Jersey Shore To Offend Italy Next

21 Comments

1. 1
   vallegirl
   Posted January 25, 2011 at 5:05 pm

   It’s gonna be like that Sopranos episode where Tony & crew go to Italy and realize how totally un-Italian they really are.

2. 2
   Angela Parisi LaRoe
   Posted January 25, 2011 at 5:37 pm

   I would love to see how many of them actually speak Italian. That will be classic if most of them don’t. Oh, I would die.

3. 3
   itchy
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:05 am

   I tried clicking the pic but nothing happened. Maybe there’s a code? Like: Left nipple, belly button, right nipple, right nipple, mouth?

4. 4
   Jeanine Schaefer
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:08 am

   I highly doubt a single one of them speak Italian. The thing is, they’re into
   the Italian-AMERICAN scene. They like fist pumping and Soprano type stuff. Actual Italians are going to think they’re a bunch of buffoons. Can’t wait to watch!

5. 5
   Snootchy Bootches
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 3:54 am

   My first husband was Italian… like hanging the Italian flag, Italian. His family was much classier than those on the show, but they fully embraced their Italian-American-ness. I, on the other hand, was often criticized for my lack of Italian blood (and aesthetic). For the record, I am 1/4 Italian, but look very english with pale skin etc. Anyway.. We got married in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and spent 2 weeks in Rome (and later Amalfi) with their Italian relations. Guess who the family all liked? Me! Because I was more like them. I caught more than one eyeroll at the “Italian-ness” of their family.

   And that was from a classy Italian-American family! I will expect to see much eyerolling in Season 4.

6. 6
   Snootchy Bootches
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 4:20 am

   I guess it is kind of like the difference between drag queens and women. Drag queens have more make up and more glamourous clothing. Their hair and make up are meticulously applied. Most real women don’t do that. They don’t have to try to be a woman because they are a woman. People in Italy don’t have to exude Italianess out of their every pore, because they simply ARE Italian. I guess what I am saying is that the folks in the Shore house are like drag queens.

7. 7
   hbgchick
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 5:15 am

   My mother always used to say “If you need to go around TELLING everyone that you are successful/classy/educated/insert descriptor, you rarely are”.

8. 8
   mere2142
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 5:54 am

   @Vallegirl I made the exact same comment to my co-worker when she told me this piece of news today!

   Plus I feel like it’s going to be harder for the Stich to pick up women with the language barrier and all. They need to just keep them in their element on the Shore. Everywhere else it’s just not nearly as entertaining.

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   Angela Parisi LaRoe
   Posted January 26, 2011 at 6:47 am

   What is the betting the Sitch says in an interview, “Dude! There is no language barrier. The Situation’s abs are the language of love!” I guarantee that will happen.

10. 10
    WaffleBoy
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 7:18 am

    A new continent for Sammi to lie in bed all day long in? The producers are frigging geniuses on this show!

11. 11
    mick
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Dear Italy,

    Sorry, it wasn’t my idea.

    Love,
    mick

12. 12
    marijai
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:08 am

    I love that of all the kids, the only one who is really of Italian decent is Vinny, but they all act like they’re from the motherland.

13. 13
    Classy Drunk
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:14 am

    @marijai, Are you sure about that? I thought Snookie and Jenni were the only ones who were Italian.

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    vallegirl
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

    Jenni’s surname is Farley, so she’s at least half Irish, and I think Ronnie has an “Ortiz” in his name which would indicate he’s part Hispanic but I’m pretty sure that the others are ethnically Italian. Sammi, Sitch, Deena and Pauly all at least have Italian surnames. Even if Snooki is adopted, I’m pretty sure she was raised in an Italian-American family.

    I do think Vinny’s family came over later than the other kids, though. He did speak some Italian with the gelateria owner so he was likely raised with at least grandparents who spoke the language.

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    Classy Drunk
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

    Ok. I do remember that Vinny was the only one that was able to speak Italian.

    –I meant Snookie and Jenni were the only ones who weren’t Italian. My badd.

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    marijai
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

    I could be incorrect, but I could have sworn I read somewhere that other than Vinny, the rest of the cast is of partial or non-Italian decent. I know Snooki is Chliean and Jenny is Irish. Doesn’t matter…it’s going to be a blast to watch!

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    Snootchy Bootches
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    I think I read somewhere that Ronnie was half italian and half puerto rican.

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    Jeanine Schaefer
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    I just get so exasperated when people who were born in this country to parents who were born in this country refuse to identify themselves as American. I have Irish and German bloodline, but when anybody asks me what I “am” regarding heritage, I simply say I’m American. I don’t speak a word of German and as much as I LOVE Irish accents, I’m hardly what one would call irish or German.

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    Sunshine
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    @ Jeanine

    Amen! I totally agree.

20. 20
    vallegirl
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    I still crack up at adults who ask “What’s your nationality?” My nationality is and will always be American since I was born in Queens, NY, but “ethnically” I’m Croatian, Italian and Puerto Rican via Corsica. Still, when I visit the family in Croatia my decidedly American accent draws a lot of attention.

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    Pixielated
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Isn’t Snooki half Bolivian?

    I imagine that the presence of these losers in their country will just reinforce any stereotypes they already have of Americans. Not Italian-Americans; they may not even be aware of the stereotypes of Italian-Americans. Just plain old ignorant, fat, sex-crazed, shallow Americans. Ugly Americans–literally!