"The Girls Next Door" (E! Entertainment) is the ultimate in guilty-pleasure television. It follows Kendra, Holly, and Bridget; Hugh Hefner's three (now ex) girlfriends who live with him in the Playboy Mansion. The girls spend their days posing in Playboy photo shoots, playing with their tiny pet dogs, and getting up to all sorts of crazy hijinks like hosting the Midsummer's party or visiting the Playboy club in Las Vegas.
The girls are beautiful, the perfect epitome of the All-American: blonde, blue-eyed and buxom. However, the content of the show is about as nutritious as a pack of Sour Patch Kids and three cans of Coke. After watching two episodes back to back, my brain feels similar to the consistency of frosting on store-bought cupcakes.
The show stopped production after the three girls and Hef broke up. Reruns are still being shown on the E! channel, and their website is still in its full glory (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor) Its new media content is as vapid as the actual show.
When visiting the site, viewers are asked to find the differences between these photos: (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor/quizzes/diffgame/index.jsp) It's just like the "find the differences" game you played in the kid's section of the Sunday comics, but with a sexy twist! If you're a "Girls Next Door" buff, you can attempt to complete their very own crossword puzzle: (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor/puzzle/index.jsp) I wish I could have posted the comparison pics and the crossword puzzle, but they were both embedded into the website using Flash. Sigh.
The point is, the new media content of "The Girls Next Door" has little thought put into it, which makes me wonder how much the show's production staff cares about their viewers. Not very much, apparently. Perhaps viewership was dropping off towards the show's end?
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