07x07 - Family Meeting

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- ♪ MTV ♪

- I know where I stand with Ange.

- Me, too. I know where I stand.

The girl's a b*tch.

- The girl just doesn't like me.

- She's an as*h*le.

It is what it is.

all: J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!

- So my husband plays for the Jets.

My husband gets a DM from this girl, Angela.

She DM's my husband and said,

"See u soon."

It's weird. You don't message

a married woman's man.

- So I think we should talk about our fourth location.

- Nashville, we had a realtor reach out.

- I could scout with the roomies.

- Yeah. - Have you spoken to Ron?

- So you want to invite him to Nashville?

- I think it's time.

It's been a few years.

Ron hasn't been in the news.

He's definitely been a missing piece, but...

We have to figure out the Sam situation as well.

[upbeat music]

- Yeah, buddy!

- Party's here!

- The Situation is under construction.

- We're so classy now.

- On the seventh day, it'll be lit.

- Get the frig out of here, you crazy!

- Um, hello?

- I'm still the sweetest b*tch you'll ever meet.

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- ♪ Me plus you, you plus me ♪

♪ Yeah, we're a happy family ♪

♪ Some families might be big, some families might be small ♪

- We got to get ready for Nashville.

- Yes. Have you spoken to Ron?

- Mm-mm. - No?

I think it's time. It's been like two years or so

that he hasn't been on a family trip with us.

- Yeah. - And I feel that,

after all the check-ins over the past couple months,

or actually, years... - Yeah.

He's off TMZ. He's not doing anything crazy.

- He needs to maybe hang around good people.

I think it's time.

I believe Ron is at peace

and where he needs to be in life.

And I think bringing Ron back into the fold

will be a positive-- for him, for the squad.

And as a friend, it would be nice to see more of him.

Right now, the first thing to get over is to call Ron

and be like, are you gonna be available this weekend?

We think it's time.

- So we're not asking the roomies?

- Well, this is why you're here,

so I don't get yelled at.

- Oh, so I get yelled at, too.

- I'm joking.

We have to figure out the Sam situation as well.

- Mike wants to invite Ron.

But what I'm worried about is Sam.

You know, like, they haven't seen each other in so long,

and they've been through so much sh*t.

- I am a big believer in giving people

second chances. - Right.

I mean, this definitely can go sideways.

Like, this is my first trip. I haven't planned a trip yet.

And I'm like, f*ck, maybe it's not gonna be so much fun.

- You guys opened the door for me.

I had already been a couple years sober,

and I took the ball and ran with it.

And now we're gonna do the same thing for Ron.

I am a big believer in the comeback,

so we gotta at least take the leap of faith.

Oh, my God, it's here. Food.

- Yes.

- Yes. - Ooh.

- We will be part of the orchestration

that had brought the family back together.

- If it goes well. - If it goes terrible, yeah...

- We're f*cked. - We definitely have

a situation, for sure. - Mm-hmm.

- This is a very big moment,

because Ron has been absent in this group for many years.

Sam has been absent for almost ten, and she just came back.

And now we're all trying to bring everybody back together.

Things could fall apart very quickly.

Oh, my God.

The pizza and the baked clams are here.

- Oh, man.

- Yep. - Oh, sh*t.

I'm getting full already.

We've still got Bolognese coming.

- How do you think Sam is gonna feel about this?

- Honestly, she knows it's coming.

- She does.

- 'Cause it happened in Orlando.

- Yep. - And she knew coming back

that it could possibly happen.

- I mean, I can coexist.

I'm at a different place in my life.

- Yeah. - His shitshow

isn't my shitshow anymore.

And he's a part of this group.

I understand that.

- Very mature of you. - Don't ever feel

like, awkward if you're friends with him.

Don't ever feel like that. - And you don't have to be.

- If he stays his course, I think we'll be OK.

- This happens all the time in life.

Parents get divorced, and people sort of move on.

And you know, we tired of multiple holidays

and you know, two pizzas and stuff.

We want to share one.

Let's see if he's available. Let's call him up.

- If Sam wasn't here, I feel like

we'd all just be like, all right, Ron, let's go.

But now Sam is back, and they have such a history.

I don't want her to leave again,

because we just got her back.

So this is like a sticky situation.

Like, I can't imagine seeing my ex.

- Hey, what's up, buddy?

- What's good, man? You got that tan, man.

Where you at?

- I'm out here in Miami.

Just got out of the gym, bro.

- Still doing GTL.

- Me and Nicole have been sitting here for the past hour

talking good things about you.

We're going to Nashville,

and we were like, we think it's time, man,

that we take the leap, man.

- What are your plans for this weekend?

- Nothing. What are your plans?

- Are you free? - Yeah, I'm free.

- We wanted to see your availability for this weekend.

I mean, there are still some logistics

that me and Nicole are gonna have to fight through.

- Oh, my God.

- We're gonna see Sam and see

if we all can have this big reunion.

[suspenseful music]

Go to bat for you, and we're gonna let her know

that we think it's time, and see what happens.

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- All right, man, I'm in.

- There we go.

- Ron, we are all in our feels over here,

so we're gonna obviously break this news to the squad.

We're gonna have to call you back,

and me and Nicole are gonna see if we can confirm

this big reunion in Nashville.

