Episode Report Card Rachel Stein: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The C Word
By Rachel Stein | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 08.25.2011
I don't think it's as lame that Deena is genuinely upset, because last year it was MVP D (or something), and now it's all, "DEENA'S A C*CKBLOCK" (apparently you can't say the words cock[block], rimjob or Guinea [tee] on this show, which is a good thing, really). So much back and forth with this. There's talk between Vinny and Pauly of moving Deena's bed, which they call a "prank," but obviously it's not one, and is just going to make Deena feel horrible. It does, and I fondly remember the days when a prank was just hiding cheese under Vinny's bed.
I can't believe there's this much fighting in the house and it isn't coming from Sam and Ron. Deena says she's having an anxiety attack, and given how fast her breathing is, it sort of actually seems like she is. Sam is an excellent Momma Bird, as is JWOWW. I wish Roger was in the house, wouldn't that be nice? JWOWW summons Deena so they can finally end this drama -- again, which is totally just Vinny acting weird and defensive, probably out of insecurity of not having shtupped enough women yet. Or maybe it's out of an entirely different sexual frustration and Vinny is upset at the double standard in our (his?) society that a girl can fool around with another girl and it's okay, but two guys -- say, roommates/reality show castmates -- would never be socially allowed to hook up on television without their reputations being forever tarnished. We're getting close to something, people. This is real.
JWOWW drags Deena out of her dark hole of misery, and Pauly calls Deena the ultimate C word one can say in the universe of Jersey Shore: "Changed." (The F word is "Fake", obviously). This kind of goes in a different direction than my twisted mind would have thought, and Deena starts crying because, why did she kiss that girl? She would have never done that, what is happening?* She expresses that her actions come out of feeling alienated and alone, which I wish is a statement that would come out of Mike's mouth rather than hers. We're getting real here, and it's nice. Also nice: Deena's stuffed animal. What is that, a green raccoon? We end with a healthy jab at Sammi's poor judgement and call it a night.
(*I think it's messed up when people make other feel guilty about their sexual choices, obviously. In some ways it's good that Deena is finding herself and logically working through her emotions, but it could just be her giving into Pauly's slut-shaming and now she's convinced herself that she is wrong for acting on a harmless drunken sexual urge. The reason I hate Dr. Drew Pinksy so much is in part because I once went to a speaking of his and I saw him slut-shame basically an entire freshman class of college women. They were all crying and freaking out and I raised my hand and was given a microphone and told him that it is sexist and unfair to say that girls only ever act on sexual urges because they're weak/insecure/confused/trying to impress men/etc. and then he called me a slut and rolled his eyes! That fuck.)