Ciao Jersey Shore! Teary Goodbyes, Outrageous Pranks & One Last Fist Pump

Dec. 21 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
By Amber Goodhand - Breaking Celebrity News News Editor
The time has come to say ciao to the hard-partying, fist-pumping, drama-filled guidos and guidettes of The Jersey Shore as their series finale aired Thursday night and Breaking Celebrity News has a recap of the greatest moments in their teary goodbye.
After six seasons of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Jenni "J-Woww" Farley, Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, Ronnie Magro, Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola, Vinny Guadagnino, Deena Cortese and Angelina Pivarnick, the GTL gang is parting ways and will no longer be gracing the screen of MTV together.
The cast's final days spent at their Seaside Heights house were celebrated with a summer bonfire party surrounded by family and friends, outrageous pranks being played on each other, reminiscing on all they've been through together, a strip tease, and streams of tears as the cast parted ways.
The Situation can't stop talking about how he's in "the best shape of his life," but gets destroyed by Snooki's fiancé Jionni LaValle when the two play a pickup football game on the beach.
As if losing to Jionni wasn't enough, The Situation lost his cool after his on-again-off-again hookup Paula baked him a birthday cake which Ronnie called the "nut cake" because she'd had a pal at the tanning salon christen the cake with his privates before she iced it —