The Simple Life

After giving up their cell phones and credit cards, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie travel the Northeast by bus, where they support themselves by taking jobs as interns… their first assignment is at an auto-repair center in New Jersey, where they steal a police cruiser and accidentally damage a customer’s car when Nicole collides with another vehicle.

The girls are hosted by an Italian-American family who live on Staten Island, and land jobs with a Manhattan advertising firm.

In Pennsylvania the girls take internship jobs at an airport; Nicole helps patch things up between a fourteen-year-old boy and his ex-girlfriend; and Nicole’s dog, Foxy Cleopatra, gets into a fight with a cat.

The girls get an internship job assisting a plastic surgeon, and then take their host family out for a night on the town… at a drag-queen show.

Paris and Nicole take jobs at a Baltimore television station; and the girls give two boys a rock-and-roll makeover.

The girls become interns at a daycare center, where they change diapers and play Simon Says; and Paris and Nicole help a little boy who doesn’t have a bedroom.

The girls take jobs at a zoo; Paris and Nicole help plan a birthday party for one of their hosts; and Nicole receives a surprise visit from her boyfriend.

Paris and Nicole become interns at a retirement community; and the girls show a deer hunter what it’s like to be on the other side of a rifle.

The girls stay with a family that cares for two orangutans; and Paris and Nicole intern for a Miami advertising agency.

The girls intern at a firehouse, where they’re shown how to extinguish fires and rescue trapped victims; and Paris and Nicole try to find a best friend for a little girl with three obnoxious brothers.

The girls teach three young boys how to get a date; and Paris and Nicole take jobs at a tedious manufacturing plant.

Paris and Nicole intern as wedding planners; the girls try to find a date for their host, who’s a single mother.

In Nashville the girls intern with a dentist; and Paris participates in a beauty pageant.