- You guys let me know. I love you guys.

Thank you. I appreciate you guys, like always.

- All right, brother. I'll text you later.

- All right, we'll talk soon. - Call me.

I'll be around waiting for you guys.

Let me know. - All right.

- That was the easy part.

Now I've got to run this by the squad.

There's a lot of what-ifs with this particular situation.

- I'm scared. - We can tell Sammi

he's been concentrating on his mental health.

He hasn't been in trouble.

- He's doing great with the baby.

- And also, it's better to do it on this roomie vacation

than it is on the family vacation--

- With Justin. - With Justin.

- Right. - So figure out everything now.

I think the phrase is, don't wait for the perfect time.

Make the perfect time.

- So we just made the perfect time?

- We're just--we're making it.

Yeah, we're taking the initiative,

and we're just making it.

- I think we should tell the roomies,

and then maybe tell Sam...

- Separately? - Maybe.

You know, he's been our brother.

- Yeah. - We have to give him

a second chance like we gave you.

- Yeah. - This is also a business trip.

- Yes, yes. - I really want to find

my store, and I don't want it to be...

- I got it. - Everyone fighting.

- Yes. - You know what I mean?

- No, I-- - Let's try and make it

as positive as we can, because this is my trip.

- I'm gonna send a group chat text and say,

"Guys, can you meet me at my house?

This is important family business."

- [sighs]

- "Hey, guys. Family meeting at my house.

Can you all come?"

- There's always something.

- "Very important family business."

- They are probably like, oh, my God,

what is happening right now? - I know.

- This better be good, bro.

- Deena responded, "Here we go."

- Oh, my God, everyone knows something's going on.

- Everybody knows something's up.

Pauly just texted me back like, "What is happening right now?"

- Wait, where is he?

- Pauly's probably on a plane,

and Vinny's probably on the pole.

- And Angelina's MIA.

- She's MIA. Has anyone spoken to her?

- I don't know. - I don't know either.

- Yeah. But obviously, you know,

she's invited. - Yes.

Angelina definitely seems like

she's going through a lot right now.

You know, there's problems in her relationship...

You and Vin? What's happening with that?

- Are you broken up?

- Mm... - Bro.

- Problems with her dad.

- I was trying to get to know him, and...

- And then Ange went into attack mode.

- f*ck off, fam. - Why are you--

- f*ck'--

You're all pussies.

I'm a child having a temper tantrum?

b*tch, I brought you in here. I'll take you the f*ck out.

- So we're worried for Angelina at this particular point.

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- ♪ Get 'em up, get 'em up ♪

- If you're a "Jersey Shore" fan, keep watching.

- So Angela from the show...

- Angela?

- DMs my husband and said,

"See u soon."

Here's the DM. Weirdo.

She's weird. That's weird.

You don't message a married woman's man.

- When we were at the Jets game,

I decided to just DM some of the Jets players, you know?

I DM'd every one of those f*cking guys,

and they were awesome.

But I didn't know one of them was married.

- She looks so insecure

as a wife posting this. - Dude, she is so insecure.

Um, the girl's a clown.

The Jets--whatever the f*ck her name is.

Her shower curtain means more to me.

- All right. I'm texting Sam right now.

"Sam, I have important family business.

Can you come to my house?"

- "Important family business.

Please come over in an hour."

[sighs]

I wonder what that means.

- This could go totally sideways.

- It probably will work out

if I bring everybody some cannolis.

- Should you order food for everyone coming over?

- Yes. I have a bunch of unsuspecting roomies

coming over, and I'm about to break

some big news to them. - OK.

- I need every advantage I can get here,

coming back to my crib with the squad coming.

Can I get three orders of meatballs,

two orders of chopped salad,

a Caesar salad, three Margherita pizzas,

two Lenny specials, Patricia's pizza,

a hot and sweet pizza, an order a penne vodka,

an order of rigatoni--

- I think that's good. - Wait, I'm almost done.

An order of orecchiette, mac and cheese,

side order of sauteed spinach,

brussels sprouts, and some cannolis.

- Wow. Damn.

- Yes. And another diet soda, please?

- Yep. - Thank you.

- You can't go wrong when Big Daddy Sitch is ordering.

- Can I take this wine?

- Yes, you can. - Thank you.

- And the good thing about it was,

I actually got two of every dessert.

- [gasps] Michael.

- First thing would be that we're all OK

with sort of moving forward in that direction or not.

Then, once Sam comes here, we would talk to her as well.

- When Sam gets here, who's gonna tell her?

Not it. - Not it.

- Ron may be coming back.

Now ask you--

- Ask me what?

- If you're OK with taking the leap

and seeing what happens.

- ♪ Loose talk, blow the roof off ♪

- Windows are dirty.

Man, group chat is lit.

Ah, man.

Now I kind of want to know what's going on.

Times like this, I wish I lived in Jersey.

- ♪ Yeah, I'm spinning, but I'm living and it's too raw ♪

♪ Loose talk, 'bout to take off ♪

- We need time to set up.

This is really big.

I pretty much gave Ron the invite

to go to Nashville, and I want to make sure

the squad's on the same page right now.

All right. - Game time.

- It's show time.

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- I can't get down.

[gasps] - Oh, my God.

- This is so tall.

