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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:50 pm
I don't think Curtis saw his parents as his friends, more like his minions.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:52 pm
Yeah I think Jo from Super Nanny should have just come right to them when the Wife Swap crew left. With a nutritionist.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 2:26 pm
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.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 2:33 pm
uuuummm...hmmmmmm....
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 5:37 am
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.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 9:22 am
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.
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Kittyab
Member
07-16-2005
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 9:55 am
Speaking of Super Nanny, what happened to that thread?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 10:42 am
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. 
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Kittyab
Member
07-16-2005
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 5:51 am
Anyone watched last night? What was up with the older mom? Her eyes made her look like she was derranged or something.
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 7:36 am
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.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 8:19 am
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."
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Kittyab
Member
07-16-2005
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 9:39 am
I was like so no other culture matters? I think dad should make her take a bike ride!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:33 am
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!
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:46 am
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
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 1:55 pm
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.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 3:16 pm
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.
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Kittyab
Member
07-16-2005
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 7:28 pm
Was there a episode last friday?
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Lori32
Member
07-04-2008
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 2:54 am
just a repeat,new one is on tonight
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 8:04 pm
Those two families tonight deserved each other.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 8:59 pm
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.
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 9:34 pm
One Mom needed a razor and the other one needed a washcloth, her makeup was so thick she looked like a clown.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 10:30 pm
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?
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Friday, April 17, 2009 - 11:08 pm
I thought they were both named Shannon, so they added their middle names. No?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 5:20 am
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????
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 5:31 am
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.
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