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Tweety
Member
04-14-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 11:49 am
Dahli, according to the CTV website, this episode will be shown Saturday, Nov 6th at 8pm ET.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 11:54 am
The fitness dad drove me up a wall! He doesn't like depression or bad attitudes,or cranky people. Well,sheeshhh welcome to the world of Prozac dude! It was sad that the wife was actually touched by the love the other couple had. She seemed so ashamed to let her husband see her shed a tear. Just weird,really weird!
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Mssilhouette
Member
07-11-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 12:22 pm
Oh Fitness dad was well "special" (i'll start using that word so i won't get edited) So according to his definitions depression is anyone who shows emotion which involves tears. And a "bad attitude" is anyone who has an opinion opposite of his. and Cranky people are people who are pissed off or not in good sorts, which means those who aren't on prozac. Life is a series of mood swings and the key is learning now to handle them. Not ignore them so much that you turn yourself into the walking dead. I think it was very obvious at the end that the Fitness wife would love to have the affection that Fast Food wife and her hubby had. It was so sad that she couldn't get that from her hubby and in turn she wasn't lavishing that affection on her kids. Fitness wife was so darn annoyingly special that I wanted to throw a donut at the TV. But donuts are precious things that one should not waste on the likes of her. While I understood what she wanted to do with the family she had the most irritating approach known to man. So let me get this straight you take a family that doesn't do much activity and you decide to run them into the ground in the span of a week. She must have gone to the same school of fitness that the RED Team training on Biggest Loser went to. Like the Fast Food wife said at the meet, she did everything the fitness wife did. She might have been exhausted but at least she didnt' quit. Wife Swap seems to be a show just about major conflicts and drama. I know that trading spouses is kinda the same way but their trades seem to be more lighthearted and fun to watch.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 12:44 pm
I still can't figure out the pay off for these families..surely, just being on tv isn't enough! LOL
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 1:08 pm
I really liked the fitness family. Real Southern California people, even if the father was a bit rigid. Can't relate to the other group AT ALL.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 2:58 pm
Oh THANK YOU Tweety!! you are definitely a Sweetie for finding out and telling me that ( Now if I can just remember...)
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 3:42 pm
My ... The fast food Mom should NOT have taken away all sports. I could get on board with .... you need to learn about your inner beauty and each other... Pick ONE sport to participate this week -- this should be a group decision. And them make them work it out. I was sad that she didn't care over her little feel good candle circle thing. I thought that would be very educational for the family, but she didn't. The fitness dad was a real <self-moderated>... He was not making an effort to adhere to the rules AT ALL and kept running into the ground the whole, "my wife would never" "my wife ALWAYS"... stuff. Instead he could have said, "We usually try to avoid oil, but that's ok, you didn't know." or some other not offensive way, but he made a choice to be abrupt in his speaking to her because he had no respect for her fat self... that's what *I* saw anyway. The fitness Mom... I liked her in general... but I hated that she walked in and read the letter and started crying and making judgements about "those people" as in... those people NOT in California. I kept thinking... ok... everyone in California is skinny and everyone else is fat... umm.... I don't THINK SO... fat people are everywhere as we make up 75% of the country! HELLO??? The things I found really sad in this episode were the kids. On the one hand the fast food kids really needed to get off their duffs. But they didn't make me sad... what made me sad was the returning home segment. The fast food mom walks in and her children rush to her and there is clinging and crying and it's obvious that she was loved and missed. In contrast, the fitness mom walks in, the boys come over one by one... give her a one handed hug and stand around like, "How long do we have to stand here before we can walk away?" That made me really sad.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 4:29 pm
I was very impressed with the CA families' athletic ability and the chores they did without fight, but there didn't seem to be any connection among the members of that family. I gathered it was summer and that's why the kids were getting to be total slugs, but just doing nothing isn't right either. It seems like the 'non fitness' family took the best of what the CA mom brought and kept the best of their tradition, the CA family didn't seem to learn anything from the experience after it was all said and done.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 11:59 am
