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07 Jun 2012, 10:13 pm

Anybody like that show Wife Swap? Or Trading Spouses, it's the same premise.

They get two families with different ways of life and beliefs etc and switch the wives. The wives have to live with their new families rules for the first week and the second week they get to change the families rules to how they think it should be.

I got way into that show a few years ago.


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08 Jun 2012, 12:38 am

Yeah a show like that comes on CMT it is fun to watch



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08 Jun 2012, 4:06 am

I like he ones with the most conflict. I don't see why somebody would agree to go on the show, then refuse to cooperate with the new family or new wife. I guess they tell them not to.

I'd love to go on that show. I'd like to experience someone else's life for a week. I'd also not make huge and drastic changes to the new family like some wives do. I'd make smaller ones or say that we are trying something out for the week, not change stuff forever like some have.


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08 Jun 2012, 2:38 pm

I used to be around when someone else was watching it but I quit because it upset me. Everyone on that show is so melodramatic and seems so miserable for most of the show that I don't even know why they went on it. I don't like a lot of conflict and I'm more of a live and let live kind of person.

The only nice happy moment I can remember was when the wife went into some health nut's house and told the kids "it's time to put away the power bars and bring out the candy bars!" and the kids were like "yay!" I also remember not so happy stuff, like her crying her eyes out because the family didn't want to sit and eat dinner together and crying some more and ripping down sexy pictures of the health nut wife in the exercise room.

I remember seeing one where the woman hid the remotes so the guy couldn't watch some sports thing on tv (I guess their tvs have no buttons?) and had to spend time with the kids and he was so mad at her it seemed like he might physically attack her and kicked her out of the house.

I remember another one where they had some kind of big stuffed creature/puppet and the visiting wife threw it in a lake for some reason.



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08 Jun 2012, 2:54 pm

Those shows are always fun to watch



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08 Jun 2012, 4:28 pm

why did i thought of swinging when i saw the title of the post? :D


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08 Jun 2012, 6:21 pm

I absolutely love those shows. I don't know why they stopped running them, I think one channel got into a legal dispute with the other channel about the show. I know that they have Celebrity Wife Swap now but it's not the same. I've watched all of the old episodes on Twist TV and YouTube.



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08 Jun 2012, 6:24 pm

hanyo wrote:
I used to be around when someone else was watching it but I quit because it upset me. Everyone on that show is so melodramatic and seems so miserable for most of the show that I don't even know why they went on it. I don't like a lot of conflict and I'm more of a live and let live kind of person.

The only nice happy moment I can remember was when the wife went into some health nut's house and told the kids "it's time to put away the power bars and bring out the candy bars!" and the kids were like "yay!" I also remember not so happy stuff, like her crying her eyes out because the family didn't want to sit and eat dinner together and crying some more and ripping down sexy pictures of the health nut wife in the exercise room.

I remember seeing one where the woman hid the remotes so the guy couldn't watch some sports thing on tv (I guess their tvs have no buttons?) and had to spend time with the kids and he was so mad at her it seemed like he might physically attack her and kicked her out of the house.

I remember another one where they had some kind of big stuffed creature/puppet and the visiting wife threw it in a lake for some reason.


I talked to somebody on YouTube who was actually on the show a few years back and he said about 40% of it is "reality", the other percentage the producers get them to do dramatic things to make the episode better.

I find that the UK version of Wife Swap is a bit more realistic than the US version.



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11 Jun 2012, 12:24 pm

lostgirl1986 wrote:
I talked to somebody on YouTube who was actually on the show a few years back and he said about 40% of it is "reality", the other percentage the producers get them to do dramatic things to make the episode better.


Its bad enough that people actually want to waste their time watching stuff like this even if it was a 100% realistic, accurate portrayal. I mean, why would anyone care how people who run their households vastly differently from each other get along? Really? Besides, live and let live. If I disagree with how someone raises their kids, its not my place to tell them that.

Add to the fact that these shows are to some degree staged, coached, and edited to achieve the desired effect and the desired ratings, and people ought to think about why they're watching "reality" TV to begin with. I respectfully suggest there's more truth to professional wrestling.



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11 Jun 2012, 12:27 pm

ScrewyWabbit wrote:
lostgirl1986 wrote:
I talked to somebody on YouTube who was actually on the show a few years back and he said about 40% of it is "reality", the other percentage the producers get them to do dramatic things to make the episode better.


Its bad enough that people actually want to waste their time watching stuff like this even if it was a 100% realistic, accurate portrayal. I mean, why would anyone care how people who run their households vastly differently from each other get along? Really? Besides, live and let live. If I disagree with how someone raises their kids, its not my place to tell them that.

Add to the fact that these shows are to some degree staged, coached, and edited to achieve the desired effect and the desired ratings, and people ought to think about why they're watching "reality" TV to begin with. I respectfully suggest there's more truth to professional wrestling.


I just find it entertaining. They have the corny extreme themes of each family. Part of my special interests is human development and psychology so these kinds of shows I find really entertaining. Just watching the dynamics and drama of everything whether it's real or not.