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The Simple Life

Season 5

10 listed hours · 2003–2007 · Fox/E!

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How this season is filed

Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly)

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie punch in for farm work like it's performance art, then take the culture clash on the road. The Simple Life is celebutante sitcom — Fox trash that prototyped a fame model, friendship as the real engine, tabloid oxygen the decade could not quit.

TV Flash files Season 5 of The Simple Life (2003–2007) on Fox/E! as the last listed season of 5 — 10 listed hours, 2007-05-28–2007-08-05 from “Welcome to Camp Shawnee” (S05E01) to “Hollywood Ending” (S05E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S05E10 Hollywood Ending

    Hollywood Ending closes the road show — celebutante sitcom billed, the friendship still the plot, a fame model prototyped in fluorescent barns.

  2. S05E01 Welcome to Camp Shawnee

    Welcome to Camp Shawnee opens the final season on a summer-camp sign: the road show in bunk-bed form, celebutante sitcom still punching a clock.

  1. S05E01

    Welcome to Camp Shawnee

    Paris and Nicole put their feud behind them, before becoming summer camp counselors, with their first task helping a group of obese campers lose weight.

  2. S05E02

    Big Primpin

    The girls continue to help their campers lose weight, with the fight to shed pounds becoming extremely competitive, while Hunter tries to impress Paris.

  3. S05E03

    Pageant Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    Paris and Nicole are tasked with helping a group of young girls who arrive at Camp Shawnee for a beauty pageant boot camp.

  4. S05E04

    Showstoppers

    Paris and Nicole turn the tables on the pageant girls' mothers by convincing them to take part in a pageant themselves.

  5. S05E05

    Flirting with Disaster

    Paris and Nicole feel the love when they are assigned to help a group of couples reignite the spark in their respective relationships, while Paris has seconds thoughts about Hunter.

  6. S05E06

    Committed

    Paris and Nicole attempt to bring the couples even closer by throwing a special commitment ceremony, while someone starts to play pranks on them, with chaotic results.

  7. S05E07

    Say Hello to Myke Hawke

    Paris and Nicole are horrified when they are assigned to help with a survival camp ran by an intimidating and exacting leader.

  8. S05E08

    Babes in the Woods

    Paris, Nicole and the campers are tested to the limit when the camp leader organizes a survival trek into the woods.

  9. S05E09

    Almost Fame-less

    Paris and Nicole act up when actress Sally Kirkland arrives to facilitate a drama camp, which leads to simmering tension.

  10. S05E10

    Hollywood Ending

    Paris, Nicole and the campers prepare to stage their musical production, Hunter hatches a plan to win over Paris, and the girls have a surprise for the Bellantes.

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