What deeply upsets me is when visiting family in Puerto Rico, they lived in a very old house that would randomly not have electricity and/or water. When that happened, there was a large barrel drum full of water that you'd put in a pot and boil on the stove (gas stove) and use that pot of water for washing. You got your soap, your mini towel/rag and your pot of water. Each person had their pot of water. There is no damn reason to just use a single bathtub of water that is shared with all family. Even people without running water don't do this. It's nasty. I respect the effort to survive in poverty, but there's saving money then there's just being gross
@@Poodleinacan the japanese have a system of washing before getting in the tub/bath. So their bodies are already clean and the tub is moreso to soak and destress. It's common knowledge that bath water gets dirty when you bathe in it, hence my criticism of what they do.
Growing up w no electricity where it's cold...we warmed the water on the gas stove and then me and my 2 cousins shared a bath tub. But we were young. We didn't share tubs later in life. But even after we got electricity and I was older...when I bathed my mother or step-dad would ask Me to save the bath water for them.
@@em84c judging by her personality, its possible she was born into a wealthy family and is unfortunately the only one to carry on the family tradition of being rich and doing nothing for society.
Idk if it was wife swap or trading spouses but I remember a couple episodes where the children absolutely adored the swapped mother to the point they cried when she said goodbye and one child was basically the earliest version of a family vlog child who hated the fact she could only play with her toys only if there was a camera recording
I think that family vlogs are legit one of the earliest forms of being a professional RUclipsr on RUclips. Like, in the early days of RUclips there weren't really people who could make money off of RUclips alone, but family vlog channels were different. You could post a minute of your kids every day, gain millions of views easily, and get ad revenue from that with so little effort compared to everyone else. I mean, there's a very good reason why people will often say that early RUclips consisted of "Videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, and David After The Dentist," instead of the gaming and media content that most people associate with RUclips, especially early RUclips.
@@qty1315 True dat. I don’t think people were fully PREPARED and/or knew what to make of RUclips when it first launched. I know for the first 4-5 years, I just thought of RUclips as that website where people post stupid and/or funny videos that end up going viral (for WHATEVER reason).
I was solicited once to be on this show. They wanted someone who worked in crime scene. You had to have at least two kids. You would earn $25,000 for your participation. It’s interesting to know the one family made almost as much for the show as they normally did in a year. The Karen in this episode is a horrible person!
@@voiceofthelegion578 LOL - a bunch of rude hooligans would have driven me crazy! I’m not sure if they ever made such an episode. I’ve seen one with a police officer, but not one who did crime scene.
@@mysmirandam.6618 I had zero interest in exposing my life on national television. This was long before YT existed, so I’m extra happy I’m not immortalized through this platform.
I knew the Padovan-Hickmans. I'm from the same town. The family is kinda out there, but from what I remember they were pretty nice people. Reality TV did them dirty, honestly. They definitely know what electricity is. They just chose not to use it. I went to CNA school with one of the daughters and dated briefly, and honestly she was pretty normal. Her mom gave me a huge bag of sweet potatoes on graduation day. They were good af. They ran (and I believe STILL run) the local farmer's market and they kept animals on their property. Steve himself has a viral video of him hamboning (playing the him) on RUclips that got pretty popular. As a side note: King George, VA is quite rural but we still have electricity and internet. Most people who live there are government contractors at the local Navy base and not your typical "hick" type. I moved a few hours away but I still shop at the Opp Shop when I visit my parents cause most of the stuff at the Opp Shop was donated by a lot of the upper-middle class families! This episode was HUGE in my hometown when it came out. They had public showings at the Citizen's Center and everything. For weeks afterword, EVERYONE kept talking about what a bitch Shannon was.
the wild thing is most farmers that dress like them in my hometown and other rural towns make close to a million a year and have farm equipment like tractors and combines that are worth 500k and im sure shannon would spit on them too
Shannon's Wife, Shannon, is just the worst sort of person. It's painful to watch an adult act like the "I want it Now!" Girl from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
I don’t dissagree with anything expect having power for the kids at night. Everything else eh he’s weird but seems honest a loving family is better than one with luxuries. I feel so much worse for the mean ladies kids.
