The Jersey Shore

I have never been to the Jersey Shore. In fact, until recently, I had only heard co-workers talking about "GTL" and "fist pumping" and the like. The other weekend, there was a Jersey Shore marathon on and, I was in the mood for a good marathon, so I watched.

And so it began.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Jersey Shore is even better than MTV's The Real World. For the first half hour of the marathon, my jaw was hanging open. I was amazed at this group of individuals. They did what they wanted to do, when they wanted to do it, and other people's opinions be damned. The thing that I think I liked the most about the show is that, besides the occasional roommate fight, these kids thought of each other as one big family. Whereas with The Real World, most of the house is in one clique and the other half is in another clique, this group really did become like a big family (albeit slightly to moderately dysfunctional). Maybe they all thought of each other as family and were able to get along relatively well because they all share the same heritage (Italian) and thus, some of the same values and the general cast of The Real World is cast to be be a bunch of people who share very little in common and probably are cast because they won't get along well.

I don't want to get too deep into this, but I saw an article I wanted to share about this Jersey Shore phenomenon: http://tinyurl.com/yh9kjs3. CNN discusses the business behind the show (own your own J-Woww yellow, low cut blouse or book Pauly D or The Situation for $10,000). Unreal! There's also a Jersey Shore name generator where you can get your own fun Jersey Shore nickname (some of the results are kind of gross - but if you've seen the show, you'll get a good laugh!). Check that out here: http://tinyurl.com/yhh6eud

If you haven't seen an episode yet, I encourage you to do so. I promise, you won't be disappointed ... as long as you like watching a good train wreck and a group of fun people having a really, really, REALLY good time.

- The Incident