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The Girls Next Door (known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion in Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany and Sweden), is a reality television series that premiered in August 2005 on E! (Entertainment Television).

The series was created by executive producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. The series focuses on the lives of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion: Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. Hefner and various other Playmates make guest appearances.

The series not only showcased events at the Playboy Mansion (e.g. Fight Night, 4th of July celebration,etc.) but also shed light on other Playboy related events such as the Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl, playmate test shoots at Playboy Studio West, Operation Playmate, pillow fights, party night, birthday parties, etc.

To celebrate the success of the series, Playboy published a special nude pictorial of Holly, Bridget, and Kendra in the November 2005 issue. The original eight-episode run of the series was expanded to fifteen episodes with the first season finale airing in early December 2005. The series' second season began on July 30, 2006. To celebrate the launch of the second season, a second nude pictorial of the trio was published in September 2006. The third season of the show began airing March 4, 2007. The tagline of the show is "We call it a fantasy. They call it home."

Episodes

Season 1 E! 9:00 P.M.; Sundays
Season 2 E! 10:00 P.M.
Season 3 E! 10:00 P.M.; Sundays

Season 1

Number	Episode Title	Airdate	Notable Guest Stars
00	Hef's World (Unaired Pilot)	(Season 1 DVD)
01	Meet the Girls	8/7/2005	Mary O'Connor, Hank Fawcett, Val Tasso, Eileen Ruiz
02	The New Girls in Town	8/7/2005	Audra Lynn, Sara Jean Underwood, Tiffany Fallon, Raquel Gibson
03	Happy Birthday, Kendra!	8/14/2005	Destiny Davis, Don "Magic" Juan, Jonathan Baker, Kendra's Grandma, Brian Olea, Colin Wilkinson, Patty Wilkinson
04	What Happens in Vegas	8/21/2005	Carmella Decesare, Jeff Garcia, Destiny Davis
05	Fight Night	8/28/2005	Peyton Manning, Keith Hefner, Barbi Benton, Dianne Wiley, Sugar Ray Leonard, Maria Sharapova, Matthew Perry, Anastasia Case, Michael Vartan, Verne Troyer, Ray Anthony, Alfonso Gomez, Jr., Garry Shandling, Destiny Davis, Hank Fawcett, Phil Fondacaro, Dr. Diana Wiley
06	Operation Playmate	9/11/2005	Destiny Davis, Kara Monaco, Audra Lynn, Anastasia Case, Hank Fawcett, Jillian Grace, Pat Lacey, Audra Lynn, Mary O'Connor, Brian Olea, Bryant, Norma Maister, Joey Sylvester
07	Just Shoot Me	9/25/2005	Anastasia Case, Stephanie Morris
08	Midsummer Night's Dream	10/2/2005	Anastasia Case, FrazierArts.com Incorporated, Mark Frazier, Susan Frazier, Michael Frazier,, Megan Frazier, Jonathan Baker
09	Under the Covers	10/23/2005	Anastasia Case
10	Ghostbusted	10/30/2005
11	Grape Expectations	11/6/2005	Anastasia Case
12	I'll Take Manhattan	11/13/2005	Rita Cosby, Courtney Culkin, Christie Hefner, Pilar M. Lastra, Monica Leigh, Mary O'Connor, Brian O'Lare, Keith Hefner, Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Tim Vincent, Barbara Walters
13	My Kind of Town	11/20/2005
14	Clue-less	11/27/2005
15	It's Vegas, Baby	12/4/2005	Roberto Cavalli, Carmella Decesare, Jillian Grace, Sara Jean Underwood, Tiffany Fallon

Season 2

Number	Episode Title	Airdate	Notable Guest Stars
01	Here's Looking at You, Hef	7/30/2006	Jonathan Baker
02	Career Dazed	8/6/2006
03	80 Is The New 40	8/6/2006	Paris Hilton, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump
04	Mutiny on the Booty	8/13/2006
05	San Diego or Bust	8/20/2006
06	Heavy Petting	9/03/2006
07	Sleepwear Optional	9/10/2006
08	I See London, I See France	9/17/2006
09	When in Rome	9/24/2006
10	Baby Talk	10/1/2006	Jonathan Baker
11	The 21 Club	10/8/2006
12	Girls Will Be Ghouls	10/15/2006
13	The Age of Aquarium	10/29/2006
14	Rabbit Season	11/05/2006
15	We Can Work It Out	11/12/2006	Hector Echavarria
16	Playboys After Dark	11/19/2006

Season 3

Number	Episode Title	Airdate	Notable Guest Stars
01	Snow Place Like Home	3/04/2007	Jonathan Baker
02	Let Them Eat Birthday Cake	3/11/2007	Sara Jean Underwood, Monica Leigh, Tiffany Fallon, Cristal Camden
03	May The Horse Be With You	3/18/2007
04	My Bare Lady	4/1/2007
05	Calendar Girls	4/8/2007
06	Snowboarded	4/15/2007	Shaun White, Jonathan Baker
07	Hearts Afire	4/22/2007
08	P.M.O. Why Not?	5/6/2007	Sara Jean Underwood
09	Family Affairs	5/13/2007
10	Home, Sweet Suite	5/20/2007
Special	Bedtime Stories: The Best of the Girls Next Door	5/28/2007	Special Hour-long clip show
11	Training Dazed	8/12/2007
12	Dangerous Curves	8/19/2007
13	Surely, You Joust	8/26/2007
14	Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon?	9/2/2007

Note: Season Two Premiere was a special one-hour version of episodes #201 and #202 entitled, "Happy Birthday, Hef".
- Note: Episodes #212 and #301 were originally aired commercial-free.

Future

E! has picked up a 12-episode 4th season, which will premiere in December, 2007.

DVD releases

The first season was released on DVD on August 1, 2006
The second season was released on DVD on May 1, 2007
The third season DVD release date is TBD
"The Girls Next Door" Workout was released on DVD on May 15, 2007

Ratings

Number	Episode Title	Airdate	Rating/Share (Adults 18-49)	Viewers	Notes
01	Meet the Girls	8/07/2005	0.5/1	990,000	Roughly double the average number that E! pulls in that timeslot
16	Here's Looking at You, Hef	7/30/2006	N/A	1.6 Million	3-year high for an E! series
32	Snow Place Like Home	3/04/2007	1.8/5	2.17 million	Second-highest season premiere in E!'s 16-year history

Cameo appearances

Since the show began, the three women have made cameo appearances in a variety of other films and television programs. They appeared in Scary Movie 4, lent their voices to an episode of Robot Chicken, and guest starred in an episode of the daytime drama General Hospital on August 29, 2007, as part of a Walter Mitty-like fantasy sequence by the character Damien Spinelli. The women have also appeared in a music video for the group Nickelback, in their song "Rockstar".

There have also been cameo appearances by many stars on the "The Girls Next Door". Many stars of different genres have been seen, and every Playmate of the Year since 2004 has appeared on the show: Carmella DeCesare (2004), Tiffany Fallon (2005), Kara Monaco (2006), and Sara Jean Underwood (2007).

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