Snooki

Last month, fans were stunned by the news that Snooki has retired from Jersey Shore.

It's almost impossible to imagine the franchise without its meatball mascot, and fortunately we won't have to quite some time.

By now, you've probably heard the news that has rocked this nation to its very foundations.

After a series of scandals, the future is suddenly uncertain for the most heavily spray-tanned reality TV relic of the 2000s.

In case you somehow haven't heard, the nation was devastated -- devastated! -- last week by the news that Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is retiring from Jersey Shore.

Shore might have made Snooki famous, but it's equally true that -- perhaps more than anyone else -- Snooki made Jersey Shore.

Reality television fans still can't believe it.

In many ways, they remain in shock.

For Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the days of drinking, fist-pumping and falling flat on her face as a result of doing one or the other of these things.

At least in front of a television camera.

Last week, Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira in a ceremony that was captured by a Jersey Shore camera crew.

Sadly, her first week of marriage has not been a blissful one -- but that's not Chris' fault.

Last week, Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira in a massively-attended ceremony in New Jersey.

Not surprisingly, Angelina's Jersey Shore co-stars and an MTV camera crew were all on hand for the occasion.

Folks, in case you weren't aware, congratulations are in order.

After a long, long engagement with many, many ups and downs Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira on Wednesday.

The two-hour season finale of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation found our favorite drunk reality stars heading to perhaps the only city with shadier individuals than Las Vegas:

Washington D.C.

Snooki has become the latest reality star to complain about how she's been depicted on television.

But might she actually have a point here?

Jersey Shore has a reputation - and owes its success, in large part - for being a bit more authentic than most reality shows.

That being said, it's still MTV, and the show has definitely relied on a handful of semi-scripted storylines over the years.

You heard about it for weeks.

You saw the clips online.

Folks, the Ronnie Magro-Jen Harley situation is getting uglier by the day.

By the minute, really.

The current iteration of Jersey Shore is a kinder, gentler version of the OG series that focused on the fist-pumping, fluid-exchanging shenanigans of a squad of young(-ish) guidos cruising the boardwalk in search of a good time.

These days, the show is somehow both more dramatic and less intense.

Some call it a skill, some call it bad parenting. 

But either way, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi doesn't care what "some" call her behavior, she's just trying to share her favorite "mom life" moments with her fans. 

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has, once again, gone from pounding shots and falling over drunk...

... to producing milk and wishing she could find some time to fall asleep.

Though rumors have whispered that Snooki is divorcing her husband, the two are still together.

In fact, they went on a trip with their kids to Disney World, and it looks like everyone had a blast.

It's been three months since Mike Sorrentino reported to prison to begin serving an 8-month sentence on tax fraud charges.

The Sitch is admittedly guilty of concealing more than $9 million in earnings from the government, but because of the ways in which he's turned his life around and dedicated himself to service in recent years, he's been on the receiving end of an outpouring of sympathy and real concern.