I found this episode a little sad. Barbie and Hef were talking about all their exciting trips around the world and I kept thinking how these women have to be home by 9:00 or get in trouble. What a difference! To go out with Hef now seems to equal house arrest.

And it was a signed Afleet Alex cap! I guess he couldn't make the party. Hee.



The staff seems to genuinely like her too. Her interaction with Hef appears more father/daughter/grandpa/granddaughter than girlfriend/boyfriend.

I'm so glad to see others intrigued in this show too....

Here's my takes on a couple of things:

Kendra: After seeing a few episodes my thoughts on Kendra have changed. She honestly seems like a nice (non-catty/non-bitchy) fun-loving hoochie mama type of person. And that is fine with me. The hair is waaaaaay too bleached out and she has no visible hips but it's all good. I still sorta like her -- especially compared to the other two....

Maybe it's just me, but did anyone else notice that from this weeks and last weeks episodes it definitely appears that Kendra is specifically looking to hook up with a fine black man. Here's my proof: at the pool in Vegas she is playing in the water with some random people and she does a toast specifically to the only african american guy in the pool and tries to flirt with him specifically. Then just a few days later before the fight there is a black mannequin in the yard and she thinks it's a person and says how hot he is. Then she repeats this about 5 times throughout the night. Her booty dancing, taste in music, etc also lead me to believe that she'd love to be some hot basketball player's arm candy. I hope for her sake that she does indeed get some action soon (from ANYONE in her age group) because i know she ain't getting it from Hef and if she's lived there for a year now then that's a long time to go without. Or maybe she could just hook up with her "bestest friend" Destiny...who knows?


Holly: this chick is delusional and I believe that it's totally not a guise that she is so into Hef...she's all about the octogenarian. Why? Maybe she thinks that by being found attractive and sexy to him is the approval she needs in life and she is attached to the seeking of this approval. Seeing her and that nasty bitch Barbi "I have dried out/worse hair than Kendra" Benton interact was really amusing. Holly definitely isn't as socially adept or as good a conversator as Kendra or Bridget. She acts wooden and uncomfortable at all times.

Bridget: In some ways I slightly like Bridget. She's got some degrees and she really just seems to be there for the free ride/status of living there and I can emphasize with that on some level. But she is seriously wacked in certain areas -- the matchy/dress up halloween costumes she wears to every event they go to is strange and her dad letting her read playboy when she was five is a little odd -- I think that would probably be considered bad parenting in most circles. What does she think that being in the magazine will do for her? Does she think it will get her respect from men? From what i see on the show, she's not very interested in men sexually or as friends. She just likes to prance around in lala land and baby her animals and play dress up. Or is it just a self-centered vanity type of dream? We may never know.....

I thought it was hilarious on that website how these 3 "girlfriends" were called "The Party Posse" since the only one that knows how to party and have a good time is Kendra. I can think of a lot better names for these 3 but i won't go there....

I couldn't figure out if Holly was being quiet at lunch because she was jealous, if she has no social skills (she seemed kind of stiff with the girl who came to test shoot), if she was trying to be polite by letting Barbie and Hef reminsce (if you've ever been with someone who ran into an old friend in your presence and witnessed the mini-reunion while you stood awkwardly to the side, it's somewhat understandable), or if she was silently plotting how to pour Nair into Barbie's shampoo bottle. Seeing her behavior at the fight, I'm inclined to go with a little bit of all four.

I think one of the reasons why Hef likes having Kendra around is he enjoys her enthusiasm. I find her a little too cliche about being a young, insecure, "I like to party/I'm so wild" kind of girl but I can see Hef would like having her around.

Bridget is insane. It took her HOW LONG to figure out that hideous cat wouldn't walk on a leash? So her solution is to get a dog that looks like the cat? The last thing they need in that freaking house is ANOTHER dog barking and crapping all over the place. When she had the puppy inside the little metal fence, all I could think was that she better put something over the top if she doesn't want Gizmo the cat to eat that little puppy.

