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Holly gets her first real shot behind the scenes at Playboy, Bridget takes another step toward her dream career in television, and Kendra makes a surprisingly grown-up investment that may have been about more than just real estate.

This week on More Girls Next Door, Megan revisits Season 3, Episode 4, My Bare Lady, originally aired on March 31, 2007.

We go behind the scenes of Playboy magazine as Holly apprentices under legendary photo editor Marilyn Grabowski and photographer Steve Wayda, learning how a Playmate pictorial comes together—from glue-stick layouts and cocktail props to picking the final centerfold. Along the way, Holly discovers she may have a genuine talent for editorial work.

Meanwhile, Bridget assembles her hosting demo reel and learns a valuable lesson about advocating for herself in the editing room, while Kendra heads to San Diego to shop for her first condo. Years later, Holly and Bridget would wonder if it wasn’t just an investment—but the beginning of Kendra’s exit strategy from the Playboy Mansion.

We’ll also revisit the Playboy Legacy Collection Show, Pamela Anderson’s lasting impact on the brand, Bridget’s ongoing battle with the editors over food shots, and one unforgettable line involving a DJ that accidentally became comedy gold.

Plus, the Y2K Vault looks back at Google’s acquisition of Writely and the birth of Google Docs—a tech breakthrough that made Playboy’s very analog editing process feel outdated almost overnight.

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Holly plans the elaborate Marie Antoinette birthday party of her dreams—but between Hef’s sacred Movie Night schedule, Kendra’s last-minute costume crisis and one extremely unlucky custom cake, Versailles starts looking a little less than perfect.

This week on More Girls Next Door, Megan revisits Season 3, Episode 3, Let Them Eat Birthday Cake, originally aired on March 17, 2007.

Holly transforms the Playboy Mansion into an eighteenth-century fantasy filled with powdered wigs, French food, towering hairstyles, custom royal portraits and enough ribbon to wrap a midsize SUV. Bridget creates another perfectly coordinated gift basket, Hef surprises Holly with a hot pink Playboy golf cart, and the Mansion staff commits so fully to the theme that even Guest Services ends up in powdered wigs.

Meanwhile, Kendra waits until the day of the party to find a costume, rejects the Snow White dress Holly offers her and somehow turns an old pirate outfit into something that almost works. But after seeing the beautiful period-inspired gowns Holly provided for several other guests, we have to ask: Was the Snow White costume a sincere attempt to help—or was Kendra being set up to stand out for all the wrong reasons?

We also investigate the repeated attacks on Holly’s custom birthday cake, revisit the rigid Mansion routine that forced her celebration to work around Hef’s weekly Movie Night, and examine Holly’s haunting final declaration that her life was “perfect.”

Plus, the Y2K Vault looks back at the sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith in February 2007 and the celebrity news frenzy that dominated pop culture in the weeks before this episode aired.

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What’s up listeners? It’s Megan, your MORE Girls Next Door host. As I hope you know now, I AM working hard on Season 3.

What’s funny is, the episode recaps and analysis for this season are ending up a bit longer than previous ones - around 45 minutes average. So, I wanted to go ahead and release a couple new episodes and see how you feel about that. I’m hoping you will be pleased with the longer runtimes but regardless, please let me know… Email moregirlsnd@gmail.com. Given the caliber of content which has already been published, do you welcome these longer episodes?

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