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Hippyt
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 8:04 pm
Tonight's show was an absolute hoot! When they were on the floor of the store, I was lmao! They are rich and spoiled,but dang they know how to have fun! Oh,and half priced weiner bugers,OMG too funny!
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Scorpiomoon
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 8:39 pm
I am trying to really hard to keep this show in perspective. But it's hard. I know it's staged. And I know much of this is done tongue-in-cheek. And maybe, if these two were part of this experiment without the cameras around, maybe they'd behave much differently. But it pains me to watch this show. Thousands of people work day in and day out at fast food places. They pay their rent by working at these places. To have these two girls make a total mockery of it all makes me sick. I don't find it funny at all. And while the girls do come across as being absurd without the people of the town looking bad themselves, it still seems so distasteful to me. At the end, when the mother was holding her little boy it was so touching. And then cut to a scene of Paris watching herself dancing. It was so shallow and stupid.
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Eliz87
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 9:07 pm
Yep, I think it's a funny show too. :-) Rolling around in their Sonic suits..."We were trying to get customers." LMAO
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Fruitbat
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 9:31 pm
Scorpio, the locals are scripted as well. They have all signed on to make a comedy and are being paid well to do so. They are manipulating the audience to react with sadness, horror and pity. The scene with mom holding her boy and Paris dancing was all laid out and probably had many takes to get just the right mood. This cannot qualify as reality TV at all. I bet there will be more of this ilk.
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Scorpiomoon
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 9:34 pm
Thanks Fruitbat, your insight made me feel...a little less unsettled.
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Tabbyking
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 10:12 pm
anal salty wiener buger. yeah, i'll buy one. sheesh. daughter and i are trying to watch this for the first (and definitely, only!) time. what a stupid, poopid show.
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Pamy
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 6:30 am
I love it!! I agree a lot is totally staged, but it is good for a laugh. They aren't hurting anyone and seem to be able to laugh at themselves. Nicole is always so polite. I thought it was nice when she said 'nice meeting all of you' at Sonic. Paris even seemed to enjoy working there..for a little while
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Fruitbat
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 6:59 am
Scoripo, go for *totally* unsettled! Think of the locals as having a good opportunity to earn some extra money for their kids education. Remember they all signed on and accepted their roles and learned their lines and reactions very well.
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Grooch
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 9:02 am
I think a lot of people who work at fast food places would get a good laugh at them working at Sonic's. I bet they secretly have wanted to do the same things the girls were doing. Giving the finger to passerbys and putting up signs like 1/2 assed bugers, etc. You could tell the female manager was trying not to laugh when she saw the sign. I don't know how Paris could work all day in those shoes she was wearing.
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Ziggystardust
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 9:12 am
I am enjoying this show as well, I think it is all in good fun. Sonic was pretty quick to want to sell burgers for 1/2 price to make a quick buck from the situation so I don't think anyone should really feel that bad about how the girls behaved.
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Jenhavins
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 9:40 am
I love this show! It is 30 minutes of mindless entertainment. It is just enough (I do think that 1 hour might be over the top). It was cute the the female manager was trying not to laugh at the sign, and all the cars driving by with the onlookers. It is a hoot. Even though it is scripted, I really enjoy the show. The host family is so sweet. The dad explaining to the girls that their actions directly reflect back to their family. He did it in such a was that it wasn't abrasive but explained his in a hammer wrapped in velvet sort of way. Nicole really seems to have a good heart, but she likes to have fun and I am sure the directors do instigate quite a bit of the shenanigans. It also seemed as if Paris was enjoying taking the orders and delivering to the cars, but I don't know how the heck she did it in those shoes. I was rolling at Nicole and Paris in the grocery store on the floor! They are in their early twenty's and all about boys and having fun. I think college and a job made me mature up a bit, but on the weekends, we tore apart Austin and Dallas.
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Eliz87
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 9:43 am
I was just glad to see the girls eating something on their break! Before anyone takes that the wrong way, no I'm not saying the girls look unhealthy...it's just that for me, personally, I nearly always think that anyone under 140 or 150 pounds could use a little meat on their bones! :-)
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Denecee
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:23 pm
I wonder how much is scripted because the look on some of the locals faces seemed pretty real to me. Like the people in the store, when the girls were rolling around on the floor like they were high on something. I was embarrassed for the girls about there night out on the town. Who behaves that way at a night club? I think they were pretty drunk and hopefully see that and think maybe they need to mature a bit. I was more mature than they are at the age of 12. (stepping off my high horse) I want to watch for the pure shock of it all. It's not like watching a train wreck(that would make me sad & I wouldn't want to see anybody hurt) but it's just mouth gaping open type of thing.
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Jenhavins
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:37 pm
It is mouth gaping to me as well (but I am laughing as my mouth is gaping). I think all the townspeople that were willing to have their faces shown on television had to sign a release. There were a couple of people in the grocery store that had their faces blurred. I think that the shock value is very real! I think the looks on the locals faces are real as well. My mouth would be gaping open if I watched myself act like that in a nightclub...and it would be gaping in horror. However, just the pulling my dress up over my head (the dirty dancing and kissy face I wouldn't have a problem with).
