History Series / JerseyShore

* HiddenDepths: [=JWoww=]'s graphic design skills.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Nicole.

* AttentionWhore: The reason Snooki initially tries to leave the house in the first season--she's no longer the total center of attention like she is at home.

* ButtMonkey: Snooki.

[[caption-width-right:350:All the orange tannin', crotch thrustin', fist pumpin' action you crave... right in the comfort of your own home.]]

** The Situation has also reached this status, and has competed on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' (Although Snooki would do the same thing later on).

* TheCameo: A couple seasons after she was kicked off the show, the roommates briefly encounter [[TheScrappy Angelina]] at a club one night. They try get away from her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast as fast they can]].

* GenreShift: Unintentionally and probably to MTV's dismay. The show was originally portrayed as something akin to the trashier seasons of ''Series/TheRealWorld'', where the show is at least supposed to resemble RealLife (the infamous stage casting of later ''Real World'' seasons aside). The widely publicized contract disputes, significant pay and strike on ''Jersey Shore'' pretty much killed this angle. The show apparently lives on as SelfParody [[LiteralMetaphor on steroids]].

* InsultToRocks: The Situation appeared on TheRoast of Donald Trump on Creator/ComedyCentral. Creator/SethMacFarlane translated a joke for the [[strike:retarded]] handicapped person on stage, making it sound like it was going to be another joke aimed at the deaf female roaster... and then directed the joke at him instead.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The Situation falls for a transgender woman while out at a club one night. [[NoodleIncident We aren't told how he eventually found out]], [[CrowningMomentofFunny but he looks visibly shaken in the confession booth.]]

In April 2018, the show returned as ''Jersey Shore: Family Vacation'' with all of the original cast returning to the show except for Sammi. It was filmed in Miami, Florida. A second season has been ordered ahead of its premiere date.

In April 2018, the show returned as ''Jersey Shore Family Vacation'' with all of the original cast returning to the show except for Sammi. It was filmed in Miami, Florida. A second season has been ordered ahead of its premiere date.

** She gets her redemption in ''Jersey Shore Family Reunion'' when invited to Miami by Pauly D as a prank. The house eventually forgives her and decides to be friends with her but from a distance.

** She gets her redemption in Jersey Shore Family Reunion when invited to Miami by Pauly D as a prank. The house eventually forgives her and decides to be friends with her but from a distance.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The Situation falls for a transsexual while out at a club one night. [[NoodleIncident We aren't told how he eventually found out]], [[CrowningMomentofFunny but he looks visibly shaken in the confession booth.]]

** [[http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/snooki.gif Gloriously subverted with Snooki]].

* BerserkButton: For everyone, being called fake. Angelina's declaration that "all of yous in this house are fucking fake, and I want you all to know that I can't stand anyone of yous" is enough to get into a brawl with Snooki in season two, and subsequently ejected from the house for the second time in the series.

Various knockoffs exist outside the USA, including the Dutch version, ''Oh Oh Cherso'' (and its second season, ''Oh Oh Tirol'') and the Irish version ''Tallafornia'' while the Brits have both ''[[UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland Geordie Shore]]'' and ''Series/TheOnlyWayIsEssex''. The Canadians attempted to make their own version, ''Lake Shore'' (set in and around UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}), but it was scrapped.

** ''Geordie Shore'' ([[OopNorth Newcastle, England]])

* FakeNationality: J-Woww and Snooki are both not Italian at all. They're Irish/Mexican and Chilean, respectively (Snooki, while not biologically Italian, was raised by adoptive Italian parents so she still grew up in the culture).
** Actually, Snooki claims to be part Italian through one of her Chilean parents as well.

* NamesTheSame: Jennifer Farley; coincidentally, there is also a graphic designer of the same name (and yes, [=JWoww=] is ''also'' a graphic designer).

* YouFailHistoryForever: Snooki.
-->"I feel like a pilgrim from the 20's, washing this shit in the sink!"

* BackForTheFinale: In the show's final season, the roommates go to a club and run into [[TheScrappy Angelina]], the cast member who was kicked off back in Season 2. Angelina actually makes an attempt to apologize for her past actions, not that the roomamtes were interested in listening to her...

