I've not watched TV really since like June of last year. So yeah... That said, one day, they were having like a marathon of Jersey Shore on MTV, and my friend called me and persuaded me to watch it (he does this quite often with various television shows and youtube clips, calls me up and is like "YO YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS NOW.") I figured it'd be like, the type of thing I'd watch for 5 minutes, and change the channel. No.
Like how you slow down to see a car accident or a train wreck, that was Jersey Shore. I stayed up and watched it for like 4-5 hours. This was the first season. There's nothing about the show that makes it "good" but it's more like, you watch it and go "wow, this is really happening?" and you're glued to the TV, as you're just seeing something that's like, beyond your comprehension happening on the TV. "Did she really skip work because she's sad her boyfriend broke up with her? Did her boss really not fire her like promised? Wait a minute, they work at a t-shirt shop and all they do is exist, what kinda f*****g job is that, f**k I wish I had a job like that. What, she wants to talk to the boss of said job in the bathroom, what?" Basically, it's just a stream of "wtf" that keeps you glued to the television just because its absurdity. So yeah, I watched that big block of Jersey Shore once one day, and just never watched it again. Lost its novelty I guess.
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This youtube video was probably instrumental in the creation of Jersey Shore as a show, really. Was quite a popular video back in the day, you being 15 might have never seen it, you'd have been 11 when it was first uploaded, so you might never have seen it, but behold.