I was kind of hoping I could get fitness mom to come to my house and organize me and give me a fitness routine! I did notice that her kids did not seem that excited when she came home, but then I figured it was probably something that they retaped a couple of times and probably the kids were getting bored/embarrassed by it. Some families are just not the huggy types and I think that family DEFINITELY is not! Things like that you get out of them what you put into them, so the non fitness family got their reward and the fitness family pretty much stayed the same. Of course, the fitness family seemed practically perfect to begin with. I believe that feelings are important but they are not the kind of things that are "on demand" where you can just say to someone "open up now" and have them do it. I think the fitness family probably has its own way of showing affection for each other.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, November 08, 2004 - 3:39 am
I agree with what everyone has already said The most shocking thing for me was the 'update' part of the show when the Fitness Wife made some comment about how her husband learned patience?? or was it respect?? Anyways, what a selfdeluded woman~! that man seemed like a cold nonemotional person who valued his sons only for their athletic prowness. He treated the heavy woman as if she was loathsome and I was embarrassed for her when The husband was fakely trying to apologize to her and SHE FELL FOR IT. That scene where she went and kissed him on the head and tried to hold his hand was PAINFUL!! He had his other hand over his face trying to hide the smirk. ANYWAYS, I feel the fitness mom wanted to do this show as she wanted to be ON TV and act as a ROLE MODEL as well as get more business for her job. The other family did it for the experience. Personally, I feel that if the producers have picked a family, the family have signed the agreements...then the producers should move in and MAKE the family follow the mandatory rules for the last few days. People, the BAN on Sports was supposed to MAKE the dad spend some time with his boys....believe me, missing ONE practice is NOT going to make a difference. People miss practices for illness reasons as well. If this family is so mentally unbalanced that they would compromise their son's health for a SPORTS game then we should really feel sorry for them. My rant is over hee hee
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 8:35 pm
I am hoping someone watched tonight's episode and will tell me what the heck that was all about. DH was flipping channels and landed on it for a few minutes. I mostly saw this large, rude woman saying that homeschooling wasn't teaching the kids anything, and then rudely disregarding the husband when he tried to talk to her. In the other family, I saw the woman say the daughter was dressed trashy and the dad saying it was the style. I was too aggravated with them to watch anymore, but I'm curious about others opinions.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 8:47 pm
I didn't like the strict family and the non-strict family was too lax. But the non-strict mom was funny.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 9:32 pm
This swap was a waste of time. The Chaotic mother just totally disrupted the Strict household, instead of introducing small changes which might have made some sense. Couldn't believe the first vegetarian meal the Strict mother served up--good grief you can make a lot of tastier veggie meals for people who are not used to eating that way. Strict Dad was trying, but clueless. At least he was attempting to get along, but Mrs. Chaos just landed on him like a ton of bricks. The only good thing that came out of it, IMO, was the end of the whacker. Even in the last scene, everyone was trying to put a brave face on things and to be polite, except Mrs. Chaos.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 7:17 am
The look on Strict Dad's face at the rule change part and the pool party was great; I was worried he was going to explode. Mrs. Chaos kid's need the whacker.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:38 am
I didn't enjoy last nights show as much as previous episodes. I liked Mrs. Chao at the begining of the show but by the end I lost that feeling. She didn't have to be the way she was at the end when the 2 couples got together. She seemed very controlling, not letting her husband shake the Strict husbands hand. Mrs.Chao's daughters are spoiled IMO. I can't believe she freaked out that Strict Mom made them do chores in the 2nd week. That was part of the agreement of the show that for the 1st week they go along with the way the family normally does it and the 2nd they impose their own rules and that family has to abide by those rules. I was glad the strict family didn't bring back 'The Whacker'. All in all I think only the Strict family learned from this experience.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:42 am
Yeah in the end I ended up not liking the non-strict mom because I thought she was very rude at the final meeting. Those kids of hers needed some kind of discipline and the dad was too soft. I mean the girl had her boobs hanging out and the boyfriend all up in the bedroom and the bed had no sheets. And that eyerolling from the other girl would not last in my house. I also think the strict family got more out of this but not just cause of the whacker but because the kids got to interact in school and have friends over. Ok there were too many though but I liked the idea.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:50 am
Chaos mom reminded me of my Mother in Law. Physically and in her actions. NOT a good thing!
