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[sigrun]

I love Wife Swap. :D One of my favourite things about it is how it clearly shows how horrible some families are -- and more often than not, it's the 'conservative Christian family' that ends up looking like shit.

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[sigrun]

Oh yeah, it's definitely a guilty pleasure. :D I like to watch it because it makes me & my family look almost normal at times. ;)

[dreamingenigma]

I was so disgusted by the father of the conservative family and the little son was such a spoiled brat! (why do all the familys have chubby spoiled little 10-year-olds? arg) I was annoyed with the mother at first, but I think by the end she was actually trying to be more lenient. I just felt sorry for their daughter!

[sigrun]

I'm with you -- the father of that family was such a horrible person. And while I do feel much sorrier for the daughter, I do feel a little bad for the son -- because he's just the way he is because of the way he raised. He doesn't know any better -- and probably never will.

I'm glad that the mother is trying to be closer to her daughter -- and that is a step forward. I just wish that she could have come away from the Swap with a bit more of a backbone so that she could stand up to her husband. :/

[dreamingenigma]

Oh, I know what you mean about the son. Part of me wanted to hit him and part of me wanted to shake the parents for turning him into such a spoiled brat. I think that's what frustrated the other mom - she knew that the kids behaved that way because they had been raised that way.

The mother was showing a lot of potential towards the end - I loved when she got the makeover - but when the two couples met up again and her husband got up and left and she just followed right behind? Erg.

[dachelle]

Hated hated HATED the asshole fundamentalist dad. Why the hell would you do a show like this if you were completely unwilling to abide by the rules? I guess he thought his family would be doing all the teaching and no learning.

I did warm up the AFD's wife by the end. It seemed like she was really trying to get something out of the experience and open her mind a little bit, even if she's still too much under the thumb of her husband. I'm glad she and her daughter have a better relationship now - I felt so awful for that girl. I also felt bad for the boy - not because he was a nice kid at all, but because he's become such a misogynist snot due to his dad's influence and mom's complacence, and he never really had a chance to be anything else.

Also, I was secretly thrilled that the "cool" family lived in Texas. It's nice when we get to show the rest of the nation that there might be a majority of Bush-supporting right-wingers, but there's quite a substantial minority (several million of us!) who subscribe to other lifestyles and

[sigrun]

I know! I couldn't believe it when the lady was going through her rules at the beginning of the second week & he just kept going 'Nope. No. My house, my rules.' I think that the Wife Swap PTB were getting ticked off at him. During the final confrontation, you could hear them offscreen telling him not to leave.

I hope that the mother keeps going on drives with her daughter & keeps being nice -- but I'm betting that once the post-show publicity & stuff dies down & cameras aren't showing up, things will go back to the way they were before.

When they were doing the introductions, the Texas thing impressed me too! With all the stereotypes, I would have expected the residences to be switched -- but it was a nice thing to show that not all Texans are ... I'm having trouble picking a word here, you know what I'm getting at though. ;)

[lilith_morgana]

Aw. We never have any fun families in the Swedish version. All fundamentalist families over here belong to sects and probably think television is teh ebil.

I love it when the end result is divorce though. We've had a few of those. :) This show is my guilty pleasure.

[parcae]

Wife Swap's the one where the wives stay for two weeks, right?

[sigrun]

Yep. :D