Wife swap!

[Homicidalheathen]

My sister said it was the best ever. The witch and the Christain moms battled it out.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

somehow I thought this thread would be a tad more interesting becuase I saw your name attached to it <smile>

for once TV is a let down :-(

[Wounds Within]

Yeah, I was told to turn it on by an excited friend of mine and watched it for a bit. Being pagan myself I thought it would be rather interesting, but instead the witch family was nuts and I lost interest quickly. I liked the concept of what the show tried to do by bringing the to total different families together, but for me it made the witch family look really bad and low class, very disapointing indeed.

- Bloodied

[The_Dark]

The "christian" lady seemed to be acting... almost like someone who was pretending to be a Christian but has never really been around one... like she only had over-done stereotypes to work with...

[Homicidalheathen]

Its on tonight, my mistake. I am going to watch it.

[The_Dark]

Thats part 2... part 1 was last week.

[Fierce Critter]

I missed part 1. =(

Watching Part 2 tonight.

By the way, you mean "Trading Spouses". Wife Swap was the show that was on last night, the one that's all in one episode.

It was pretty interesting. A family that takes what Jon and I do (curbside shopping, etc) to a radical, radical extreme. And a family with too much money for their own good.

Very, very good outcome for both families in this case. Nice to see.

[Homicidalheathen]

She musta got it mixed up then. She said it was on Wednesday......anyone know if it was ABC or NBC?

[Fierce Critter]

Trading Spouses is on Wednesday night, 9:00 on channel 2, which I believe is Fox.

Wife Swap is on Monday at 8:00, channel 7, ABC.

I misspoke myself above - Wife Swap was on Monday, not last night (Tuesday).

[fever blister]

god dammit i saw it last week and totally forgot about this weeks show. wheres a tivo when i need it...

[Wounds Within]

Yeah, I was told to turn it on by an excited friend of mine and watched it for a bit. Being pagan myself I thought it would be rather interesting, but instead the witch family was nuts and I lost interest quickly. I liked the concept of what the show tried to do by bringing the to total different families together, but for me it made the witch family look really bad and low class, very disapointing indeed.

- Bloodied

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I was speaking on the Monday night episode of Wife Swap. I think you were speaking of the show Trading Spouses. They are nearly the same show and both have had pagan famlies with christian famlies within the last week. On the Trading Spouses show that christian wife was way beyond psycho so it made me feel a bit better about the crazy pagan family on Wife Swap a few nights before. Now that is American television.

- Bloodied

[Marblez]

I was livid when I saw the well to do parents actually defending their children being disrespectful of the other wife when she was in their home.

OMG, what horrible people.

[Fierce Critter]

I didn't think the family on Wife Swap was crazy. And though they had a few items here and there with pentagrams on them, they never spoke of being pagan. More than likely they were just pretty things they found in the garbage. They struck me as basically non-denominational.

They were trash diggers/recyclers to the extreme. Living on $6,000 a year. The wife was a former stock broker, and from a wealthy family. House is probably paid for, and everything else they get from the trash, handouts (restaurants leftovers at the end of the business day), and selling things they get out of the trash at a flea market.

Their methods were a lot more extreme than I'd be comfortable with. They got food out of the trash. Now, I'll admit - we didn't turn our noses up when we found a CASE of Woodchuck Cider on a curb once, but that's sealed bottles with expiration dates to check (non-expired - yess!). Washed each bottle to ensure nothing had been spilled (or peed) on them, and enjoyed the living shit out of them, believe you me.

But we'll even pass on canned or boxed food. You just do not know the history of things like that.

I liked how both families on that episode came out in the end - they both learned from each other and changed in good ways.

I generally watch Wife Swap, because it's done in one single episode. This was probably only the second episode of Trading Spouses I've watched. I was disappointed that, unlike WS, they don't show each family months later and how their lives have changed. Maybe that's a normal thing on the show, or possibly the Christian woman just wouldn't let the cameras back in.

She lost it. I have never seen anything like it, even her family was completely flabbergasted.

I can understand someone sticking to their basic beliefs. But she was a very, very extreme example of how closed-minded some people can be.

I just am not impressed by someone who feels that being exposed to something contrary to their beliefs threatens their spirituality. If you are strong in your beliefs, I believe you should be able to expose yourself to things like that without fear that it's going to taint or consume you.

[bean]

I watched Trading Spouses last week and this week. My grandmother was exactly like the Christian Mom....eek!!! I like how the pagan mother took the one Christian daughter aside and gave her special attention, as it appeared that she was not treated as equaly as the other children.