Its Jersey Babyyy

By: Brandon "Jersey" Jaworowski, Jessica "Kandi" Kamp, and Lauren "The Predicament" Guest

On Wednesday, our Comp 1 class watched an interview of Harry G Frankfurt and his take on bullshit. Frankfurt claims that bullshit is the bending of the truth and the bullshiter may not even know if he/she is even bullshiting. Bullshit does not care about what the actual truth is, and it is all motive based. After watching this video our class assignment was to find a video, article, or situation that we thought was bullshit. After much thought, we decided to inform the world of the bullshit that is Jersey Shore.

Jersey Shore is a show produced my MTV. It is supposedly about a group of people who are all guidos and guidettes from New Jersey. However, we are here to tell you that this is incorrect. Only one of the members, Sami "Sweetheart", is acutally from New Jersey. The rest of the crew is from New York. Not only are they not from Jersey, but some of the epsiodes were not even filmed in New Jersey. The second season causes even more controversy because the setting is in Miami. There are rumors that Snooki and the others aren't even Italian. This does seem to create a little problem because they all believe and claim to be guidos and guidettes, or bennies if you say. This is a pure example of bullshit, because we are not sure if MTV even cares that the cast is not from New Jersey. Obviously, they do not care that the show is called Jersey Shore but they record episodes in multiple other towns. Even the whole second season is in MIAMI. As you can see, their motive is to encourage people to watch their show and stay connected to their network.

You may not care that we are talking about this, but this is one great example. We know that these people are not lying nor are they trying to convince you that they are real Jersey Shore inhabitants. However, we do know that they are more focused on getting a profit from selling Jersey Shore t-shirts, DVDs, and anything else. I can tell you from personal experience that, being from Jersey, the whole town of seaside has changed. Everywhere you look on the boardwalk now has Jersey Shore this or Jersey Shore that. They are merchandising it the best they can. It is probably doing really good for the shore economy, but there is a point where it is too much, like when people walking down the streets of Seaside are gelling there hair up to look like Pauly D or when you see a girl or two or ten with the Snooki poof.

However, I can tell you that we really enjoy the show. When I came over here from New Jersey, I talked to my floor mates and realized that they all loved Jersey Shore too. Now we get together to watch the show. However, many of them did not even know that less than 1/8th of the people in the house are even from Jersey. It just shows that we do not care what is going on as long as the show is interesting and eye grabbing or different, and that is exactly what the show provides. So the next time you hear a couple say that they are getting together to watch the show or if you hear someone quote somebody from from the show, ask them if they really know where the cast is from. If they say the Jersey Shore, of course, then tell them the truth because they will probably be shocked.