Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino

Given the fact that 2020 has felt like 15 crappy years rolled into one, it's hard to believe that Angelina Pivarnick's wedding was just 13 months ago.

Maybe that's why the quaranined guidos had such difficulty with the timeline on Thursday's episode of Jersey Shore.

The world of reality television has never offered us a comeback story as compelling as that of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino.

A phrase like "the comeback is always greater than the setback" might sound corny in most cases, but coming from The Sitch, it has the unmistakable ring of truth.

It looks like the "G" in "GTL" now stands for gender reveal!

Yes, it's been a long and difficult road for Mike Sorrentino and Lauren Pesce, but now, the favorite couple of Jersey Shore fans is finally getting the happy ending they so richly deserve.

We've got a developing Situation, folks.

And we mean that almost literally.

Are you ready to spend the holidays with the fam?

So asks MTV in the first promo for Jersey Shore; Family Vacation Season 4, which is set to return this fall with new episodes.

Americans were faced with a whole host of challenges in 2020, but surely, when future historians look back on this year, they'll unanimously conclude that we rose to the occasion.

Sure, we didn't cure Covid-19 or address the problem of police brutality in any meaningful way, but against all odds, we made another season of Jersey Shore happen!

Few reality stars can boast of a life story more inspirational than that of Mike Sorrentino.

But even the greatest of comebacks is bound to face a few setbacks ...

There was a time, not even all that long ago, when the Jersey Shore cast only cared about three things:

Doing laundry. Getting a tan. And going to the gym.

Even following a season that featured a prison release, an arrest for domestic violence and the most controversial wedding reception speech in reality TV history, many thought this was it for Jersey Shore.

In its reboot seasons, Jersey Shore has occasionally tested the limits of viewers' patience with filler episodes in which next to nothing transpires.

But while we've lowered our expectations from the show's wilder days, we never thought we'd see the day when a meeting with a prenup lawyer is considered a storyline.

These days, life has pretty much ground to a halt thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but as we were reminded during last night's episode of Jersey Shore, a lot happened during the eight months that Mike Sorrentino was in prison.

Deena welcomed her first child; JWoww started dating Zack Carpinello; Vinny became a stripper ...

It may have been the most long-anticipated scene in the history of reality TV. Or at least in the second coming of Jersey Shore.

As you probably recall, Mike Sorrentino pled guilty to tax fraud back in January of 2018.

Well, another season of Jersey Shore is upon us.

In many respects, Thursday night's season premiere offered more of what we've come to expect from our favorite gang of guidos.

A new season of Jersey Shore kicks off on MTV tonight, and while that's certainly a phrase we didn't expect to be writing in 2020, we have to credit the show for remaining fresh by not shying away from the many hardships its cast has faced in recent years.

It was the guidos love of partying that made Shore a sensation, but it's the honest and humble ways in which they've faced an array of challenges together that have kept them hanging around.

MTV has announced the return date for Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

The network has also unveiled the official synopsis for the continuation of Season 3, and you won't believe this, but...

Last month, Mike Sorrentino, a.k.a. "The Situation" shared some utterly heartbreaking news with his fans.

The formerly incarcerated Jersey Shore star revealed that his wife Lauren Pesce had suffered a miscarriage.

Big congratulations go out to The Situation today!

The formerly troubled Jersey Shore star announced this week that he's officially been sober for four years.

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and his lovely wife, Lauren, recently celebrated their one-year weddning anniversary.

Sadly, however, we just learned that the Jersey Shore couple also recently suffered one of life's worst nightmares.

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino would like to make something abudantly clear:

He is no Alex Rodriguez.

It feels like just yesterday Mike Sorrentino married his college sweetheart Lauren Pesce.

It also feels like just yesterday authorities took the Jersey Shore star away in cuffs for committing tax evasion. 

“The comeback is always greater than the setback.” 

That's one of the cringe-inducing aphorisms that Jersey Shore star Mike Sorrentino took to spouting in the months before his prison sentence.