I have to admit to watching that show twice. In both episodes, it lived up to the stereotype that the Blue moms/wives are skinnier and better looking, but the red moms have that "down-home" goodness about them.

They should make Brittney Spears trade places with my blow-up doll. That would be a really cool episode.

A lefty used the phrase "one of God's creatures"?

C'mon, pull the other one.

Ace--

Wife Swap (the ABC) version has surprisingly displayed a bit of this streak too, albeit keeping with the more subdued nature of the ABC show.

I watched a big chunk of one episode that had a pampered woman trade places with a dairy farmer. It was quite clear who was the better mother (the farmer).

Of course, in the ABC version, the pampered woman was from Tennessee, and the farmer was from New York, but it was certainly a pretty good display of your typical blue state vs. red state values.

The best was when the spoiled wife would forbid her new "children" from helping their dad milk the cows, so they could appreciate sleeping in and being normal kids. They ended up ignoring her, and sneaking out the barn to help their dad. 'Twas great stuff.

Here's an article on that episode:
http://www.uticaod.com/archive/2004/10/20/lifestyles/10436.html

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

That was a good couople of episodes. My favorite line from the kid was "let me put it this way... you're fired"
Also funny was her showing the PETA movie to a bunch of people who were basically 'wtf is this?'
Comedy!

I live in San Diego & didn't realize the PETA people were from SD until I saw La Jolla Cove, where they went scuba diving. I know if I hang out at the Whole Foods Market long enough, I'll probably see 'em. Would be interesting to know if they felt they were edited unfairly. Even if that's the case, she was the gift that kept on giving to the Rupert Murdoch Vast Right Wing(tm) conspiracy.

Next week's is gonna feature a yoga/hippy/commune type family. I can't wait.

You forgot about the hippy mom lecturing the Cajun kid about grammar. She insisted that "monkeys" was actually spelled "monkies."

The dad and kid and chowing down on fried alligator, which, I gotta tell you, looked tasty.

Tastes like chewy hamburger. It's ok.

I can't remember wether it was the FOX or ABC one I saw, but it was a very similar to the FOX one you are talking about.

They had a liberal artsy woman from Arkansas (???) swap with a conservative country mom from SC (my home state).

The liberal lady stayed in bed all day and wrote for PETA (or some Enviro website) and poetry. Their house was disgustingly nasty and they let their daughter do whatever she wanted to do.

The conservative lady lived in a large very clean house and who worked hard all the time, with a lazy husband who hunted and had animals hanging on the wall and a rebel flag outside.

The liberal lady pulls up and sees the confederate flag and loses it right off the bat. Then she goes inside and sees the mounted deer head and starts wailing about "God's children" and carassing the deer. That ws funny.

Meanwhile the conservative mom, tries to get the dirty liberal people to clean, but they won't do it. She tries to make the dirty little liberal girl do chores and stuff, but they are not having any of that. Then she makes them send their dog outside. Finally, she makes the guy hang the America flag in his yard. He is steaming over this and starts on this rant about how terrible our nation is, blah, blah, the usual liberal tripe. But it was funny to watch him hang up the flag!

At the face-to-face, it does not go well. The liberal mom gets mad that the other mom made her child work, but she starts screaming, wailing, sobbing when she finds out the dog had to sleep outside. That had to be one of the funniest shows I have ever seen on television.

It was pretty rich to watch her lecture the extended Cajun family about how meat causes cancer, followed up with a quick cut to her sucking down a cigarette.

Hahahaha!

I saw some of that show last night. I tuned in just as the PETA mom was smacking the the little dog around and trying to shove its face into a puddle. I kept seeing that action later in the show when she hotly warned her own child to stop interrupting her.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the bit where the mom in question gave the kids a pep talk on choosing to be positive about what the Cajun mom had decided to do with their money before proceeding to read the decision alound and then, well, crying about it. Yet another instance of how well she led by example.

All that you need to know about the liberal "mom" was that she called her SON "Lucy." No shit. "Lucy." A boy.

And it wasn't because she knew this world was rough and if you wanna survive, you gotta be tough.

