No 'Wife Swap' For ME...Thanks, Anyway...

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Ah...So...You have SEEN it.......Is it supposed to be funny?...Cuz, in this case (this episode they are about to do), it seems it could get pretty hilarious....Then again, I can also see how it could quickly become irritating, having the things you do in your everyday life, being called into question....I'm pretty sure some things could piss me off pertaining to this entire premise...

Also, how DOES it work?...Can you answer my question above? "Does the family have to adjust to the way the 'new mom' does things?...Or...Does the 'new mom' have to adjust to the way the family does things?"

Little bit of both, funny and drama filled...

From the few episodes I watched it's mostly the family adjusting to the mom, but she also participates in usual family activities as well.

Originally posted by bloodrayne
OH...And...Dustin said that someone at work told him that each family gets to tell the other family what they have to do with the $20,000 :eek:....Have you heard about that?...Is that TRUE?....We certainly weren't told that by the producers...

I'm not too sure about that, it's either what the guy told Dustin or they just suggest what they should do with the money going by the experience. But like I said, not too sure.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by The Flayed One
They already did an episode like that, except it was a new age kind of family instead of goths.

The episode became infamous. The Fundy mom completely flipped out on camera, and now she's famous in certain circles. I never actually watched the show, but I saw enough from the clips to know that it was truly horrifying.

Ugh...I wonder if that's what they're looking to repeat...

I also wonder if, when they find someone to be the 'goth' family, they will expect the teenagers to lock themselves in their rooms and cut themselves :rolleyes: ...Seriously, I wonder if they even really know what they're really looking for...

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
Little bit of both, funny and drama filled...

From the few episodes I watched it's mostly the family adjusting to the mom, but she also participates in usual family activities as well.

Hmm...Well...If they make it that flexible...I can definitely see MY family taking over on both fronts...lol

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Ugh...I wonder if that's what they're looking to repeat...

I also wonder if, when they find someone to be the 'goth' family, they will expect the teenagers to lock themselves in their rooms and cut themselves :rolleyes: ...Seriously, I wonder if they even really know what they're really looking for...

All they're looking for is drama to get ratings, they aren't trying to help anybody be 'enlightened' as you put it.

It's like Jerry Springer, they aren't helping people by talking about the problem for 10 minutes and having a psychologist talk to them for another couple minutes and they don't care if they are or not, they're just looking for 'em to start screaming, yelling and try to beat the hell outta each other.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
All they're looking for is drama to get ratings, they aren't trying to help anybody be 'enlightened' as you put it.

It's like Jerry Springer, they aren't helping people by talking about the problem for 10 minutes and having a psychologist talk to them for another couple minutes and they don't care if they are or not, they're just looking for 'em to start screaming, yelling and try to beat the hell outta each other.

Well, they certainly didn't tell me THAT either....Glad I backed out...


I don't even like to WATCH shit like that...Makes me tense, and feeds my own feelings of disgust with the overwhelming stupidity of the human race

Thanks, Sweetness:)

[Miss Olivia]

I saw a clip from that show where the wives went back to their husbands, and they all sat down together at a table and then got into a fistfight. It was wierd, they were both white middle class families, and the big DIFFERENCE was one of the mom's liked to dress skimpy and the other one didn't. The goth thing sounds way more interesting.....

[The_Return]

I could never image you on a reality show Rayne...

[doctor satan]

A guy i work with actually did this show in the UK, they swaped with a German family. His wife was a right tyrant, he did all the cleaning, cooking, worked full time while she did fuck all & he ended up looking like a right muppet on national tv. The moment she went into the German household she was hostile & i think she had these delusions of becoming a celebrity. The show went out & to be honest it was quite dull compared to some of the other swaps. I think he got paid about £500 to look a right twat on national tv.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by The_Return
I could never image you on a reality show Rayne...

Yeah...No kidding...

Maybe a 'Surreality Show'...lol


@ Austin, Miss Olivia, Flayed and Doctor Satan..Thanks for the info on the episodes :)



I wonder what £500 is in American money...Sounds like a LOT less than $20,000....Do they pay Americans that much more to do it?...If so, I wonder why...OR...Maybe now that so many people have seen the shit that goes on, they actually HAVE to pay people more to get them to do it...Hmm, something to think about...

[AUSTIN316426808]

I was thinking about it and there'd probably be a big argument the first day...


They'd show the other mom getting up at some absurd time, like 5 A.M. She's tidying up and cooking breakfast while everybody's still sleeping, then they show her sitting around 'til 10 A.M. before she tries to wake everybody up and then the shit hits the fan.