After watching all the episodes a zillion times, and gathering chronological clues from news sources and the status of Anna Nicole's bedroom decor throughout Season One, I have assembled the following rough timeline of when stuff actually happened. I hope this conclusively proves what an obsessive geek I truly am.

In her interview scenes, Anna Nicole implies that she went to the party on the same day she looked at houses with Reza Arshadi, but this seems unlikely, considering the difference in her mood between the two segments. The househunting and moving into the new house took place in mid-May. In the Larry King interview recorded May 25, Anna Nicole says that she has just moved into her new house.

Bobby Trendy's first appearance takes place on a later day. Anna Nicole behaves as if this is the first time she has met Bobby, but I believe she was introduced to him beforehand and this is just an act for the cameras. She shows Bobby her portrait of Larry King, so this scene takes place before that May 25 interview. Anna Nicole's trip to Bobby's store does indeed take place later that day.

Anna Nicole and Kim's controversial game of Punch Bug supposedly takes place on the way to Trashy Lingerie, but it doesn't. The Punch Bug fight happens on the same day as the tattoo parlor segments from Episode 3, as you can tell by Anna Nicole's outfit and hair. Because the entire Punch Bug scene is shot from the back seat of Kim's car, it's easy to overlook the fact that Anna Nicole is wearing different clothes when they arrive at Trashy Lingerie.

The Larry King interview was broadcast on May 29, 2002, which is presumably when Anna Nicole and crew are watching it at her house, unless it's on TiVo. The moving of J. Howard's ashes takes place around that time or earlier, because Anna Nicole still has only a mattress on the floor in her bedroom.

The trip to the tattoo parlor almost certainly does not take place immediately following the eating contest, given the vast changes in Anna Nicole's hair, makeup, clothing and attitude. The Punch Bug game from the previous episode took place on the same day, probably on the way to the tattoo parlor, since the ladies wouldn't have been as prone to slug each other on the arms following Lemonade's handiwork.

The brief clip of Anna Nicole and Howard hugging in reconciliation did not happen after the eating contest, but is drawn from the early footage of Anna Nicole in the American flag bandana as seen in both of the previous episodes. The editors stuck it in there to create the feeling of a happy ending.

Therefore, the scenes of a fully recovered Anna Nicole playing with her friend Kelly took place weeks later, not "a few days later." And the flashback scene of Anna Nicole showing Kelly's teeth to her dentist would have been done really, really early on.

The trip to Magic Mountain was probably taped in or around June. Shots from the theme park were often used in publicity before the show premiered. Speaking of the premiere, her interview segments from Episode 1 were taped on the same day as the Magic Mountain adventure. She's wearing the same "No Stalking" top and the same hairdo tied up in a pink scarf. She has on different pants, but she probably changed pants after coming home from Magic Mountain because she got soaked on the log ride.

Anna Nicole's publicity photos for the show first appeared in early July, so the scenes from the photo shoot must have taken place in May or June.

According to news reports at the time, the trip to Vegas took place around July 17-19, 2002. As the gang is getting ready to leave, we see an Anna Nicole Show poster hanging in her living room. This was probably prepared for the Television Critics Association press event where she promoted the show on July 9.

Anna Nicole canceled an announced eating contest at the Rio buffet because of recent dental work, so we might assume that her return trip to the dentist at the end of Episode 4 took place in early July.

The gang goes to the Chippendales show with Anna Nicole wearing the same outfit that she wore on the trip, which suggests that it was the same day. But Kim's Diary reports that they went to see the Chippendales on the night after they got into town. Also, in a deleted scene of Kevin and Dan escorting her to the show, Anna Nicole tells them that she got into town yesterday.

In her interviews Anna Nicole claims that they went to Jaguars on the same night as the Chippendales and riding the electric cart on the strip ("We wasn't tired..."). But Anna Nicole suddenly has a different outfit at Jaguars, so we can assume this was actually the following night.

The audition of the four chefs takes place quite a bit later in Anna Nicole Show chronology. As Anna Nicole comes downstairs for the taste test, you can glimpse the pink and white checkerboard of fur on her bedroom wall, which we won't see Frankie put up until the next episode.

Bobby Trendy's deliverymen arrive with the pink headboard for Anna Nicole's bed, replacing the brown/rust colored one, and presto! There's no fur up on the bedroom wall yet.

When Amelia the pet psychic takes Sugar Pie upstairs, the new pink bed is in Anna Nicole's bedroom, so this scene is close to the timeframe of the rest of the episode.

