Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Last Days of Summer
By DeAnn Welker | Season 6 | Episode 13 | Aired on 12.20.2012
Pauly says they'll never forget this place, because they've all been through so much. Vinny says no one else can understand what they've gone through together. They all say they're family and no one else can share their bond or memories. Sadly, some of us have to also live with the memories, since we watched six seasons of this. Thankfully, we don't have to share the bond.
Final morning, Pauly wakes everyone up by banging on a pot for the final time. He says he's getting too old for it, but he really loves it. Mike and Jenni cook up breakfast and Mike says he'll miss cooking for them. Mike gets teary as he says this is so sad, because they've been through so much that no one will ever understand. At the table, they tell each other they're the best friends they've ever had and Pauly jokes they're the biggest dysfunctional family he's ever had. Snooki says it's not really hitting her that they're not going to ever have breakfast or sit at this table or be in this house together. Vinny remembers coming to the house and wondering how he'd live with all these crazy tanned, muscle-bound, chap-sticked Guidos. But now he's walking away with best friends who are exactly those people.
They all pack up, for the last time. Pauly reminds Vinny he thought Pauly was a tool when they met and Vinny admits it. Pauly: "Don't judge a book by its blowout." Yeah, I'd have never read Middlesex if I'd done that. Pauly interviews "Yeah, buddy!" He says he'll never be the same after this house and then he laughs hard, and says he doesn't cry; he just laughs. Deena interviews and cries about how rough this summer has been, but how much she loves these guys. Ron interviews without a hint of tears that this was one chapter of his life and he's about to open another. They group hug in the street, and then Nicole starts crying, which makes everyone else cry. Mike won't admit it, but he's also totally crying. Ron's like, "He has a heart. Holy shit." Jenni cries a ton and interviews that she thought coming here was the biggest mistake of her life, but now her life is perfect because of it. They all get into their cars and head home, as we get a final shot of them in their little diary room. Pauly talks to Seaside on his way out of town. We get a final shot of the broken duck phone and then Danny hangs up a For Rent side on the house. We end with an "In Memoriam" of the duck phone. 2009-2012.
DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, admits it: She'll miss the duck phone. You can contact her at twopmodmars@gmail.com.