The only Wife Swap EP I remember is when a stay at home rich housewife traded places with a working class woman (she was a bus driver). When it got to the part where the wives set rules the only thing the working wife asked the husband she was swapped with was to have 1 hour a day after work where he spent time with his kids. Instead, he stayed at the gym and complained that she was telling him what to do, even though he knew that would be part of the agreement before signing up for the show. Basically he learned nothing and everyone hated him.
I remember this one but in the end didn’t they end up firing the Nannie’s and the dad like kind of started spending time w the kids ? And he had the bimbo wife who loved shopping and working out
The pioneer family seems really nice. The husband and wife love and respect each other and spend quality time with their children. They want more experiences with each other than money. And they care more about who they are on the inside vs. the outside. They are honestly a breath of fresh air.
Idk, I hate the Karen too but the way he was speaking to her about wanting to spank her and trying to drag her outside for a “timeout” was deeply unsettling as someone that grew up in that environment around misogynistic abusers. The husband gives me huge red flags. I worry for his daughters when the cameras aren’t around. She may be a monster but he seems to have his own creepy dark side.
I’m pretty sure the female Shannon was expecting someone to say, we need to spin her off into her own show. That was definitely a character she was playing.
Yeah that might've been true if right at the start the poor child doesn't straight up say "I wish we had electricity." Parents might be happy but doesn't sound like the kids are.
@@Cain-gu5nq exactly. it's not abuse, but it's pretty inconsiderate of the parents imo. though parents imposing their strict lifestyle onto their children is nothing new and most seem to think there's nothing wrong with it. there's happiness to be found in simplicity. they have some great ideas and the parents are clearly happy, honest folk. they obviously care about their kids. but there are some lines, and ones you need to really consider when it's not just about what you want and need and there are dependents under you :/ also yeah the bathwater thing's nasty lol, sorry. like, you bathe twice a week? fine. that can be done, if truly necessary, and you otherwise keep clean, but these are farm folk AND they're using dirty water to "clean" themselves only twice a week when they have the means. I hope they allowed the kids to execute hygiene their way once they started growing up because I know that could become embarrassing in regards to their peers.
Using headlamps for their light source at night was the second thing I thought was weird. Lanterns and candles would make more sense, particularly if they want to stick with using no electricity.
I used to work with people at a place where they would collect a deceased person’s belongings and put it on a truck lest it be sold off and it made me really consider the idea that “you can’t take it with you”. Imagine,clothing, jewelry, old photos, wallets, all here: abandoned. It begins to matter less. Things are cool but it doesn’t matter so much.
that's why i spend my money on experiences tbh. i don't make a lot, but what i do make, i spend on doing stuff. i'll remember going to the game store with my friends, seeing live shows in town, attending festivals, and traveling until my brain rots, and that's way more important to me than another game I won't play.
@@Cannasloth as someone who grew up in a similar manner and isolated from people, I definitely had a disadvantage and years after I'm still making up for it
One of my coworkers was on wife swap in season 5. She said they have no idea what angle the show is going for until you're already there and into it. She said that they definitely push things or have you ham it up but that most of it is actually real. I was blown away 😳
One of my friends was on an episode of wife swap....they had some awful medical bills to pay and the show paid big bucks. I didn't know her at the time and had to watch the episode on RUclips. She came out looking just fine but the other family looked awful, including the daughter and eventually the parents ended up in prison, so my friend got invited to be on a talk show, no pay but a free trip to NYC. Wife swap asked her and her fam to do another episode but they did a family vote and it was no.
You can definitely tell this was filmed around the same time as the "Jersey invasion", with Jersey Shore, Jerseylicious, etc. I was born and raised in Jersey (and still unfortunately live here), and I can count on one hand how many women I actually saw that looked and acted like Shannon before the Jersey invasion of reality shows. Even today I don't see that many.
I was actually asked by the producers of Wife Swap to be on a show where murder mystery show performers swap wives. I had just divorced my wife and told her about this. I wrote the following to Wife Swap, "I have since divorced my wife and when I told her about being in your show she said, 'Never since our marriage ended have I ever been so happy to be divorced.'"
