The End Of GTL Is Near As "Jersey Shore" Kicks Off Final Season

Oct. 3 2012, Published 6:42 a.m. ET
If a Guido gorilla juicehead gets drunk in New Jersey and no camera is there to capture it, does he still get a hangover? After three years, six seasons and total pop culture saturation (see their painful cameo in the Three Stooges movie), the party animals of Jersey Shore are leaving the air — but not before one last round of drinks and GTL.
"I think we all had an idea that this could be our last season," Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola tells Star. But she knows it's time to move on: "We're kind of growing up, and everybody's lives are moving in different directions."
For starters, there's still-pregnant Snooki's bombshell decision to avoid prepartum temptation by moving out of the house (albeit to a place right next door). Then there's The Situation, who tries to rehab his image by spending the season sober. But whether it's Deena getting arrested or Vinny and Pauly D's ever-reliable bromance, the cr