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Fiona
That one had to be quite a mix of ideas!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 13, 2006 at 4:16 AM
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Hi there,
I confess to having watched Wife Swap avidly while it was on here. You know you shouldn't, but you just have to. I also think it's scripted - who in their right mind would want to experience that anyway? One thing I have noticed is that one of the partners, usually the wife, wants something in the relationship to change. My fav was when they had a very staunch Christian family swapping with a lesbian couple.
posted by
fionajean
on July 13, 2006 at 3:01 AM
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posted by
Amanda__
on July 12, 2006 at 12:49 PM
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Timmy
I might really enjoy that LOL!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 6:19 PM
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bel
What I would like to see are the episodes that they don't show us. The ones where someone kicked the visiting spouse out, or went off on them. Now that would be entertainment!!
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on July 11, 2006 at 6:13 PM
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Avonna
Actually my ex's mother was not the type...I liked her, she just happened to give birth the spawn of satan! This man just thought that women were basically slaves.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 5:49 PM
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I think the spoiled, lazy husbands have mothers who enable them!
posted by
Avonna
on July 11, 2006 at 5:45 PM
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bel
Well there, you see! LOL
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 PM
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Sunny you just described
my ex husband LOL!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 5:11 PM
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I know the first example exists
I've had experience with a man who doesn't want to work, doesn't want to do housework....basically doesn't do a
damn thing.
But expected everything to be handed to him.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on July 11, 2006 at 4:39 PM
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LOL Offbeats
I hope he at least bathed while you were married to him!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 4:19 PM
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Oh Avant
He thought he was in charge...you know the "I am king of my castle" mentality. Couldn't turn on the microwave for himself if he had to.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 4:18 PM
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bel
I just don't understand a husband who won't get involved. He's supposed to be in charge, at least to some degree!
posted by
avant-garde
on July 11, 2006 at 4:16 PM
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bel
This show cracks me up! There always seems to be the extreme side of life. However I saw that episode and I believe I was married to that very goat, he looked so familiar!
posted by
Offy
on July 11, 2006 at 4:15 PM
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Talion
Sometimes what producers think is funny is just down right sad! I wonder how many really saw beyond the so called humor and looked at the deeper issue there.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 2:17 PM
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Amen, Bel, like I said, I had to come down on them, but it was worth it.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 2:11 PM
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bel_1965
One interesting show swapped a black family (in Harlem) with a white one. You should've seen the white lady in that neighborhood. She was so terrified you would've thought she was dropped into a pool a sharks. On the surface, it was funny, but a deeper look revealed something incredibly wrong.
posted by
Talion
on July 11, 2006 at 2:10 PM
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Talion
Train wreck is right! It is stunning what people will do for attention! Of course had I been the husband with the goat, I would have signed my wife up too LOL!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 2:06 PM
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Blanche
People never cease to amaze me with their stupidity. I personally wouldn't care if I had Eric Clapton himself playing next door, there is a time and place for EVERYTHING!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 2:05 PM
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Queen V loves this show. I've seen enough to know I'd never submit myself to such a situation. It's a train wreck to behold week after week.
posted by
Talion
on July 11, 2006 at 2:02 PM
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You have a HOUSE in the country, Bel, this is an apartment.
What was worse, the Dad tried to work me with the kid, he snet her over with a cute picture of her and a her tiny girlfriend, kids' drawings they'd made themselves of her and her friend as the drummer and her friend playing the guitar. They're never THAT friendly. He was kind of watching behind the doorway when I asked, "um where will you be practicing?" Her friend piped up, "here and at my house". I just looked at him. Deliberately clueless. There's no talking to people whoh don't want to get a clue.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 2:02 PM
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Oh how I just love that kind of person
DRUMS! It's bad enough Pam's clarinet..why would I torture my OWN ears with drums!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 2:00 PM
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Beyond anything, Bel, we've already had words over the amount of noise
coming from their apartment, since we share an adjacent wall. Before them, we'd had two neighbors who made the normal amount of noise, conversation, etc., no big deal.
The mom actually has said to me, more than once, "Oh, sorry, we're not used to living with neighbors, sorry". in a really fake, patronizing way, and then they go back to yelling up and down the hallway. She's kind of a princess, I think apartment living is beneath her.
However, they have finally toned it down. When they bought their daughter a drum kit and she started DRUMMING., I finally said, enough. Needless to say, they may not like me, but I'd rather be the bitch who gets some quiet than the doormat who puts up with the absurd disrespect.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 1:58 PM
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Doesn't that make you want to shove that cellphone
up mom's....................