About the nair in the shampoo - I've used Nair before, and it has a very distinctive smell. If someone had mixed Nair into my shampoo I would have noticed. And IIRC, you have to wait for a couple minutes for it to work anyway so even if you didn't smell it, wouldn't you have washed it out by the time it actually began to work?

My posts are unreadable? I will show myself the door.

I think they call it "Party Posse" when they have to be polite, but I know they called them the Pussy Posse in the movie The Aristocrats when they were talking about Hef's roast.

ITA. Things at the mansion may have actually been a bit interesting back in Barbie's day. She and Hef went to Kenya and Tanzania; now an exciting day is a couple of hours in Vegas and back by 9:00.

Barbie doesn't look like the wife of a millionaire to me. I thought she looked older than her years.

I thought the fight night party seemed really, really unfun.

I'd love to know what's up with Bridget's family that they send their possibly teenage daughter to stay with Bridget for the summer. Nice environment for the kid.

I luurve Gizmo.

Kendras HA HA laugh has got to go. I found it funny when Barbie kept bringing up previous adventures to Hef and he seemed alittle slow (alzheimers anyone?) to remember, then just laughing with her. I don't think he really rememberd half of what she was saying.

The mannequin schtick was mildly funny the first time. Worth repeating? Just no.

I think Barbie would have jumped at the chance for a roll with Hef (as if he kept her "bust" around as an altar) but sadly he prefers ice cream cones in bed with his nurse...er girlfriend. Sad.

If I had been at fight night, I would have been all over Matthew Perry. Just saying.

I saw this too! They had a cheesy disco in the house and she was dancing. I think it was some kind of E! Where Are They Now type of show.


Holly said she and Hef still had the better relationship after hearing about Barbi's escapadees. Sorry dear, Barbi has you beat hands down.

I think Barbi could still be a pretty woman if only she did something with that nasty hair!! She needs it shaped and dyed back to it's original brown. I just didn't get her. Or why she toted her sex therapist to the party.


Me too! I love that she shows that she's excited about things and seems to view each situation as fun. But she is so on the hunt for a man it isn't even funny. I'm surprised Mom Holly didn't pull her aside for a little talk when she was so obviously scamming on the guys at the party.

Bridget said, "I don't think Barbi is a threat Holly and Hef's relationship." Hey, Bridg? Aren't you supposed to also be his girlfriend??? Funny you're not thinking about your own relationship. Gag. Bridget and Kendra are so only on the payroll.

Coupled with the fact that he's 107 years old... No wonder Holly needs to fuel up with ice cream cones before bed. Damn.


I guess you're not Bunny material. ha!

I just read in a weekly tab (I know, shame on me) that Roberto Cavalli has been selected to redesign the bunny "uniform" for the upcoming 25 year anniversary of Playboy (I thought the empire/mag had been around longer, but what do I know?).

I can't imagine what could be done to update or improve an already ridiculous costume. Guesses anyone?

Oh, and my money is on Gizmo: that cat is so gonna kill puppy (didn't catch its name).

(news item)

Not worth repeating, but I did crack up the first time Kendra said it. Man, girlfriend really needs some action.



No kidding! Barbie's visit was pretty dumb (and she was kind of bitchy), but at least when she was with Gramps they did things, went places! All Holly gets is Thursday nights out with the geezer and the party posse and ice cream in bed. I got bored just typing that.



The puppy's name is Wednesday. I half expected Bridget to get back to her room after fight night and find her hanging from one of the branches of Gizmo's climbing structure with a "G" carved in her chest.

It has, Txtwister. Hef started the magazine in 1953 (with the gorgeous centerfold of Marilyn Monroe) and had the first "bunnies" in his Chicago club in 1960.

RE: the girls having any fun as Hef's "girlfriends" now.....after noting comments here about how closely guarded they must be, I rewatched the Las Vegas episode with a different attitude. Y'all are right! They all seemed so nervous about what they could & could not do while away from Hef. I just don't think living there is much fun at all. Especially with an almost octogenarian. (He's 79, altho he's probably lived it up enough to be 107.)

