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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:01 am
I left the room during the chicken killing and prep. I think it was pretty restrained to kill just two chickens to feed 39 people. I was thinking at least one per team. There should be some consequence for kids that don't pull their weight. Not naming names, but I DO have a few in mind! I agree that Greg worked hard this week, but so did Michael for TWO weeks - as well as being the voice of reason and harmony! If Greg puts in another good solid week of work, he should win it next week! Previews didn't look like that happening, however. The town council did pick their teams. Now that we "know" them better, I wonder if the Green team is so weak because the team leader - whose name escapes me at the moment - appears to be such a compassionate person and took all those whom the others didn't want?
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Jami
Member
10-08-2003
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:09 am
If your kids were up to it, being on the show with tourettes, would sure teach alot of people about it. So many people have barely heard of it,,,and many think it is a sort of mental retardation (which the few kids I know that have it are extremely smart).
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:22 am
i would have supported Greg for the gold star if he hadn't made it so obvious that working hard for those few days was only to win the star. he didn't do much before and acted very much like a rebel. and, in the previews for the next show he appears to be going back to the way he started out. i feel that if he had won the gold star this time he still would have gone back to his old ways immediately afterward. Greg reminds me of employees who slack off all year until the week before their performance reviews. i feel the reason why Michael won it and deservedly so, was that he was consistent and will remain consistent in his work ethic.
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Jenhavins
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:30 am
I am all about eating chicken, but if I had to kill it myself, I would no longer be eating chicken! I know, it's a horrible double-standard I am portraying, but nonetheless, I felt their pain last night. My MIL used to wring chickens necks when she was about 8 years old. They were dirt poor, but they had meat most every evening. Michael reminds me of my step-son about 4 years ago. From the hair to the disposition, he acts just like him. I didn't have much to do with it, but I like to share in the credit on what a great young adult he has become.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:34 am
if i had been Taylor's parents i would have cringed to hear her tell the rest they could just starve. i can only hope that they are watching the show with her and educating her on real life as it goes along.
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:03 am
I love this show! I'm about over Taylor though lol. I'm really enjoying Michael and I'm glad he won the gold star. It was obvious why Greg was helping him out and that kid on the council called him out on it. Question..When they compete the blue team is now upper council right? So how are Taylor and them still council? I'm confused on that.
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:31 am
Okay, I'm over Taylor, too - LOL Great episode last night and I agree that Michael was the most deserving. He has been consistent and was working hard before they learned about the award money. I don't fault Greg for wanting the money and working toward it, but I think taht Michael was more deserving. Plus, according to the previews, it looks like Greg may have sour grapes over getting passed up. That certainly won't endear him to the council.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:40 am
I think this show teaches children how hard it was for those in the past. It teaches history, too. It's a good show!
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:40 am
Angelicfairies, the 4 members of the town council stay the same. The groups compete each week for their jobs, with some being the upper class (blue team now), merchants, cooks, and lower class.
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Cr8ofdata
Member
01-13-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:44 am
Angel - they are upper CLASS - meaning they do nothing and get the most money. The Town Council does not change. Jami - thanks for your kind words about my kids having tourettes. They both are in the "gifted" program at school and have very high IQ's. It would teach the world alot about tourettes. Because what they show on TV is the worst of the worst - all the cursing and stuff. Only 3% of people with tourettes curse and yell stuff. My kids have funny tics - we even have names for all of them - alot of funny faces and head jerking, arm jerking - stuff like that. You should have seen my little girl playing basketball, she was really good at it, when she would have the ball and had to "tic" she would throw the ball to someone, tic, and then they would pass it back to her. My kids have always found ways around the tics. My son has to tap his feet four times, so in school when they had to be in a line, the teacher would always put him at the end, so he wouldn't hold up the line. If they could get on the show, I know both of them would jump at the chance.
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Mammyyokum
Member
06-05-2005
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:46 am
I loved it! Definately worth tuning in to each week to see how it progresses.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 6:51 am
there is one member of the council on each team. therefore, there is only one member of the council in the Upper Class group.
