I had never heard of this show until I saw it mentioned on another message board. It’s an MTV show following Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson around. It documents the first couple months of their marriage. It has become a guilty pleasure of mine. I watch it because I like to see how ignorant, spoiled, lazy, rude, and un-talented Jessica Simpson can be. Nick has all my sympathy for being tied eternally to this vapid child. But he can be pretty condescending and miserly.
Jessica has gotten confused by a tuna brand name, is completely unable to throw out flowers or food correctly, doesn’t do laundry, but does pout and whine until her mommy and daddy talk to her husband and offer to pay for a maid. And that’s just the first episode. Jessica also gets jealous and goes shopping without looking at pricetags and calls her husband in shock. Jessica also doesn’t camp. She thinks hiking is “worse than stairmaster” and brings her Luis Vuitton bag on a camping trip. I really think if this girl procreates, her offspring’s head will implode.
I’m almost ashamed that I watch this show. I was just hanging around my house watching tv on labor day and it came on. I was hooked. It stuns me what a baby she is! It makes me laugh. They don’t like each other, but then, boom they are kissing and loving on each other again.
its a good thing this girl had “talent” and married a guy with money from a boy band…because if she had to work for a living it would be catastrophic…most of the blame is on her parents…her mom did everything for her…now it may have been different if she wasnt “talented” and had to go all over creation when she was young singing so her mom took up the slack…but geez its just to weird how this girl is stupid…atleast her husband is fairly normal…i kinda respect this guy…you can tell his parent did a better job than jessicas…all i can say about this show is…WOW
I’ve watched about half an episode, and I must say I have a great deal of admiration for Nick Lachey. I don’t think I could even put up with Jessica Simpson for a few days, let alone the rest of my life.
Her father is producer of this show. So, is it his doing that his daughter looks like a moron or MTV’s?
I’ve watched a couple of episodes feeling nothing but sympathy for Jessica Simpson.
Her parents discovered that she could sing right around the time in most young women’s lives when they start to take some interst in learning about domestic things, like what kind of animal is sold in cans with a “Chicken of the Sea” label and how to properly clean dishes.
She was pulled out of school and out of a normal home and thrown into a world of touring, living in hotels, eating room service and never having to do (or learn how to do) anything for herself. Her passage into adulthood was seriously interrupted. And now that she’s a “grown up” with a husband and home of her own, she’s completely out of her depth. She needs a maid, because she’s never been taught to do basic things herself. That’s just sad.
Her father, who is supposedly a Baptist minister, really has a lot to answer for, including making his child look like a fool in front of an international audience.
Saw the show for the first time yesterday…
It was like watching a train wreck - I felt so embarassed for her but still kept waiting for the next inane action or statement.
:smack:
:timidly raises hand:
I love it. As much as I thought I would hate Nick, I do feel bad for him, he seems like a decent guy. What a lazy stupid bitch, what did/does he see in that girl?
I can probably think of a couple things.
I like the show. I just think it’s kind of funny that she’s a little bad at the house-keeping and stuff. If I had money like the do, I’d sure expect a maid!! I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
Also, her parent’s didn’t pay for the maid. Nick paid the maid cash. Jessica’s parent’s were offering to HIRE the maid for her while she and Nick were out of town.
To me, a lot of this show looks familiar to me. I’ve been married for 2 and a half years and the things they get argue about are the same things that my husband and I argued about.
I can TOTALLY understand why she was jealous about the dancers. I guess the important thing to keep in mind is that the scenes we see are such short examples of what their life is like. If they were ALWAYS arguing, they wouldn’t be married. BUT, them just sitting around getting along with each other doesn’t make for very good tv.
Anyway, I think the show is really entertaining, and I think that I’d like both Nick and Jessica. (Not that the occasion would ever really happen where I’d meet them.)
Also, I wasn’t a fan of either of them before watching the show.
I used to think she was hot until I saw the show.
And wtf was up with her talking about shooting his dick off? I don’t understand people.