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Guinevere
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 5:06 pm
I wish this show were a little less scripted. Half the fun of reality shows in ragging on the participants for their behavior, and I can hardly do that if Nicole and Paris are simply doing what they're told (as is often obviously the case) by the producers. That said, I'm finding it pretty entertaining, and I really like Nicole - she is sort of sweetly goofy and endearing.
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Texasdeb
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 5:48 pm
Nicole getting borred at the onion ring machine was also a laugh. When she drilled the bottom out of the milk shake & wasn't even looking was good too. Paris didn't have the heels on the whole time. They just had her in those when she was car hopping in that short black skirt. For the most part, the rest of the time she had on black pants & tennis shoes. I just wander how they get up @ 5:30 am & work a full shift & still clean up & go out to party every night. Seems like after 2 or 3 days of this pace would make them want to check in with the chickens at least for a night off of the party scene.
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Marymc
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 7:31 pm
i worked at a place like sonic burger many moons ago and everything they did i would have LOVED to have done....but didn't have the nerve or daddy's millions to back me up. (ok, not the skanky dancing and making out with strangers, but everything else....) as for them filling out the paperwork for taxes, i sure didn't understand what an exemption was when i had to first deal with that. granted, i was 16, but a first job is a first job, no matter what age you are.
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Curtisahahahaha
| Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 10:52 am
"Here are your paychecks girls." "What do we do with them?" "Cash them?" "Where???" "The bank!" Duh! I'm too sexy for my paycheck....
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Hermione69
| Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 11:38 am
"Who behaves that way at a night club?" At least they didn't pee in the sink. Did they? I was at a nightclub once and I was in line for the bathroom and this really drunk girl who didn't want to wait for the toilet flipped her skirt up, pulled her panties down, and peed in the sink. She almost fell over, too. I have never gotten that image out of my brain!! I can still picture her vividly, ROFL!
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Rslover
| Friday, December 12, 2003 - 11:19 am
From the Star THE SECRETS BEHIND: THE SIMPLE LIFE Paris Hilton, pre- Simple Life PARIS HILTON'S new reality show, The Simple Life, (airing Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. EST on Fox) purports to document what happens when two pampered princesses, Paris and her pal Nicole Richie, deprived of money and other luxuries, are plunked down in the middle of a small, "simple," Southern town to work blue-collar jobs. But this Star investigation reveals what you won't see: The work was a lark: "They were kind of pumping gas at the Exxon for one or maybe two days but they didn't do much," says Chris Trotter, who works at the gas station/grocery store. "They pumped a few cars, but just for the cameras. Fox offered $5 off a tank of gas to get a lot of people to come in [to the station] those days." They did have money: "At first, they'd just take gum and candy and sodas from the store and then Fox would come in with a credit card to pay for everything," says Trotter. But then, Jess Rowland, a local who met the girls while filming , says Paris borrowed $600 from him, noting, "I haven't gotten it back yet." They fooled around with local guys: "I heard Paris say that it was just innocent flirting, but I think it was a lot more than that," insists Trotter. "She hooked up with several guys." They enraged local girls: "I couldn't believe the way those girls dressed; they looked like hookers!" says Altus resident Donna Eddy, who often saw them at a local bar. "Every time they came in, they started dirty dancing with each other, and they exposed themselves as well. I know I saw Paris' butt at least five times, and other things were falling out too." Their local fans are few!: "They'd come in here and get on their cell phones, talking really loud so everyone could hear and saying rude things about the town," says a manager of the local Wal- Mart. "They had a lot of nerve." Adds Jennifer Crabtree, who works at the Altus Circle M food store, "Paris wasn't friendly or outgoing at all, and she certainly didn't do anything in the time she was here to make you think different."
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Laura11103
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 7:51 pm
loved tonight's show, those girls are such a freakin hoot! I just find myself laughing the whole time, I can't help it. Totally full of themselves, unthinking screw-ups, lmao... The whole protective thing they were doing w/ Justin was so funny, although I did feel bad for his ex at the end since they were being bullyish. I thought it was hillarious that Nicole painted Braxton on her chest, yeah they're offensive but very entertaining IMO.
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Laura11103
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 7:53 pm
Hermione, that is SICK! Can't believe that girl peed in the sink, ugggggggghhhhhhhhhhh! lmao.
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Dahli
| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:13 am
This show mesmerises(sp?) me... I can't take my eyes away from the screen and it's really screwing up my Christmas baking!!LOL
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Denecee
| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 12:37 pm
LOL! Dahli, I know what you mean. We were saying it went by too qick. These girls can be very mean. I hope they didn't do this show to convince us how smart they are.
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Hippyt
| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 7:20 pm
OMG,tonight's show is toooooooo much Nicole fake crying is hysterical!
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