Love it or hate it, there is absolutely no denying that a certain recent MTV reality show has swept the nation – and Drexel’s campus. With “T-shirt time” and “GTL” as regular facebook status updates, poofs suddenly becoming a normal hair style and “grenade” being used as the new insult– no one can really explain why everyone is obsessed with Jersey Shore, they just are. I sat down with Phil Nolan, a senior film major who recently co-oped at MTV Studios in New York, who cleared up a few common assumptions about everyone’s new guilty pleasure.
1. The whole world is not as obsessed with Jersey Shore as we are – yet.
“Jersey Shore is still on the burner for a lot of countries, it is just reaching Japan now, for example. Japan generally takes American culture even more seriously than we do, so I would expect to see Japanese 'guidos' running around in less than a year.”
2. We’re not sick of them yet, and surprisingly neither is Phil.
“There were plenty of other shows for me to get sick of, such as The Hills. I had to do web content for the Hills, which meant watching entire episodes. It was dreadful.”
3. Hey, we’re not the only ones.
“It was a huge talking point around the office. I didn't think these people cared about it. I think it was brilliantly done, but everything that circulated about it was mostly rumor and here say. Everyone assumes its "Scripted Reality".”
4. There is a simple explanation to our obsession.
“It's just the right people tossed into the right room. You start off laughing then you realize that you have genuinely decent people in the house. Suddenly there's almost a plot.”
5. Surprisingly, fame really hasn’t changed the Situation.
“He was always a celebrity in his own head, so no he hasn't and can't change.”
Jersey Shore airs Thursdays at 10 pm on MTV.
Image credit: www.mtv.com
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