So much comedy gold there, so little time.

The best part, action wise, was after that little dog-eating "diiscussion," the "Vegan" (from the star system of Vega?) ATE THE ALLIGATOR TAIL. First picked it apart, then a taste, quick chew, an "oh, that's pretty good," and a rapid scarfing down of the rest of the piece.

When she told her "Vegan" kids about eating alligator, it was almost sad to see how CRUSHED they were. She's emasculated her husband (at one point he said "what's mine is hers and what's hers is hers"), homosexualized her sons (LUCY! for God's ssake!), and engaged in the most blatantly hypocritical behavior I've ever seen.

I won't watch this show b/c it's just "manufactured conflict." I even call it that to my wife. But last night was just too good NOT to watch.

That liberal woman was a total douche, made worse by her supposed moral superiority.

HeyZeus,

Remeber that she started to bawl BEFORE she got to the part about how she was going to get $20,000 all to herself. She was so pissed that the Cajun woman gave them a hot tub (requested by "LUCY(!)") I thought she was going to hit the 6 year old for being happy.

But once she got her cut, joy of joys, she was celebrating the wisdom of the Cajun woman.

In the previews, didn't the PETA mom tell the Cajun boy to apologize to a tree for running into it with the family swamp boat?

Beka - I was just about to post about that same episode. How funny was that...

I had considered blogging about this one myself. It was flipping hilarious. There wasn't an ounce of integrity within grasp of the PETA gal, and the editors were all too happy to show her up for it. The cajun family were just good-hearted, good-natured, simple-living folk...very live and let live. Now, the previews for next week look almost unbearable. I can't wait!

The PETA mom's first mistake was this - '"If I and my family were starving,"'

Being an oppressor, I feel it necessary to make fun of her grammar.

It SHOULD read "if my family and I..."

Okay, that said, she's a dipshit. Typical of most PETA poopheads.

Wow, that was the first time I saw the show-

PETA lady was a drama queen C-word. She felt it was her duty to write a note telling Cajun woman basically what a terrible mother she was- I felt like reaching through the screen and hugging her when I saw how hurt she was, reading the letter from that nasty bitch.

And when the whole PETA clan was pecking at Cajun woman I just couldn't believe how rude and inhospitable they were being, while the Cajun family was being pretty polite to PETA beeyotch.

What an interesting show...I loved the promo for the next one, with Big Momma going to live with the Twiggy Karma family. Oh baby, that's gonna be good.

I didn't see the episode, but my wife tells me the kid actually said he'd eat his pet frog if he had to but not his dog. When the patchouli-drenched veganish bitchsmoker asked why, he responded "A frog is a frog, but a dog is man's best friend."

Reminds me of Kipling: "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

The liberal mom gets mad that the other mom made her child work, but she starts screaming, wailing, sobbing when she finds out the dog had to sleep outside.

And the real Outer Limits deal here was that she kept wailing "He was adopted!" during that sob session. Chumps that we are, my wife and I wasted two precious minutes of our lives in an attempt to deduce Vegan Mom's thinking here. I use the word "thinking" very loosely in this context. Anyhoo, near as we could figger, Vegan Mom subconsciously elevated the adopted relationship with the dog over that of her birth child because, being a '60's narcissist, the adopted relationship was initiated, in her mind at least, by the mutual consent of the parties (yes, I mean her and the dog) while the birth child was thrust upon her by fate and, I'm just guessing here, the aftermath of some crazy-ass weed.

As adoptive parents of an abandoned dog and a foreign child, my wife and I were prompted by this tearful display to discuss our own inner feeeeeelings regarding our relationship with these two wonderful creatures of God. Then we watched Best Day Ever on VH1. Or was it MXC on Spike? Well anyway, lesson not learned.

If the dog was a rescue dog or gotten from the pound, the people may have had to sign an agreement stating that they would _not_ keep the dog as a yard dog. Many reputable breeders do this, too. (One dog by himself in a yard all day tends to get stircrazy.) So the lady may have been legitimately worried about the breeder coming to get the dog since the agreement had been broken on TV.

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