Continuing on their quest to give the most undeserving people airtime for the sole comedic enjoyment of the viewing public, tonight at 10 PM MTV is airing their latest masterpiece: Jersey Shore. Building off of the hilarious episode of True Life, Jersey Shore will focus on the lifestyle of the predominately Italian-American kids who frequent the Jersey Shore and what they do while they're down there. Sounds good, right? Well, not to UNICO, the largest Italian-American organization in the country. They've been doing everything they can to get the show shelved, stating that it depicts Italian-Americans in a negative light. In other words, they're afraid of MTV exploiting the Guido image.
Too bad none of the kids on the show feel the same way. One cast member was even quoted as saying, "Everybody that's young, if we hear the term Guido, in our circles, it's like a good-looking Italian guy." So there. The idea of what a guido is has even changed over time, from an Italian-American who is involved with the crime world to, well, the descendents of those guys who now rock fake tans, blowed-out hair and tweeze their eyebrows—you know who we're talking about. We went back through time and picked some of the biggest moments in Guido pop culture history to show just how much shit has changed...
GROWING UP GOTTI
Year: 2004
If one show marked the arrival of the new guido, it was this. The show centered around Victoria Gotti, daughter of infamous mob boss John Gotti, and her three sons. Thankfully the show was canceled after 41 episodes, but not before we saw her as the grown spoiled brat that she was, and her sons as the super soft, super spoiled, super tanned and super annoying that they were. We prayed and prayed they would get robbed, but, sadly, it never happened.
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LEE HOTTI
Year: 2006
January 9th, 2006 was a sad day for New Jersey when the above photo of Lee Hotti and his friends was posted to the internet. The stereotypical guido picture, showed Lee, his brothers and boys in all their tanned glory "living it" presumably in some NJ Shore club. The internet went nuts, reposting the picture all over the Net and even going as far as to make a mock website called LeeHotti.com.
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GUIDO THE CAR
Year: 2006
Now, we all know Disney has a history of racial insensitivity, but how the hell did this make it the final cut of the script? In their (and Pixars) 2006 mega-hit, Cars one of the characters is an Italian tow-truck who doesn't seem to have all his bolts screwed tight and can't seem to speak proper English. And his name just happened to be Guido. Really? We guess goombah was just too inflammatory.
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