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:53 PM
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Bel, I've seen similar scenes, even in strangers kids like the one next
door. She'll scream at the top of her lungs and her clueless mother won't even get off the cellphone and deal with her.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 1:52 PM
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Rumored
I really hope so.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:43 PM
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LOL Blanche
somehow I think it has more to do with the parents not taking control. I see it in many kids depending on who they are around. My neice is 8 and I spoil her rotten but she also knows what I will put up with. She is a really sweet darling girl around her father. Daddy spoils her but doesn't allow BS. Her mother....I remember watching her throw herself in the floor and scream until her mother cooked her EXACTLY what she wanted for dinner instead of what was being cooked.
My own daughter: Will stand and scream and argue with her bio mom. Pam KNOWS I won't tolerate the disrespect and has never screamed at me. Granted she has her moemnts but she also knows when to stop.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:43 PM
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Too much sugar, maybe, Bel? How did it get that bad?
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 1:31 PM
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bel, I bet they are scripted...just my feeling.....
posted by
Rumor
on July 11, 2006 at 1:30 PM
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Justi
Now THAT is an excellent idea!!!!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:28 PM
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LOL Blanche
The kids. I seem to recall one episode where the child was BITING the adults when he got angry.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:28 PM
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Which nightmare, Bel, the kid or the nanny?
why is it always an English nanny? Aren't American parents able to deal with discipline?
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 1:24 PM
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Bel
I am going to nap a while now. This review tired me out completely. I suggest they give the goat to the dad who sat on the sofa all the time. Yuk.... poor people. Funny!
posted by
Justi
on July 11, 2006 at 1:23 PM
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Blanche
UGH the few times I have seen that show I want to punish the parents for allowing such a nightmare to happen!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 1:23 PM
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The next best domestic disaster reality show has to be Supernanny, Bel
Where a British nanny comes in and whips the terrifying kids and disastrous parents into shape. The parents look more childish than the kids.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 11, 2006 at 10:26 AM
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Vickie
It would be nice though!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 9:29 AM
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LOL Kiddo
The trouble is you get stuck with another one for that time!!! Nope, mine is a pain but he is MY pain! Don't need someone else's problems!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 9:28 AM
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You already know my thoughts on the subject :)
It's entertaining but it does feel scripted at times, especially the end where they show how everything has worked out beautifully for everyone. It can't be that easy! Real life just doesn't work that way :)
posted by
VickieJean
on July 11, 2006 at 9:23 AM
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Bel, I love that show! GOD I would give ANYTHING if someone would
have traded me for a week. Give my husband to someone for a week...HAHAHA. Drive them insane, it would win an oscar.
posted by
Kiddo75
on July 11, 2006 at 9:13 AM
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LOL Cringe!!!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:32 AM
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Who am I kidding, I can't drink hot soup!
Just as well it's a mini bar Bel, so I'll only be a wee bit gone.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 8:29 AM
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LOL Cringe!!!
I'll join you!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:26 AM
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If I was in a luxury hotel the last thing I'd be wanting to watch would
be how my husband getting along without me.
Particularly if this hotel has a mini-bar.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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Symphony
I might try the Strike one myself! Especailly when the kids are here and he comes home wondering why I am cranky after breaking up the 50th disagreement between them!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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Yes I watch wife swap
your wife swap is better than UK though (as they have yours on a channel on sky) I wish they did something like that for single familes...I also watch mother's on strike. the husband has to do everything the woman does, whilst the woman goes to a luxery hotel and watches him in action although he does not know it until she comes home.
posted by
_Symphony_
on July 11, 2006 at 8:22 AM
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I promise NO TALKING!!!!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:20 AM
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Not a bother, but don't talk to him, he ends
up fancying fiery, independant, women.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 8:19 AM
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LOL Cringe
Let me know when you get stateside, I'll pay the rent!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:11 AM
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That was a joke btw.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 8:09 AM
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My husband is the wife.
He does the cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Husband swap is a great idea.
I'm not going to swap him out though, but I will rent him.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 8:08 AM
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LOL
Mine is a Carpenter by trade...the problem is someone always has him working on their house so mine just waits and waits!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:07 AM
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bel, I could use a second husband since mine is not handy except in
very special ways, LOL
posted by
Ariala
on July 11, 2006 at 8:07 AM
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LOL Good Rule Rcky!!!!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:06 AM
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LOL
Ariala I don't know. I wonder if I can get one who will finish the work here at home that my husband started. Actually it's on ABC.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:05 AM
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Hi Bel....we have a rule around our house.....no reality TV! LOL
I think much of those shows are scripted.