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:52 am
Ya, the Non-Strict husband was too soft. At first when he went downstairs and confronted both daughters and fight insued I was like, it's about time! BUT then he turned into a jelly-fish not 2 minutes later and took the girls for a drive basically it was a slap in the face to strict mom. I sort of felt bad for her when she was left all alone and even the dog woulnd't come sit with her. lol I didn't find Strict mom too strict, actually I rather admire her communication style, it's not demeaning or patronizing but gets the point across. The 2 Non-Strict daughters are headed for trouble I fear. The eldest daughter will probably get pregnant and already I can tell the younger one probably has a bit of self-esteem issues. Although they're both at that rebellious stage so who knows, they might both grow out of it. I really hope they taught their eldest daughter about safe sex and have her on the pill at least. On one hand perhaps it's better it's all out in the open because then there's discussion and no sneaking around but I don't know if I would handle it the same way. I mean on one had we all know that sexual activity is starting earlier and earlier adn perhaps they figure it's better to keep it right there under their noses ??? Just some thoughts...lol
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 8:57 am
Good points Mizi. I'm all for being open about sexual activity but don't do it in my house. Only the people who pay the mortgage here can have sex in this house. I've told my boys if you're old enough to have sex then you're old enough to pay for a hotel room.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 9:04 am
I think the younger one is the one more likely to get pg. she's the one w/the boyfriend over all the time...
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 9:14 am
Oops...>I got them backwards. I thought it was the eldest who has the boyfriend but you guys know what I mean. lol Since we're talking about the whole teenage sex thing I have a story I would like to share with about myself... When I was 14 my mother passed away of cancer and my sister became my legal guardian at the age of 19. One thing I truly admire about the way she dealt with me was the following. Even though I wasn't sexually active she took me to a drugstore and explained EVERY contraceptive there was and what each did even including spermicide foam,must be used with a condom for double protection! I didn't become sexually active untill I was nearly 18 but I remembered everything I was told and risks involved and used this information to ensure I didn't get any disease or pregnancy from my experiences. Later on (I'm 31 now) I talked to my sister about our outting to the drugstore. I was curious what provoked her to inform me of all this when it was evident I wasn't sexually active. She then told me that she had become sexually active when she was 16 and had gotten pregnant and had an abortion. She never talked to our mother about it and so my mother even to this day never knew but she didn't want me to go through the same thing she did. Anyway I am really glad she took the time to explain everything to me and to this day I still take this knowledge. I hope this isn't too much information...lol..just wanted to share it with you all adn I really do encourage you all to keep the communication open about sexuality with your own children if you have any.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 10:03 am
i fell asleep halfway through...i seem to be doing that a lot lately, even if a show is interesting! but i did hear non-strict dad (before the swap) say they liked the boyfriend a lot and could see him in the family...as if they wanted these kids to get married and start a family in only a few years. sheesh! i really wanted to see how the kids fared at school for 3 days, but that's when i was sleeping. darn it! _______________ sounds like someone has a really cool and mature sister! thanks for the post above mine!
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 10:08 am
Thanks TAbby....my sister is pretty cool. I was flipping channels so I didn't get to see how they fared going to school for 3 days. I'm sure they enjoyed it though!
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Potted_plant
Member
08-29-2001
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 10:51 am
they loved going to school, & really seemed to enjoy it. I felt sad for those kids.....they also really seemed to enjoy the candy & the pool party. But I guess MR & Mrs Strict wouldn't let them out of their control so school is off the agenda, so is the satellite TV. I liked Mrs Chaos, until the end. SHe was funny, but every bit as controlling, in her own way, as Strict Dad.
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Bbfanatic
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08-14-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 11:40 am
I think the show is fun to watch. But, I think it will wear thin for me after a couple more episodes. I think it's better when they mix people with different ethnic backgrounds.
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