Did you also catch her talking about inviting Barbi over again but probably not because of Holly and Hef's relationship?

ITA - she looked so cute with dark brown hair. With her hair the way it is now, though, she reminds me of Mona on Who's the Boss.

I can totally relate to Holly's strange love/adoration for Hef and her hopes that one day he'll settle down with her alone.
When I was 25, I dated a 52-year-old womanizer who had a couple of other gals on the side. And like Holly, I was considered "the number 1 girl" and even though I didn't mind his other gal-pals as well, I also used to fantasize about him ditching the others and eventually calming down with me.

Then I grew up and realized how truly delusional I was and how ridiculous that situation had become. And while I truly did love that guy once, he really was more like a father figure whose approval and attention I was constantly seeking. I also never had a father around and I'll bet Holly doesn't either.

Mind you, I wasn't living in a Hollywood mansion with that older guy and his other girlies for free with all my expenses paid for and getting a taste of the Hollywood fastlane lifestyle!

I'm just saying, I see a bit of my old self in Holly...and I'm willing to bet she'll feel every bit as foolish and bitter when he either ditches her for someone younger or she decides to wise up and quit waiting around and wasting her youth on some elderly lech who may or likely may not settle down with her.

I thought it was funny that the editors made it look like she was making the same mistake (Who is that hot guy? Oh, the mannequin!) over and over again instead of just telling an "amusing" story about her mistake.

Barbi was seriously cute/sexy back in her prime. None of Hef's current girlfriends look that effortlessly sexy. With better hair and a less bitchy/attention grabbing attitude, she would be very attractive, imo.

...something I noticed in the linked pictures a few posts back...Bridget is on the one side of Hef by herself...you think maybe she was "#1" at one time and got demoted after bugging him one too many times to get put in the damn magazine?! lol

There were two back to back episodes on last night...the Vegas trip & Fight Night. Watching again made me see how truely "clueless" the lovely Bridget is. OMG! Holly is mildly bitchy/jealous/devious, Kendra is a cute, sexy girl who just wants to have a good time, but Bridget really is just (gah! hate to say it, y'all) "So cute, So stupid." (tm The Sweetest Thing)

See, I can't decide if Bridget really is a little...off, or if she just thinks it's cute to look ditzy (a la Jessica Simpson). On one hand, she just doesn't seem too bright, with her little girl frilly outfits and her room that's plastered in pink- she reminds me of a 6 year old girl. She was probably really excited to hear Barbi was coming to the Mansion, only to find out that Barbi Benton had nothing to do with her collection of plastic dolls that she meticulously has dressed in all pink outfits. And of course there's her baby talk...she just doesn't seem all there. On the other hand, there's her degrees, and her occasional snarkiness. Some of the stuff she says just doesn't strike me as coming out of the mouth of someone who lives in a perpetual world of cotton candy and unicorns. Also, she named her dog Wednesday. Not that Wednesday is a genius name by any means, but it shows some understanding of things outside the realm of fairies and rainbows. Of course, I'm assuming that she got the name from the Addams Family, and not from the day of the week it happened to be when the puppy arrived. This could be a wrong assumption. Plus there's the fact that she's getting to live rather well for doing absolutely nothing (except maybe Hef, but I don't think she's even doing that). I think my theory is that Bridget is semi-intelligent, but Hef doesn't want intelligent or even semi-intelligent girls around him. He just wants them to look pretty and not tell anyone the truth about their relationship (or lack thereof) with him. Therefore, she knows enough to act like an idiot and she'll get to keep her job for a few more years. I'm not saying that it's entirely an act...I think she's definitely ditzy, but you can be ditzy and somewhat intelligent. I don't think she has a lot of common sense, but she might be book smart. There's just certain things about her that make me not entirely buy the "I'm as dumb as a box of rocks" routine.

