Burning, hot, same thing! I was just paraphrasing anyway.

Another funny episode.

It's weird to see her parents at the videoshoot and then have her dad talk about how much and how often she can do it now that she's married.

I loved it when they talked about how much their respective videos' budgets were. (Jessica got $170K or something and Nick initially got $10K but then for the 2nd time, he got $30K) Poor guy, the record companies think his career will go nowhere.

Nick's first video was pretty weak, I would have been disappointed with it too. If he thought the song would be such a hit he could have always bankrolled the vidoe himself - but he didn't even offer that.

Actually he did and he asked Jessica if he should put some of his own money into it and she said no. Of course it was easy for her to say that, since her record company gave her all that she wanted for her video shoot, except warm water!

Chris

Classic comedy that you can't script!

I've always heard that artists had to pay for videos out of their own pocket. The labels don't usually pay for videos.

I saw Jess's visit to NY and you could see how many old perverts dream they were 20 years younger and get into her panties.

Nick and Jessica are a really cute couple. I hope their marriage lasts although it's difficult for young marriages to last.

Jessica is beautiful in or out of make-up. I think she looks even better without the make-up. The show should be doing wonders for her showing the human side of her instead of just some sex symbol that sings disposable pop music. So she has some blonde moments, I can see what Nick likes about her.

That was for the re-shoot...I am sure they spent a lot more than that on the first entire video they made...

I must have missed that part. I started losing interest when he was calling people and begging like a dog. I wonder who controls the finances in that relationship. They both have money, I don't see why it would matter if he spent some of his own money. Of course I'm not married so I don't know how that whole situation goes down after the fact.

Believe me the wife always has a say in how the money is spent, but maybe not in this case other wise all they would own is clothes and make-up. But I would never think about spending alot of money without talking to my wife.

I think Nick has his financial under control. The guy don't wanna hire anyone for furniture moves or a housekeeper for sloppy Jessica. Bimbo Jessica is the idiot that went and spent $600-700 for friggin bras. I think $600 would take care of my underwears for life.

This show is the greatest. I really think that Nick seems like a really cool, down to earth guy. I agree Jessica looks better without makeup, she looked really good just out camping and stuff..

Nick was on Howard Stern today, he was talking about him and jess's honeymoon etc. Pretty funny stuff. Here is a synopsis I got off marksfriggin.com

The whole thing about how Nick wanted to spend more money on the video and try to start his solo career all has to do with his male ego. He just simply can't stand the fact or the minutest possibility that one day, the income source will only be coming from Jessica. That's the only reason why he's being so aggrasive in getting a higher budget video made. Though sadly, I believe Nick will not be able to make it on his own without 98 degrees and eventually ended up divorced. (It's all downhill from here....)

Wow, half-empty sorta guy, are we?

[George Carlin]"For me its not whether the glass is half empty or half full, for me the glass is too big."[/George Carlin]

Sort of OT: I was watching the Wade Robson Project last night (I don't know why I was), when JC Chazez of N'Sync came out and announced his solo album and video, and I thought to my self "Self, he ain't never going to be as big as N'Sync... or Justin. Give up and get back with the group!"

I kind of feel that same way about 98°...

Wow, that's pretty sad that you watched the Wade Robson Project.

I haven't heard any of JC's solo work, but I will say that when he was with N'Sync, I thought he was a pretty talented guy. He can sing and dance. Also, he wrote a lot of the songs that they performed. Plus, the girls like him. I'm somewhat surprised that he went on that show (even though Wade was their choreographer for a lot of the stuff that N'Sync did) because of the rumors that Britney cheated on Justin with Wade. Either JC and Justin have had a falling out (which I doubt), or he's desperate enough to do all the marketing he can to overlook the riff that Wade and Justin now have (unless the rumors are totally false).

Nick Lachey is less of a teenie bopper and I think he'll struggle to find his niche as a soloist. The publicity of this show will definitely help him, though.

If it wasn't for this show, Nick's career would be absolutely dead. I doubt he'll do as well as Timberlake did.

Either way, the show will be on for much longer, which means more of Jessica. I have a feeling she is the reason the show is successful. But that's just me...

Nick's career won't be better than Justin's because his band wasn't as popular as Nsync.

But he is the only guy on this planet that can say he was the first to pop Jessica and the only guy to still hit it -- EXCLUSIVLY.