They were told to say that. This actually isnt cute at all. All children deserve to have a chance at life. Granted- both parties are doing the most for the sake of tv. But this isnt cute.
One day my wife and I were in the car and we stopped to get gas. So we paused our conversation and later as I got back in the car I said, “babe, you know what show was really weird?” Without hesitation, she goes “wife swap!”. I’ve never been more proud to be married to her! Lol
I remember this episode when I was a teen. I actually agreed more with the poor no electric family than the rich one even though I always fantasized about being rich but she was just horrible! Rich does not equal good.
There was one solid episode where a mother assigned her swapped children books to read and they kept putting it off until their actual dad stood up for the mom and basically told them "go read the book like your mom told you too!" Parents like that man, they hit different
"We're the core and you're the apple." "Spit away, spit on Santa Claus." "Emotional Bowels" "You butted me with your apparatus. (breasts)" probably the best quotes out of all your videos.
Everyone likes to act like they invented stuff that's been around for generations. Why aren't we calling ads commercials anymore? Didn't we all hate commercials? Which company succesfully screwed with our heads and hanged the name?
The lack of brain cells saying "go get a job" because people are shopping at what looks like a regular ass local grocery store to me is insane lol Do you think they foraged that money in the wild or something?
Shannon was so damn disrespectful from the get go💀 that family has a lovely house and a sustainable lifestyle and all she saw was that they didn't have what she had
People like Shannon wouldn’t make it through any hard times, especially the ones that will be coming soon. The rural family won’t even know the difference.
Sorry man. I’ve got four kids. You had better believe they share a tub one after the other. When they get older, we can go from there, but for right now, I’m going to do what I’ve got to do. Draining and refilling the tub for each kid is ridiculous, especially when they will immediately run outside and mess themselves up. Nope, nah, no thanks.
Wooow, I remember watching this show, but honestly... I'm so sad that those kids were subjected to all this. Just listening to Shannon berate that family, I can't imagine how that woukd have impacted those girls. 😥
In another Wife Swap review video one of the comments found Shannon Michael’s social media accounts and he had his relationship status as divorced. I guess they divorced not long after the airing of their Wife Swap episode.
Yeah, you can tell he'd be a totally different man with a good wife...but men that choose women who are fake and good looking in their youth deserve to suffer for being shallow lol
That bathtub thing happens even nowadays... In the early 00s my family did that as we had to pay for water and we didn't have hot water so we had to heat our water on the hob. The youngest went first and the oldest went last. Poverty is still a thing in the 21st century.
Nice review! I kept wondering how the "shack" family, who lived without electricity and presumably television, knew anything about Wife Swap and reality TV in general.
I knew them actually. I'm from the same town. They definitely know what electricity is. They just chose not to use it. I went to CNA school with one of the daughters, and honestly she was pretty normal. Her mom gave me a huge bag of sweet potatoes on graduation day. They were good af. As a side note: King George, VA is quite rural but we still have electricity and internet. Most people who live there are government contractors at the local Navy base and not your typical "hick" type. I moved a few hours away but I still shop at the Opp Shop when I visit my parents!
Wife-Swap was one of the few shows that me and my parents watched together and it always gave me respect for what my Mom is doing and has done for my life. If you think your upraising was hard, remember that it could be incredibly worse and if you think it was that bad, find help. Every life is precious, especially when you're an adult.
THE inspiration for the 'I need to speak to your manager' haircut was obviously this episode. Also, sniffing ppl is so very primitive & conjures up so many disgusting scenarios 🤢
Pheromones people! It's very natural, especially when it's your mate. I agree weird for some however, when one is close to a person, a partner, there is the attraction which lies in that familiar scent. It can be comforting.
@@emilyheyokaevans I agree, but my idea of it is smiling when i feel my gf's smell on the pillow or in a shirt i lent her. Armpit smelling is NOT the way to go.
@@Origami84 why? Because you have different likes and dislikes? That makes it NOT the way to go? I mean as long as your partner does not mind, you can smell her/him/etc as you wish. Who are you to judge?
