I’m not ashamed to admit it, i would have to say my favorite show on T.V. is Wife Swap on Lifetime. It’s obvious not a show directed towards men considering it’s on Lifetime. Let alone the commercials. All women’s products. Not just women’s products, but more personal than anything. It’s almost like they don’t just expect women to watch it, but they expect them to watch it alone. What ever their target audience is, they got me hooked.
“Each week across America, two families are chosen.” That’s how each show starts. They pick the two most extreme opposite families they can find and have the wives switch house holds. The first week the wives have to live by their new families rules. The second week the wives get to call the shots, putting up a list of rule changes that the family has to abide by. That is, if they want to get paid. Many times the producer’s have to convince people to finish out the show because the people can’t take the dramatic changes to there normal daily life.
The perfect example of the show is one of my favorite episodes. The wife of a former Army Drill Sergeant that runs a fitness boot camp with her husband, swaps with an extremely over weight wife who has an even more obese husband. The wife continually made excuses to be lazy and watch soap operas all day and sat there lying about it, while us the viewers knew she was just worthless. The whole time the beast of Drill Sergeant was just tearing her apart verbally and she couldn’t take it. As entertaining it is to watch the spouses, you have to feel bad for the kids. These crazy people treat there kids like trash and they don’t know any better. It’s always easy to judge looking from the outside, but some of these people are nuts.
