Everything sells!

An year back MTV premiered a useless (i can say it after watching two seasons of it) TV programme called "Jersey Shore", which soon became The most rated show in MTV's history. If you've been fortunate enough not to have heared about it or seen it, then let me throw some light on the subject.
It's a reality show, where 8 Italian-American "unknown & practically unemployed" youngsters - Four men and Four women (claiming to be in their 20s) are living their life under 24*7 camera surveillance. To be distinguished from Bigg Boss or Big Brother, they are allowed to go out of the apartment, interact with public and do whatever (literally!) they want to do.
All of them work during day (on rotational basis) and party at night without fail. As it is shown, the only purpose of their life is to:

1. Find an opposite sex partner and bring him/ her back to the apartment (or crib as they call it) for hook-up
2. Gym and Tanning (freaked about tanning, to the extent of getting skin cancer) for boys

Besides these two activities, there is a third most common activity is 'house-hold barney. That's it. Period.
All crew members use extremely high quality abusive language all the time (bare minimum Four letter word in a sentence). Thus, the show is able to add few new words/ phrases to the American english. Some of them are (filtered out):

• Grenade: Ugly woman
• Landmine: A good looking woman only until you find a woman prettier than her
• Smoosh: Hook-up
• Diarrhoea in the stomach: used for the one who cannot digest news (equivalent of pet me ghaddhe)

When the show first aired and after watching same thing in next few episodes some wise men and women wondered this is now how youths live in New Jersey (First season was filmed in New Jersey). What impression this show will leave on youngsters' minds? Where the quality of our TV programme is going? So there was a huge protest in New Jersey, the city mayor came out and there were rallies. Nothing happend though. What can happen if the show rating is astronomically shooting upwards? Further, the show rating went record high when one of the female crew members was hit directly on the face at a night club by a crazy man from janta. Seems like people are getting a lot enjoyment out of a woman being hit!
All the erstwhile ''unknown and unemployed" crew member now earns minimum $ 30 grand per episode. Not to mention, they've been invited almost daily at premier pubs/ bars and night club for appearance - huge money. Each of the member has earned millions of dollars in a year. Like celebrities, some of them have introduced clothing and cosmetics brands, have got ad contracts, have been hired by another TV shows.
To top it all, the Jersey Shore crew appeared in Barbara Walters show (ABC TV) as one among the most fascinated people in US. Even the crew was highly surprised! :-\
But the wise people of US continue to say that this is not what a youth of US is all about. However the reality is quite bitter. Unfortunately, the youth wants all the fun (probably a relief from saddening and darkest recession in US history).
The show had a successful season 2 at Miami beach, although the name of the show remains Jersey Shore. A point to highlight for season 2 - principles and values remain the same so nothing has changed from season 1. It's still a big hit. With all this great news, MTV is all set to begin the Season 3. Believe it or not, Jersey shore has managed to get registered in the history of US television.
Caution: This show can be highly addicted! :)