Wife Swap and Trading Spouses

rcharlee
rcharlee Posts: 182 Member
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I like watching these shows, but at the same time I get annoyed. They put some of the seemingly worst people on them. Any thoughts, and would you ever participate in one?

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  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    would you ever participate in one?

    Not the way they do in those shows.
  • steve1686
    steve1686 Posts: 346 Member
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    They put the worst people on all reality shows. It's done on purpose to get you to watch.
  • Treesy72
    Treesy72 Posts: 230
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else


    me too :cry:
  • tabinmaine
    tabinmaine Posts: 965 Member
    me three lol
  • bethgames
    bethgames Posts: 534 Member
    Damn, this was disappointing......:grumble:
  • LiveLifeLogically
    LiveLifeLogically Posts: 41 Member
    I'll admit that I get sucked into these ridiculous reality shows. But I would NEVER participate in one.
  • MadeOfMagic
    MadeOfMagic Posts: 525 Member
    Once in a while some things change for the good for some of those families. I remember there was this goth family that switches with this super religious family, and the religious family mother kept encouraging the father to spend more time with his son, so he did and ended up completing a building project with him, the father realized how much it meant to his son and enjoyed it so much that he cried, it was the sweetest thing...once in a while on that show some of the family members have an wake-up moment that changes things for the better :)
    Would never participate in such a show though :P
  • stuartadair1
    stuartadair1 Posts: 46 Member
    Not going into too much detail, but lets just say that Mrs Wife and I have a Hottub and some fun Saturday nights with 'friends':laugh:
  • ramgi
    ramgi Posts: 196 Member
    I used to watch Wife Swap all the time. I wouldn't participate in it. Do you remember the guy who said he saw a UFO? He made cnn news and he got his son to lie. He was on wife swap twice.
  • kamakazeekim
    kamakazeekim Posts: 1,183 Member
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else

    bwahaha I did too!
  • fitnessmanda
    fitnessmanda Posts: 5
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else

    SAME HERE! haha
  • still_crafty
    still_crafty Posts: 682 Member
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else

    me too! I was all ready to tell an awesome story about the club I went to this weekend :laugh:
  • RainHoward
    RainHoward Posts: 1,599 Member
    Damn, this was disappointing......:grumble:

    exactly
  • PittShkr
    PittShkr Posts: 1,000 Member
    thought this thread was gonna be about something else

    me too! I was all ready to tell an awesome story about the club I went to this weekend :laugh:

    Hey your not supposed to talk about the club! didnt you read the manual?
  • Psychoanalytic
    Psychoanalytic Posts: 261
    I'd gladly participate in one. Give me one of those woman abusing worthless pieces of work. It'd be like a boot camp up in that house.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    Without wife swap, we never would have had the God Warrior.
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    makes u wonder how they find people so... out there... sometimes
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    ...thought someone was offering...
    Nevermind.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    makes u wonder how they find people so... out there... sometimes

    WalMart.

    Sorry was the first thing to pop in my head.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    ...thought someone was offering...
    Nevermind.

    It's not too late!! **throws pants in corner**:drinker:
  • Bucky2BeBetty
    Bucky2BeBetty Posts: 79 Member
    I know someone on- line who was on one of those shows. She'd had cancer and this was a way to pay off their bills. She came off looking sensible and loving. The mom she switched places with was nuts.
  • RainHoward
    RainHoward Posts: 1,599 Member
    What a bunch of flippin perverts. You should all be ashamed! Or on my friends list.
  • tehzephyrsong
    tehzephyrsong Posts: 435 Member
    My stepmom just eats up all the drivel that gets aired on TLC, so I'll be in the middle of a How It's Made marathon, and suddenly the channel switches to some inscrutable horse**** involving two effed-up families whoring out their eccentricities for the fleeting glory of being Reality TV Famous. I know they purposefully choose the most screwed up people they can find, match them with polar opposites, and then either create conflict or get creative in the editing booth, but reality TV just gives me a headache. I get that watching these human train wrecks makes us normal folks feel better about our own lives, but I can't be the only one for whom these shows transcend the label of mere spectacle and become uncanny and disturbing on a very deep level. Because the people who feature on those shows are now the high water mark of American culture. And that troubles me.

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