Chalk me up to feeling a little sorrow for Jessica. They can afford help and she doesn’t know and doesn’t want to know how to do things she never learned and doesn’t need to learn how to do. They can afford a housekeeper.
She is dense, though. How can you get jealous about the freakin’ girls in his video? Either you trust him or you don’t. Sheesh!
I like Nick. He’s a little, um, mean but he does seem to love Jessica and I’d be rolling my eyes at my naive, clueless wife too if I were him.
Oh, there’s a mini-marathon on now and I’m watching it, which is why I’m posting and bumping this.
From the ep I saw this weekend, concerning a dead mouse Nick had to remove from their pool:
Nick: “Yeah, it was gross. It was all stiff with rigor mortis.”
Jessica: “Rigor who?”
I agree with TeaElle that one has to feel sorry for Jessica – she’s completely ignorant about every aspect of daily living, but that’s because she’s never had to do any of it – and the fault for that lies with her parents. It’s nonetheless a laugh riot.
–Cliffy
I finally saw the episode Cliffy is talking about last night. I’ve got to be honest, I was feeling a little depressed and lonely last night lamenting my singlehood but after watching that episode, I honestly didn’t feel so bad.
She’s pathetic. I understand editing and that they can make her seem a lot worse just to make the show “better”, but they can’t put words in her mouth. What a whiny, bitchy, ignorant, useless human being.
I saw this for the first time last night. She’s like Anna Nicole Smith Junior. I understand that she was sheltered/exploited and all, but who the heck doesn’t know what a golf tee is? It’s weird that her father/producer doesn’t see or care what a moron (i.e., not cute, not cuddly-wuddly…a freaking annoying imbecile) his daughter looks like.
Bruce_Daddy, I suspect the editing has nothing to do with making her a “whiny, bitchy, ignorant, useless human being.” In my mind, the producers have more than enough material to last three seasons, and by then we’ll be seeing that footage on “Nick and Jessica: The E! True Hollywood Story” after she thinks he cheats on her and shoots his dick off.
I also don’t think Jessica’s to be pitied; it seems like Nick’s doing his best to deal with her but she refuses to learn how to do anything or compromise with him. I still can’t believe she didn’t know what a mop looked like.
I sort of wish she had gone to the Playboy Mansion just to see the trainwreck, and Drew’s reaction. I laughed when he ducked out of the brewing fight between Jessica and Nick.
I can’t believe I’m as into Newlyweds as I am. It’s embarrassing, but I’ve sold a number of people on it with “Chicken-by-the-Sea” so I don’t have to be alone any longer.
Here’s what I don’t get about her jealousy. I’m a rather jealous person myself, but why is she getting so worked up over video shoots and the Playboy mansion? If they both have successful careers :rolleyes: and have to tour there will be a line of willing girls outside his bus every night. That’s 100x more “tempting” than the other events that were “public” and crowded.
Oh, and another thing I forgot. Did anyone else catch this from the USO episode?:
JS: “I’m getting a gun.”
JS’s dad: “I’ve got a .22. You want that?”
Right dad. Give her a gun.
In addition, she refused to even entertain the fact–fact that it was a publicity appearance for Nick to promote his solo career at a TV premiere that happened to be at the Playboy Mansion. After all, that’s part of the reason why they’re living in that McMansion and having limos drive them all around town. The same goes for the video dancers audition. It’s what Nick’s PR guy said to him (and I’m paraphrasing): “The women need to be around you, but not with you.” And I felt that was basically in deference to Jessica throwing a hissy fit at the audition and rehearsal.
“Don’t get all fatherly on me.”
“Don’t act childishly”
“Don’t call me a child”
“Stop acting like one!”
P.S., I think I’m in love with Nick. Hunky, loving, housecleaning wood-gathering, patient lovely Nick. Jessica should be jealous.
And he scoops the dead mice–sorry, “mouses”–out of the swimming pool.