
Video: Clips and full episodes of 'Jersey Shore'
Even I cringed watching it, and my name is Vinnie, I'm 100 percent Italian,
and wrote a book called "Guido's Credos"! Reality TV is rendering the sitcom
Italian-American milquetoast, thus ultimately putting Tony Danza out of work. The boys of "Growing Up
Gotti" and this new "Shore" show make Vinnie Barbarino look Irish.
There are references to "Real
Housewives of New Jersey" abounding thanks to "Shore," and why wouldn't
there be? Those gals were everything the viewing audience hoped they would be
and more, total caricatures come to life, swilling Anisette, getting beeped out,
and flipping tables over. I mean, ovah.
I can also practically guarantee you some of the tanned, pumped, profusely
sweating bodies inhabiting "Shore" are either related to a "Housewife" or two,
or have passed out in one of their backyards before. This series is the ultimate
in upping the ante, much like Garry Marshall did way back when, upon creating a
young cousin for Fonzie named Chachi.
