I'll keep this one short and sweet, and leave out the spoilers so y'all can "experience" the idiots on this show for yourselves.A bunch of twenty-somethings, most of whom appear to be of Italian descent (some of them are from Staten Island, which is where I grew up, God help me), are crammed together in a house "down the shore," as we used to say. Self-involved and egotistical do not even BEGIN to describe this pack of tweens. They are either whining about their roommates or boasting about their own sexual prowess. I've seen some crap television in my day but this has to be the worst.Consider yourselves warned.

These people are so disconnected from reality that they put themselves in these situations to create unnecessary drama. its fascinating to watch these people fail at being adults because they lack common sense. two of them are almost thirty years old in the show's first season, and they lack just any kind of rational thinking. its amazing. absolutely hilarious show on every single level, even when its not trying to be.

It was once possible to tune into MTV and expect some music videos to see. Since the Sexual Revolution (1960s-1970s) the West has turned into a shameless society without any culture, manners, values, etc. The music industry was the first to embrace that. Thus it's no wonder that music videos in the 1980s really began to go downhill. It took about two decades to corrupt the music industry. In the 1990s it was the end and by the 2000s MTV barely broadcasted any music videos, which is kinda ironic since "MTV" stands for "Music Television". Since the 1990s MTV has begun to focus on non-musical programs, such as reality shows (i.e. The Real World (1992–present)) and cartoons (i.e. Beavis and Butt-Head (1993-1997, 2011)). Instead of departing from that which corrupted music videos, MTV turned to non-musical programs that were equally corrupt (in most cases). So far we are in the third decade of the total moral collapse that has been going on at MTV and Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant (2009–2012), etc shows quite accurately how far down the sewer we as a society have gone. Ironically, with shows like 16 and Pregnant and Beavis and Butt-Head MTV is quite literally trying to cash in on what they have (co-)made this society to be. For example, Beavis and Butt-Head is a (surprisingly good) show about two idiotic teenagers who watch MTV all day and do basically nothing useful with their lives. It's a 1990s show (though, the show has returned recently). Jersey Shore, in contrast, which has been launched more than a decade after Beavis & Butt-Head has been canceled, makes Beavis and Butt-Head look like geniuses. In fact, in the last season of Beavis and Butt-Head the two titular characters watch Jersey Shore now and then and even for them the characters on the show are a joke.Jersey Shore is a reality show about, well, basically spoiled, immoral whores, such as (primarily) Snooki; and men in their 20s who are mentally still in their preteen years. That's it. There is nothing more about this TV show.Interestingly, Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head has also made the movie Idiocracy (2006), which is about a dystopian future where a man with an IQ of 100 is the most intelligent man in the world. This is it, Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore (2011–2012), Snooki & JWOWW (2012–present), 16 and Pregnant, etc shows that we are pretty much already living in idiocracy. There is a scene in Idiocracy in which a man (played by Dax Shepard) is sitting on a couch (which also serves as a toilet), watching a man on TV getting repeatedly hit in his testicles (it goes on and on and on). Dax Shepard's character is mindlessly entertained by the same thing, over and over. That's what these modern TV shows are already about. Repetition. It's all about sex, stupidity, drugs (including alcohol), etc but in particular sex. That's really the "holy grail" of our idiocratic world. Turn on to MTV (or basically any channel these days) and the only education that you will get is that having an orgasm is the most important thing in the world. It's no surprise that we also have a TV show today like Doomsday Preppers (2011–present) because we are really heading for doomsday. In the 1950s it was considered an outrage when Elvis Presley moved his hips on TV. Today having live sex on TV is considered perfectly normal. What can be next? Sex with animals? Sex with corpses? Incest? You bet. After that? Doomsday of course, if not even before that.

For a couple of years it happened so that i ran into this show when on a business trip. The journey itself was not on regular basis, rather once in a couple of months, therefore the coincidence was even more stunning.After a long day i would lie in bed in a random hotel and browse through TV channels before falling to sleep. Inevitably there would be The Jersey Shore on MTV. At first i thought of it as a spiritual sequel to MTV Jackass but after watching some more, i've seen considerable differences. The participants are not self-inflicting bodily harm, they're merely living in the fast lane.Since the show ran for several seasons, one can't help wondering about the nature of it's success. Is it only because people would like to see how to become famous by making fool of yourself? Obviously the protagonists made carriers out of it.I think The Jersey Shore is pure gold for the historians of the future (therefore two stars). It is not only showing a consumer society from the inside, but also shows the entertainment industry encouraging a specific lifestyle by offering sponsorship and air time. It's a document for the people the future about what some of us considered fun.As MTV Jackass inspired a lot of people to film themselves while performing dangerous stunts, we may expect that someone might find The Jersey Shore's crew lifestyle appealing...