quadro2000

Did anybody catch this last night? I'm ashamed to admit I watched the last ten minutes. I'm even more ashamed to admit that five minutes in, I set my DVR to record the rest of the series. I feel like this is going to be one of those guilty pleasure shows for me.

Kadath

The only contact I've had is a review I read in the paper of the pilot episode. I liked the fact that when they were behind on their milking quota, they topped off the bottles with dirty water. Way to go, girls!

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cartmen34

I sat down in front of the tv for a couple of minutes while my fiance watched this show. I saw the part where they land and drive to the hicks house. That was all it took for me to know that I wasn't interested.

I don't know what this show is about, nor do I really care. The hilton sisters are a couple of dizzy, clueless, rich girls who don't have a clue what they are in for. And the dumb-fuck, backwoods, inbred hick family they stuck them with make me shiver in horror at the mere though of what they have in store for those girls.

Perhaps next we'll get to see some helpless small animals tossed into a cage of starving natural predators. That'll be a good "reality" show. Or maybe we'll take some central american tribal person who has never even seen civilization before and make them the head of a large company and watch and laugh as he falls on his face because he's out of his element.

I know that the hilton sisters did this volunatarily, as did the family of hicks, but I don't think this is entertainment. Watching people laugh at others just because they are out of their element is cruel. We should be above finding stuff like this entertaining.

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Cynthetiq

I tivo'd it and watched it last night... it was like watching a car accident or listening to Howard Stern. I had to see what was happening next.

I cannot believe that the DOG was carried around in that little carrier for what a paltry US$1500?????? WTF???? And that's just ONE of the bags...

I'll probably watch it for it's stupidty. DAMN YOU REALITY TV!!!!! I have not succumbed before now...

DId anyone else notice that they fuzzed out Paris' ass crack?

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feelgood

Damn, I watched the last minute of the show and it's like...reality shows has taken for bad. They used to based these kind of shows on REAL people but the hiltons...christ, haven't we got nuf of them already? Goes to show that those fukin brats are just plain dumb

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quadro2000

YES! I caught that! Very amusing.

For me, it's the same as how I got hooked on The Surreal Life. I enjoy watching cushy, rich people having to deal with some sort of reality or fish-out-of-water situation. Because the things that they bitch about on those shows - as unbelievable as it seems to us, it's reality to them. I find that attractive (or at least entertaining) for some reason.

BTW, the show doesn't feature both Hilton sisters, just Paris, and Nicole Richie, whom as far as I can tell is only famous because she's Lionel Richie's daughter. I think she just got out of rehab.

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Cynthetiq

I did not catch the surreal life. I did want to... but never did get it onto the VCR rotation, but with the tivo... I guess actuall I didn't want to get sniped by the wife with "Why do you want to watch that???"

at least with the Simple Life, she knows that Paris is currently the hot ass to watch, so she gave it a simple nod, but if there was no Tivo it may have not gotten recorded. Had to lay off the tape to someone at her office.

Richie.. damn I can't believe she can live that life, but I guess when you listen to any Lite station you'll hear a Lionel song at least once an hour. Some good royalties there....

I also think that the simple country life, which I did have a girlfriend that did live a simple country life, is fascinating. Small town culture intrigues me so I'm very much more interested in that side of the show. Getting to watch Paris' ass crack fuzzed out is a bonus.

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SecretMethod70

Sorry, but this show is hilarious. There was nothing more amusing than watching Paris Hilton last night asking what Wal-Mart was. That was golden.

Unfortunately I'll forget when it's on and when it is on someone else will probably be using the TV, but I'm definitely watching when I get a chance. Dumb rich people are just too funny.

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According to the New York Times, Paris Hilton says she knew what Wal-Mart was, and she was just pretending she didn't to make the show funny.

Um, whatever, but here's the story from the Times:

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With a Rich Girl Here and a Rich Girl There
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

"The Simple Life," the new Fox reality show that follows two pampered celebutantes — Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie — as they trade Beverly Hills for an Arkansas barnyard, is not so simple.

An updated "Green Acres," the show distills the most disturbing elements of existing reality shows — the voyeurism of "The Real World," the gross-out antics of "Fear Factor" and the sexual humiliations of "The Bachelor." Yet by some strange twist of television alchemy "The Simple Life" is not nearly as mean-spirited. The mockery is overt and good-natured, a "Cold Comfort Farm" for the MTV generation.

