To be fair, THG's headline is a bit misleading here.
The Situation did not rear back and full on smack his fellow cast member Snooki on Jersey Shore. He did, however, refer to himself as the pimp of all pimps. Then, in an agitated state, he administered what he calls a "love tap" to our favorite guidette.
Not cool.
The Situation-Snooki drama took place near the end of the episode.
When Sitch tried to round up the roomies after a night at the club, Snooki didn't wanna go. To get her attention, the self-proclaimed leader kinda gently slapped her.
"Don't f*%king slap me in the face and tell me that I need to go home," she responded, clearly not pleased. But he says he was just trying to avoid a bad Situation.
"Snooki sometimes drinks a little too much," he explained to MTV News. "She becomes less aware of her surroundings and unaware of what's going on."
Mike Sorrentino says it was not hubris, but rather the Season 1 incident in which Snooki got drilled in the face by that goon Brad Ferro that sprung him into action.
"I really wanted to try and keep an eye on her," sayeth Sitch. "Not necessarily slap some sense into her, but let her know, 'Hey, you can't be here by yourself. You're a little girl, and the whole group was leaving.' It was a little love tap."
While The Situation maintained he had the best of intentions, he does acknowledge that he might have "went about it the wrong way or went about it too seriously."
Still, "It's not like I punched somebody. It's not like I did a full smack, a hard smack. It was a little tap to her cheek. Like, 'Wake up, you're going to get hurt.'"
"And if you care for somebody, that is definitely acceptable, because you're looking out for somebody." Hmm, you see, that's a nice spin to put on it, but ...
Previous footage showed a brooding Situation upset over the fact that he had no chicks and clearly in a foul mood. One he may have taken out on Snook.
In any case, hopefully the BFFs patch it up before the next trip to Klutch.