One of my best friends was on Wife Swap. The episode with Kenny and Bella. He's a long black haired tattoo artist that I was living and working with at the time. He and his wife were separated at the time of shooting, but he wanted that 50k paycheck so he played along. He said that every moment is fake and that he was told to do everything he did by the producers. He tried to get me to come be on the show for a day, but reality tv isn't my bag lol. Shout out Kenny Thompson!!!!
There’s an early episode with a family in Ohio that has a bluegrass band… one of the sons killed the oppressive mom and if I remember right some of the other members as well
one of my teachers in middle school was in the season 5 premiere and i remember her telling us about how the producers had them portray themselves in an overly dramatic light. she also told us that the whole experience sucked lol
You need to watch “Trading Spouses”. It was the same thing as “Wife Swap” but it was longer and aired on Fox. On that show they would sometimes trade husbands. The famous “God Warrior” lady is from that show.
There was another show where rich families would exchange lives with poor lives and it was usually really nice because the rich family often helped the poor family at the end, by helping the kids out in some way. It was always really nice to see Lol I love thrift shopping. Shannon Is missing out, but she's also awful.
This show is so cringy but taught me alot at a young age. We used to watch it as a family when I was young and even at that age I could see that both sides were extremists and neither way of life was better then the other. It's much of the reason I chose to have such a neutral stance on most things. You have to be open minded if you don't want to be crazy hahaha
True with most things but sometimes you have to pick a side because centrists don't get things done. And not picking a side sometimes is picking the side of the oppressor and not the oppressed.
Absolutely disagree. You should recognize your interests and preferences while being aware of your means, and work within your means to pursue those interests and preferences. Who cares if other people think you or your lifestyle is crazy? You're the one that has to live it - not them.
@@kyleellis1825 With employment it's pretty easy, just keep you business life and your private life separate. Friends who think like you are pretty easy to find in my experience; a lot of people think "crazy" stuff, it's getting them to share it that's the hard part. As for romance, can be a mix of both: find someone like you or keep those parts of you life separate. It's not hard, it just requires a bit of self control and there's no reason for you to deny strong or extreme feelings on any given topic. Embrace them but control them and you'll be fine.
I used to watch this show back then, but I got annoyed when it became strictly formula for each family to argue and not cooperate with the rule change. It's almost like nobody read the contract they agreed to.
Or it’s the network making them do it for views and attention. it’s a cheap way to get viewers. I wouldn’t doubt if they did most scenes a few times to “ get it just right”
Balance people BALANCE!! I'm an off-grid homeschooling homesteading mom who loves sparkly shit and dressing up. I shop at thrift stores, I shop at malls, wear makeup, and sometimes I don't, my girls like to wear makeup, and sometimes I don't. It's all about the balance.
Chris you should do the reality contest show Solitary, it's basically where they lock these people in pod rooms and make them do all these crazy physical and mental challenges without human contact. It has a robot voice host. It's wild, I only have the vaguest memories of it but wtf seriously.
Hell yeah, get that sponsorship money Chris!!! As someone that's been following you since you had around 10K subs, I'm really happy to see your count grow (and sponsors start to take notice!)
This reminds me of the summer I lived in an old cabin for summerstock and basically lived off the grid lmao. The water was all collected rain water. Even the showers. Bugs and mice and snakes too. Was fun for two months but good god I was excited to sleep in a real house
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@Chris James I love you man you are the man man
@Chris James you are one of my favorite RUclips channels, do you play the guitar? do you have any videos of your guitar playing?
Do an 1000 ways to die ep?
Noom is awful, sorry, but congrats on a big name sponsoring you?
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What deeply upsets me is when visiting family in Puerto Rico, they lived in a very old house that would randomly not have electricity and/or water. When that happened, there was a large barrel drum full of water that you'd put in a pot and boil on the stove (gas stove) and use that pot of water for washing. You got your soap, your mini towel/rag and your pot of water. Each person had their pot of water. There is no damn reason to just use a single bathtub of water that is shared with all family. Even people without running water don't do this. It's nasty. I respect the effort to survive in poverty, but there's saving money then there's just being gross
Exactly
The Japanese do that...
@@Poodleinacan the japanese have a system of washing before getting in the tub/bath. So their bodies are already clean and the tub is moreso to soak and destress. It's common knowledge that bath water gets dirty when you bathe in it, hence my criticism of what they do.
