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Here's a chilling thought for Halloween: This weekend's festivities will likely unleash countless clones of Jersey Shore stars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio on to America's streets.
That's because Jersey Shore costumes are topping many retailers' lists as the most popular outfit for the Halloween party season, according to The Wall Street Journal (registration required).
This Halloween is the first since the MTV reality show about the antics of a bunch of rowdy Italian-Americans hit the airwaves last December. Costumes based on Snooki's poofy hair and "The Situation's" rippled abs have been flying off store shelves. They have surpassed Lady Gaga to become the top Halloween costume chosen by young adults aged between 18 and 24, according to a poll of 6,000 people conducted by Brand Keys, a New York brand consultant, the Journal reports (other popular holiday costumes this year include characters from James Cameron's blockbuster movie "Avatar," President Barack Obama, Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear).
After a restrained 2009, Americans look set to open their wallets for Halloween this year, with total holiday spending expected to reach nearly $6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. Indeed, Halloween has become an increasingly lucrative holiday for retailers, with the adult costume market projected to reach almost $1 billion this season, surpassing expectations of $800 million for the children's market, the Journal said.
Seeing the potential of the adult Halloween costume market, MTV Networks launched its first reality-show costume line this year for Jersey Shore, the Journal reports, adding that executives have tried to reproduce characters like Snooki as accurately as possible (there's even a MTV Web page with instructions for how to achieve a total "Snookification" and "out-pouf the pickle queen").
Retailers who are selling out of official Snooki and Pauly D wigs are even offering makeshift Jersey Shore Halloween packages using skin bronzer, furry pink slippers and last year's unsold Amy Winehouse wigs, the Journal said.
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this crap isn't even worth comenting on!
Gloria: agreed, but I can't help myself. Imagine millions of wannabees dressing up as us. It makes me feel very important.
You just commented on it, gloria fabiaschi. Next time you threadcrap you're suspended.
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They're not all Italian.
And they're not from Jersey.
It's a Jersey thing...you wouldn't understand...
I am going to dressed as one of Snookie's used condoms...pantyhose over my head, etc. Now if I can just get another 150 guys to go in the same costume, we can represent one of her weekends partying.
Thank God!
True. But I guess that's kind of the culture, that people descend on Jersey from outposts.
Halloween IS NOT a holiday. $6 billion??? Really?? These are sorts of figures that I see and then get really tired of the "I'm out of work crowd". Get a grip America!!
I agree with you Scott. However, the reality is, halloween is now the most important 'holiday' in the U.S. - except maybe Xmas.
I couldn't agree more. Halloween IS NOT a holiday. And to think as a nation we spent nearly 2 billion dollars on it is beyond embarrassing...it's downright shameful. It's as bad as these politicians spending millions just to campaign for office. Do any of the idiots that waste that money realize how many hungry, homeless people could be fed and housed with that much money. Or pay for medical expenses for those that need care but can't get it. Wake up America. Shame on you. This is ridiculous.
So...if you dress and act like a douche and you too can be called New Jersey...ouch.
Just find your old crap clothes in the closet and cut them down to where all the body parts fly. Get drunk, beligerant, and be a total ass. Costume complete...........
This story needs to be changed - Only 1 of the entire cast is from NJ! If you are dressing like those people, then you are dressing from NY and RI!
The story is where they spent the summer for the first season, not where they all grew up. They are from The Jersey Shore, meaning the TV show.
how original! I'm going to dress like everyone else in the world!!!! YEAH!!!! *sarcasm*
just wanted to say as for the show , i think it should be off the air , the guys on the show do nothing but get drunk and degrade woman .most of all mike .most scum bag of them all. and for the girls its a dam shame how they go with differant guys all the time . a shame a dam shame . and people want to be like them for halloween ,sad so sad... come on people have a little class for your self ,
I'm pretty sure if you dress like something for Halloween you don't always want to BE like what you dress as, IE: Zombies, Bugs, Killers, and Politicians to name a few. Halloween is supposed to be just for fun, so everyone worry about yourselves and less about people you don't even know, they can dress like whatever even if you don't approve, we are all free to decide. Angie, I do agree with you on your assessment of the characters on that show, we will see/hear about at least one at a reunion 5 years from now battling some sort of STD, though I'm sure one or more already are.
Zombies, Bugs, Killers, and Politicians. Nice!!!
This absolutely shows the dumbing down of americans and the complete lack of and intelligence due to the incredible stupidity of television and the morons who put that trash on there. Never watched this show but hear way to much about it in mags and the NEWS. WHY?????????????
Yeah, the success of this trash TV show (and all of MTV's other trash shows) is a huge indicator of how most within the younger generations in our society (Gen X, Y, &Z) are decaying into a bunch of immoral sociopathic narcissistic morons that just want to do lots of drugs, party all night, have casual sex with nearly everyone around themselves indiscriminately, and contribute absolutely nothing of real value to the larger society that they all depend heavily on (entire generations of welfare cases looms).
