Many residents of Seaside Heights, New Jersey are angry over their town’s portrayal in the new MTV series “Jersey Shore.” Apparently locals feel that the Seaside Hieghts portrayed on the show is simply too quiet, too family friendly, and too nonviolent. Residents feel betrayed by MTV, some even allege that the view of the town was intentionally watered down to make the reality show more kid-friendly.
Seaside Heights Mayor Vin BattapagIluccio was irate in his press conference on Tuesday. “To show all of the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast members holding down day jobs, not being arrested every night, and occasionally speaking in complete sentinces… its not only innacurate, its downright insulting to our people.”
The show, which follows a group of Italian 20-somethings as they party their way through the summer, has drawn heat from some Italian Americans for perpetuating negative stereotypes about Italian culture. Surprisingly though, most Seaside Residents feel that the show is not ‘guido’ enough, occasionally showing blond people, or men not wearing hairgel. Everyone we talked to assured us that no such people actually exist in seaside heights.
One local homeowner had this to say, “I fell like [MTV] has really sold us out here. I mean here we thought they were coming down to show the world how hard we party in SH, and instead all we’ve got are these pale, quiet, tranquil little pussies prancing around my town.”
One episode which appears to have been particularly inflammatory includes scenes of the “Jersey Shore” cast dealing with the Seaside Heights Police Department. Locals were shocked to see this because according to them, there is no police department in Seaside Heights.
Said one citizen, “Yeah, we don’t really have any cops here, we pretty much keep order on our own. None of us take too kindly to police, so we did away with the department in 1986. Its taken us a while to perfect life without law enforcement, and needless to say I was very disappointed when MTV went out of their way to create fake police.”
Residents hope that the next season of the show will more accurately portray life in Seaside Heights. They especially want the producers to show more footage of cast member ‘Snookie.’ According to a local DJ, the final episode of the season only showed a small fraction of the violent acts committed against Snookie. “What, they showed here getting hit one time right? Shoot, I must have punched that girl out at least ten times myself. We like to punch our women here in the Heights. MTV’d better show that next season.”