Growing up w no electricity where it's cold...we warmed the water on the gas stove and then me and my 2 cousins shared a bath tub. But we were young. We didn't share tubs later in life. But even after we got electricity and I was older...when I bathed my mother or step-dad would ask Me to save the bath water for them.
@@lifeisa.smalllesson4607 to drink?
It's funny how Shannon is telling low income people to get a job but she herself doesn't work.
She should have said they should tell their husband to get a better job. Or try to find a rich man to marry.
@@em84c judging by her personality, its possible she was born into a wealthy family and is unfortunately the only one to carry on the family tradition of being rich and doing nothing for society.
Maybe you should try joining Majestic 12.
So she's a typical wealthy person born into a wealthy family.
Agh yes the Karen complex
The funny thing is, Shannon looked like she was dressed in thrift shop clothes as a joke when she went to the thrift shop.
🤣😅
Draped in leopard mink, girls standin next to me 😂😂
That's "classy"🤡
There's nothing wrong with shopping at Thrift Stores :(
@@dylanmonstrum1538 I like shopping in thrift stores, I love the interesting finds in them. I never said anything against thrift stores.
“I watch her have sex with other men” thank god I’m not the only one who got these vibes from this guy 😭😭😭😂😂😂
The cuck jokes were the best I mean that dude is a huge cuck lol
😂😂
Probably has no choice.
Oh my god i know I laughed soooo hard when he said that 😂
Considering she goes to the bar a lot while he’s at home she’s has definitely been plowed by someone else
Idk if it was wife swap or trading spouses but I remember a couple episodes where the children absolutely adored the swapped mother to the point they cried when she said goodbye and one child was basically the earliest version of a family vlog child who hated the fact she could only play with her toys only if there was a camera recording
I think that family vlogs are legit one of the earliest forms of being a professional RUclipsr on RUclips.
Like, in the early days of RUclips there weren't really people who could make money off of RUclips alone, but family vlog channels were different. You could post a minute of your kids every day, gain millions of views easily, and get ad revenue from that with so little effort compared to everyone else.
I mean, there's a very good reason why people will often say that early RUclips consisted of "Videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, and David After The Dentist," instead of the gaming and media content that most people associate with RUclips, especially early RUclips.
@@qty1315
True dat.
I don’t think people were fully PREPARED and/or knew what to make of RUclips when it first launched.
I know for the first 4-5 years, I just thought of RUclips as that website where people post stupid and/or funny videos that end up going viral (for WHATEVER reason).
Yes!! And they had to tell the dad to play with his kid and he was disappointed that he couldn't film
I was solicited once to be on this show. They wanted someone who worked in crime scene. You had to have at least two kids. You would earn $25,000 for your participation. It’s interesting to know the one family made almost as much for the show as they normally did in a year.
The Karen in this episode is a horrible person!
Hell I'd definitely sign up for 25k
I wonder who your swap would have been.
@@voiceofthelegion578 LOL - a bunch of rude hooligans would have driven me crazy! I’m not sure if they ever made such an episode. I’ve seen one with a police officer, but not one who did crime scene.
Y didn't u go?
@@mysmirandam.6618 I had zero interest in exposing my life on national television. This was long before YT existed, so I’m extra happy I’m not immortalized through this platform.
I knew the Padovan-Hickmans. I'm from the same town. The family is kinda out there, but from what I remember they were pretty nice people. Reality TV did them dirty, honestly.
They definitely know what electricity is. They just chose not to use it. I went to CNA school with one of the daughters and dated briefly, and honestly she was pretty normal. Her mom gave me a huge bag of sweet potatoes on graduation day. They were good af. They ran (and I believe STILL run) the local farmer's market and they kept animals on their property. Steve himself has a viral video of him hamboning (playing the him) on RUclips that got pretty popular.
As a side note: King George, VA is quite rural but we still have electricity and internet. Most people who live there are government contractors at the local Navy base and not your typical "hick" type. I moved a few hours away but I still shop at the Opp Shop when I visit my parents cause most of the stuff at the Opp Shop was donated by a lot of the upper-middle class families!
