MTV Staffers Receiving Threats Over Jersey Shore

I wonder if these alleged threats were just reported to gain PR for this latest unreality TV exploitation. I bet such a tactic would get a lot of attention from people online who never tire of stupid magic tricks, even when they are explained to them.

(This includes all you high and mighty hypocritical non Italian Americans too).

Interview on gay blog towleroadcom with Mike:

Jersey Shore's Mike Sorrentino (aka 'The Situation') tells E!'s Marc Malkin that he enjoys the attention he gets from gay men:

"I'm very confident in being Italian. I'm proud to have spiky hair and I'm proud to have my six-pack. Whoever doesn't like it, I'm not really too worried about it because everybody should love themselves. If you don't love yourself, who will? I'll be honest, I like the attention [from gay men]. I'm flattered if there are guys with different preferences that have crushes on me."

Fine I wont call them Guidos anymore. They can be considered "special needs" now.

I've partied in Belmar with the natives. The stories, they are true.

ANyone remember the Dog Brothers from MTV sex in the 90's

It's Real World: Retard Edition and it is MAGIC!

Of all the reasons to threaten MTV employees, this seems like a pretty poor one.

seriously you'd think they'd threaten them because of their overall horrendous programming.

hey folks don't give the "guido" persona credit to just the Italian-Americans. Greek-American "yutes" lead these kind of lives as well, among other young ethnic cultures. They're not the only grease balls with popped collars you know.

Stupid.

Typical pasta boys trying to intimidate everyone else for showing what they are. Give me a break...go to the shore and you will see who's there. If you are ashamed them tell your guido family members to stop acting like a bunch of morons. It's reality TV and this is the NY/NJ guido and guidette reality. I hope you don't change...it's too effin funny to watch.

BTW- these people are hardly italian. Italians have much more respect for themselves.

In that gif, I wonder what that chick did to get hit like that. Must have dropped her press-on nails in his Iroc-Z's gas tank.

Actually do Guido's still drive Iroc-Z's? I know they like those lights on the bottom of the car though, with the dance music pumpin'

all fakeality shows suck, i can't believe people keep watching this garbage. everyone watching this sh!t is responsible for the balloon boy & the white house party crashers.

That gif is a gift. I agree they shouldn't call these people guidos—they need to call them assholes. Grown men who put gallons of hair gel to make themselves look like the Heat Miser need to be rounded up and castrated...

Would they create a show stereotyping Jews?

Seinfeld was built around it.

Every Jewish comedians standup routine is about it...

My Italian friends and I make a lot of fun of "Guidos" from time to time, even calling each other that when we want to act silly. One thing is to do so in a private setting with people who can get the joke, but i think that creating a TV program that is going to be potentially watched by millions of people is a step in the wrong direction. It helps perpetuate a stereotype.

A stereotype about WHAT? Italians? NO. Guidos, yes! The only racist ones are the ones that are making it about Italians. You FUCK.

I kind of feel like guidos are mythical creatures.

I'm sure most of you have seen this gem:

http://tiny.cc/1uLQu

They definitely exist. My Italian-American fiance's family is all from Jersey and there are a few guido types among the younger generation. Everybody else in the family mocks them constantly.

It'll all come back; tongue in cheek at first, then they'll start to believe themselves and then we're all back at the Goombah Ball.

edFex, I grew up on Staten Island and I can attest to the fact that these people do indeed exist.

Did you guys watch Jersey Shore last week?

No, and I don't know anyone else who did, either. Who would watch that kind of crap, anyw-

Oh, I should have guessed. Another Jen Carlson article.

7 of the 9 "cast members" are NY'ers. One Jersyite & one Rhode Islander.

Let the bashing continue.

Did he really punch a woman in the face?

Yeah, and that guy is a NYC gym teacher!

Little to do with ethnicity, lots to do with class. That's really what this whole universe of shows is about.

I'm an Irish-American gay from the (urban) South. I have been thrown in so many pots and assumed to be so many things I'm not, I'm kind of used to it. People who reduce others to stereotypes just don't understand the human condition, period.

That said, Italian Americans seem especially sensitive to all of this. I say deal with it, and dish it out in kind.

What is Unico complaining about? These people EXIST. So do mobsters. How can you complain to a network that is just showing people acting how they act? How about complaining to the Guidos themselves?

Wheres Al Sharpton to shout that the media is racist when the media covered guy who shot the 15 year old girl?

bet had this problem a few years ago.

@wza

Put 'em in the fuckin' battroom!

Hah awesome

Valeriob, please see psychological help.. You copied over 8 of my avators. This is creepy and juvenile.

Threats? By Italian-Americans?

Yeah, that's helping banish stereotypes.

ftw

Wonder if any of those threats were threats about putting someone in the "battroom"?