While I think the 9:00 curfew is creepy and pathetic and skeevy for adult women to have, maybe it wasn't an entirely bad idea. I have no doubt Kendra would have hooked up with someone while in Vegas. Girl was chomping at the bit with sexual frustration. She strikes me as the "horny drunk girl" at the party. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Bwahahaha! Hailey, now that's funny!

Didn't Kendra mention that the 9:00 p.m. curfew was in effect because some of the girls had gotten in to "trouble" when they were staying out later?

A few thoughts:

-A young Barbie is cute but her eyes are so far apart it looks weird now. She was being a total bitch, also. I hated how she misprnounced Kenya.
-Kendra is unentertaining.
-I think Holly is just shy/lacks social skills and she probably went inside because she doesn't like being around large groups of people she doesn't know. I know I don't. I also thought she looked really pretty when she was curling her hair.
-Bridget is still my favorite. I love her voice, I love that she's the oldest, I think she's the prettiest, and I love that she wanted a dog that looked just like her cat. I do not, however, like the costumes. They're weird.

I think Hef should dump the girlfriends and hook up with an attractive woman near his age, like Barbi. If you are an old guy like Hef, who loves old movies and culture and traveling and is probably interested in conversations with substance, he is only going to have superficial conversations with his much younger girlfriends. I find that I can't talk to some people who are 5-6 years younger than me because they have no idea what movies and music I am talking about, for example. I understand he wants the sex and he has his image to uphold, but what about the rest of the day? I guess he has compensated by having those movie nights/guys nights with his old guy friends and talks with people then.

Was it just me but during the "Fight Night" episode when Heff was sitting there with that ridiculous hat he looked just like dead Bernie from "Weekend At Bernie's"?

Unfortunately for Hef, if he wanted to hook up with a woman near his age, he would be dating Barbi's mother.



Oy, this really made me laugh. He definitely looked like a schmuck with his hat that way. I really wanted to loan him some dignity and straighten that hat out.

Bwah! Like the Seinfeld episode where the Mandelbaums are in the hospital! "Why don't you pick on someone your own age?"
"You got any kids?"

Hef is 24 years older than Barbi, so he really could be her father. Not surprising.

If I'm not mistaken, these pictures were taken on Fight Night, but they are labeled "Andy Roddick Host 13th Annual ESPY Awards Pre-Party." You can see the house in the background in this picture and Hef's sideways cap here.

There is an older picture of Hef & his posse here.. The picture is from the 2003 Golden Globes - Holly is on his right, and Bridget is next to her.

When was Hef ever interested in that stuff? I mean how does he like to "travel" when Gramps here can't even handle a a trip to Las Vegas. And given his apparent disdain for eating out, I have the feeling that Hef doesn't even really like to leave the house too much. Of course, even if the above were true, that old fossil wouldn't hook up with an old broad. Even aside from the "gay/bisexual" rumors, Hef has a stud reputation (rolleyes) to uphold, and as someone who not only promotes the "Playboy Lifestyle" but also (supposedly) lives it, he needs a bevy of young skanks to keep up the image. This is, of course, where the show is running into problems. Despite the fact that the show was OBVIOUSLY designed to show Playboy as a "fun-loving, party hearty, sexy" brand (which is why I think the show constantly has them playing with playmates and bunnies all the time), the girls lives come across of dull and way too regemented and structured to be exciting, and Hef comes across as more as cranky, low-key grampa then the sex-starved party anima that's "still got it" that he's rumored to be.

LOL!!

I'm biased because I've liked Barbi Benton since I was a kid (I don't know why), but I could see her behavior about the girls. It was strictly territorial. Showing them that she was there first and that after all of these other women have come and go, she still has a place in Hef's life. She was just peeing a circle around him.

I thought Barbi's Q&A with Hef was cute. It was like a really, really old married couple trying to have a conversation. I was waiting for Hef to say, "Wait a minute. Lemme turn up my hearing aid."