Ms. Hilton, 22, of the hotel fortune, and Ms. Richie, also 22, daughter of the pop singer Lionel Richie, seem just as ditsy and ignorant as Fox promos and press coverage suggest. But once their cellphones and credit cards are replaced by cowbells and timecards, they come closer to Cher Horowitz, the fictional heroine of "Clueless," than the repellent shopoholic heroines of MTV's latest reality show, "Rich Girls."

Their fish-out-of-water ineptitude serves as a social leveler that gives them their comeuppance and preserves the dignity of their rural hosts, the Ledings of Altus, Ark. (pop. 817), who seem statesmanlike in comparison.

Ms. Richie was charged with heroin possession in California shortly before "The Simple Life," began filming on location and recently pleaded guilty. And just before the show was scheduled to go on the air, a pornographic tape of Ms. Hilton and a former boyfriend began making its way across the Internet.

Those spurts of adverse publicity do not exactly undermine the show's conceit.

In the first episode tonight, Nicole makes even her straitlaced hosts guffaw when she says, "We're nice girls, no matter what you've heard." Sluttish behavior was part of Fox's job description: the producers carefully selected a family with teenage sons at home to help along the course of true lust. The early episodes do not allude to drinking or other hedonistic behavior; on the other hand the girls were sent to rusticate for 30 days, the customary time for rehab.

The tone is studiously tongue-in-cheek. A narrator tells the girls' tale in an Appalachian twang, and hillbilly banjo music plays relentlessly in the background. They play along with the joke, squealing at bugs and mugging like mini-Eva Gabors. At the first dinner in the humble farmhouse, Nicole asks the Ledings if they hang out at Wal-Mart for fun. Paris asks, "What is Wal-Mart?"

Ms. Hilton admitted to a gathering of incredulous television writers last summer that she had actually heard of the chain but thought it would be funny for the show if she acted as if she had not. It is.

The beauty of the casting is that the two young women do not have to strain very hard to fit their assigned roles. Nicole is perkier and better mannered; she smiles a lot and thanks her hosts repeatedly. Paris, platinum blond and alarmingly thin, appears to have almost no affect. She struts about the farm with the blank hauteur of an Eastern European runway model. Her descriptive powers are delightfully limited. As the two struggle to herd cows or pour fresh milk into bottles, she moans in her flat, monied drawl, "I'm going to die."

Viewers are supposed to laugh at the harebrained heiresses in their high-heeled shoes and Von Dutch baseball hats, but not too harshly; these days relatively few Americans of any age or background have much experience hand-plucking chickens or milking cows. The promos suggest that the "Simple Life" reality was molded to conform to a storybook arc: as time passes, the girls end up performing barn chores that might make a grown lawyer faint.

The girls, who share one bathroom with the entire family, do complain a lot. Nicole even tells a proud middle-aged farmer at a barbecue that she finds rural Arkansas boring.

Yet for all their whining the two city girls never really seem that homesick. That could be because they brought with them two cherished mementos of home: a pet chihuahua, Tinkerbell, and a 24-hour camera crew.

THE SIMPLE LIFE

Fox, tonight at 8:30, Eastern and Pacific times; 7:30, Central time

Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, executive producers. A 20th Century Fox Television production.

WITH: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

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dtheriault

it's not the hilton sisters. is one hilton and lionel richie's daughter. the show is mildly amusing. paris has an okay face, but her body is near skeletal and i doubt anything really excites her except her own reflection in the mirror.

the best part is the little kid and the dog.

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Yeah, that is one cute little kid.

RedCometChar

I got a kick out of it, although neither of the girls do a thing for me. Can't wait for next week's episode, which features the already-legendary cow proctology scene.

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Daval

I do not believe anyone could be that ignorant or stupid.

Yes they are rich, and I do believe a lot fo the stuff are true screwups by the girls.

But for example, some of the milk fight, the sneaking out to go to town - i'm sure the producers are pushing them to do stuff to make good tv and stuff.

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Cynthetiq

OMG watching them getting dressed and milking the stuff...AMAZING that they cannot get a clue. Hot tub and napping... sheesh... was like i was watching my sister in law SILLY all over again. $42 for all that work.. LOL

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SabrinaFair

The Simple Life is definetly my new guilty-pleasure show. My girlfriends all came over and we watched, laughed, and ate fudge-mint oreos. Good times, good times. Watching Paris preen in front of the mirror before going to a backyard barbeque...priceless.

Although I don't really like the way "country people" are portrayed. But that comes from my rural Kentucky background, I suppose. I promise, I've never been a child bride, I have all my own teeth, and no one in my family has sex with other family members, barring spouses of course.