Jojo stop fuckin' breathin' on me, I'm on a fuckin' winning streak!

now it will never get canceled. it will go into syndication or at least MTV2

God that gif is insane, that guy really clocked that woman. Hope he got locked up

why are people suddenly protesting negative racial stereotypes on tv? it's been going on for decades and it's worked.. every race deep inside mistrusts and hates each other. we are more divided than ever (explain otherwise how bloomberg can get elected to a third term)

people need to wake up

what you need to wake up to is the fact that bloomberg is a great man and scored highly on the mayor's report card.

+1, you even got me for a second. freakin awesome. 3 is much more effective than 5 and 7 because it looks so close to 2.

Valeriob, please stop using my cat's picture. This is unethical and creepy. How old are you? You are acting like a fool.

Yeah man, cut it out. Only Felixes 2, 5 and 7 can use that picture. Weren't you at the meeting?

wait, wait, now you gotta cut and paste someone elses comment, then add a link to some quasi scientific study by the league of episcopalian vegan crackpots. i mean if you're going for authenticity.

I think my head just sploded.

Seriously I don't have that kind of time, but I'm flattered #2.

"Italian-American group Unico National calling for its cancellation after promos aired on MTV using the word "guido.""

what an over-simplification of the issue. first of all, it's more than UNICO who's upset over the show, and you've got to be pretty naive to believe the hubub was caused just by one stupid word.

secondly, despite the sentiment that "nobody thinks italian-americans are like this," it's really the exploitation of the stereotype as a distinctly italian-american freakshow that's problematic. what's the problem? difficult to articulate to be sure, and yes this network regularly exploits groups and stereotypes for entertainment value, but that doesn't make it okay in this situation either. check yourself before defending it. i mean, really?

by the way, there is no "MTV building" in times square. MTV networks is a company within the Viacom corporation, which owns and operates that whole building (including the TRL space that many of the site's hipsters probably yearned to visit as pre-teens), which also houses offices for comedy central, BET, etc., all of which probably receive daily death threats for one reason or another.

additionally, i found the show to be quite entertaining.

Guidos are to Italians what Hasids are to Jews. I think most intelligent people realize that the annoying, idiotic behavior of one subculture doesn't mean that all or even most of people from that ethnicity are like that...

Are you joking? That was by far the DUMBEST comment i've read in years. Yes, please compare the guidos, the stupidest sect of Italians with Hasids, the most studious sect of Jews...you f*cking moron.

who cares, most people hate jews and know their selfish ways have caused every violent issue in the world anyway.

Wild Pansy,

Check out the internet. Most of the most vicious crimes that have been committed against mankind involves Christendom. Those that follow so called Christian values when they have no concept of what Christ really taught because of their religious leaders and their tradition. They are blinded by their own ignorance. Dates way back to the Crusades when innocent people were slaughtered in the name of the Lord (what ever happened to "You should not kill"), the religious leaders on each side blessing their troops to go off and murder the so-called enemies (including innocent women and children to this day), the so-called Christian priests who sexually abuse children and is hidden by the Church or they are "transferred" to another Parish, and let's not forget Adolf Hitler, history shows he was a ROMAN CATHOLIC and he was shaking hands with the religious leaders as they agreed to exterminate the Jews, Polish, Roma, Jehovahs Witnesses and any other minority at that time that stood in the way of his 1,000 year millenium crusade.

Junk like this will last as long as America continues to be obsessed with "train wreck" television. Are we all so insecure that we need to watch crap like this to feel superior? I have never understood the draw, going all the way back to Springer.

I normally hate all these reality shows, but there's something special about this one. Seriously, give it a shot.

how bout some yagerbombs! pop that collar!

This protest is so ridiculous. They're Italian. It's not like some other race is mocking this stereotype. It's the equivalent of Latin-American protesting the Bumblebee Guy from the Simpsons.

¡AY, DÍOS MIO!

so italian advocacy groups are trying to get the show off the air by threatening mtv staffers...

isn't that a mob violence tactic made famous by ... *ahem*... the italian mafia?

GuiD'oh!

that animated gif is crazy, that "guy" punches a woman in the face?!

so people are actually watching? mtv seems so old fashioned now. i think i was watching a south park rerun when i saw an ad for it and thought it was some random real world episode from, like 10 years ago.

I watched it. It is amazing, I mean I've seen some crazy reality TV, but this is like a bad car crash, you just can't look away!

It is a new high-low-watermark!

nobody thinks italians are like this - this has to do with douchebag guido culture, how the fuck is it offensive to italians

I'm 100% Italian and from the Bronx and I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! I will be heartbroken if it goes off the air.

Your name is "bitchcakes"

I agree, every American should shudder. Not just one's with Italian Americans

quick click

Not just one's with Italian American Heritage

by far best show on tv