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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:05 pm
Well it's fairly obvious that she has some psychological issues.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:14 pm
Yeah,OCD mom needs some help. I didn't think it was too cool of the Tennessee family to pull that "joke" with the daughter's prosthetic eye though. Sheeh,that would have freaked anyone out. Not too funny.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 1:21 pm
The most bothersome part of the whole show for me was when the 'cleaning mom' was telling the camera about her teen pregnancy. THe next thing we see is the Mom leaning ONTO her daughter, physically grabbing at her face, chanting something about 'her precious virginity' and sending the right man ??!!. This didnt seem like praying to me, it seemed like something to scare the crap out of the daughter. Generally, the Cleaning mom's kids seemed afraid. Afraid of doing something wrong and having their mom rage at them when she got back. This kind of fear is why kids run away, in my opinion. ((But then again, this is just a show and EDITING could be leading us astray )) I really liked the Cleaning mom's husband. He seemed to have a good sense of humor. Looking forward to the next show!! The Chattanooga family seemed a little off to me. I dont know...all the nonstop kidding around and goofing off seemed kinda weird to me. Like the dad was just 'one of the kids'. ((just my general ideas and observations))
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Conejo
Member
08-23-2002
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 1:33 pm
Does either one of the dad's work?
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 1:49 pm
Sunshyne-Thanks for reminding me.... I too thought the 'praying' after her comments about her teenage pregnancy as well as her first daughter who's 20 already having children; I too felt more like it was putting a 'fear' in her. The daughter seems like she always wants to please her mom. Did you notice her on the floor straightening the mat in front of the fridge? Mom was like, what are you doing on the floor?? Father was saying how the daughter was taking after the mom. I think the daughter just wants some type of approval and knows that's how she'll get it. Conejo-I'm not sure if either of them work.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 1:52 pm
If I had a teenage daughter I would put fear of pregnancy at that age in her too.
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Mistysmoke
Member
08-10-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 2:13 pm
Conejo, Im not sure about the MN dad, but I think I saw on the screen that the TN dad was a cable installer.
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Lori
Member
04-18-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 3:46 pm
That joke with the eye was mean but I had to laugh because that is EXACTLY the kind of thing my warped family would pull!
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 9:26 pm
Yes, that was a little over the top. But better that she is comfortable with the eye rather than feel awkward and like an outcast.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:41 pm
I suspect we can chalk it up to editing about the cab waiting/honking outside while the OCD mom vacuumed "one more time." OCD Mom's reaction to Tennessee, and talking about her being in "a whole new world" reminded me of my very first trip outside of Colorado. I believe we went to Nebraska, and I can remember being in awe how the streets, sidewalks, houses, etc looked just like the ones in Colorado (I was thinking/expecting some sort of alien world difference). But then, I was ten years old at the time too. Yes, the prosthetic eye joke was rather mean. And I suspect our family would have a grand old time pulling that kind of joke too, if we had someone in the family with that sort of "prop." But I also know we have the good sense to know who we can pull that joke on, and who not.
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Annie
Member
11-10-2004
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 11:30 pm
I saw this article in our local news paper: Forget about "Minnesota Nice."Minnesota Neat" was the name of the game this week on Fox TV's reality show "Trading Spouses," when Brooklyn Park mom Mia Hammond swapped places with a woman in Chattanooga, Tenn., for two hours of prime-time television and $50,000 in cash. In the first of the two-part episode (the second airs Monday at 7 p.m. on KMSP-TV, Ch. 9), Hammond came across as a controlling clean freak who freely admitted that she vacuumed her home twice a day. Her husband, Tim, and children Brea, 9, and Caleb, 7, looked as if they were slaves to chores as well, shown scrubbing toilets and counters, and vacuuming, vacuuming, vacuuming. When the pediatric medical assistant learned her destination, she exclaimed, "I want to die!" She said that Chattanooga was the "very last place in the world" she wanted to go and that she feared she'd end up with a family of "rednecks and hillbillies." What she got was the Howard family, whose house looked like it might be vacuumed twice a year -- where flies and mosquitoes abounded, and the floor even featured some dog poop. She was misery personified for the rest of the episode. It was hard to reconcile those images with the vivacious woman who sat in her warm (and, yes, immaculate) home Tuesday evening. "I'm the bad one, I'm Omarosa" (the villainess of "The Apprentice"), she joked. "You have to understand, it's reality television." Which means that it's reality, sort of. "They can make you look like an idiot or a very sweet person," added Tim, an automotive service adviser. "It's all in the editing: Things are cut and edited." The couple said they knew exactly what they were getting into with the show, in which two families -- usually exact opposites -- swap mothers for a week. "I was hooked after I saw the first few episodes last summer," Mia said. "I told my family, 'I would love to do that show.' " So she applied, and after a ton of paperwork and hours of interviews, they were among the 10 families selected from a group of 1,500. The swap and camera shoot took place in the first week of November. Mia said she knew after it was finished that she might end up on the dark side of the equation. Still, she said, even she was surprised at how she was portrayed in the first episode, which the Hammonds watched Monday with 20 of their friends. "I am not a crazed neat freak, nor do I have my husband and children cleaning the house 24/7 like robots. I'm portrayed as the crabby, mean one who didn't have a good time." As for Tennessee, she said, she recently attended a funeral near Chattanooga, calling it "a very eerie experience," where the body was missing from the casket and mourners wore flip-flops. But it still may be hard to explain the remarks to some members of her husband's family, who also live in Tennessee. Come next week's episode, audiences may have a different view of her, she said. "I can't tell you what you haven't seen yet, but there were some happy times. I did connect and did bond. I hope the good things will be shown. "I had a great time, and I'd do it again in a second."