I'm really starting to think that our country's entire future has already been completely disseminated and destroyed. We can ultimately thank both parties for ruining our futures.
Those two don't even live in NJ nor were they born here. I wish they'd take their trash back to NY and RI and stay there. Hanging out in sleazy bars in Seaside Heights isn't something I'd be proud of either. I can't stand the reputation we are getting here in this state because of these people, not that we didn't already have a rep from the Soprano's. People that have never met me comment "oh you guys must be like those people on Jersey Shore". No, we're not all classless ingrates here. Can't they find another state to pick on? Like maybe their own?
Sorry Ophelia, that just won't do. I offered up my neighborhood for a show and they said nobody would tune in to see "North Highlands, Floral Drive".
I've been there. It wasn't unlike anywhere else in America.
At least the Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire are fictional shows, not a real group of mentally challenged drug addicts having sex with anything that moves, and commiting violence towards anyone and anything their delusional drug fueled minds don't like.
We have essentially turned the most worthless scumbags we could find out there into the most valued icons in our society.
This SHlT really is over. The Great Collapse looms in our near future.
ophilia13.... i agree with you , that show brings everyone down who lives there .it is just sad how these kids think they are doing something good for them selfs and in fact they are maken them selfs look stupid , with no class. its just very sad how these people from jersey needs to make money so they come up with this stupid show for the young to watch .. they are even slobs they cant even clean the place up .its just sad very very sad .id hate to be one of there mothers id hide .
Who cares. Don't like the show, don't watch it. I enjoy watching them make asses out of themselves myself. Hell pay me 20k an episode and I'll get trashed and hook up with random women.
MTV programming has always been garbage, why bother getting pissed off about this show.
I haven't watched MTV since the days of Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman and Martha Quinn when it was still music television and not crappy reality show television. I watched one episode with my daughter one night about a year ago to see what the big deal was, and honestly I could not believe people were that into something so brainless. Thankfully my daughter can't stand the show either. Its not that I am pissed about the show, its the reputation NJ and its citizens are getting because of the show. The same would apply if the show was taped in a cornfield in Iowa would be my guess.
Quite honestly, the FCC would be doing us all a favor by revoking their right to even use the acronym M.T.V.
They stopped being Music TeleVision years and years ago.
hate all you want people, the cast is laughing alllll the way to the bank.
Yeah, and all the way to rehab/lockups/std's. The writing is on that wall over there.....
Exactly.
I want to go as that creepy Snickers lady!
http://www.clothesoffourback.org/product_info.php?products_id=4208
Do it Jay...I will give you double candy if you do and come to my side of the world...lol. She is creepy!
Scariest. Halloween. Ever.
as much as anyone wants to 'dog' the show, these people are real people. they resemble what many men and women do everyday. they have hearts and can be real butts, can't we all. and poor snooki. she is a sweet person, who just wants to be herself. we ostrasize people because they are ecentric. we ostrasize people because they do not appear to have a level of intelligence that we expect from the average american. but then we force our children to be creative. and to not 'bully' people. all we are doing on these blogs are cyber bullying people who want to be themselves. whether they are doing it for a paycheck or not, i am not informed enough to make that comment. but they are putting themselves out there on television to give the world a glimpse at a different culture. get over yourselves and realize, there are people who are different than you. you do not get to decide what is the 'norm.' ok, sure society establishes what normal is, but normal comes in different packages. just have a little more tolerance people.
sorry, I was picking on Snoopy cuz she's a pig.
"Poor Snookie, she is a really sweet person" Hello? Unless you know her personally you don't have the slightest idea what kind of person she is.
It's unbelievable there are so many people gullible enough to think they know a D list celeb just because they watch them on TV. I'll give you a hint, reality TV has almost nothing to do with reality. Almost all of them are completely staged.
Thousands already do! They're in East Haven, Connecticut!!
Normal is the setting on a Maytag dryer...Just kids who wana have fun
Wow, I thought it was just a rumor...but I guess it's true.
There are people in the world stupid enough to watch these stupid programs.
Get a life people and stop wasting your time watching others act the fool just because they are on TV.
Really. Who cares ???
btw, doesnt that little situation punk look like pauli shore?
yes! he does....... good call. I saw Pauli Shore at a comedy club, a freakin riot, I'll tell you. That man was funny, and I'm no Pauli Shore fan. Funny thing is his Dad, Sammy Shore opened the set, and he was funny too. You could see where pauli got it from. Sammy Shore used to open for the likes of Elvis, Frank Sinatra.
Well, this sure will make it easy to tell who the losers at the party are...