"Wife Swap" is the most sadistic show EVER

Seriously, why do people sign their families up for this show? Every single show the kids are crying their heads off and the parents are at each other's throats. Is this real? Who would do this to their family?

I'm watching tonight's episode. A family from a remote farm in Iowa who eats all raw meat and a some stylish, chic family from San Francisco. Everyone is crying and threatening violence.

It's all about $$$$$$$.  I don't know what the contestants get paid, but sponsors must think it sells and the ratings must keep it going.

I would never do it, nor would anyone I know.

I've only watched a couple of times, but there was some good that came out of it, those times. 

One was a family where the kids had to do too many household chores and the sub mom tried to get them to have a little fun and convince the dad they needed to be 'kids'.

The other show, the sub mom was shocked the kids (there was a boy in his young teens) didn't do anything around the house to help out.

I wonder if it's a little phoney like the Jerry Springer show?

spirochete, I am starting to worry about your masochistic tv-watching tendencies. ;)

First, creepy VH1 guys and now Wife Swap? You're acting almost as if there were no good shows out there!

(I, of course, am not one to talk. I am simply hiding my TV skeletons in a very large closet...)

Haha I know! I'm a glutton for TV punishment. I can't stop myself

Tonights show was horrible!

I am from Iowa and I'm pretty sad to see that my state is being represented with such an uneducated discusting family. 

it makes money!!!  You're watching it aren't ya???  The mighty OL' dollar makes the world go around

This particular episode is pretty umm out there.  I mean the dad from Iowa curled up in a ball in the bathroom crying because his kids have stomachaches??  You have got to be kidding me!!  And the family from CA, GET RID OF THE OVERALLS!!!  The dad and his stupid overalls dressing his sons like him.  Ridiculous. 

When I saw this thread, the infamous "God Warrior" wife came to mind. Not sure whether it was Wife Swap, or Trading Spouses. Not posting a link, but if you want to see it just search utube for "god warrior." Glad I don't have cable these days...

never watched wife swap, sometimes would watch trading spouses. the crazy god lady was from trading spouses. i'll never forget THAT show, hard as i may try.

last year, i permanently grounded myself from watching tv, as i found myself addicted to all these brain-enhancing (kidding) shows.

i was sick today, so i made the exception and plugged in the tv. ever since, the monkeys have quit even trying to turn the cogs and wheels in my brain. blah!

LOL

did you see the god warrior doll on ebay?

that was too funny.

"gargiles!"

hahaha....the God Warrior episode was the best ever...that woman pissed me off so much...while still making me laugh so hard I cried....now that's talent.

I loved the part where she freaked out because she was in the same room as a psychic lol

I'm not sure what its lasting appeal is, but it fun to catch once or twice a season.  Yeah, it's the same over and over but it can be entertaining.  You just have to realize it is a show for the cameras.  

OMG, the God Warrior show!!  That was....purely WILD.  It scared my kids.  LOL.

I have to say that I watch the show semi-regularly, and quite enjoy it.  Sure, like every other other reality show, people are mainly there to make money.  But, at the end of the show, there always seems to be some type of improvement/change within the families.  That's the part I like to see!

And let's face it.  We probably ALL could benefit from stepping into someone else's shoes for a couple of weeks.  If only to learn to appreciate all that we have. 

:oD

Pantera ... the dad wasn't dressing his kids in those hideous brown overall things.  Those were forced upon them by the Iowa farm psycho.  :-)

And the psychic lady that was on the 2nd episode last night ... with her nutty tap dancing kids ... She was a freak. 









Wait, what?  I don't watch Wife Swap!  Move along people ... nothing to see here ...   :-)

LOL the "god warrior show" it WAS great! that woman needed help, her poor younger daughter and her poor husband... she was nuts...

I also liked the Pirate lady... her family lived like Pirates, and they switched with this woman who was all about fitness and eating healthy, and she was an organizational freak...   it was interesting none the less

Let me just say that it makes me realize that my family is pretty normal...  and there are some odd balls in this world...

I like how in the beginning the nutty lady said that her family was prepared to survive a terrorist attack (in rural Iowa?! haha) or the apocalypse!!! WHAT?!

Also, when she was talking about how awesome the butter and clay combo is for your teeth they zoomed in on her and showed how her gums were black along the line of her top teeth.  Priceless.

 

LOL that's funny sarah! I haven't watched that show in a WHILE. I saw the God Warrior woman, she was completely NUTS!

Sarah, SHUT UP! are you serious?? LOL I have to see that

butter and clay? seriously... wow, just wow

*looks around nervously "I am the god warrior lady."* I think im done now.

BUTTER AND CLAY! And it gets worse!!! She says that when it gets rancid and chunky her husband says "Mmmmm bubblegum!" and chews on the chunks.  My husband and I were dying!

Damn, the only thing on YouTube from this episode is the raw meat eating farmers going out to eat and eating cooked food, and then the dad's crying breakdown.

Didn't they bring God Warrior lady back for a second time?