Jersey Shore Recap: Control the Crazy, aka I Guess My Friend Michelle Watches This?

Later on, they’re kickin’ it in the living room, and Jenni asks Deena if she wants to start drinking with a whipped vodka and oj.  Deena actually says she’s taking a night off, which opens the door for Sam to bring up that Deena’s been swinging pretty wide.  It gets into how they’re there for each other, but Sam’s frustrated.  She wants Deena to understand that Deena’s behavior is affecting them.  It’s rich coming from Sam, but she’s right.  

Snooki goes home, and announces that her house smells.  

They keep talking in more depth, and Sam says that Deena’s life revolves around Chris, that being away from him has changed her.  Deena is still defensive so Sam emphasizes that they’re friends, but that she things Deena’s blowing it by making it look a lot harder than it really is.  Deena’s drinking and emoting about it, instead of just dealing.  Sam also says Deena has ‘only child syndrome,’ and that Deena hasn’t really asked about Sam at all.  They agree to let it die, and they’re kinda close to understanding each others’ sides, but mostly not really connecting on this.

Snooki arrives and Jenni is still asleep five minutes before her ten am shift.  

Snooki’s a little ticked, because Danny will be insufferable if they’re late, but Jenni’s not particularly worried about it.  He can’t really fire them.  They get there, and he teases them about being late.  They actually do work.  There’s a flat of shot glasses, and Danny’s giving Jenni a hard time about never up-selling.  They put a challenge together, whereby if she sells all the shot glasses, she can leave work early but she has to stay until they’re all sold.  It doesn’t seem to take long to sell them to the customers, who are there because they have waited for hours, signed waivers, and likely know in advance what catch phrase coined by the person behind the press they’d like to have on their Shore Store souvenir shirts.  

Mike and Deena make plans for a double date, and when Mike calls Paula, he’s adorably relaxed.  It makes me think he’s just insecure around her, because… well, who knows.  This kid has the brain activity of a marsupial.  He’s insecure because it rained in Tucson today, I dunno.  

Jenni, Snooki and Sam have some wacky hijinks on the way home.  They stop to play some arcade games, and when she spies with her little eye an open machine, she takes it upon herself to steal a stuffed leopard.  I wish someone would write some fanfic with Snooki as a Hobbit.  Pretty please?  She hightails it out of the arcade, and there’s a weird thing like maybe there’s a cop following them?  But it’s probably their security?  This is a really poor choice on Editing’s part.