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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Arrivederci, Jionni! | ARTICLE

  Watching Snooki frantically scrabble at that gigantic front door for 45 seconds attempting to get out was like watching a living poem. There is a meaning, and then there is a meaning. Eventually she escapes (did the...

  September 30, 2011 9:45 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Snooki's Boyfriend Gets Some Reality | ARTICLE

  Snooki’s boyfriend Jionni finally comes to Italy to visit, and the lil’ meatball is poof-over-heels excited to see him. "Jionni is like Crocodilli but alive!" she proudly declares, and if you know who Crocodilli is, STOP YOURSELF...

  September 23, 2011 2:50 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Snooki and Deena Get Curious | ARTICLE

  It’s about time the cast went on a road trip! Or as the Italians call it, il road trip! Leaving the apartment to air for a few days, the gang rents cars and drives to sunny Riccione,...

  September 16, 2011 12:15 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Is the Situation Down for the Count? | ARTICLE

  It is not with a bang but with a whimper that we return to Firenze, the more specific locale being the Situation's sick bed. Remember? Because he "hurt his neck" while voluntarily smashing his head into a...

  September 9, 2011 3:55 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Ronnie Vs. the Situation Vs. a Wall | ARTICLE

  When we last left the gang, Ronnie and the Situation were preparing for a battle royale such that will rip this tiny clan apart for good, or at least until they all sober up in four hours....

  September 2, 2011 11:50 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: The Boys Think Deena's Sexuality Is Hilarious | ARTICLE

  Ah, Italy! A country of magic, of romance, of history. A place we will never, ever see, because the cast is too busying discussing Deena's bi-curious hook-up to leave the house. "The truth is, Deena and I...

  August 26, 2011 1:10 PM ET
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  Jersey Shore Recap: Ronnie and Sammi are Back On | ARTICLE

  I’d like to imagine there was just one Abercrombie & Fitch executive desperate enough to make a stand this week. He or she stood in his or her corner office, watching the rain slide down the glass...

  August 19, 2011 1:55 PM ET
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  Jersey Shore Recap: Snooki Denies the Situation, Pierre Wins Our Hearts | ARTICLE

  Well, I'll just say it: the cast member who is the hands-down fan favorite so far has to be Pierre, the house marionette. That guy is the fucking best! Whether being made to do the Jersey Turnpike...

  August 12, 2011 11:50 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: La Dolce Vita? | ARTICLE

  Lock up your daughters, handcuff your wives, the fourth season of Jersey Shore is here – and it’s going down like a ice-cold glass of limoncello with a Ron Ron juice chaser. I hate to be That...

  August 5, 2011 9:55 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Reunion Recap: You Changed, Bro | ARTICLE

  After an anticlimactic finale, it was hard to hold out hope that the Jersey Shore reunion show would give us a little juice, a little reveal to help take the edge off a grueling season. Unfortunately the...

  April 1, 2011 4:00 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Season Finale: It's Gonna Be Crickets | ARTICLE

  It’s never a good sign when you’re going into a finale episode filled with abject dread. The audience doesn’t get a second to prepare before Ronnie is down Sammi’s throat for texting her male friend Arvin. The...

  March 25, 2011 6:15 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore': Pot-Stirrer Calling The Kettle Black | ARTICLE

  As the season winds down, the need for a story arc and the mental fatigue of staying mostly confined to one shared space (notice how we’ve had very few beach scenes? One panning shot of the massive...

  March 18, 2011 10:57 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: The Situation Is Having an Identity Crisis | ARTICLE

  Let's leave this episode's inevitable Clash of the Titans aside and enjoy the non-Ronnie and Sammi moments the producers dropped into our waiting mouths. Vinny takes Pauly D to Staten Island to meet his adorable "guido circus"...

  March 11, 2011 4:15 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Down With the Toilet | ARTICLE

  As expected, Sammi drops back in to the Shore house, leaving everyone shaken and uneasy – for about three minutes. Snooki's mug spillith over with joy when she sees Sammi return; Deena is hys-static. When Ronnie spots...

  March 4, 2011 11:35 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: There Are No Quality Guys in Seaside, Jerk | ARTICLE

  If there was a theme to last night's episode, it's that everyone loves to dump on the Situation. Sitch (or Snituation, if last week's nickname sticks) has slowly been losing his social cache as top dog in...

  February 25, 2011 11:22 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: We Love You, Idiot | ARTICLE

  What could possibly be more unpleasant than Sammi and Ronnie embroiled in a never-ending emotional cage match? How about a single Ronnie plotting to get Sammi back so he can…apologize? Change? Take her on a romantic date...

  February 18, 2011 9:55 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Rhymes With Weaving | ARTICLE

  Jersey Shore, which for all its faults has always been an easy (if dirty) pleasure, is officially difficult to watch. For weeks now the fun to dread ratio has been hovering at about 2:5; we still enjoyed...

  February 11, 2011 9:40 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: It Is What It Is | ARTICLE

  Last night’s episode was the first in a longtime  where it felt like the group could finally shrug off the stinky, shaggy coat of Ronnie and Sammi’s romance and shake their umbre asses freely. “I unfortunately punched...

  February 4, 2011 9:01 AM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: The Happiest Hour Ever | ARTICLE

  We were really robbed of pole dancing time in this week’s episode. A few second of Pauly D’s lackadaisical spin, a brief moment of Ronnie hip-thrusting, a glimpse of Vinny plummeting to the ground as the pole...

  January 28, 2011 12:14 PM ET
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  'Jersey Shore' Recap: Pray to the Gods for a Nice Juicehead Gorilla | ARTICLE

  Monday's episode ended with the indelible image of Snooki snarling at a group of police officers, completing her transformation into a Tasmanian devil as she yelled at them to "get the fuck off me." In a surprising...

  January 21, 2011 4:15 PM ET