DC ExtraTime: The Keto Guido Gets Unmasked

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If Thursday is your favorite night of television, in the past few years it is as if we have stepped back in time to more simpler but also livelier times than it is right now. The return after a six year's hiatus of the cast of Jersey Shore has brought buzz back to MTV, coming a decade after it all began for the most beloved family this channel has ever given us. The tenth overall season of the Jersey series - the fourth of the Family Vacation relaunch - is approaching its conclusion after it has spent most of this cuffing season in the bubble of a resort hotel in Lake Las Vegas, far from the lights and the glitz of the Strip.

This winter in Jersey'ville -- the first without Snooki as part of the group -- began with the girls divided after the drama of Angelina's big wedding night and the speech at her reception that changed everything. But the RSVP boys had an idea of bringing them together for another trip... there was also the night where the only dad of this bunch, Ronnie, was the bachelor in waiting in his dating show. But it was when the Hamster made her way to Vegas that things have now begun to get wild once again, along with Pauly's girlfriend Nikki and, as of this past week, JWOWW... and there may be more to come when the man who helps out with the last act of every Teen Mom season, Dr. Drew, will be called in to help.

The last time we saw Pauly & Nikki together in Southern Nevada, it was at the end of that epic summer of Season 2 of A Double Shot at Love, where they rekindled things after the stunning end to Season 1 a year earlier. Last week on this DCBLOG site, we featured the first cameo of any member of Team MTV on a TV show or music video of 2021 when fellow DSAL suitor and Are You The One? alum Maria Elizondo got cuddly with Miley's brother Trace Cyrus in the video for "Typical Suspect." And as a prelude to last Jerzday's drama, Maria's perfect match Vinny found himself on the stage of the cousin of the biggest new phenomenon in American television.