Scripted or not?

Reality TV is meant to entertain, by any means necessary. There is always a direction that the producers want the show to go, a concept that does not necessarily require a written script yet it will cause the participants to behave in a different manner, not there normal "everyday lives". While these reality TV shows are certainly led a certain direction by the producers, this does not mean that the show can't jump off course with spur of the moment decisions. For example, in an episode of the ever so popular Jersey Shore, the crew was walking home after a long day on the boardwalk when someone got on Ronnie's nerves and caused him to harshly react. Ronnie without notice ran straight at this random person and knocked him to the ground, so quickly that the cameras could not even keep up, an instance that obviously could not have been scripted.