The essential episodes of The Simple Life
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Simple Life — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The girls move into the farm where we meet their hosts, the Ledding family. They freak out over chicken plucking and the enormous tick in their bedroom overtop a well. The dad lays down the rules but when have the Hiltons ever obeyed them? And both girls decide the oldest son deserves a little reminder of this trip.....
- 02
Dairy Farmin' Divas a.k.a. First Day of Work
Paris and Nicole learn what it means to work for a living when they get their first jobs -- milking cows at Danny's Dairy Farm.
- 03
Sonic Burger Shenanigans a.k.a. Welcome to Sonic
Fresh off their failure as dairy-farm workers, the girls take a job at a fast-food joint, only to find that serving the public is their private nightmare.
- 04
Paris and Nicole get a job working with a taxidermist; Paris is homesick and relies on Nicole to cheer her up.
- 05
Paris and Nicole depart from Miami Beach toward their first destination, the Batten Family Ranch, but trouble mounts as Paris Hilton gets into a serious accident while riding a horse.
- 06
Paris and Nicole get jobs at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida and play a surprising game of hide-and-seek with their boss's daughter.
- 07
Paris and Nicole work as maids at the Caliente Nudist Colony and learn the meaning of the word ""termination"" as they become hotel maids at the nudist resort.
- 08
While staying with a host family, Nicole butts heads with their oldest son and decides to give him a taste of his own medicine.
- 09
In the swamplands of Louisiana, Paris and Nicole meet their next host family and make a big impression after taking their daughter on a shopping spree; the women get jobs trapping crawfish.
- 10
The girls crash with the Cashes, and they have a hell of a time with the Christian family's no-profanity rule. Thank heaven they also score jobs working at the minor-league baseball field. Of course...they're not much better at it than their other jobs.
- 11
Paris and Nicole leave New York aboard a bus headed for New Jersey, where they work as mechanics in an auto body shop.
- 12
Paris and Nicole take flight to the friendly skies as they get jobs working for an airline. But things turn out bad when Nicole freaks out that her host's cat attacks Foxy Cleopatra.
- 13
Paris and Nicole trade in their designer dresses for traditional saris when they take over the responsibilities of a traditional Pakistani mom. With the patient help of their "husband" and Americanized fifteen-year-old "son," the girls manage to dress, speak and dance like conservative Pakistani housewives...or at least their version of it. But things don't go as well when Paris and Nicole decide to share their experiences, namely how they like to party.
- 14
Paris and Nicole are finally back together after their long fight and Malibu's Camp Shawnee gets the pleasure of meeting them. Paris and Nicole are introduced to the campers interested in losing weight. The girls try and help the hungry campers by retrieving their junk food.
- 15
The finale draws the girls time at Camp Shawnee to a close. They end their time a Camp Shawnee with 'Paris and Nicole The Muscial' and a suprise for camp director Ed.
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