Snooki

It's almost here -- the most highly-anticipated Jersey Shore of the season.

We're talking, of course, about the episode that centers around the wedding of Angelina Pivarnick and Chris Larangeira.

Though the scene might not air for several weeks yet, if you're a Jersey Shore fan, you're probably already familiar with this season's most infamous moment.

Back in November, Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira.

Back in November, Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira in a lavish ceremony in New Jersey.

Considering she spent an entire hour wrestling with Vinny Guadagnino on a bed just a few weeks earlier, it's sort of a miracle the wedding ever took place, but against all odds, Angelina and Chris are now living a life of wedded bliss.

It's been a tumultuous few months for Angelina Pivarnick.

Back in October, Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira, but what should have been the happiest day of her life was marred by a bizarre turn of events that, in retrospect, she probably should've seen coming.

Back in November, Angelina Pivarnick married Chris Larangeira in a lavish ceremony in -- where else? -- New Jersey.

Unfortunately for Angelina, her big day wasn't exactly an occasion to remember.

Well, it's official. Snooki is retiring from Jersey Shore.

Obviously, the news came as a shock to fans, many of whom say they can't imagine the show continuing in a post-Snooki era.

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.