Bobby and Frankie's tension-filled meeting takes place on the same day as the opening segment with Frankie. Anna Nicole has changed clothes and now has her red western shirt on, while Howard is wearing a white shirt and cowboy hat. They wore these outfits later that evening for some taping at the Saddle Ranch cowboy bar, with Howard riding the mechanical bull before Claude Dauman ever did. This footage never made it into the show, but clips were shown on Access Hollywood and stills from the evening appeared in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly. Since these Saddle Ranch photos appeared before the show's premiere, we can conclude that Bobby and Frankie's first confrontation took place in late July 2002. The Bobby Trendy relationship was already beginning to sour before the show went on the air.

Shelly appears on Anna Nicole's doorstep and gets taken out to dinner all on the same day. Contrary to Anna Nicole's assertion in her interviews, she didn't go make publicity stops inbetween. The nasty KROQ interview took place around August 12-13, and the Tonight Show appearance came on August 16. The day with Shelly probably happened after both of these events.

The closing scenes at the go-cart track were actually taped much earlier than the driver's test. An article in the July 22 Time magazine mentions a trip to a go-cart track where the producers were keeping Anna Nicole pumped full of Red Bull energy drink. In a deleted scene at this episode's go-cart track available on the E! web site, Anna Nicole says she has lost track of how many Red Bulls she has chugged. Q.E.D.

The paintball segment was probably taped late in the season, because it was never shown in previews, and E! has tended to favor publicizing action-packed and funny scenes like this one. On the other hand, they could have skipped it because Anna Nicole's protective gear covers her face, making the footage less effective in a brief ad.

The shopping spree at the Hustler Store, on the other hand, was heavily teased in the promos as early as mid-September, so it must have taken place in late August or early September. The Puppetry of the Penis show obviously happened on the same night.

As for the legal threat from Bobby Trendy: we know Bobby and Howard were still on (uneasy) speaking terms right before Labor Day. The E! web site posted an interview with Bobby on September 16 (no longer online) in which he viciously lambasted Howard. Since the gloves were off at that point, we can make an educated guess that the letter from Bobby's lawyer was sent somewhere in that two-week span.

Anna Nicole's appearance on Hollywood Squares purportedly followed the reading of the letter, but the game show gig was actually taped around August 20. The shows aired a month later, on September 26 and 27.

Howard's impersonation of Bobby probably took place in mid-September. Based on evidence found in Episode 12, that scene must have come after the Anna Nicole lookalike show with the drag queens, rather than before. The big-screen TV at the nightclub is showing the end of the E! True Hollywood Story on Anna Nicole with the countdown clock to the premiere of The Anna Nicole Show. You might therefore suppose this takes place on August 4, but Anna Nicole was actually at a different party on the night of the premiere, as shown on E! News. The nightclub had to be playing a videotape of the show's premiere for the lookalike show.

Anna Nicole's meeting with Patti from the Millionaire's Club took place in early August. On the August 16 Tonight Show, Anna Nicole told Leno she had just talked to the lady from the dating service. Also, Anna Nicole's interview scenes in Episode 4 were taped on the same day she met with Patti, since she's wearing the same outfit and the same blue flower in her hair.

The clips depicting Anna Nicole's friendship with Kimmie cover the whole timeline of Season One. The dispute over the telephone in the bedroom comes from the same early footage shown in the first three episodes, with Anna Nicole wearing the American flag bandana. Other scenes with Kim and Kelly show Anna Nicole wearing the same pink top she wore while househunting in Episode 1, but obviously on a later day. The 32nd Annual LA Gay Pride Celebration, where Anna Nicole rode in the parade wearing a red dress ("I'm gay every day!"), took place on June 23, 2002.

Kimmie's birthday may have fallen "on Halloween this year," but her birthday party as shown in this episode certainly didn't, seeing as how it aired on October 27. But the party probably took place in October, and it was almost certainly the final segment taped for Season One. There are a lot of E! staff members at the party, identifiable by their T-shirts with anti-Trendy slogans: "Trendy... So Last Season," "Stop Bobby Trendy," etc. On the back the shirts read "Anna Nicole Show Cast & Crew -- 2002." So it's reasonable to conclude that this isn't just a party for Kimmie, it's also the wrap party for the season.

My most coveted scene that was deleted from Season One also took place that same day. The previews at the end of Episode 10 showed the unreasonably breathtaking sight of Anna Nicole dancing on her bed in her underwear. If you look closely, you can see the corsage Claude gave her is still on her wrist, and that's the white top she wore that evening that she's slinging around her head. She is probably reenacting how she rode the mechanical bull that night. Oh, Claude... that's what you could have seen in person that night if you'd just played your cards right, dude!