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 7:51 am
I'm really not so sure about this show. "Just the can the kids survive and build a town where adults couldn't" Lead on early season is so wrong. If it wasn't for the gold star the some kids would be doing nothing and vandalizing the town. Positions would never change unless you made them change by your own inituative and the council would of been overthrown by now if adults were not truly in charge of this senerio.
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 7:52 am
"It teaches history, too. " Just curious in what ways do you see it teaching history.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:00 am
i love this show. i wish they would focus more on some of the other kids. my favorites so far are taylor (love her i am a beauty queen and beauty queen don't do dishes, it's too cold to get out of bed etc) in 11 years she'll be GREAT for BB. jared- i love love love him. especially in the first episode when he said (after cleaning the outhouse) he hopes he doesn't have to poop while he is there. he's a character and would love to know this little boy. michael- great kid, his parents much be so proud of him. i miss jimmy, he was/is so precious.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:08 am
Freetime, I agree about the promos being misleading. The whole division into four camps, with different social strata is adult-imposed. I wish they had let the kids decide how to organize themselves. Would have been far more interesting to me.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:13 am
Zmom you crack me up with your views on Taylor. 
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:13 am
i think they should have had 3 days to get to know each other and then had a vote to who should be town counsel.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:19 am
When I tuned in Taylor had on a hat and I assumed that "she" was a "he". Opps, sowwy Taylor. Will the town council membership be changing ?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:37 am
Thank you for discussing the chicken scenes. I was going to come in here and ask if they kill any chickens. Reason is, Mom remembered the preview from last week and said if they were going to kill a chicken (in particular, the red one they were showing in the preview), she wouldn't be able to watch. She had a pet chicken (a red one) as a kid, and one of her trauma-filled memories is her dad killing it and cooking it for dinner. It was supposedly a mistaken identity thing (they lived on a farm, so raising chickens for dinner was common place). But after some of the <77> stories I've heard she endured from her folks, I just don't know. So now I know not to have her watch this episode. In fact, it may put a damper on the whole series, with the risk of it being shown again in "previously's" or any clip of past happenings. This may be a show I'll have to end up watching without her.
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Cinder
Member
09-01-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 9:32 am
Earlier there was a discussion if 15 was too old for the show. I had/have hopes that the 15 year olds will end up being a huge part of helping the town the earning respect. Now knowing that Greg worked in a slaughter house- it is obvious that this is one of the reasons he was chosen.
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Laneesmom
Member
05-12-2005
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 9:53 am
I love this show! I also think there is a lot of potential in a lot of different ways for many lessons to be learned (did i say that right?) LOL Taylor.....oh boy....I think we all feel the same on that. Glad Michael got the start. I also wish they hadn't revealed it's meaning. Only other person that I thought maybe could've been a "surprise" start recipient was the little girl that finally agreed about the chickens for the good of the team....even though she clearly hated it. That was mature of her.....(I'd still be sitting in that coop though). So, I guess that says a lot about my maturity. 
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:12 am
The children are learning how food was prepared prior to prepackaged foods. The entire premise of the show is from a historical point of view, including the town. In other words, they're living in the past. Ok, it's a modified past, but it's the same principle. Another example is how the water is brought into the town. The children don't turn a fawcet. They don't go into a modern bathroom, but use a more historically accurate outhouse. It's about how people lived in the past, which is history. Another point, I think this show shows kids the contrast between their current lives and the lives of those in the past. It might give those kids who feel entitled to everything in the modern world a different perspective. That things weren't instantly gratified in the past. You had to work for them! (ex: a chicken dinner)
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:45 am
i didn't quite understand how it went from warm to obviously very cold and next week they are going to have a sand storm/twister????? when was this show filmed? i'm very uneducated about the state.
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Bonbonlover
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:51 am
I don't understand the resentment of Greg working hard because of the gold star. Don't most employees work hard at their job for the salary increase? Don't salesmen strive to be the best for the bonus at the end? Don't athletes strive for the superbowl ring or the gold medal? Monitary rewards seem to make us all work a bit harder... Good for him!!
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