# South Park: 10/13/10: "It's a Jersey Thing" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081 "2010-10-14T03:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/1 "2010-10-14T03:17:07Z")
So what the hell _is_ “muff cabbage” anyway? I thought this one was pretty good. I liked Kyle’s mom going Jersey, and the _Teen Wolf_ nod. I also liked Kyle going off on Cartman. I think I might have appreciated it more if I’d ever seen _Jersey Shore_, and I don’t think I really got the “Snookie’ and 'Situation” references, although I assume they’re characters on the show. Is Snookie as nasty as they made her look? Because that’s about as brutal a portrayal as they’ve done since Mel Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/2 "2010-10-14T04:17:44Z")
Here’s the link, which should work soon: [http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e09-its-a-jersey-thing](http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e09-its-a-jersey-thing) ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/3 "2010-10-14T04:31:02Z")
I don’t think Snooki is that bad . . . I think in terms of personality she’s one of the more likeable people on the show, although her look is pretty goofy. I loved how the “sitch” had his abs exposed for no reason. Just like the show. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/4 "2010-10-14T23:32:24Z")
“Snookie” raping Cartman had me laughing so hard I thought I was going to throw up. I’ve never watched Jersey Shore, but they’ve infiltrated pop culture so much as of late I still had enough of a passing knowledge to get what was going on and find the show hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/5 "2010-10-14T23:56:54Z")
I watch Jersey Shore religiously (stop judging me!) and even I was almost in tears as Cartman screamed out, “OH GOD, IT’S RAPING ME!!!” [Oh, God…a GIF of it. hahaha](http://i51.tinypic.com/10y4biw.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/6 "2010-10-15T00:53:33Z")
I loved the parody of _Jersey Shore_, but I did think it was a little off the way that Jersey was finally defeated. A little bit too soon. Matt and Trey are often a little bit too soon with a joke, and it’s not much, but I wasn’t entirely on board with that one. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/7 "2010-10-15T01:05:24Z")
I thought the episode was hilarious. I have a good friend for Jersey and she hates all these shows (“Goddamnit, we aren’t all like that!”) and I made sure she watched this. Good episode all around. My wife was raised in New Jersey for a few years. Thankfully she didn’t get the accent but every once and a while that attitude will slip out. Me, born and raised in Cali, just looks at her sometimes and go, “Dude, there’s no reason for that. Be nice.” ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/8 "2010-10-15T03:44:47Z")
For the people who don’t watch Jersey Shore, the reason Snooki kept saying, “want smushy-smushy” or whatever is because “smush” is the term the JS denizens use for sex ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/9 "2010-10-15T03:53:10Z")
So what is “muff cabbage?” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/10 "2010-10-15T04:10:10Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > So what is “muff cabbage?” Really? You don’t know what muff means? Now go look at a cabbage. Here’s [some](http://bodyecology.com/07/02/08/cut_cabbage.jpg) [help](http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/images/large/cabbage9.jpg). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/11 "2010-10-15T05:07:41Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > > So what is “muff cabbage?” > > Really? You don’t know what muff means? Now go look at a cabbage. > > Here’s [some](http://bodyecology.com/07/02/08/cut_cabbage.jpg) [help](http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/images/large/cabbage9.jpg). > > 🙂 Yeah, I thought it was pretty self-explanatory. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/12 "2010-10-15T05:18:15Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I loved the parody of _Jersey Shore_, but I did think it was a little off the way that Jersey was finally defeated. A little bit too soon. Matt and Trey are often a little bit too soon with a joke, and it’s not much, but I wasn’t entirely on board with that one. As they said, there’s still 10 months left. The muff cabbage thing seems odd, since it combines two different slang words for the same thing. I assumed the cabbage part was to imply that it had not been taken care of properly. I also thought the use of cabbage by itself was actually them saying garbage in the New Jersey accent. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/13 "2010-10-15T05:24:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I also thought the use of cabbage by itself was actually them saying garbage in the New Jersey accent. I thought the very same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/14 "2010-10-15T05:27:11Z")
Yeah, I though if “cabbage” was pubic hair then the phrase was redundant, so I assumed it was something _in_ the pubic hair. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/15 "2010-10-15T05:28:08Z")
It was a good episode. I think if I was familiar with the show “Jersey Shore,” it woud’ve been funnier. I like the way the Situation was drawn to look fairly close to his face in real life. It kind of went all over the place and I think the Al-Qaeda thing didn’t add anything to the humour. It just wasn’t funny. It could’ve been left out or something else could’ve been used. After all Al-Qaeda is pretty weak anyway. Using a Hugo Chávez type of leader might have been funnier ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/16 "2010-10-15T05:29:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Yeah, I though if “cabbage” was pubic hair then the phrase was redundant, so I assumed it was something _in_ the pubic hair. Neither refers to pubic hair. > [@Urban Dictionary](#): > > Contrary to popular believe[sic], the word muff is not associated with hair at all. Instead, the word “muff” is an inoffensive, slang word for a vagina. Muffs can range from dainty and tight to floppy and roast beef colored. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/17 "2010-10-15T05:39:06Z")
Muffs are bushes. It’s a reference to fur muffs used as hand warmers. Muffs meant bush before you were born, dude. You kids didn’t invent the word. It comes from an era before shaving was commonplace. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/18 "2010-10-15T05:41:08Z")
This is a thread about a show made by two of us kids. You aren’t arguing over what the word “fag” means based on what it _used_ to mean. And there are _two_ muff pages on Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muff\_(genitals)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muff_(genitals)) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muff\_(hair)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muff_(hair)) So yeah, it doesn’t exclusively refer to pubic hair. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/19 "2010-10-15T05:43:05Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > This is a thread about a show made by two of us kids. You wanted to know what it meant and I told you. What it meant before I was born isn’t very relevant. Listen whippersnapper, back in MY day, our muffs were made of brontosaurus skins. Yes. I mean that BOTH ways. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081/20 "2010-10-15T05:45:47Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > This is a thread about a show made by two of us kids. You wanted to know what it meant and I told you. What it meant before I was born isn’t very relevant. > > Listen whippersnapper, back in MY day, our muffs were made of brontosaurus skins. Yes. I mean that BOTH ways. You old people are living in the past. Just look, you’re even using an outdated quote! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-10-13-10-its-a-jersey-thing-open-spoilers/557081.md?page=2)