"Hef always says the mansion isthe best place to be"

At least two of the girls said this, so obviously he says it often. I doubt Hef really wants to go anywhere, which is pretty normal for a 79 year old person.

The playboy image was to built around Hugh Hefner, playboy extrodinar, now they don't know how to let him retire without ruining the brand. and Hef strikes me as the type of business man that would rather be dead than see his brand, his company faulter.

This show would have been a terrible idea, if any guys were actually watching it that still liked playboy, but the only people I know that watch it are women, who watch purely for the snark value.

ETA: I alsothought that Holly looked very pretty when she was getting ready before Barbi got there, I still think she is delusional, but when she is not dressed like a skank she looks very nice

This is my first posting on these boards.

I went to High School with Barbi Benton, she was more of a blonde, than a brunette in real life.
Her hair now is so blown out, I would be afraid to light a match around her.
I am surprised that her hair doesn't look better nor that she was not dressed better with the very wealthy life she has lived.
Her mansion in Aspen is huge, there was an article about it not too long ago in Vanity Fair.
I think the master bedroom revolves.
The photos of the house showed that it was indeed rather ugly perched up on the hill.

I noticed she had no rings on, do you think she is divorced and cruising?

I gotta say the show is growing on me, Holly is a little odd she seems obsessed with hef and needs some help she seems kind of uptight (and bitchy) but when hef is not around (the vegas trip) she seems to let go have fun in contrast to posing and having that wide eyed dopey look all the time. Kendra you gotta love her energy, although her laugh is starting to get annoying, and you know shes just dying to hook up with some hot pro-sports guy (or her "best friend" if not already), in the looks department she's not the best (looks a surfer/skater boy with boobs) but her bubbly personality is good. Bridget up to know is my favorite although her barbie doll/little girl act is very odd. My guess is shes just along for the ride, playing dumb and helpless in order to appeal to hef. She's definitely the hottest of the three. Barbi still seemed infatuated by hef, for a moment I thought I was going to witness some grandma/(great)grandpa action, thank gawd it didn't happen.

You hit it perfectly,angiebee. It's really sad that Barbi doesn't yet seem mature enough to be gracious to her replacements. She seems to have done well for herself and doesn't need to be so jealous and snarky to them.

BTW, thanks for the insider info, Elliot. I always liked Barbi before this episode and one of her best features was her really beautiful hair. It really looks overprocessed & kinda "fried" now. *sigh*

AND, ptfull, SO agree about Kendra's laugh....really starting to bug with that "braying donkey" quality!

I totally didn't get that until I watched the ep again! I thought she was using the "Who's that guy?" on purpose over and over again, cuz she knew it was funny. Then I felt bad for her because it was all caught on camera. Oh well, I guess that's what happens when you agree to be on a reality show.

It really bugs me that the girls must all share a man without complaint and follow all his stupid rules, yet he demands that they all be loyal to him, and be home by 9:00 so they have no chance of hooking up with anyone else. I know, I know, that's what they all signed up for, but it still seriously irritates me. Ladies, get some balls!!!

Barbi Benton was on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous a million years ago and they showed the inside of her home. She fancies herslef an artist and has "decorated" the inside of her home. IIRC it seemed like a nice Aspen mansion from the outside and she singlehandedly destroyed the inside. She has no artistic talent whatsoever. It's a damned good thing she was so incredibly pretty. And she must give a great BJ now or have an airtight pre-nup or she'd be homeless. What she has done to the inside of that home is a crime -- horrid sculpture and painting on the walls, etc.

I, too, think it is beyond funny that Barbi and Hef had all of these glamorous adventures and travels together but now Hef never leaves home and makes the girls stay at home with him. Barbi probably thought it was hilarious how much the mansion reaks of dog crap. I'll bet E! arranged for Barbi to visit -- I don't think it was her idea. And ha ha, Bridgette -- Barbi was a Playmate and worlds away more beautiful than any of the "girlfriends".

I can't believe Holly calls Hef "baby puffin." How annoying is THAT?