- Oh, my God.

- So the plan is that we're gonna set up

a ton of frickin' food,

because the roomies love good food...

- Hi, honey.

- Get them a little buzzed,

and then we're gonna drop the b*mb.

Hi, honeys.

- You got so much food.

Oh, my God. - I know. Mwah.

Does honeys know the news?

- Hi. - No.

- But is it good or bad? - It's good news.

- So you know we're going to Nashville.

- Mm-hmm. - We invited...

- We invited-- - Someone that

hasn't been around in a long time.

- Ron. - To go to Nashville...

- Yes. - Oh, my God.

- In a couple days. - Yes.

- Oh, my God. - So we want

to sort of do this in stages.

- I gotta sit down. - But we--

- I'm gonna have to sit down and digest this.

- I think that we collectively thought that it's time to...

- I don't disagree on that. - Get back Ron into the fold.

And we have to break... - I mean, listen.

- The news to the rest of everyone

and Sam. - Mm-hmm.

- And see if we can put this thing together.

- I think this is great news.

More power to Mike and Nicole,

that they are taking this on themselves

and inviting Ron on the next family trip,

because I think that Ron could really use the family support.

- If we're able to sort of bring Ron,

have everybody agree to it, everybody's comfortable,

that's cool.

But then, what's happening with Angelina?

You know, is she coming? What's happening with her?

- Yeah, I mean, if she stays MIA, then she's not gonna know.

- We sent the invite out to her.

She knows to come here.

If she doesn't show, she doesn't show.

I don't know, you know? - Holy sh*t.

If I could have a wine, I would have one.

- Yeah. - Right?

- [laughing] Yeah. - Hello?

- Oh, sh*t. It's happening. - Oh, God.

Somebody's here. - I'm scared. I'm scared.

- Come on in. - OK.

- Hey, D. Oh, I love the glasses,

my meatball. - Oh, thanks.

- Would you like a red or a white?

- Uh, I don't know. Is this gonna be dramatic?

- No. - Um...

- OK. - We're just hanging around.

- Why'd you make that face?

- Is it dramatic?

- I guess I'll do red.

Something is definitely going on.

I always know when my meatball is hiding something.

I'm hoping it's like something positive.

You never know with this group.

- Stop looking at me like that.

Mike, I'm gonna end up telling her.

Oh, my God. I can't keep a secret.

Please stop staring at me. Like, I can't deal.

- Look into my eyes, because I can read your thoughts.

Look into my eyes.

- Like, stop.

- Something about Nashville.

- It definitely is.

- There's either someone coming or not coming.

- OK, good--good job. Good job.

- f*cking state of emergency.

Got me a wedgie.

- That's JWOWW.

- Oh, she's gonna pry it out of us.

- Is this a gender reveal?

- No, not yet.

- What is happening? No, what is happening?

Bro, just tell me what's up.

- OK.

- What is happening?

- Would you like a glass of wine?

- They're in cahoots about something.

- Do you know?

- No. - No?

It's not a gender reveal?

- These b*tches are gonna give me a stroke.

This is about our trip coming up.

- We were gonna tell everybody together.

- Are you in cahoots?

- Unfortunately.

- Why's your eyes doing that?

- Because he can't hold a secret,

and he's tic-ing.

He's tic-ing.

[doorbell rings]

- There's a stripper at my door.

I need to call the police.

- Hey, Daddy. - What up, family?

- Lately, I've been like randomly being summoned by Mike

to just like drop everything that I'm doing

and show up at his house.

Last time, it was a book reveal.

So I'm like, what reveal do we have today?

Come on, just cut to the chase.

Hand out the T-shirts. Let me get out of here.

- Is Angelina coming?

- We haven't heard. - I haven't heard from her.

- Did you invite her? - Yeah, we invited everyone.

- Yes. Everyone's invited. - We haven't heard.

- Sam is coming, uh--

- But she's running a little late.

- She's running a little late.

- Mm-hmm.

- I'm going to call Pauly on FaceTime.

Yo, what's up, my guy?

- Hey, Pauly.

- Hey, Paul. - Aye.

These family meetings are everything in this family.

It's a sign of respect.

That food looks good.

Mike, you always got a spread over there.

I'm kind of bummed that I'm so far away.

This is a night that I wish I was there for.

- OK, so I texted all of you, and we're going to Nashville.

So I'm excited that you all are coming.

- Look at Mike's face. He's all red.

Look how red Mike is right now.

- It seems that there is a catch here.

And the catch is that we've already had

the sit-down in Margaritaville,

where Ron made his amends.

- I want to start by apologizing to you guys,

and I really do take responsibility

for everything that has happened in my life.

It's been my fault.

- And then me and Nicole had lunch today.

And we were like, listen.

Maybe it's just time to take the leap

and sort of see what happens from there.

We all started this thing together.

- Hey. - Oh, hey. What's up?

Being a guido and Italian,

your family is very, very important to you.

- I feel that it's been so many years later

that we all can be mature about it and just move forward.

First thing would be that we're all OK

with sort of moving forward in that direction or not.

Then, once Sam comes here, we would talk to her as well.

So it's almost like stages.

Let's go around the room and say aye or nay.

- Aye. - Aye.

[laughter]

- Aye.

- Aye.

- Aye.

