Vinny Guadagnino

Angelina Pivarnick is a married woman, and Italian-Americans in the New York Tri-State area tend to place a lot of importance on traditional family values

What do those two facts have to do with one another?

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.

The relationship between Vinny Guadagnino and Angelina Pivarnick offers one of the more complex dynamics within the Jersey Shore family.

Despite Vin's denials, they almost certainly hooked up in the past, and they've had a weird love/hate thing going on for years.

Vinny got nearly naked on Jersey Shore: Family vacation this week, while Jenni got all up in the business of Ronnie and his dangerous girlfriend, Jen Harley.

Let's start with the latter development first, shall we?

There was one troubling sight on Jersey Shore: Family Vacation this week...

... along with many signs of serious trouble on the horizon.

Vinny Guadagnino rose to fame because he had a penchant for fist-pumping.

But the Jersey Shore star confesses in a new interview that he's also done a lot of thrust-pumping over the years.

The stars of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation are older and (marginally) wiser than they once were.

But does that make them marriage material? Pauly D and Vinny think so -- and so does MTV.

As you've likely heard by now, Mike Sorrentino reported to prison this week to begin serving an eight-month sentence for tax fraud.

As we reported earlier, there's a good chance that Mike will qualify for early release, and the fact that The Situation is sober will likely help his standing with the parole board.

When the world first learned that Jersey Shore would be returning to MTV, there were concerns that with the cast approaching middle-age, there wouldn't be enough drama in their lives to sustain an entire season of television.

Instead, the opposite has proven true, and it's turned out that there's more chaos and insanity in the guidos' lives than could ever be contained in a single reality show.

For most of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Season 2, fans have been watching Ronnie get pounded on by girlfriend Jen Harley.

The two have a very unhealthy relationship.

We nearly saw Vinny Guadagnino's penis on the latest episode of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

But while this veteran castmate thankfully kept his junk in his pants, Vinny let it all come out when discussing his feelings toward former fling Angelina Pivarnick.

The cast of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation was tasked with its most important mission of all-time this week:

Finding a new home to crash in for awhile.

A major secret was revealed on Jersey Shore: Family Vacation this week.

And a major bombshell was dropped.

If you caught last night's episode of Jersey Shore Family Vacation, you may have found yourself with a number of questions as the closing credits rolled:

Those questions may have included:

They... are... back!

Well, they were back.

Jersey Shore: Family has been all about relationships on Season 2.

We've watched as Ronnie and Jen Harley have screamed and yelled at each other, with fists and saliva occasionally flying back and forth between the parents of poor little Ariana.

If you've been watching the show this season, then you're probably aware that producers keep introducing the Staten Island Hamster into the festering rodent cage that is Jersey Shore Family Vacation.

Thus far, the decision to have Angelina Pivarnick haul her duct-taped garbage bag full of clothes all over the country in pursuit of the housemates' friendship has yielded mixed results.

If you've been watching the current season of Jersey Shore Family Vacation, you may have found yourself surprised by a number of things:

There's the fact that Ronnie's new relationship is somehow more unhealthy than his famously tumultuous romance with Sammi Giancola.

So... how did Jersey Shore follow up THAT episode?

How did Jersey Shore match the intensity and drama of Jen Harley spitting on her baby daddy and having to be restrained by security a week ago?

The problem with reality television in the age of social media is that real-time spoilers are pretty much unavoidable.

For example, we've known for months that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is engaged to Lauren Pesce, so any suspense on last night's Jersey Shore Family Vacation regarding whether or not JWoww will ruin his proposal because Mike threatened to throw a pie in her face (?!?!?) didn't really have us chewing our cuticles with anticipation.

Angelina Pivarnick's brief stint on Jersey Shore Family Vacation was probably a ratings stunt coordinated by the show's producers, and not -- as it was framed -- a brainchild of prank war champion Pauly D.

The Rob Kardashian of Staten Island injected some much-needed drama into the proceedings, but last night, she was told to pack her garbage bags and head back north.