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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:00 am
I'll keep watching if time permits and I remember that it is on. I find it interesting to see how other people live.
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Jedisan
Member
01-11-2002
| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 6:08 pm
Did anyone else here catch "The Simpson's" on Sunday? It opened with a live action simulation of the opening credits. Interesting but odd to watch. The people they cast just did not cut it visually. IMO. The gist of the story was that Homer signs Marge up for a wife swap in order to get a plasma TV. It was really funny.
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Yellek
Member
08-22-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 11:59 am
Did anyone watch this last night? I couldn't believe the uptight mom putting her fingers in her ears and singing "Mary had a little lamb" to ignore the other mom. How juvenile.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 12:10 pm
Yes, I watched. Every time the strict dad said he was "training" his kids I though of training my dog. Eventually every time he said "training" I heard "brainwashing". I have to quit watching these shows. It makes me concerned about humanity. 
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 3:40 pm
This show was only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.
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Yellek
Member
08-22-2001
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:28 pm
Have you ever painted with "crackle" paint? It's kind of neat to watch dry...

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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:29 pm
i was disgusted that the parents (mostly the mom) thought it was okay, even cool, for their 20-year-old to hang out on tour buses. and what exactly DID she mean when she pointed out the two or three different guys on the internet and said she had 'hooked up' with them? and her topless shots and the pics of her in bed with another girl. may have just been 'fun' for her, but that type of stuff on the internet can turn into very scary trouble. my dd doesn't even want a 'my space' page because she said some of her acquaintances are out of line on it and some of them have been 'approached' online by people they don't know in 'sexual' ways. they tell her it's just other 'kids', teasing. how do they know? just today i heard a blurb for a newscast about pedophiles and 'my space'. i didn't like it when the mom did the plugging ears, singing thing, but over-all, i liked her more than the other mom. and there certainly wasn't anything wrong with the boy saying he wanted to stay pure til he married. if he can do that, more power to him. IMO, of course!!
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Misspoufy
Member
09-30-2004
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 4:10 am
Re: fingers in the ears, singing.....I always try to remember how much they edit these shows. Who knows what the other mom was saying that they edited out. Personally I thought it HORRID of her to have burned "The Brain". Okay, she didn't want them living by a schedule for a week but she didn't have to burn something that belonged to the other family, that was completely inconsiderate. If she wanted to burn something to make a point she should have gone to an office supply and bought a similar book and burned that one, safely storing away the original until the swap was over. I keep a similar book and I put EVERYTHING in there; notes and memories, things I plan on adding to a scrapbook....who knows what that woman burned!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 10:22 am
I am hoping that she didn't really burn the brain but something that looked like it to make the family believe she did and abc allowed it to get good footage.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 11:27 am
Good one, Yellek.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 12:33 pm
I have to agree, burning the brain was cruel. Good idea to burn a fake one. I didn't like either mother too much. The lenient dad seemed okay. The strict mom certainly did help the promiscuous daughter. I felt bad for the strict kids -- they surely never are allowed to have a single independent thought.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 2:53 pm
i don't know...we were gentle but firm with our kids. they just made all the right decisions growing up. i know they had/have independent thoughts, but none of them got them into trouble. a kid knows right from not-quite-right, and i know that girl knew her pics on the internet were over the line; she just needed someone to point it out to her. her mom was just fine with it. my feeling was mom was living vicariously through this daughter and finding it cool that her daughter was a 'groupie'. there are brains and then there are brains. i saw this brain as just a schedule, but my dd had a friend whose mom had such a schedule made out for the kids that the only time her dd could meet with mine (in 7th grade!) was from 10:00 to 10:15 on a school night to work on a project together for history. she was fully booked from 6:30 in the morning til midnight every single day. at age 12! mom and dad had decided this girl was going to be the next shirley temple, britney spears, lindsay lohan...something. she's the one whose parents bought alcohol for her 18th bd party. they also have an ongoing war with the city council over keeping fair goats in their backyard. so far, they milked it and fought it to where we are only 2 weeks from the fair and the goats just now "HAVE" to be moved off the residential street. they have been there since early january. the parents have made a huge rules and schedules book, but don't go by anyone else's rules. sheesh!
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Misspoufy
Member
09-30-2004
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 5:14 am
Well, it happened, I finally saw a Wife Swap where I totally disliked both couples. I'm not sure why rodeo husband took part, he certainly wasn't interested in widening his horizons. I give hair-dresser mom a few kudos as she at least did TRY to do the job and rodeo husband should have given her praise for at least trying. However, hair-dresser mom's ideas for raising children was ...well...whacked. As much candy as they wanted? Can you say Cavaties??? And no bedtimes? Rodeo mom could have been a good influence if she weren't so confrontational and abrasive. First time there's ever been a real knock-down, drag-out fight at the table though! LOL They could have skipped more of the show and shown more of the fight...the show might have been more interesting!! LOL
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 8:33 am
Well, not that I'm biased (being from Delaware and all), but I liked the Delaware mom--well, up until she called the hairdresser mom names. That was WAY over the line. Now her dh had absolutely no graciousness--for the most part could only see black and white and no greys. After their caustic time together, I was surprised that the family adopted her 7 pm 'closed' rule. It was a good rule! Yes, she was confrontational, but man, that hairdresser mom's husband WAS a wimp and obviously didn't know how to THINK straight. And remember, we only saw clips--not the more relaxed discussions that must have occurred. It wasn't until he saw the change in his kid that he started to be persuaded there might be something to her tactics. And he did do double-talk at the table, which didn't help rodeo mom to hold her tongue.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 9:50 am
Rodeo man had a mean streak a mile wide, and he and Rodeo woman both need anger management. Tell a man he's a wimp, and he won't hear anything you say afterwards. Hairdresser Mom is a flake, with the candy, no rules and bedtime, but I'd rather hang around with her than rodeo woman.
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Shelb724
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 3:49 pm
i'm from ohio--i would love to know where that family was from. obviously from their accents they were not from ohio to begin with tho. i think they held it together pretty well, they knew what they were supposed to be doing. rodeo couple did not.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 7:09 pm
Misspoufy, I agree that neither family was likable. Cowgirl daughter looked really scary when at the rule change she made a mean face and did that finger waving thing. It looked like cowboy pushed his wife rather hard when the table fight started. Poor kids.
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