I captured her best line ever today (the one about how Nick gets "paid" for decorating).

DO NOT SHARE THE LINK, I can't afford the bandwidth.

7.5MB DIVX
http://s87319199.onlinehome.us/nick_jess.avi

http://www.msnbc.com/news/978317.asp?0na=x226D170-

Raised by a pack of French poodles

Jessica Simpson’s mesmerizing brand of dumb

By Linda Holmes
SPECIAL TO MSNBC.COM

Oct. 13 — You have probably heard about Jessica Simpson’s tangle with canned tuna. It happened during the premiere episode of MTV’s “Newlyweds,” a reality show chronicling the early days of pop semi-diva Simpson’s marriage to Nick Lachey, late of the boy band 98 Degrees. As Jessica pondered the meal she was enjoying in front of the TV, she asked her husband, “Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish?” As it turned out, she was confused by the label that read, as she recalled it, “Chicken by the Sea.”

JESSICA’S APPARENT STUPIDITY has now spawned a secondary phenomenon: the armchair analysis of whether it’s possible that she — or anyone — is as dumb as she looks. She recently showed up on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” admitting to being a ditz but chalking it up to a brand of appeal she tried to sell as reminiscent of Lucille Ball. Her father was likewise recently quoted in the press suggesting that she isn’t dumb, she’s just “playing into” her role as a stereotypical empty-headed blonde.
Clearly, this is not the case. It’s not as if tuna is the only food to trip her up. She once declined an order of Buffalo wings with the fairly grave statement that she doesn’t eat buffalo. As a friend of hers pointed out, it had apparently never occurred to her to wonder, given her understanding of the etymology, where on a buffalo you would find the wings to begin with.
Other life essentials like clothing tax her as well. She flitted out of a lingerie store without realizing that she had just dropped over $750 on two bras and two pairs of underwear. As she stood on the sidewalk outside the store and realized what she had done, she made a panicked, guilty, utterly pitiful phone call to Nick, who suggested that she look at the price tags next time.

WHY THE FASCINATION?
By now, the point is not so much whether Jessica is dumb as it is why her particular brand of dumb is so mesmerizing. After all, she is hardly the first person on reality television not in line for a genius grant.
Regular viewers of the genre have seen people who can’t follow the simplest of instructions, people whose poor grasp of language certainly rivals Jessica’s mistaken belief that there was an animal called a “platy-ma-pus,” and people whose raging egos blind them entirely to how they are perceived by others.
Moreover, it isn’t as if she flies so high that a chink in her armor should be all that newsworthy. She and Nick are B-list pop stars at the moment. Both have hits in their pasts, but her most recent CD, “In This Skin,” peaked at tenth place on the Billboard chart. After six weeks, she’s parked at number 78 — just behind the Steve Miller Band. Her book-signing featured on “Newlyweds” looked like it attracted barely enough fans to field a football team. Nick, having left his band, is now trying his luck as a solo artist. His impact has yet to be felt.

So their show isn’t exactly a look at the hopelessly washed-up in the tradition of “The Surreal Life,” but it’s hardly a “Don’t Look Back”-style documentary about people who are actually accomplished, either. No, Nick and Jessica are somewhere in between, living the sunny, bland, cash-soaked existence of the lame duck celebrity.
Past successes have earned them a certain term during which fans — mostly girls, in both of their cases — will continue to ask for autographs now and then. There’s limited interest in their new projects, though, because their successors have already been elected.
The public places they visit are sure to greet them noisily (“Welcome, Nick & Jessica!” proclaims the sign at Cincinnati’s King’s Island amusement park on the day they drop by), tacitly acknowledging that at least some people know who they are, but very few will notice them without being given a friendly nudge in the right direction.