- Aye-aye. - All right.

- We're still proceeding with caution.

- Yes, %. Thank you for saying that.

- Ron is a meatball,

and we had so many great memories together.

And honestly, I miss the entire family together so much.

So you know, why not give Ron a second chance

just like we gave Mike a second chance?

- Once Sam gets here, we'll have that conversation

with her, see what she feels most comfortable with.

- So this is his second chance to prove to us that he's back,

he's healthy, he's still in the right direction.

- Yeah. - It's all on him.

- And being in close quarters like that might

draw up a lot of emotions. - Oh, ,%.

- And he might look at this like,

wow, this could be my second chance.

- Especially when she brings in his look-alike.

- [laughs]

- You are, like, the worst.

- Yikes.

All this drama makes me hungry.

[upbeat music]

- When Sam gets here, who's gonna tell her?

Not it. - Not it.

- That's a really good question.

Who's gonna tell her? - You.

- I'm down to help.

Me and Ron were so close back in the day.

Like, we miss his laugh.

We miss him being funny and saying stupid sh*t,

and just, like, his loudness.

But I also don't want Sam mad. What do we do?

- I don't want any smoke with Sam.

- I'm just making some popcorn to watch this movie.

- Wait a second, somebody's here, somebody's here.

[electronic music]

- Oh, my goodness, I'm stress eating.

- Who's gonna tell Sam? Who's gonna--

- You are.

- Do we have any cherries?

- Nicole, are we gonna do introduction and then--right?

- Yeah, we'll just talk about Nashville and everything.

- Introduction, and then-- - And then do

the same thing. - It's time.

The tension is starting to grow in the room.

We have just done the family vote

to see Ron join us on this upcoming family vacation.

But this vote is not done until we ask Sam.

♪ ♪

- Everybody act natural.

- Oh, sh*t. She's here.

[gasps] Oh, my God, I'm hiding.

[laughs] I'm hiding.

- Oh, my God. - Sam's here.

Guys, look who it is. - Hey, mama.

- Hi. - Sam's back.

- Hey, girl. - Everybody's here.

I love it.

- Ange didn't show.

- Oh.

What's wrong? You guys look sad.

- No, no. Not at all.

- No. - No, come sit.

- Oh. both: We have food.

- Everybody's staring at me and I'm like,

hm, this doesn't look that great.

- Hello. - Pauly's here.

- Pauly's here. - Hi, Pauly.

- We're having family dinner. - Oh.

- Pauly's here virtually.

- I love how we're all in black.

[music distorts and stops]

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God, I can't look.

[snickers] I can't look.

♪ ♪

- We literally look like we're about to go to a funeral.

- Well, Nicole, take it away.

♪ ♪

- Are you serious?

All right, so you know we're going to Nashville.

- Yeah. - So excited.

I'm gonna find my fourth spot for The Snooki Shop.

We're gonna go. - Oh, I'm excited.

- We're gonna barhop.

We're gonna do all the things in Nashville.

So I'm really-- - And while we're there,

you can scout out for your new store, too.

- I told you that. - Oh, my God.

- So you were offended that I opened up

a store in Seaside?

- I don't want to ruin your business.

I don't want you to affect my business.

I didn't want that taken from me.

- It wasn't taken from you.

- Oh, my God. - No, I told you that, though.

I was like, you can find a spot as well.

- Why is that a thing. - Did you hear that, Pauly?

- Can we not make that a thing, please?

This isn't my thing. This is Nicole's thing.

Let's give her the moment. - No, but it's gonna be fun.

It's gonna be fun. - I say you open up

on the same block. - Yeah.

- So besides me looking for another store,

it's just, in general, like a good frickin' time.

- Yes. - I'm excited.

- Nashville. - Michael?

[tense music]

- Oh, my God, I can't look.

- I think we've all known

that Ron may be coming on a trip,

and we felt that it was the time

to take the leap and to see how it goes.

♪ ♪

We also went around the room and made sure

it was OK with everyone first

before we proceeded to now ask you.

- Ask me what?

- If you're OK with all of us under one roof,

at one time.

- Hell no.

- Oh!

[laughing] I wasn't expecting that.

- f*ck.

- I can see on everyone's face, we were not expecting this.

- f*ck.

Like, what do we do?

What do we do? What do we do?

- This is something that I expected would happen,

but there's boundaries that I do have about it all.

So I'm like, how can I figure this out

where I can make it work for everybody,

and then also for myself.

You guys have been friends with him for a really long time,

and I'm not gonna take that away from you...

- Yes. OK. - At all. You know?

Yeah, and I'm your friend too, and we--

- Yes. - We'll figure it out.

I'll navigate it. - That's all we wanted

to ask you, is if you were able

to try to figure out some sort of coexistence.

That's it. - I can definitely do things...

- Yes. - And not exclude myself.

- So it's happening.

Ron's coming to Nashville. f*ck me.

- We want to make sure, what is Sam's level of comfortability?

- I don't know yet. I'm like, this is new.

I got to like figure it out.

- We're gonna figure it out together.

- You and him are sharing a room.

- Too soon. Too soon. - I'll punch him for you.

- Too soon. Too soon.

- I'm a grown adult. I can handle my own.

- We don't want it to be awkward for you.

- We don't even want to put that on you.

