Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Buttheads and Head Butts
By Lady Lola | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 08.28.2011
Ronnie leaves the house and heads to the gym. He wants to spend a day by himself so he can collect his thoughts and stop beating himself up. Not so sure that second part is entirely merited yet, since it's been a total of six hours (if that) since you ripped apart the house. He says he needs to learn how to stop bottling up his emotions and stop freaking out over things he can't control.
Back at home, Snooki and JWOWW are happy to receive their flowers from Roger and Jionni. Vinny informs them that Sitch is fast asleep in bed, and they make a plan to go drop off their laundry and get something to eat. Vinny says they're somewhat back to normal -- in that "normal" essentially equates to "irreparably fucked up" in this house.
As they head to the laundromat, they rehash the foregone conclusion that SamRo 2.0 is destructive to the house dynamic. Pauly says the drama between Ronnie and Sammi is like repeatedly vomiting, and that he's sick of it. They make their way to the restaurant, where they run into Ronnie. He immediately apologizes to Pauly. They sit down to talk out what happened. Ronnie sips on an ill-advised beer and the conversation quickly turns into a "let's all hate on Sammi" diatribe. It all amounts to nothing because Ronnie says defeatedly, "You can't help who you love." Oh, just pull the pin already. For the love!
They head back home, and Snooki gets a call from Jionni. He tells her he's sexually frustrated, and she informs him about this nifty little thing called masturbation. When he asks what else is going on, she tells him she wants his boner. Oh, sweet nothings! To his credit, Jionni has the presence of mind to be embarrassed by Snooki.
Later that afternoon, Sammi decides it's a smart and totally non-shit-stirring move to take everything Ronnie has ever given her and put it back in a raggedy pile on his bed. What is wrong with her? Then she heads over to Sitch's bedside to apologize for starting the trouble between him and Ronnie. Sitch takes it with little regard, saying, "I just went through a wall. I can't hear that shit." He gets up and wanders the house in sunglasses and a neck brace, dejected that all his roommates have left him to fend for himself. He admits he feels alone and alienated as he sits down in various spots and sheds tears while thinking, "Nobody loves me after I head butted myself, waaaaah!" The roommates return home and immediately start ribbing him on the neck brace. Pauly laughs that he looks ridiculous. I love that it took the inclusion of a neck brace to make Pauly realize something the rest of us isolated long ago.