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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I don't think Curtis saw his parents as his friends, more like his minions.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Yeah I think Jo from Super Nanny should have just come right to them when the Wife Swap crew left. With a nutritionist.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
The "healthy" dad was just plain boring! I liked the "healthy" mom though I felt she needed to be more involved with her children instead of just worried about what they eat & setting a goal for HERSELF to have that very expensive house.

The "over-wt" dad needs to grow up! He works so hard supporting HIS hobby & has made HIS hobby become his families passion. If the "over-wt" mom would stand her ground with her own family like she did with the "healthy" family, it would be great. The "over-wt" daughter was practically non-existant. "King Curtis" seemed very smart but also too controlling of the family. He's a child - why is he running the show? He will have a rude awakening as he grows up & realizes that the world is not his kingdom. I predict if their are not major changes in how those parents deal with that child, they will be cattering to him well into the child's adulthood & probably resenting it.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
uuuummm...hmmmmmm....

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 5:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
Little "King Curtis" was like a cartoon character to me. He cracked me up because I couldn't believe what came out of his mouth. He had a lot of intelligence, but it sure needs to be steered in a better direction.

I agree about the nutritionist being needed much more by the demolition derby people.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
What a great idea Tish! Have Nanny come in after a swap.

I think the demolition daughter didn't get much face time because what little I saw of her she seemed to be trying to cooperate with the healthy mom.

I am just supposing here but demolition daughter is at that age where she cares about her looks. She probably welcomed some advise from someone about how to slim down and live a healthier lifestyle.

I actually enjoyed this episode. I think both families got some worthwhile lessons and there wasn't as much nastiness as there has been the last few weeks.


Kittyab
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07-16-2005

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kittyab a private message Print Post    
Speaking of Super Nanny, what happened to that thread?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
It may not have had posts for a while and then disappeared during board archiving? You're always welcome to start a new one if you like. :-)

Kittyab
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07-16-2005

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 5:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kittyab a private message Print Post    
Anyone watched last night? What was up with the older mom? Her eyes made her look like she was derranged or something.

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
Maybe she is deranged. :-) Some of the things she did were strange. Kiss the Blarney stone if you don't straighten up? lol

I think her husband really got a taste of freedom and wouldn't be surprised if that marriage fell by the wayside, somewhere down the road.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
I felt bad that the "Irish" mom said the "particular culture I identify with is Irish." How very sad that she didn't say "American culture."

Kittyab
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07-16-2005

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kittyab a private message Print Post    
I was like so no other culture matters? I think dad should make her take a bike ride!

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Smokey, I think about that, too. I just wonder how many of the wife swap marriages survive. I think some people have to realize they're in real problematic situations!

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
I had the same exact thought. The Irish marriage seemed a bit too moved off its axis.

I never got any insight into Irish mom's thinking except her fear that idle kids mean trouble. But there seemed to be something much deeper going on there and I couldn't get a read for it.

I did think it was nice that the biker family embraced some changes and were very nice in the family meeting.

Did they ever say where Irish family lived? I was hoping Limerick, PA


Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I couldn't stand all the green. Those poor tired kids. The mom did have strange eyes. I forget what she said to the dad when he wanted to take her out on his brand new bike. I remember that her look and her words sent chills through me.(I just watched a re run Wife Swap where the kid was a wrestler. His mother weighed his food portions and made him drain the milk from his cereal.) I wonder what percentage of US families are as odd as the ones they find for Wife Swap.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Oh that mom was nuts. I agree, Dogdoc, I got chills with that weird look and her comments about the motorcycle.

I only started watching this show a short time ago through the reruns on lifetime channel. One particular family really bothered me. They lived in a 4 bedroom home and had 3 children. So you would think the 3 children each had their own room. Nope. Mom & Dad had a bedroom, Mom had an art room, dad had a media room, and all 3 kids were stuffed in the 1 tiny bedroom that was left. I couldn't believe it. And one of them was teenager. It wasn't like they were tiny kids.

Kittyab
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07-16-2005

Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kittyab a private message Print Post    
Was there a episode last friday?

Lori32
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07-04-2008

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 2:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lori32 a private message Print Post    
just a repeat,new one is on tonight

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Those two families tonight deserved each other.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 8:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
I am so fed up with them dragging out these big hair dingalings as representative of New Jersey women. I suppose Virginians feel the same way about finding all their back to nature folks.

The real losers here were the kids in both families. The Jersey kids are spoiled beyond belief. Hope they have a trust fund. And the Virginia kids are so deprived I wonder how they aren't taken away.

Either extreme is a nightmare for children who just really want to be loved, appreciated and fit in.


Countrydaze
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11-07-2003

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Countrydaze a private message Print Post    
One Mom needed a razor and the other one needed a washcloth, her makeup was so thick she looked like a clown.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 10:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
If you can believe it, in an interview in a New Jersey paper, it says that Nicole is actually a child and adolescent psychiatric nurse???!!! I hope at least she's non-practicing, just a title, because I just don't see her with kids. She could have won over the West Virginia kids so easily, but she looked so outlandish, and talked down to the family so much, they couldn't really get into the shopping spree.

http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-12/123952022033120.xml&coll=8

Kittyab said: "Why where they called Shannon Micheal, Shannon Nicole."
That kept confusing me the whole episode; anyone know why?

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
I thought they were both named Shannon, so they added their middle names. No?

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 5:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i am not a naturalist, crunchy granola type of person at all, i love my spas, makeup ect BUT..i could relate more to the VA lady than I could that NJ woman. I do not think I have ever met a person who acted more rudely or self centered. And then to watch her husband defend her behavior. Why in the world did she have kids if she didn't want to intereact with them????

Smokey
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 5:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Smokey a private message Print Post    
I agree, Texannnie. I would hate to live without electricity, but I appreciated their existence much more than the Jersey couple.

That Jersey woman was so over the top. Wow. I felt bad for her husband. You could see he was going to get a good talking to after he stood up to her at the meeting. I doubt anything he wants would be allowed by her. She just doesn't seem capable to see past her own selfish needs.

I reminded me of a couple on this show who lived in Florida. The wife went out to clubs with friends just about every night while the husband took care of home and kids.

If that woman is a psychiatric nurse, that's downright frightening.

I wondered the same thing about the Shannon names.