- It's not awkward.

I know that this was gonna happen,

and I'd rather just get it over with.

- Yeah. - Honestly, I'm excited to go

with all of you guys because I know we're gonna have fun.

It is what it is.

I'll navigate and figure out the rest.

So don't worry about me.

I'm so appreciative

of how my roommates handled it.

They sat me down. They asked my opinions.

They told me their opinions.

And they really took the time to just be there for me.

And I feel like that meant a lot.

I love you guys, and thanks for giving me

a heads-up. - Yes. Yes.

- That's all I could ever ask for.

But I'm gonna go. - OK.

- I love you, Sam. - Tell Justin the news.

Love you, guys.

- We love you. - All right.

- I'll see you in Nashville. - Yeah.

Bye, everybody. - Bye, Sam.

- I'll see you. - Love you.

- Bye. - Bye, Sam.

- Of course, now I have to tell Justin what happened,

and then figure out

how I'm gonna get through this next vacation.

- You girls want to come to my house?

- Are you feeding me...

- Alcohol, yes. - Wine?

- Oh, I thought you meant food.

I'm like, I'm stuffed. - I would like another wine.

Emotions are running like crazy.

I need to go to Jenni's house.

We need to have a little nightcap.

I need some wine to calm down.

- Yo.

All the girls just left.

It's just MVP.

- Oh, damn. I think--

I think it's gonna be OK, personally.

I think they'll be fine.

I don't know how he'll be.

The thing is, with these vacations,

everything's great right now.

Sam is just starting to ease back into things,

and now we just threw a wrench into the plans.

I hope it doesn't shift the mood on this vacation,

but it could affect the dynamic so much so,

it could make the rest of the trip awkward.

- We got to call Ron now

and let him know how well that talk went.

Vinny's gonna do it. - [laughs]

- ♪ I just wanna know, who that ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

- Yeah, we got to call Ron now

and let him know how well that talk went.

- ♪ Hey, hey ♪

- Do you want to go to the bar?

- Yeah. - Yes, sure.

- Hello. Come in. - [chuckles]

Can't wait to fill you in.

- Oh, God. - Yeah.

- I don't want it-- I don't want it to be, like,

dramatic and crazy in Nashville.

- I want it to be fun. - It's supposed to be like

a fun--yeah, it's just... - We just have to hope

- Supposed to be fun. - Ron understands.

Vinny might say something stupid to try and be funny.

- Because Vinny thinks he's hysterical.

- Well, Vinny always likes to joke about things.

- He thinks he's God's gift to comedy.

all: Cartwheel! Cartwheel!

[all cheering]

- All I want in life is somebody to look at me

the way Mike looks at a food menu.

- Oh, my God. Please sit down.

- She handled it completely, like,

super maturely. - She knows that--

- We're not concerned about that at all.

I think she's gonna be polite,

because that's who she is, a polite person.

And I hope he doesn't take that as like an opening.

Bringing Ron back could be a huge change in dynamic.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

What did we get ourselves into?

I feel like I miss Ron.

Like, everyone deserves a second chance.

But right now, I'm trying to be there for Sam.

Yeah, it really sucks when you're in the middle

of someone else's ex-relationship.

I've never dealt with this before.

I'm like, looking back at my past and,

you know, all my friends that have been through a divorce,

I've been through a divorce, like, breakups, makeups.

You kind of tend to always pick one side.

Like, you know, it's like, oh, I got you in the divorce.

I've never had--

- Both of them? - Both sides.

Would you like more?

- I'll take a little nightcap. [laughter]

- Yo, what's up, my guy? - Yo, what up?

- Yo, there he is.

Hey, what's up, my guy?

- Right now, it's RSVP right now.

- Yep. - We wanted to call you

and let you know, we'll see you in Nashville.

- All right, bro. I can't wait.

I'm looking forward to it. - You know, we're gonna

take a shot and be positive

and take that leap of faith, like we said.

- All right, man.

- All right, man. Give a kiss to the baby for us,

and we'll see you out in Nashville.

And obviously, text me later if you want.

It is official. Ron is coming to Nashville.

He's all in his feels.

This is a very big moment for him, for the squad,

and we're gonna see how it goes.

You think everybody's gonna be on their best behavior?

- I don't think he's gonna come in and start wilding out.

- Cheers to Nashville. [glasses clink]

- To Nashville. - To your store.

It's gonna be great. - Oh, I'm so excited.

- You're gonna love Nashville. - It's going to be great.

We need to put that in the universe.

- Mm-hmm. - It's going to be great.

- Yes, manifest it.

- So what's going on?

- So I'm--you know,

I went to Mike's house, and I didn't know what it was.

I'm like, it has to be something for Nashville.

Walk in, and everybody's already there.

It was literally like a sit-down.

Mike was like, we just want to tell you

that Ron's coming on the trip.

- Oh, he's going to Nashville?

- Yes. - Oh.

I mean... [laughs]

It is what it is. - It was like, awkward.

I mean, would I want my man in a house with his ex?

Hell to the no.

- Yeah, you wouldn't like that.

- Hell to the no. I would not like that.

- Yeah, but it doesn't bother me, because I know,

you know, there's nothing there no more.

- Yeah, that's true.

