Last night my friend Jamie hosted a Jersey Shore party. I, along with most of the people at the party, had never seen Jersey Shore. Apparently it is the most amazing show on television and I’ve totally been missing out.
I mean, I know my reality TV and the trashier the better. If I can string together 12 episodes of The Real Housewives of New York I’m happy for… well about 12 hours. What can MTV teach me that Bravo can’t?
1. Muscles are HOTT.

The Situation
I had no idea. I’ve been living my life thinking skinny white boys who don’t even know what a gym is were cute. Clearly, I have been way wrong forever. Pictured above is ‘The Situation’. He has so many muscles that his stomach looks like… well, kind of like 6 cartoon hearts dancing around a hot hole.
2. Boys Should Tan and Wax. A Lot.

Jersey Boys
Again, this is probably the Midwestern thing, but I’ve been dating boys with beards and pasty white skin WHEN I COULD HAVE been dating boys who wax their eyebrows and tan three times a week. Even Vinny is tanner than any boy I’ve ever talked to and he looks albino compared to the rest of them.
3. I Don’t Know How to Dance.
Here I’ve been bouncing around adorably to cute hipster pop when I could have been rubbing my vag on people and doing back flips to show off my thong, attracting boys left and right!
4. I Get This People of Walmart Reference!

I haven’t seen her fist pump, but I bet her Jersey shore name is “Cindy Lou Who”. New Jersey
5. And This Slaughterhouse 90210 Reference!

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
6. I Don’t Know How to Dress Myself.

Jersey Girls
I do silly things like wear pants, specifically pants with no holes in them, when I leave the house. I also like to wear shirts with fronts and backs to them. And a bra. And I wear that bra as underwear and not as an accessory.
7. My Shore Nickname? McBoring.
When I go out I grab a couple beers with friends, go home, and in the morning I remember everything that happened. I go to work on time. I don’t bring strangers home, or sit naked in a hot tub with them. I don’t have screaming fights because a boy I’ve known for 3 days is talking to a different girl. I don’t threaten to leave the premises if no one is paying attention to me. I don’t make out with girls. I knit. I knit a lot. And read. It’s almost embarrassing.
So, thank you, Jersey Shore. Watching you is like watching the National Geographic Channel when they profile animals that no one knew existed before being discovered by a special rain forest explorer.

















I’ve never seen a whole episode (we don’t have real cable) but I saw them on a few talk shows and it’s really like anthropology. Mostly what I find myself wondering about are their parents. My mother would literally die of shame. DIE OF SHAME if I acted that way on national television. But that’s me. I bet a show about hyper-educated faux-hipsters in Chicago would be boring.
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Comment by Beth — January 21, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
Dear AWoww,
This post has really spoken to me. It is so dead-on. I’m so embarrassed that my midwestern ways are so…unattractive and unhip. It’s time to make some changes.
I’ve waxed and gelled my eyebrows so not a hair is out of place; my side-tattoo of “Prius” is on its way; and PLEASE not, that if I could grow chest hair, I would shave it all off for you.
Girl. I’m vibin’ on you.
Patty T
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Comment by PT — January 21, 2010 @ 1:44 pm
OMG – now that I know you watch this, we’ll totally have to talk about it. It’s been my secret obsession for about a month now.
Comment by Lucy — January 21, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
I think we’re gonna battle this weekend.
Comment by t — January 21, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
Your post could not be more right on! Holy culture shock! I find most of what they do hilarious/ridiculous/really???!!!/OMG! Sometimes it is best not to know that things existed…. You are safer in the midwest with pale, hairy boys that read….believe me!
Comment by Julie — January 21, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
Ha!
I LOVE this!
How have I been so tragically un-cool? With my pants, knitting, bounce-dancing and general not-freaking-out-on-people?
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Comment by Tara — January 23, 2010 @ 1:29 pm
What would the world learn about a Logan Square reality show? They could film people riding bikes & smoking outside of Rocking Horse.
Comment by Annie — July 29, 2010 @ 4:44 pm
I would watch that! I be it would be just as shocking to Jersey Shore folks as they are to us Midwesterners.
Comment by allyson — July 29, 2010 @ 4:50 pm
those jersey shore kids wouldn’t last ten minutes in milwaukee..
Comment by Andrew — July 29, 2010 @ 7:10 pm