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on July 11, 2006 at 8:04 AM
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Umm, must be on cable...never heard of it...do they swap husbands too?
posted by
Ariala
on July 11, 2006 at 8:02 AM
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LOL Cringe
While trading up seems nice from time to time. When I watched that husband last night, I'd rather have one who gets in my way and at least TRIES to help.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 8:00 AM
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Regrettably I've watched loadsa these.
Leone makes me watch them, I think she wants to trade up!
Because some of the swaps can be so disastrous, I do think they're real. However having said that, I do think that the wives in question definitely have a dramatic flair.
posted by
Cringe
on July 11, 2006 at 7:57 AM
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AMEN to that Maggie
At least I keep my raccoons OUTSIDE!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 7:53 AM
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Sannhet
I am kind of thinking more about it lately. It's getting really bad around here!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 7:53 AM
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I doubt they are common housewives like us, bel. They're actresses
entertaining us so we don't completely lose our minds from boredom. And so, I prefer to be the common housewife, don't you? lol
posted by
MaggieMae
on July 11, 2006 at 7:52 AM
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Bel -
Because of what you have just written about - IMHO stupid TV - I did quit being a cheapskate and got cable. Now I just have more stations showing stupid TV! But I also have the National Geographic channel, the BBC, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, etc.
posted by
sannhet
on July 11, 2006 at 7:51 AM
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LOL Strat
I don't imagine watching again until the next time I am REALLY bored!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 7:37 AM
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Yikes! That's the kind of thing I would watch
only to divert myself from, say, undergoing Chinese Water Torture.
posted by
strat
on July 11, 2006 at 7:30 AM
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Dave
I am quite sure we will!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 6:53 AM
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Corbin
I have never seen Sex In The City but I highly doubt that Sarah Jessica Parker would have gone to this place. It was more like Desperate Housewives (Bree in particular) meets ummm ummmm ummmm Green Acres only dirtier!!!
It is funny but in many ways it was kind of sad too.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 6:53 AM
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I didn't know the show was like that...
I thought it was a domesticated "Sex in the City"..........
I'll probably check it out now....just for laughs......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 11, 2006 at 5:57 AM
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We have that over here. Plus we have your Wife Swap too.
So I expect you'll get ours soon enough. Something to look forward to.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on July 11, 2006 at 5:46 AM
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Passion
I agree it is an interesting study in human nature. I would like to see if both sides are still on the same track in 6 months or so.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 5:00 AM
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Blanche
I have to agree! No amount of money, fame or anything else could get me to do that!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 4:59 AM
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Fourcats
I'd hate to see what they cut out LOL!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 11, 2006 at 4:58 AM
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these shows are always heavily scripted but even when you know what
you're getting into, who's prepared to move into a house with no walls and a goat in your bed? it's too jerry springer for me.
posted by
fourcats
on July 10, 2006 at 11:00 PM
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Bel, no amount of money would induce me to undergo that kind of
psychological torture. I've seen parts of an episode here and there (too painful to bear watching a whole one), but there was one where a super-Christian family traded with a Wiccan. You know that had to be trouble from the get-go. Like I said, no amount of money or "instant fame" (as if!) would be worth it for me. I guess it's the Jerry Springer/Dr. Phil mentality, "any celebrity is good celebrity". NOT!!
posted by
Blanche.
on July 10, 2006 at 9:00 PM
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I have seen that show and really think it's an interesting
Experiment in human nature...It's so good that tv writers couldn't script that kind of tension and those reactions. People can be funny to watch in strange situations like that.
posted by
Passionflower
on July 10, 2006 at 8:57 PM
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Azur
You are right about that. It's just so very odd.
posted by
bel_1965
on July 10, 2006 at 8:36 PM
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Blackcat
They have to pay them alot or something. I just can't imagine leaving some bimbo with my family PERIOD!
posted by
bel_1965
on July 10, 2006 at 8:35 PM
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The editing exagerates certain qualities in the participants and
some people will do
anything to be on TV
posted by
Azur
on July 10, 2006 at 8:35 PM
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I've seen that show.... and they always seem to put two complete
opposites together like that. My question is... why would the clean and orderly person even sign up for ths show? I watched one episode where a wife from a really well off family switched with a trailer park home. I just can't even imagine the rich woman signing up. You know?
posted by
-blackcat
on July 10, 2006 at 8:29 PM
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