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Fremen

This show has me riveted.
I want to marry one of these girls just so I can introduce to them the concept of selflessness.
Oh, and I'd fark the hell out of 'em.

Btw, is what they were doing with the milk legal?
You know, watering it down?
Please tell me the producers bought their milk and ditched it.

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jhericurl21

the boys in that family are pretty lucky



saw a preview clip where Paris and Nicole are fighting over a dead animal lol, i wanna see how they change themselves to being around/want roadkill

sadatx

That New York Times article is great.

Personally my favorite part is the boy and the dog. Watching him push the chihuahua down the silde and then taking it to meet some cows was hilarious.

All the while the chihuahua was shaking with it's tail between its legs. Poor dog, must have wondered where its penthouse was. But all was returned to normal when the boy fed it some cheese.

Over all the show runs in the same vien as MTV'S Rich Girls and Newlyweds with Jessica Simpson.

It's the "let's watch wealthy, spoiled, somewhat ditsy girls (perferably blondes) try to deal with life's little chores" era of television.

Yes it can be entertaining, yes it's a guilty plesearue, but after a while you just want to go take a shower....and then read some Edith Wharton or, better yet Jane Austen (one of her books did inspire "Clueless" a movie about a wealthy, spoiled, somewhat ditsy blonde).

dirttrackcutie

Have any of you watched The Simple Life on Fox yet. If you have it just shows how stupid they are, i mean come on who doesn't know what Wal-Mart is.honestly.

Cynthetiq

this weeks episode.....

OMG! they are complete WHORES!

and the sonic .. can't make onion rigns, can't even stand in a stupid suit and wave to traffic. but they can dance and whore around the dance floor

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Wulf_Hunter

Watched the show for the first and last time lastnight.

Both of those chicks are nasty....

I laughed my ass of when the other chick had to scream at the cows..LOL, Move your fat asses, you dirty motherfu&ers LOL

soccerchamp76

It would be better if it was not fake...
Not knowing what Wal-Mart is...
Not knowing what to do with a check?
Please

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feelgood

I got a big kick out of Paris and Richie not knowing what a check is

"What's this?"
"It's a check"
"What do you do with it?"
"You cash it at the bank"
"Oh..."

I can understand how stupid they are since both of their daddy gives them credit card as opposited to a check. Fake but funny. In the first espiode, I got a huge kick out of the show when the girls and one of the teenager was sitting around on the porch talking and shits. He goes in the house to get a jacket and they start talking about doing a threesome with him and I was like "Mutherfuckin goddamit, why didn't they film it at MY FARM!?"

Lucky bastards all I can say...

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Cynthetiq

nice trollops at the kissing booth....

i can't help but watch this show!!!!!!!

"we're gonna tag team him tonight"

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Fremen

Hehehe, they had the ex-girlfriend shittin' her drawers.

Tonights' ep ought to be farkin' hilarious!
Break out the bovine K-Y!! *MOOOO!!*

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agentsmith

gee thanks a lot, now I gotta watch it......ass

j/k

Plan9Senior

Although I am embarrased to say that I have watched this show and FULLY understand how selfish and unintelligent she is, I cannot help but want to bang the shit out of Paris Hilton .

Amethyst

I watched it last night they had like the first four on and I can't believe how stupid these girls are they have to be just messing around to not know what you do with a check and not knowing what Wal-Mat is, leaving a pie outside where the dog can eat it? I have a real problem believing all those things. It is funny some of the stuff they pull. But you never really see them get in trouble for anything. And they way they think people should just give them things? Do you think that happens out in the real world?

JohnnyRock

No...but it happens in their world!

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lions20

The only reason I watched the show is too see Paris Hilton parade around in her skimpy outfits. I couldn't care less about Nicole Ritchie.

Derwood

I hate this show. Mostly because these girls THINK they're funny and THINK they're cute, but they aren't . They are annoying, stuck up, stupid, and generally insipid creatures who should never be on TV again.

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warrrreagl

My wife and I have watched both seasons, and last night's finale was kind of a fizzle. They spent too much time in Texas and not enough time in Alabama or Mississippi.

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Booray

I loved David Cross's rant about this on his new CD "It's Not Funny".

"It's a show that glorifies these two rich giggling cunts who have no respect for anybody. Just vile people. Awful human beings....who get away with everything cause they're rich....and the blonde one will blow you, apparently."

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