Perhaps it's just me, but is anyone else on here as morbidly fascinated with this program as I am? My wife, whose taste in trash television is legendary in some circles (namely, that of she, I, and our two housemates), started watching it and I hate to say it, but I was riveted. Not because there's any real value to it, but from a sociological study standpoint. I'm not that old myself, still under thirty, but I've never seen anything quite as divergent from my own experiences as a young person as this is. Apart from the polymorphous perversity (seriously, how half these people don't have full blown AIDs already is beyond me), just the speed that they create and then destroy interpersonal relationships just blows my mind. For the record, my wife is 22 (Aeonic=cradle robber) and never had experiences like this. Is that what it's like now, being an early twentysomething? Color me curious.

Fun Jersey Shore anecdotal bonus!
When I was 19, I went to the Jersey Shore (specifically, Wildwood) with some friends and we got a room at the Thunderbird. One day later, all sorts of hopped up on some fungus and some other herbal supplements, I was kicked out for repeatedly jumping off of the second story railing into the swimming pool. In retrospect, I'm surprised I didn't die.