I am so lucky to have Justin for this moment

because he just makes me feel better

about Ron coming on this trip.

He is very supportive and understanding.

So Justin definitely gives me confidence

to face anything, especially this.

I'm just trying to figure out how to navigate this now.

- You'll be fine.

There's not much to figure out.

You just play it by ear and just go with the flow.

- Don't I always? - If you don't like something,

you just separate yourself from the situation.

Not Mike the Situation, but you know...

- Yeah. - The situation.

- I know.

- You'll be all right.

- Um, I have to state this now,

that we are looming on disaster.

There's a ton of variables that sh*t can go sideways.

And then, you know, y'all could just blame it on me.

- Oh, yeah. Definitely.

- Every trip is a crapshoot.

Every trip.

And anything could happen, you know?

- Gonna be an interesting trip, that's for sure.

- All I know is, it's close quarters.

It's gonna be hard to duck each other.

- He might want closure.

- They both are gonna feel a way.

- Yeah, I'm not gonna-- I'm not touching that one.

- I'm not gonna crack jokes, either.

It is what it is. - I mean, to you guys, I will.

- Yeah, I'm definitely-- I'm definitely cracking

a ton of jokes. - Yeah.

- Take a couple shots.

- No. - Whiskey.

- No. - You're being--

- I'm gonna be on my best behavior,

make sure I'm all there in the brain.

- Yeah?

You might not want to be all there in the brain.

Just don't get in a fight.

- No promises.

- Oh, God. - Mm-hmm.

- I feel like it's definitely going to be

an interesting trip.

- That's for sure.

- Ugh, I hope it's just fun.

- It's going to be fun.

- I mean, if sh*t goes haywire,

it was definitely Nicole's idea.

- What can go wrong?

- It just sounds like fun.

Besides that part.

- [laughs dryly]

Honestly, this vacation could be

a little bit harder than I thought it was going to be.

Now I have to figure it out.

It's been almost ten years.

- It's so long ago that, like,

it's just in the past; it's just another ex.

- I have to now do things with him,

so that's just the weird thing I have to navigate.

- Just play it by ear, you know?

If you feel uncomfortable, you just go do something else.

- Yeah, but now I've got to figure this out.

- ♪ No more room for you now ♪

- ♪ Better watch out 'cause they ain't here to save ya ♪

♪ I'm telling you right now ♪

- All right, Rocky, Mommy's gotta leave.

Don't do poopies in Mommy's office, OK?

- Babes, I gotta go. - You leaving?

- Yeah.

- Have a safe trip.

- ♪ With the best, now the rest can step up ♪

- [sneezes] - Bless you.

We're all falling apart.

- TY.

- TY?

♪ ♪

- Love you, guys.

- Jus, I'm leaving.

- Have a good one.

♪ ♪

- Bye, Munchkin.

Ugh.

Let's go to Nashville!

- I really didn't get a good sleep last night.

Angelina was calling me at like :, : a.m.

in the morning. - For what?

- I really don't know. - That's crazy.

- I mean, I'm kind of dreading it.

I hope it's not any drama.

I don't think that Angelina's intentions

of calling me at : a.m. were good intentions.

I really can't tell you what's gonna happen.

I don't know.

- OK, well, Godspeed.

- [laughs] OK. - Good luck with that trip.

- Oh, God. I love you, honey. - I love you.

- I've been worried about her, especially after

the last time she came over.

- Hi. I'm down the block

from your house, about to pull up.

I think I'm having a panic attack.

I don't know.

- Angelina has been very erratic

in person, on social media.

And the only thing I can say about her

is that we're worried about her.

♪ ♪

[music distorts and stops]

- Where are you going? I'm leaving.

Oh.

Thanks.

- Call me if you need anything, all right?

- I will. - [laughs]

- I'm not looking forward to spending four days

with this person that I've literally

blocked out of my life for like, ever now.

But I don't want to miss out on fun trips with my roommates

just because an ex is there.

I might be coming home early. - No.

- ♪ We getting to it over here, we getting to it ♪

♪ Got the whole squad living like a movie, just sayin' ♪

♪ You could have lived this way, but you messed around ♪

♪ Bet you're feelin' like you blew it ♪

- This next vacation definitely could change the family.

I mean, it could change it for the better.

And obviously, there are some "ex factors"

that are lingering.

[indistinct PA announcement]

- I'm trying to not make a big deal that Ron is coming,

but also, it's a huge deal that Ron is coming,

and Sam is there, while also making sure

Sam doesn't feel uncomfortable and leave early.

- Usually, we're excited about leaving on vacation.

This time, it just feels different.

- This is definitely a weird situation that I'm in.

I'm about to be on vacation with my ex.

- ♪ And that kid ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Who's never gonna make it ♪

- There's, like, a whole outside world

to that relationship that people have no idea about.

You never loved me. You never loved me.

You hate me.

- Right now, yes, I do.

- I don't really know what to expect, but here I am.

So it's kind of like, I might as well make the best of it.

♪ ♪

- ♪ Don't give up, just say, forget about it ♪

- Welcome to Nashville. - This is stunning.

- I don't know about you, but I'm hungrys.

- What do they eat in Nashville?

- Grits, country fried steak, ribs.

[knock on door]

- Uh-oh.

- What the hell was that? - Who's that?

