"That one took a lot of work, a lot of people. We employed some of the people from the t-shirt shop to come help us. It was wild," Pauly D shared with PEOPLE
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- Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino shared exclusively with PEOPLE that their pranks on Jersey Shore were “the best”
- The duo added that their favorite prank took “a lot of work” and “a lot of people”
- Jersey Shore: Family Vacation is now airing its final season on MTV
Jersey Shore stars Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio and Vinny Guadagnino have always known how to get crazy, get wild with pranks.
DelVecchio, 45, and Guadagnino, 38, joined their castmates at the Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premiere event at Marquee New York on April 23.
While on the red carpet, they spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about how much they love a good "prank war" — and what their favorite show prank of all time is.
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"The pranks are the best," Guadagnino told PEOPLE.
"That was what keep me going," DelVecchio added.
As for their best prank, they felt it was their "inside-outside prank," which was "madness" when they "moved everybody's stuff outside."
"That one took a lot of work, a lot of people. We employed some of the people from the t-shirt shop to come help us. It was wild," DelVecchio added.
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MTV's Jersey Shore franchise first launched in 2009, as the original cast arrived at the famously chaotic Shore House in Seaside Heights, N.J.
During the 2012 episode of Jersey Shore in which the duo pulled the prank, they were relaxing in an inflatable pool inside as the rest of the cast pulled up in the driveway.
"This is the life, bro," Guadagnino says in the Season 5 episode.
"Oh hey guys, how was camping?" DelVecchio asks a confused Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, who walks through the door first. "What is this?" she yells.
"So, I walk in, and I'm like, 'Oh my god, they just threw us a tiki party,' " Polizzi adds in her confessional. The other shoremates follow behind and point out "how fun" it is.
However, Polizzi soon walks into her bedroom, only to find every piece of furniture gone.
"What are you guys talking about? The robbers came in," the boys joke. "We're outside. Go inside and check it out."
They all soon walk outside on the top deck, where they find all of their furniture, including the couch and beds.
Their antics from the original series have lived on — and so have some of their iconic quotes from their GTL (gym, tan, laundry) days.
"Right now the hot one is, 'God bless me, it's summer,' " DelVecchio told PEOPLE in April. "It's like they trend on TikTok and then come back," Guadagnino added.
"Right now, the grenade whistle is trending. I saw that one. People are like, 'They don't make it anymore,' " Guadagnino continued while DelVecchio said, " 'The cabs are here' is a good one."
In the nearly two decades since then, the series has inspired various location-based spinoffs like Floribama Shore.
Then, in 2018, MTV launched Jersey Shore: Family Vacation to follow the cast as they embraced adulthood and grew their families — while still maintaining the drama of the original series.
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DelVecchio and Guadagnino also hosted Double Shot at Love, a reality dating show where 20 women competed to date them both. The series aired on MTV for three seasons from 2019 to 2021.
Jersey Shore Family Vacation is airing its final season starting Thursday, May 7. Along with DelVecchio, Polizzi and Guadagnino, the current main cast includes Angelina Pivarnick, Deena Cortese, Jenni “JWOWW” Farley, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola.
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Jersey Shore Family Vacation is now airing Thursdays on MTV.
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