When the random dude who makes millions running "the Jersey Shore t-shirt store" pays an unannounced visit to the house, you know he's there to stir up drama. But because we're supposed to forget that everyone involved with this show is making ungodly bank, he's just there to play pissed off boss/landlord. He's pissed that Vinny and The Situation went AWOL and he's fixin' to replace them, dammit! Of course, MTV would never, in a million years let some Jersey rando who sells wife beaters on the boardwalk for a living pick new castmembers for the network's most popular show, but the trick actually works and the guidos are convinced they're about to be saddled with new roommates.

But then, as if on cue, Mike returns to the house explaining that "Cancers are very sensitive people" to the interest of absolutely no one. Sigh, I was looking forward to a new house douche bag. Vinny, however, is a different story. The roommates call asking him to come home for Mike and Pauly D's surprise birthday party, but Vin politely declines. See, Vinny is the anti-Situation. People actually like him and want him to come home and he didn't leave as desperate cry for attention - dude really wanted to leave. Fortunately, everything the Shore whores do is tabloid fodder, so we already know Vin comes home eventually (maybe even *SPOILER ALERT* later tonight).
Next, in what feels like the opening scene in a snuff film, the girls meet up with some intensely creepy stripper pimp who helps them set up for Mike and Pauly's party and resists the urge to fill his trunk with Meatballs. But while a Jersey stripper pimp is pretty scary, even scarier is what's happening at the Shore Store - the search for a new roommate has begun! Because they're millionaires who have no real fear of being fired from a t-shirt shop, JWoww rips down Danny's "Help Wanted" sign to discourage further inquiries. She could've just shown every applicant footage of Snooki and Deena dry-humping each other in bunny costumes, which is something that seriously happened last night.

After all the drama, it's finally surprise party time. Shockingly, Pauly and The Sitch are not hard to surprise. "I got cakes, I got strippers...this is the best day of my life," says Pauly. Mike on the other hand can't be cheered up even by those incredible circumstances. He somehow manages to bring one of the strippers home, but chooses not to bang her because of some heated argument about matching socks. I'm beginning to think there's something to this "gay Situation" theory.
So we've already seen murderous pimps, humping bunnies and some unlikely sock drama, but this isn't one of those episodes that lumps all the good stuff into the first half hour. No, the real highlights are yet to come, including one of the most unexpectedly awesome scenes in the illustrious history of Jersey Shore...