Nobody has commented yet (or I missed it a few days ago) about the "Are those real?" conversation at the dining room table. Funny editing.



Bwah ha ha ! I love that movie.

Here is Barbi Benton's house, the Copper Palace. I couldn't find any pictures of the inside.

I did find that her husband pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of obstructing an IRS audit and may do some time.

The girls must be so jealous that Hef took Barbi all around the world and back and wouldn't even pay their $79 fare to Vegas.

I love this backhanded slap from Forbes:

Isn't mobile home court the classier term? And the highlights of her resume- Hee! The house rocks, though.

In other "Playmate makes good" (cough)gold-digging(cough) news, Dr. Phil's son Jay became engaged to Erica of the Dahm Triplets, who are a prime example of Hef's bleach+implants= (not) hot worldview.

Hee! Thanks for that article. So the lovely Barbi married a "trailer park developer" (insert joke here) who tried to cheat the IRS (insert another joke here). Well, the house looks awesome from the outside, but maybe just having money didn't impart any actual "class" to Mrs Gradow. Her tacky and catty treatment of Hef's current "girlfriends" is more understandable.

Not excusable....just more understandable.

Trailer parks aren't so bad, especially with the market the way it is now. I live in one and I like it alright, but the ones in Colorado are out of control! Ski lodge style and whatnot. Barbi's house is so cool! I love the pod idea.

Also, I think that the girls are entirely aware of what life was like with Hef then, and how it is now and they're fine with that. If they weren't why would they be there?

Please, Barbi wasn't going to visit that show unless she got paid, and was told how to handle the girls. I love Barbi. There were only two women Hugh ever loved, his ex wife, and Barbi. The "girlfriends" cant compete with memories of a life Hugh once had thats all but forgotten. Barbi looks at these "girlfriends" as throw aways. Hugh was with her for almost a decade, and he didnt share a bed with her and other girls. For the most part, he tried to portray to at least her that he was exclusive. No one can hold a candle to Barbi. I think that she treated the girls just fine. Why would she try to make conversation with immature brats she doesn't know when she's sitting next to a smart business man that she spent a portion of her life with? I understand, Barbi!

They are just too stupid to know that they should be jealous! Holly is a flat out moron, especially when she said something like her relationship with Hef is more meaningful than his and Barbi's. Delusional much?

I've stopped watching this with the sound on, between the dog barking sound effect the editors play every time they show the girls in their rooms and Kendra's laugh, I end up with a headache. Speaking of Kendra's laugh, can someone please teach her when it is appropriate to laugh? I think Barbi said the mansion cost 1.2 mil to which Kendra responded "AH HA HA!". It wasn't a joke Kendra! Ugh it just grates.

Bridget and my daughter have the same pink Ikea wardrobe closet... My daughter is a year-and-a-half old. Bridget?

Apparently so does Hef, since he's now dating three of them. :-)

Because that's what an emotionally mature woman should do when she is invited to a home where these "immature brats" live. She didn't have to try to talk to them all the time, but ignoring them, leaning over them to talk to Hef as if they don't exist, giving them the "third degree" with attitude, and asking questions or making comments (too loudly & rudely IMHO) about them to Hef is ungracious and immature on her part.

She's been around this lifestyle herself....she should know better and be more empathetic when she's invited to someone else's home. Even if it was her home a hundred years ago.

No class, Barbi. I'm disappointed in you.

I couldn't agree more. It was an awkward situation for everyone. I don't blame her for wanting to hang out with Baby Puffin and reminisce about the old days, but she could have insisted they got some time alone together rather than being rude to the others. Of course, she wouldn't have gotten the television time if it wasn't for the three girlfriends having a reality show, so she could have at least been polite to them.

Don't you mean "a million years ago." Hee. I loved snarky Holly.

So true. But when they were talking about the Africa trip, Kendra had such a blank look on her face. I wonder if she could pick out Tanzania on a map or whether she has any idea what there is to see there.