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 8:00 am
Thanks Annie. Makes me wonder why I watch these shows lol.
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 2:15 pm
How do you politely suggest to someone (without offending them) that their family would be a great one for this show? Their life isn't totally chaotic, but would make for great TV. Mom is legally blind with a guide dog. Despite her vision problem she is an excellent housekeeper and cook. She walks (with dog) 1 1/2 miles to work, avoiding the nearby swamps/marshes/whatever that have an occasional alligator along the way, and works at a grocery store giving out food samples. Dad is a fireman, and one 17 year old son still lives at home. Household pets include ferrets, rabbit, turtle, fish, two dogs, and a pot belly pig that sleeps in the shower at night. I can just imagine new mom stepping into shower now...
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 3:39 pm
Tell them they can make $50k in one week. Its hard to stay mad at someone for telling you how to make an easy $50,000. << wink wink >>
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 3:39 pm
For $50k, I'll take a shower with the pot bellied pig.
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Lori
Member
04-18-2003
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 4:53 pm
Me too!! It could even sleep on the bed with me!
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 7:41 pm
I do not get these people. The two moms meet and all they can talk about is how clean/unclean their respective houses are. Why did Angie not go into the obvious developing OCD traits of Mia's daughter Bria? How everything was so sterile, unhappy and quiet? How Bria and her brother hardly ever smiled? Why did Mia not talk about her feelings towards Angie's son being allowed to play war and kill things? I was thoroughly disgusted with Mia saying what she did - "what if your son-in-law in killed?" I actually agree with Mia's feelings towards the war and Bush, but how totally awful to say such a thing. Maybe after the son has come home safe, you could say, "What IF your son-in-law had been killed?" She said that to hurt. I'm getting tired about it being all about how clean people are. There are more important issues than that. My guess is the mothers focus on this to avoid going into the deeper issues. Bria bugged me sometimes (like when she was making a snarly face in the back seat), but mostly I felt so sorry for her. Mia thinks Angie's son may grow up to kill and maim, but I am far more concerned about Bria's future (let alone now) mental state.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 7:50 pm
I agree with what you said, Jodied75. Wholeheartedly.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 7:54 pm
What concerned me most about Brea was that she was adamant about not enjoying the “happy party” and then decided to join in and said she did it because "everyone else was". As a parent those words are frightening much more so than a messy bedroom would. Mia’s mom was funny. She almost chuckled out in glee with the thought of her daughter seeing what was going on. Mia’s husband seemed pissed at the end of the show. Hope the two of them figure it out.
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Annie
Member
11-10-2004
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 8:38 pm
For 50K I'd live with Mia, wait that's not enough money. I'm appalled that she thought they owed her an apology for her tastless comment about the son-in-law. And even after the apology she kind of just shrugged it off. SHE feels disrepected?? How did she think the Tennessee family felt? As for her "worry" about Angie's son becoming a child killer, she should worry her own kids will turn out that way. Her kids are scared of her, and that's sad!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 11:04 pm
I loved the music they played when Mia came home and looked at the string on the wall!! BWHAAAAHAHA
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Lori
Member
04-18-2003
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 9:53 am
According to the above article, Mia said the second episode would portray her in a better light...I sure didn't see this. Any bonding she had with the family occurred when she was leaving. The only reason this was not a total disaster was the fact Angie's family was so warm and nice. They really were very nice to Mia considering the way Mia acted. I feel very sorry for Mia's children. I think the memories they will have of their childhood will be of cleaning. At least they had one "happy party". I wish we would have seen more of the homecoming between Mia and her husband. They just left the situation dangling. He seemed very ready to change things and then the episode just ended.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 10:18 am
I think the better light was when Mia distributed the $$ she invited the family to visit her and her family and when she remember that the doggie needed surgery. I thought that was very nice personally.
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Kimmykm
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:25 am
Did anyone get the allocation for the Tennessee family? I certainly would appreciate it because I'm a Texas hillbilly and ain't got no tivo to rewatch that pacific part in the show.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 12:17 pm
My head was spinning at the way Mia distributed $100 here... $150 there... $1500 here.... $250 there... whatever disorders she suffers from, they are obviously not limited to just cleaning her house. I have never seen anyone divvy up the $50k like that.
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