Confirmed: Jersey Shore Cast Will Get Us All Banned From Italy

As the Jersey Shore cast gets ready to make their move to Italy, the show's past seasons have just started airing in the country, putting fear into the locals. Or is that hatred? A newspaper in Rome (via the NY Post) said the cast embodies "the worst stereotypes of Italians, multiplied by thousands and Americanized." Another paper there described them as having "slicked hair, exaggerated narcissism, and outlandish eccentricity."

A preview of the show posted on MTV Italia garnered some harsh comments (Italian internet commenters, they're just like American internet commenters!), such as, "When I see this, I wonder whether [Osama] Bin Laden had a point."

Hopefully Pauly D is up for a challenge... he thinks he's going to meet his future wife there (or as he put it, people have told him he should "go get somebody straight from Italy").

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on March 28, 2011 2:10 PM

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Chai Johnny

Its like you read my
mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or
something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a
little bit, but other than that, this is great blog. A great read. I will
certainly be back.

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Scott Cockandtailtime

I just hope they come back to Jersey in one piece.

openheads

And once they touch down at Newark Airport, I hope they go beck to NY where they came from.

TimeDown

I don't.

Inconcievable de Impublishable

The Bin Laden comment is hilarious.

Guest

Another paper there described them as having "slicked hair, exaggerated narcissism, and outlandish eccentricity."

Were they talking about the Jersey Shore cast or Europeans?

soxinthecity

Pauly D is gonna get some scam artist her green card.

Jamie_McDonald

I don't know what they're complaining about. Silvio Berlusconi's antics far outdo anything the JS kids have perpetrated by several orders of magnitude. In fact, he's been known to rock some "slicked hair and exxagerated narcissism" himself.