in Trading Spouse's final show the other nite

[donsu]

a young daughter was listing who she hoped the new mother wouldn't be like.

she went through her list and ended with 'or a mother so thin she looked like all she ate was an almond for dinner'

had me laughing.

this show also had a Rep. family, but this family seemed bendable. but the show didn't flow and seemed disjointed as if it had been severly edited. like, after the Wife Swap show.

anybody notice?

[Sanity Claws]

1. Agreed

Usually the swaps occur over two shows. This swap took only one show. My guess is that there wasn't enough interesting footage to make two shows. The families were not as different as some others in other shows.

[donsu]

2. I don't know - seemed pretty different - the one had only been a wife

for 4 mos. and she brought her two young daughters to the marriage with a man with a teenage daughter and the other family were musicians/entertainers and traveled around in an RV a good part of the time.

I'm wondering if something happened to the Rep. husband. he was a snot, derisive, etc. and then all of a sudden he was mister wonderful, with no explanation of why the change.

In the beginning introducing the familys the Rep. mom gave that Rep. speech and ended by saying her young daughters knew they were Rep. too.

and it being shortened to one show instead of two.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Differences in other shows

In one show, one family was vegan and the other family loved their meat and in fact killed alligators and sold their remains as souvenirs (they lived in Louisiana.) They couldn't even eat the same food -- a battle every day. The vegans acted so superior and looked down on the Cajuns way of life. The vegan mother was terrible and selfish -- she yelled at the little Cajun boy.

Another show had clean freak mom from Minnesota go to Tennessee and live with a family that was quite comfortable with dirt. They had clashed all the time -- over cleanliness, over what's allowed in the house, and over politics. The Tennessee family were pro-Bush. There were a lot of clashes.

Outwardly the two families in last night's show seemed different. There were no fights over food or cleanliness, two major areas of disputes in other shows. Maybe the moms were emotionally mature enough to try and fit in instead of imposing their view of the world on others.