Jersey Shore has come to end, we're (genuinely) sad to say. We know we had fun. But is it possible we also saw something, dare I say it, subversive about beauty, gender and sexuality? I think so.

Clever statement on their juvenile proclivities? Sign that the Jersey Shore phenomenon has peaked and then some? Or just Brooklyn hipster parenting gone too far? [Babelgum]

TMZ reports that Brad Ferro has "30 days to pack up his stuff and split from North Queens Community High School." Because apparently his original assault charge last summer wasn't enough. Who says reality TV is useless to society? [TMZ]

Enjoying Jersey Shore "hinges not on our ability to identify with them but on our ability to distinguish ourselves from them... as though we were anthropologists secretly observing a new tribe through a break in the trees." [The New Yorker]

David Kronke of the LA Times is absolutely horrified by the "harpies" of reality television, and wonders what Jane Austen would make of "the genre's lurid fascination with attractive and monumentally self-absorbed young women." Oh, dear.

ABC has greenlit a pilot based on a self-help book written by husband-and-wife TV comedy writers. Sample wisdom: "Men don't make men dumb. Boobs make men dumb." Promising! Plus, the last self-help book to be dramatized went so well. [THR]

Brad Ferro, who drunkenly punched Jersey Shore's Snooki in a bar, has apologized via the New York Post, saying he remembers "very little" of that night and that "I was raised to act in a respectful manner to women."

Jersey Shore's Snooki getting punched in the face has graduated to bonafide cultural phenomenon with tasteless products real and fake. On the bright side, maybe it'll help her fufill her wish of getting her own show. [BWE, DonkeyTs]

"I don't care what a girl says, you still don't put your hands on her," DJ Pauly D tells ET about the infamous punch. Meanwhile, people are asking the cast for beauty tips, and Snooki wants her own show.

The father of the gym teacher who punched Jersey Shore's Snooki in the face has some fighting words of his own. "He doesn't understand how that happened," says Dan Ferro. "She was being very aggressive. That's who she is, apparently."

The episode of Jersey Shore that includes Snooki getting punched by a man in a bar will air next week, followed by a PSA cautioning, "Violence against women in any form is a crime," reports the Daily News.

MTV's trailer for the rest of Jersey Shore's debut season contains a glimpse of a guy in a bar punching Snookie in the face. It's already becoming an Internet sensation. Why the glee? And should MTV have used the footage?

On last night's Entertainment Tonight, Jon Gosselin chose Hailey Glassman's interview with Mary Hart as his opportunity to "break up" with her. Mary's WTF faces were gold. We present to you our version of the interview: LOL Jerks.

There was lots of drama on the show previously known as The Fatchelor last night, as Luke went on three "dates."

Last night's premiere of More To Love was even more disturbing than anticipated, not because overweight women were being exploited, but because the star, Luke, is a jackass.

Kate Harding: "[The show] does does little to dispel the myth that fat people's lives are built around dessert and desperation." Marianne Kirby: "It's a one-two punch of acceptance followed by a knockout blow of shame." [Salon, The Daily Beast]

When we first heard about reality dating show More To Love, we were skeptical. Then Megan auditioned, and we were uneasy. LA Times writer Maria Elena Fernandez visited the set, and her report leaves us with mixed emotions.