The Simple Life

Paris and Nicole meet the Beggs family: Allen and Becky and their children Ashley, Zachary and Stephanie. Allen is very particular and likes his house kept clean and orderly at all times. Becky goes over a list of house cleaning chores that Allen expects Paris and Nicole to complete to his satisfaction. Becky also mentions they will each have to prepare dinner for their friends from church, who will be coming over that evening. Becky leaves and Nicole tackles the laundry by throwing it all in the pool with some detergent. Allen is incensed by this and demands that she dive in to retrieve it. Paris attempts the ironing but ends up using the iron to make a quesadilla and hotdog for Allen. He is impressed with the lunch, unaware of how she made it. Paris then decides to multitask by strapping the mop to her waist, hopping onto Allen’s Segway and riding around the house mopping and dusting at the same time. She then moves on to the yard work but is soon made aware of a problem in the laundry room. She used too much detergent and the room is filled with soapsuds. She uses a leaf blower to clean up the mess. Meanwhile, Nicole convinces Allen that they all deserve a break from cleaning. She takes them to a spa to be pampered and get makeovers, including long hair extensions for Zachary. Nicole’s dad, Lionel Richie, is in the neighborhood and stops by for a visit. He offers Allen some fatherly advice on how to deal with teenagers and tells a few tales of Nicole’s troubled teen years. Nicole ends the family outing with a trip to an exclusive clothing store. Back at the house, Paris has found another use for the leaf blower: cockroach exterminator! After the day’s chores, Paris has just ten minutes to make dinner for Allen and Becky’s church group. She turns again to the clothes iron, and makes grilled cheese sandwiches for everyone. For her dinner effort, Nicole simply picks up a chef on her the way home from shopping and has him make dinner. In the end, Allen thought that Paris handled things a little better than Nicole. While Paris didn’t handle any one task spectacularly, and didn’t really know what she was doing most of the time, she did her best.