'The Real World'

You'd think that with "Jersey Shore" fulfilling our "drunken twentysomethings do stupid things and fight with each other" quota, MTV would deem its long-running franchise unnecessary. Yet it still exists, nearly 20 years and 27 seasons later, with seemingly identical groups of people moving into tricked-out mansions just to have sex, drink, puke and punch. The formula's old, and we find it hard to believe that people are still really watching. Basically, we feel like our parents. "Who watches this crap?!"

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You'd think that with "Jersey Shore" fulfilling our "drunken twentysomethings do stupid things and fight with each other" quota, MTV would deem its long-running franchise unnecessary. Yet it still exists, nearly 20 years and 27 seasons later, with seemingly identical groups of people moving into tricked-out mansions just to have sex, drink, puke and punch. The formula's old, and we find it hard to believe that people are still really watching. Basically, we feel like our parents. "Who watches this crap?!"

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