Now that they are home, the cast immediately needs to catch up on all the things that they were unable to do in Italy. Like go to the gym. And drink pickle juice. And get a haircut. Because if there’s one thing that Italy is known for, it’s not having any gyms, pickles or barbers. Tanning is also a top priority, because apparently there is no sun in Italy either.
The big event in the first half of the episode is a surprise welcome home party thrown for the cast. If you caught any part of this season premiere, you would have seen this a few times. I swear each episode has only 16 minutes of unique footage. Hey Mtv, I’m fairly certain I can remember what happens before and after a commercial break. So there is no need to preview a scene, go to commercial, show the scene, go to another commercial, then recap what just happened. Once is enough, this isn’t a very complex show.
So what did we learn during this homecoming party? The most obvious lesson learned is that Jersey Shore is clearly on its last legs. There was a comment under my first post asking if I thought there would be another season after this one. (It may take you a while to sort through all the comments from the first post, but it’s there, I promise). At first I thought that we’d have at least 2 or 3 more seasons. But after seeing the homecoming party, it’s clear that we are close to the end here. How can you tell? By the presence of all of the auxiliary characters.
At the homecoming party, we are re-introduced to Jionni (the human punching bag, who is forced to hang out with a guy he knows slept with his girlfriend recently, as well as the guy he doesn’t yet know slept with his girlfriend) and Vinny’s Uncle Nino (the creepiest TV uncle since Uncle Joey) also makes another appearance. Jionni’s clearly not going anywhere for a few episodes, and based on Ronnie’s comments, it seems clear that this won’t be the last we see of Uncle Nino this season either.
But wait, there’s more! Rydar and Unit take time away from their fledgling porn careers to welcome the cast home. So within 15 minutes of the season premiere, we have 4 new characters thrown into the mix. All we are missing is Greg and Marsha’s cousin, Oliver. All I’m saying is it’s never a good sign when you have to bring in a new character to keep things interesting. Or 4. That, and there are already 2 spin off shows in the works. So yeah, this is probably going to be the last season.
Vinny is a little bitch. Seriously? Waah.
Welcome Reese! Hilarious re-cap.
The furniture on the roof bugs me EVERY EPISODE! What’s WITH that? Ok, I admit to having a sofa on our covered back patio in college, but it was for drunken crashing and you couldn’t get me near the thing. Gross. These people are getting too old for this…
No disrespect to the previous writer, but Reese, you’re much more pleasant to read than he was. It actually sounds like you care about what you’re writing. The previous one was kinda just going through the motions.
One thing though, Vinny actually says that they did all they could have in FLORENCE, not Italy. I know because I thought the same, as he started saying it, thinking he’d say “Italy”.