Angelina? Or Ron?

- Sam, go get it.

- You go get it.

- Who could that be?

[hip-hop music]

- [indistinct]

- ♪ Hit the car, hit the road, hit my dance ♪

♪ If you're looking for some fun, girl ♪

- ♪ Just touched down, come and find me ♪

- Freezing.

♪ ♪

- OK, I've got a little Tennessee action

on the dating app.

- You do? Oh, let me see.

Yeah, looks quality.

- ♪ Can't stop this feeling, can't top this feeling ♪

♪ You make my little old heart stand still ♪

- I don't know about you, but I'm hungrys.

- What do they eat in Nashville?

- Grits, country fried steak, ribs,

mashed potaters.

I'm here to experience all that.

- I love Nashville. Welcome to Nashville, Deena.

- Oh, yeah, my first time. - I know.

- Poppin' your cherry, b*tch.

- You all have been to Nashville?

I just haven't.

I am pumped.

Nashville is gonna be right up my alley.

You ride bulls. You sing, you dance.

It's, like, a good time.

- The plan for today-- because obviously,

I want to do business first.

We can go and look at stores, look at spots,

and then we can go to a bar.

- The last time we drank during the business,

and that didn't-- - Yeah, no.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

- Cheers. - Girl squad.

- Cheers to this. - Whoo!

- Oh, my-- - Blow it!

- Oh, my God! Stop that!

- Whoo!

- Today's not gonna be like that.

We'll drink after?

- Yeah, I just want to get the business stuff done.

- ♪ She bad, she a bad, bad one ♪

- Ooh. - OK. OK.

- Ooh, this is pretty.

- Oh, wait, there's a house behind the house.

- This is like Staten Island-style here.

Hey, neighbor.

- Oh, go ahead.

- ♪ You won't find her in the city ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm just tryna ♪

- Yo, it's got the lookout on the top.

It seems like this house is my style.

- Ooh, look, girls.

- This is nice! - Ooh, this is pretty.

- Welcome to Nashville. - This is stunning.

- Beautiful. - Should we look at the rooms?

- Yeah, you guys want to look at rooms?

- Sure.

- I can't stay in a room without a TV.

- Well, I see a bunk.

Not doing a bunk.

- This room is really nice. - Do you mind if I got--

if I grab this one for my business trip?

- I'll grab this one. - This is my business trip.

- Looks like some of us are gonna be sharing.

I just want to be on the bottom bunk, because I'm little.

Eh... - I'm OK with the top.

I'm like, I will take the bunk bedroom.

I don't care.

- Then what if something happens,

and then I get like, squashed?

- I'm not gonna squash you.

- Ooh.

sh*t.

So sorry, Mike,

but I found one with a TV,

but I really like it.

- [laughs]

Oh, my God, look at this room.

It's a big room.

Beautiful. Look at the bathroom.

Our last vacation, you took the nice room.

Whose room is this? - You got your own living room?

They got their own living room. - Whose room is this?

- I claim this room.

- I really like this room, though.

- This isn't the only house.

The one in the back, there's another big house.

- Oh, really? - So we can split.

- So this is the house before the house.

- This is the house before the house.

So I ended up calling the realtor,

and I was like, I need two houses.

So we could do a boys house and then a girls house.

- Nashville Rentals.

- Hey, Nashville Rentals. This is Nicole.

So I have two houses booked, right?

- Yes, ma'am. You've got A and B.

- There's a lot of stuff going on with my friends.

I want to make sure everybody's comfortable.

This isn't the only house.

The boys got the boys house. This is our girls house.

- I am feeling so much more comfortable right now

that there's another house in the back for the guys,

and I get to just spend some time with the girls

and just feel like at home with no worries.

- All right, let's go look at the other house.

- Here we go. - Oh.

It's a house.

- Mike, I think this room is nice.

- I'll put this here, just in case.

This is tentative.

- That's a bunk bed.

- I think Pauly would actually prefer

to stay with his boyfriend or his side piece.

- Mike, relax.

You're gonna get the nice room.

- Oh!

- There's only one primary bedroom,

so I am stuck in a bunk bed room.

It was either that or the race car bed.

- Should we go get food? I'm starving.

- Yes. - I am starving.

- I think we should eat. - Yes.

- Starving.

- We're in Nashville, b*tches!

- Thank you, Boo, for this.

Both houses.

- Isn't it cute?

- Ooh, OK.

Sit right here.

[knocks]

- Uh-oh. - [gasps]

- What the hell is that? - Who's that?

- Was that a knock?

- Uh--

- Is that Angelina, or Ron?

- It could be. Who knows?

- Who is it?

- Well, Mike's dying first if it's a serial k*ller.

- Sam, go get it.

- You go get it.

- Who could that be?

- Great, he's here.

- Uh-oh.

Awkward.

[knocks] - [gasps]

- What the hell is that?

- Who's that?

- Is it Angelina, or Ron?

- It could be. - Oh, no.

I can see. It's fine.

- It's the food.

- Whew.

- And it looks like it's really good, too.

- The first meal in Nashville is, of course,

authentic Nashville cuisine.

You have garlic bread.

- Did you order Italiano?

- I ordered everything.

- Meatballs!

- Can we get a tray of penne vodka,

penne with Alfredo chicken, steak,

medium, broccolis, three trays of garlic bread, OK?