This episode was HUGE in my hometown when it came out. They had public showings at the Citizen's Center and everything. For weeks afterword, EVERYONE kept talking about what a bitch Shannon was.
the wild thing is most farmers that dress like them in my hometown and other rural towns make close to a million a year and have farm equipment like tractors and combines that are worth 500k and im sure shannon would spit on them too
That wanting to sniff her thing is very strange.
No way to take the sniff thing out of context… it was a bit weird.
But let’s just assume the show made him say it.
God I hope they made him say it.
@@willjackson4354 Time stamp? e-e
@@jacobvanausdeln1696 and the telling her to spit on him thing too lol
Shannon's Wife, Shannon, is just the worst sort of person. It's painful to watch an adult act like the "I want it Now!" Girl from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Hahaha omg, she totally is, lmao!!!!!
😂😂😂 bravo
Definitely Veruca salt
"I want the world"
Typical liberal
The “Only reason CPS hasn’t come to take the kids is because we don’t have a driveway or an address….”
Dude I laughed so hard I spilled my beer 😂
This used to be my guilty pleasure show back in the day. Now I realize how classist and gross it really was. 😬
Yeah, it’s also trashy on top of being classist and gross.
That’s part of reality Tv’s charm.
That is why I still like it.😂😂
"I didn't know he played the...him" is my new favorite sentence.
Gives a whole new meaning to “you played yourself”
11:52 my favorite is “ Let’s go where the LOSERS shop” as you enter a store.I’m gonna make it my catch phrase.
Search for Steve "Hambone" Hickman and you can see him performing in concerts. I read hes made millions of dollars playing him.
@Bills Gym Hamboning will save your life someday!
The Manjo
I actually kind of like the old pioneer man. He's strange but he embraces it. Seems like an honest fellow
except all the shady sexual references
@@TEMPLE7D I'm into weirder stuff than sniffing. More power to him
@@mrdavisdance so you're into sexual assault?
Yeah I liked that couple. At least they are real people unlike the fake tanned Snooki wannabe.
I don’t dissagree with anything expect having power for the kids at night. Everything else eh he’s weird but seems honest a loving family is better than one with luxuries. I feel so much worse for the mean ladies kids.
The only Wife Swap EP I remember is when a stay at home rich housewife traded places with a working class woman (she was a bus driver).
When it got to the part where the wives set rules the only thing the working wife asked the husband she was swapped with was to have 1 hour a day after work where he spent time with his kids.
Instead, he stayed at the gym and complained that she was telling him what to do, even though he knew that would be part of the agreement before signing up for the show.
Basically he learned nothing and everyone hated him.
I remember that one!
I hope he covers that one. Please Chris, Im begging here...
I remember this one but in the end didn’t they end up firing the Nannie’s and the dad like kind of started spending time w the kids ? And he had the bimbo wife who loved shopping and working out
The pioneer family seems really nice. The husband and wife love and respect each other and spend quality time with their children. They want more experiences with each other than money. And they care more about who they are on the inside vs. the outside. They are honestly a breath of fresh air.
10:19
Cheap weirdos and gross.
Idk, I hate the Karen too but the way he was speaking to her about wanting to spank her and trying to drag her outside for a “timeout” was deeply unsettling as someone that grew up in that environment around misogynistic abusers. The husband gives me huge red flags. I worry for his daughters when the cameras aren’t around.
She may be a monster but he seems to have his own creepy dark side.
"They're poor, what do they have to be grateful for?". 😂😂😂
They not poor they less than that
The parent need some dam help
I’m pretty sure the female Shannon was expecting someone to say, we need to spin her off into her own show. That was definitely a character she was playing.
yea like paris hilton w her bff probs
Heck, I would watch the spin off of Shannon being sent off to be a goat herder or live on a fishing boat and having to process fish on the slime line.
@@cyb3rDracul the Simple Life was iconic!
@@gjmottetor at a land fill during the summer on a day with no clouds
@@cyb3rDracul Learn how to form a sentence and learn how to type probably properly.
shannon strikes me as someone who desperately wanted to be casted on RHONJ but wasn’t rich or interesting enough
It's darkly funny how almost all of the Real Housewives were involved in running some kind of scam and/or encouraging their husbands to run a scam.
