Jersey Shore canceled: Have we seen the last of Snooki

Jersey Shore canceled: MTV announced that its raucous so-called reality show will conclude after its sixth season, which begins in October.

By Frazier Moore,?AP Television Writer / August 31, 2012

This undated image released by MTV shows the cast of "Jersey Shore." MTV gave the last call for the so-called reality show on Thursday, saying that it will come to an end after its upcoming sixth season, which begins Oct. 4.

Ian Spanier Photography/MTV/AP

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?MTV?gave the last?call for "Jersey?Shore" on Thursday, saying the raucous?reality?show will conclude after its upcoming?sixth?season, which begins?Oct. 4.

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The series, whose roots lay in a party house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, has given rise to stars such as Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, just two from a cast of characters who were over-tanned, over-loud and always pumped up. It popularized the terms "guido" and "guidette" and the mantra "Gym, tan, laundry" while trying the patience of locals with its party-hearty antics.

"Jersey?Shore" became a pop-culture sensation and one of MTV's biggest hits with its premiere in December 2009. It drew as many as 8 million viewers while spawning the spinoffs "Snooki & JWoww" and "The Pauly D Project." But ratings have eroded in recent seasons.

The show strayed from Jersey during its run. In Season 2, the housemates fled winter for Miami Beach. The fourth season took them to Italy.

But you could never take the Jersey out of "Jersey?Shore" ? or at least a certain Jersey stereotype the show made sport of riotously.

Meanwhile, certain Jersey locals made no secret of their disdain for the show.

Two years ago, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called it "negative for New Jersey," telling a TV interviewer the show "takes a bunch of New Yorkers, drops them at the Jersey?Shore and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey."

Most of the cast members are from New York.

But all that really mattered was, every one of them was from "Jersey?Shore," and as such, kept themselves defiantly in the public eye. (Just this past Sunday, Snooki grabbed headlines with the birth of her first child.)

On Sept. 6, MTV will launch its season-spanning cavalcade of farewell "Jersey" fare with a retrospective special, "Gym, Tan, Look Back." The party isn't over yet.

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