POOR NICK
Jessica, for reasons known only to herself, pitched in by complaining about the decision to move the thing upstairs in the first place.
So if it’s not about toppling idols and it’s not about pitying those who have entirely fallen, where does the fascination with Jessica’s foibles come from?
For one thing, she actually inspires the occasional flash of sympathy, or at least pity, if only because she’s trying so hard in a world-of-her-own kind of way. Jessica is no callous, punishing vixen — at least not on purpose.
She cares enormously about what Nick thinks of her. She pleads with him not to make fun of her, frequently quizzes him about whether he thinks she’s sexy, and yells for his help when she doesn’t know what to do.
Nick — who seems like a surprisingly normal guy at least some of the time, even moving his own stuff in a U-Haul truck from his condo to their enormous new house — often seems utterly baffled by her. It’s hard to imagine how this can be, given that they had a lengthy courtship and it seems likely that she acted the same way before they were married. The qualities that drive him crazy now are too integrated into her personality to be either manufactured or recently acquired.
Sometimes, in fact, watching Nick choke on his frustration is as entertaining as watching Jessica herself. When they were moving Nick’s things into the house, Nick and his brother Drew carted a particularly unwieldy piece of furniture up the wide, winding stairs, sweating and struggling all the way.
Jessica, for reasons known only to herself, pitched in by complaining about the decision to move the thing upstairs in the first place. As Nick heaved it up a few more inches, he muttered to Drew that at times like this, he was glad he didn’t have a gun, because if he had one, he might shoot himself. Drew paused, chuckled, and asked, “Why would you shoot yourself?”

RAISED BY POODLES
Fame at 16, had we experienced it, might have twisted us into freakish balloon animals until we couldn’t so much as buy groceries without a personal assistant.
Jessica is also distinguished by the appalling depths of her inexperience. Sometimes watching her is not so much like reading a tabloid as it is like watching “The Jungle Book.” If it were possible for a little girl to be isolated from society and raised in the wild, not by wolves but by a pack of French poodles, she might turn out something like Jessica, who simply has no concept of what happens during the daily life of a normal person.
Tired of having to hang up her own towels, she asks a friend whether there are special “maids for celebrities.” Called upon to empty a vase of dead flowers into the trash, she falls apart. She can’t imagine hanging pictures on the wall of her own home without the help of a designer.
In fact, when Nick does a little low-key decorating in the new house while she’s away, Jessica is irritated primarily because she is unable to figure out whether she likes it or not. She takes the position that she and Nick are unqualified to decide what should go where. They don’t know what looks good, she argues. She returns to her mantra, which she repeats over and over in a variety of situations: “Can’t we hire someone?”
It’s true that reality television is often little more than an opportunity to watch a fool act like a fool, and Jessica is no exception. Still, this kind of entertainment is never as tempting as when it indulgently hints to us that we are right about everything. Yes, the nice person does often finish last. Yes, if you don’t scam your fellow man, he will scam you first. Yes, some people will do anything for a buck. Yes, the nice guy does often get dumped for the creep.
And in the case of “Newlyweds,” we are reassured that celebrity is not a meritocracy. That fame at 16, had we experienced it, might have twisted us into freakish balloon animals until we couldn’t so much as buy groceries without a personal assistant. That it’s just as well we never hit it big.
Jessica’s level of semi-fame is perfect for this purpose. If she were living the very high life of a very successful person, she might be having so much fun that it would be hard not to envy her. If she drops much lower on the totem pole, it will be hard not to feel sorry for her, given her obvious lack of preparation for any role in life other than the one she has now.
For the time being, it is just right to watch her bubble through her daily life, not very bright but also not very relevant. We just knew we didn’t really want to be rich and famous.
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The “Newlyweds” first-season finale airs on MTV at 10:30 p.m. ET Oct. 21.
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Linda Holmes is a freelance writer in Bloomington, Minn.


Darn, the first season is almost over! Chris

Another fine episode.

"Can I get a hummer?"
"Sure, go ahead. Wait, you're talking about the car, right?"

"Here's to Jessica, who gets more mature, more wise, and more beautiful every single day."
"You really believe that."
"Half of it."

"Did you like your birthday party?"
"It was the best ever."
"Can I get that f**k now?"

For once, Nick did the dumb thing by breaking off part of the honeycomb and tasting it.

Jessica is probably the hottest person ever to set foot in Home Depot.

Best line from the preview.

"We're planning a romantic getaway to San Diego"
"Nick, I didn't bring my passport"

The hummer line was the best last nite

IMO, the best line was when she told Nick he smelled like "an incent". She actually thought "incense" was the plural form of "incent". You have to be extremely dumb or extremely clever to even imagine something like that.

I am starting to believe that she is playing a role; I doubt anyone could be that braindead.....but I could be wrong!

the way she looked at her birthday party reminded me of Anna Nicole Smith and the way she looked at one of her parties. Just skinnier.

Yeah, those eyelashes were scary and not even remotely sexy. They should have shown Ashlee Simpson more at the party, she may be young but she is looking good.