Guido Beach

On the other end of the television spectrum from The Wire, there is mTV's Jersey Shore, my new favorite show.


Put eight orange retards with no sense of self-awareness in a house and add alcohol into the equation and you have a recipe for comedy gold.

To summarize for those who haven't kept up with the first four episodes, there's 3 fake tanned and muscled douchebags, 1 semi-normal (i.e. boring) guy, and 4 attention seeking butterfaces. Each night they go out as a group and one of the girls will do something dirty at the club and the next morning will claim she was too drunk remember in an effort to keep her self-respect. The bros will talk a big game about getting with all the ladies, but thus far, as far as I can tell, only one has gotten laid and he is now pussy-whipped by one of his butterface roommates.

Episode #4, which aired last week, left us with a tantalizing cliff-hanger, as Snooki (the most damaged of the 4 girls, IMO) got knocked the fuck out by some random dude at a bar. (MTV didn't air the punch, only the lead up and aftermath, but they did a good job saturating the internet with the footage.)

Needless, to say, I can barely wait for the fall out that awaits in Episode #5.

After the first episode, however, I couldn't help but to notice that Jersey Shore's concept is a brazen rip off of this youtube classic:



I hope that the guy who created Guido Beach is at least getting a little $umthin $umthin from the Jersey Shore creators...