Extra butter, please.

And you know what?

Let me--let me get some lasagna, OK?

- I really thought it would be like, Nashville barbecue

or something. - Same.

- What the f*ck is this, Mike?

I mean, honestly.

We're in f*cking Nashville.

Barbecue, biscuits.

You got meatballs and f*cking penne.

- Well, Nicole, thanks for inviting us all out here.

- Thanks for coming, guys. - When are you gonna--

planning on opening up this store?

- Well, it depends on the lease and when I can get in.

- Who opens it and closes it, the managers?

- Mm-hmm.

Gina--you know Gina. - Yep.

I know.

She blew me. - Really?

- Oh, my God. - Really?

- I think it was at the Shore House.

Sometimes I would go and I would bang

a girl in the Shore House.

- Sounds about right.

- Oh, my God.

- I had a threesome in the Shore House.

- Where did you have a threesome?

- In my room. [laughs]

- Oh, my God.

- You are disgusting.

- Vinny's a f*cking pig.

But am I surprised? No.

All right.

I'm gonna go change now.

♪ Gonna get skunk drunk ♪

♪ It's going down, my boys go hard ♪

♪ Still thirsty but they're closing the bar ♪

- Shower.

- Sam? - Yeah?

- Are you ready?

- We're in Nashville.

I'm like so excited.

- So cute.

- There she is.

I love that.

- I see nothing but smooth seas ahead.

- Yeah, smooth seas for now.

- Sam seems to be in good spirits.

I'll have a little conversation with Ron when he

gets here, to be like, listen.

Easy does it.

- I think that she needs to say hi in order to diffuse it.

- You think she's gonna say hi?

- She should say hi.

- Really?

- That's it.

If she wants to make it a bigger thing,

she doesn't say anything, and then it's awkward.

But if they're just like, hey, how are you?

Then everyone's like, all right.

Let's get back on to business.

- OK.

- Cheers to finding the Snooki Shop .

- Cheers! - Thank you, sweetie.

- I didn't touch you.

Bad luck.

- Of course, the boys are taking their time.

- He's not answering.

- What are they doing?

- Angelina, if she comes, it's like a bit disheartening

that you don't call any of us and at least

let us know you're coming.

- I feel like she's gonna pull Ron to the side and be like,

so are you gonna talk to her?

She's gonna start stirring the sauce a little bit.

- Since the beginning of Sam coming back,

I feel that Angelina feels like the sister

that has been left behind.

And that sort of resentment keeps getting worse and worse.

It's gonna blow up eventually.

I don't know if you got the memo,

but there was major beef in Seaside, man.

Angelina and Sam were going at it hard.

Sam said, you know what?

Your behavior is like a toddler.

- Wow.

- And then Angelina wouldn't let go of the fact

that Sam was calling out her behavior,

and they just weren't able to solve it.

- I didn't have Sam and Angelina

fighting on my bingo card.

Major curveball there.

- All right?

That's what I'm saying.

- Oh, you didn't change.

- What took you guys so long?

- Oh, I'm definitely--

I showered.

I unpacked.

- You unpacked?

- Yeah.

I put all my stuff in the closet.

- Is that why you weren't answering your phone?

- Me and Vin were having a conversation.

We're all worried about what's gonna

happen when Ron comes here.

When in fact, that might really go very smoothly,

and it might be something else that

doesn't happen as smoothly.

- So it's a toss up between Angelina

walking through the door, or Ron walking through the door.

- Yes.

- I feel like Sam is damned either way.

I can see her wheels spinning.

She is just waiting for the inevitable.

- Get a fist pump going. - Fist pumping like champs.

- Fist pump, push-up champs, man!

You're gonna get all the girls.

- Going to Nashville moment!

- Howdy. - Beep, beep!

- Yee-haw, b*tches!

- Ack!

- Who's ready for things to get hot?

- h*nky-tonk!

- Let's go poop, and then we'll go.

- Go where? - Watch me poop.

- Kay.

- It's happening!

- There's a lot of what ifs.

- Holy sh*t.

- This is a decade in the making.

- Sup? - Ronnie's here!

- Sup? - What?

- Well, this is f*cking awkward.

- Oh, yeah, Tucson, yeah!

- "Exercise caution in regards to wildlife."

- I'm a Sicilian donkey.

"They're cute but vicious, if provoked."

- Angelina is gonna come in hot

because of the TikTok, yeah.

- Sam made a TikTok with Angelina's arch nemesis.

- Are you friends with her?

- You're so delusional. - f*ck you.

- If you knew what she filmed behind your back...

- f*ck you. - f*ck you.

- You wouldn't be sitting there

with your f*cking smug face, Chris.

- Mike, stop. - You're a grown-a*s adult.

- This could be a disaster in so many ways.

- Hold the door! - Where did this go wrong?

- It's obviously the straw

that's gonna break the camel's back.

This squad is broken, fam.

- She's lucky I don't pop her in her f*cking head.

- I don't need to talk to anybody!

- Ron, you're hysterically crying!

- Why am I on a TV show if I can't be f*cking real?

- What show? 'Cause I wanna watch it.

- [laughs]

♪ ♪

- I'm still dying from the moonshine pickles.

Please leave.