* [[PassThePopcorn Pass the Pretzels]]: Well, there wasn't any popcorn.

* [[InsultBackfire Prank Backfire]]: While staying in Italy, a drunken girl girl who had been stalking The Situation shows up at the cast's apartment one night. Snooki, wanting payback after being the victim of the The Situation's antics, lets the drunk girl in and hides her in The Situation's room. The hope that when he brings another girl home, he'll look like a pig trying to hook up with two girls. Much to Snooki's dismay, The Situation sends the girl he brought with him home and sleeps with the drunken stalker girl, saying she would be an easier lay.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Sammi. Just Sammi.

* TrueCompanions : Poor Snooki honestly believes they are, or certainly wants them to be, despite the painful clarity that the others do not feel the same way.

* WouldntHitAGirl: [[http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/snooki.gif Gloriously subverted with Snooki]].

** Well, the Pilgrims did establish Plymouth Colony in 1620. [[ExactWords She didn't say what century the 20's were in.]]

* InsultToRocks: The Situation appeared on TheRoast of Donald Trump on Creator/ComedyCentral. SethMacFarlane translated a joke for the [[strike:retarded]] handicapped person on stage, making it sound like it was going to be another joke aimed at the deaf female roaster... and then directed the joke at him instead.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: One episode on Season 2 had a big plot point on Angelina leaving a dirty menstrual pad on the bathroom floor. It ended up underneath her pillow, courtesy of The Situation, who also called her "dirty little hamster." Previously, she uses "her time of the month" as an excuse for not having sex with Jose.

* InSeriesNickname: Besides the ones a few cast members showed up with, the Situation calls Angelina "[[AngelinaJolie Jolie]]" in a deleted scene from the first season. There's also a rather talky barber that the guys call "Mouth".

** The Situation has also reached this status, and has competed on ''DancingWithTheStars'' (Although Snooki would do the same thing later on).

* ObfuscatingStupidity: The Situation, much like Creator/ParisHilton, figured out how to make an uncanny amount of money despite being an incredibly sexist, drunken meathead at all times on camera.
** In fact, on ''DancingWithTheStars'', he appeared to be, while hardly bright or charming, significantly less repulsive than he is on the show.
** He got payday from Abercrombie & Fitch to '''not''' wear any of their products on the show.

*** Everyone except Vinny, [[note]] who refuses to dumb himself down for the show.[[/note]], several of the cast members were in college when the show started, including Snooki who was training to be a vet.

''Jersey Shore'' is a RealityTV show on {{MTV}}, that has become one of the network's most popular if not polarizing shows. A reality tv show in the same vein as ''Series/TheRealWorld'', it follows a group of Italian-American twenty-somethings as they party and engage in debauchery, both on the New Jersey beach party scene and in other locations (Miami and Italy).

* InsultToRocks: The Situation appeared on TheRoast of Donald Trump on ComedyCentral. SethMacFarlane translated a joke for the [[strike:retarded]] handicapped person on stage, making it sound like it was going to be another joke aimed at the deaf female roaster... and then directed the joke at him instead.

** ''Kongerne af Marielyst'' (The Kings of Marielyst), ({{Denmark}})

''Jersey Shore'' is a RealityTV show on {{MTV}}, that has become one of the network's most popular if not polarizing shows. A reality tv show in the same vein as ''TheRealWorld'', it follows a group of Italian-American twenty-somethings as they party and engage in debauchery, both on the New Jersey beach party scene and in other locations (Miami and Italy).

* GenreShift: Unintentionally and probably to MTV's dismay. The show was originally portrayed as something akin to the trashier seasons of ''TheRealWorld'', where the show is at least supposed to resemble RealLife (the infamous stage casting of later ''Real World'' seasons aside). The widely publicized contract disputes, significant pay and strike on ''Jersey Shore'' pretty much killed this angle. The show apparently lives on as SelfParody [[LiteralMetaphor on steroids]].

* SpoiledSweet[=/=]SpoiledBrat: JerkWithAHeartOfGold Vinny manages to be both at the same time.

* {{Joisey}}: Trope Exemplar.