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Do you think "The Simple Life" is only serving to perpetuate southern redneck stereotypes? I mean, how else to explain the eye-rolling gimmicks of tonight's "reunion" special? Getting the audience to do some weird southern chant thing to "welcome" Paris and Nicole back into the cult, I mean, the state? Having boss Buffy (was that his name?) say "good lord!" a hundred and one times? The headache-inducing banjo music in the background? I bet they served fried chicken and biscuits to the studio audience too! If you took every single stereotype about southern folk and crammed them together one after the other for a whole month, you'd have, FOX's "The Simple Life."

Okay, so whatever script Leeza was reading off of was terrible, but it was nice to see all the "townsfolk" again. But how bad did you feel for the boys, Lamb-chops and "no discernible traits to merit a nickname guy"? They were totally used by Paris and Nicole and treated as objects.... to make out with... Wait... they were totally used by Paris and Nicole as objects to make out with?! Lucky bastards! (On the same note, Nicole's "boyfriend" that she mentioned better not be Justin Guarini! They showed the two of them together on Access Hollywood a few weeks ago... hmm... Can you imagine if they had their own reality show? It'd be like the adventures of two good-looking, third-rate, aspiring singers and their romantic life... wait, there's already a show like that - Nick and Jessica: The Newlyweds!)

Oh and the final "surprise" with the new truck - How much do you wanna bet that FOX paid for it and not the girls? They were probably too busy with their new careers (read: porn star and uh.... Nicole Ritchie) to even remember the Ledding family, let alone buy them a new ride. And one more thing - I had totally begun to like Paris because she seemed so sweet in the show, but when she said that Walmart was her new favourite store... I mean that is just.... And you thought she couldn't get any worse than her sex tape!
posted by Tim at 9:57 PM