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'Jersey Shore' recap: Dropping Like Flies


So, Vinny has left the building and it's up to a devastated Pauly (who's been staring despondently at the departing taxi) to head inside the club and tell everyone else that they are one roommate down.

Deena takes it the hardest ("I love him!"), breaking down in tears and prompting "mommy" JWoww to drag her to the bathroom to sort herself out. "She overreacts at everything," says JWoww. "Hearing Vinny stubbed his toe she might cry." Deena gets a pep talk in the bathroom, pulls herself together and heads back to the club (with toilet tissue sticking to her shoe).

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Mike, meanwhile, isn't letting Vinny's departure spoil his night and is on the hunt for a girl. "I'm like a shopper in a store," he crows. "I see something I like and it's, 'Come with me'." His terrible chat up lines about breakfast requests remarkably do the trick with one girl who joins him in the cab home. Pauly isn't impressed but seems he's got bigger things on his mind than stopping the hookup: "I would have used the grenade hammer on the girl Situation brought home but I had to grab this cute girl to get it in for my man Vinny."

While all this is happening in Seaside (and Deena's still upset), a somber Vinny's arrived home into the arms of his family. "I had a lot of anxiety over there," he says. "I had to deal with it over here. It wasn't the right environment for me to be in to deal with that, it was too much."

Jersey Shore S05E03: 'Dropping Like Flies'


The mood's improved at the Seaside house the next morning as Pauly and Mike get ready to celebrate their birthdays. Snooki's in a good mood too, planning a "Meatball Day" with Deena. After promising Jionni that she "won't cheat", she's ready to party: "Let's just get wasty pants!"

The duo head off to a Shore bar where dirty dancing ensues (inevitably), Deena does some shots off Snooki's stomach, and Deena's sister Joanie turns up. "Mom's going to kill me for getting you drunk!" laments Deena. They also meet an "awesome gay guy" which thrills Deena: "You can get fricking hammered and you don't have to worry about the end of the night!"

Seems the end of the night might be coming sooner than they think... Snooki's so drunk she can't walk straight and it looks like a bit of mission to get her from the bar to... the next club, which is just what she needs. "I hope she doesn't get fricking arrested again," worries Deena. "You know it's bad when I'm the sober one." True.

Snooki, however, seems to make a remarkable recovery at the club, even taking to the dance floor to show the young 'uns how it's done which turns into a blur of meatballs and hair extensions flying around to the music... until they both end up on the floor. Sensibly, Deena realizes it's probably time to go home and, arriving back at the house with her nether regions apparently more on display than she'd like, gets charmingly greeted by Mike: "What corner was you working tonight?"

Jersey Shore S05E03: 'Dropping Like Flies'


Unfortunately for poor Deena, she's now got to deal with the mother of all hair disasters. Seems she's danced so much her extensions have become irreparably tangled (who thought that was possible?) "You might as well go Britney Spears and shave your head because [you are] screwed," advises Snooki.

Deena's not-at-all melodramatic response? "My identity is tearing off me at this point. It's like fingerprints. How do you tell guidettes apart without their hair extensions?"

After a good deep conditioning treatment it seems she's good to go again as the group head off to Karma, with Ronnie rocking some skinny jeans in honor of Vinny.

Oh dear, though, it seems The Unit is in the building and Mike has mischief on his mind planning a game called 'The Truth Will Set You Free'. But, not so fast! His plans are scuppered again when a random fight breaks out inside, The Unit gets kicked out, and Snooki takes the chance to escape off home to 'smush' with Jionni.

"Nicole is definitely not off the hook," warns Mike. "This summer has just started..."

Jersey Shore S05E03: 'Dropping Like Flies'


On a happier note, Pauly's found someone who is so 'DTF' he's barely in the door of the club before he's heading back home again to honor Vinny by smushing her in his ex-roommate's bed, which he tells Vinny all about the next morning when the group catch up with him via the Duck Phone.

Another day, another night of clubbing, this time at Aztec where Deena's once again on the bar dancing her socks off. It's all going great for her until she recognizes one of the men in the club. Turns out she made out with his twin brother last year (although she thinks the new guy is the cuter one). That doesn't seem to put Twin 2 off though, as he accompanies her home later in the night...

Pauly and Mike have also found girls at the club. Mike, actually, found two. Old hookup Paula and a new Bosnian girl he'd met at the Shore Store earlier in the day, but he's more into Paula so he kindly offers the Bosnian girl to Pauly D who's hoping for some birthday sex.

Jersey Shore S05E03: 'Dropping Like Flies'


Unfortunately for him, back at the house it seems the Bosnian is only interested in talking, which is clearly not what Pauly's wanting right now: "It should be against the law to come to my house at four in the morning on my birthday and not give me birthday sex!"

So it's a call to the cab company and she's off... Or is she? Later that night there's a knock at the door. She's back! But this time she's looking for Mike. Sammi's confused - why would someone be DTF with Mike and not Pauly? Whatever the reason, Mike's occupied with Paula, who's won Sammi around (we think): "I really like Paula. She might be grimy and dirty and disgusting but she's still a nice girl."

Despite no birthday sex, Pauly gets a nice surprise when his entire family turn up on the doorstep to wish him a happy birthday. Unfortunately for Mike, it's the beginning of a day from hell as his own family are unable to come and he has to watch everyone fawning over Pauly at the restaurant and forgetting about him.

Jersey Shore S05E03: 'Dropping Like Flies'


It gets much worse when he arrives home to find the girls have made a special birthday cake for Pauly but nothing for him. "I must be the devil in this house. There is a good guy and a bad guy in the movies and Pauly is the good guy and it seems I'm the bad guy a lot of the time."

Snooki's pretty unapologetic: "That's what you get for being a f**king douchebag."

So, it's a pretty sad end to Mike's birthday as he sits alone on the roof and reflects on the day. "I wear my heart on my sleeve and it hurts me to think people don't care," he says. "I can walk by myself, but at the end of the day I'm just a very emotional dude and I'm starting to see that no matter how good I am I'm never seen as the good guy."

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