I actually love the pioneer family. I dunno, something’s are extreme -like the reuse of bath water but they seem honest and sincerely happy.
Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking. There’s something really cool about how they live… besides the sharing bath water
Yeah that might've been true if right at the start the poor child doesn't straight up say "I wish we had electricity." Parents might be happy but doesn't sound like the kids are.
@@Cain-gu5nq exactly. it's not abuse, but it's pretty inconsiderate of the parents imo. though parents imposing their strict lifestyle onto their children is nothing new and most seem to think there's nothing wrong with it. there's happiness to be found in simplicity. they have some great ideas and the parents are clearly happy, honest folk. they obviously care about their kids. but there are some lines, and ones you need to really consider when it's not just about what you want and need and there are dependents under you :/
also yeah the bathwater thing's nasty lol, sorry. like, you bathe twice a week? fine. that can be done, if truly necessary, and you otherwise keep clean, but these are farm folk AND they're using dirty water to "clean" themselves only twice a week when they have the means. I hope they allowed the kids to execute hygiene their way once they started growing up because I know that could become embarrassing in regards to their peers.
The kids would probably die of happiness if they experienced a life different than what they have. They act happy cause they dont know anything better
Using headlamps for their light source at night was the second thing I thought was weird. Lanterns and candles would make more sense, particularly if they want to stick with using no electricity.
That guy dressing in his Sunday best to go to the mall is actually so sweet
I used to work with people at a place where they would collect a deceased person’s belongings and put it on a truck lest it be sold off and it made me really consider the idea that “you can’t take it with you”.
Imagine,clothing, jewelry, old photos, wallets, all here: abandoned. It begins to matter less.
Things are cool but it doesn’t matter so much.
that's why i spend my money on experiences tbh. i don't make a lot, but what i do make, i spend on doing stuff. i'll remember going to the game store with my friends, seeing live shows in town, attending festivals, and traveling until my brain rots, and that's way more important to me than another game I won't play.
“I think they both want her to spit on him, just not for the same reasons” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂 The Kohl’s customers shaking their head at HER outburst and her taking it as them shaming HIM got me
Steve really seems genuine but raising your kids like this will put them at an extreme disadvantage in the workplace and social situations.
How? Looks like the kids in the rich family would have more social anxiety in their adult life than the other kids.
@@Cannasloth as someone who grew up in a similar manner and isolated from people, I definitely had a disadvantage and years after I'm still making up for it
@@Cannasloth well if you don’t normally shower or flush the toilet, you’re gonna have some major issues with making friends.
It's better to learn to live without and have things later than have everything right off the bat they are extreme but there's 2 sides to every coin
The other family is much worse.
“Spit on Santa Clause.” 🏋🏻
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Santa definitely wanted Shannon to jingle his bells 😂
Wonder how long it took the corporate husband to find a mistress who treats him right 😂
One of my coworkers was on wife swap in season 5. She said they have no idea what angle the show is going for until you're already there and into it. She said that they definitely push things or have you ham it up but that most of it is actually real. I was blown away 😳
Please tell which episode it was.
You can never have too many channels making fun of trash reality television, and yours is a part of the elite, Chris. Excellent work bud!
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Well worded
Indeed well worded, Chris needs more recognition frfr
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"You butted me with your...uhh...apparatus" might be the weirdest thing I've heard all day and I love it.
I’m still stuck on how literally everyone is talking about spitting. What’s going on here?
@kathrineni think he is calling out her fake boobz 3834
One of my friends was on an episode of wife swap....they had some awful medical bills to pay and the show paid big bucks. I didn't know her at the time and had to watch the episode on RUclips. She came out looking just fine but the other family looked awful, including the daughter and eventually the parents ended up in prison, so my friend got invited to be on a talk show, no pay but a free trip to NYC. Wife swap asked her and her fam to do another episode but they did a family vote and it was no.
Was your friend part of the "feminist family" versus the "pageant family"?
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@@jimmymelendez1836 feminist family
You can definitely tell this was filmed around the same time as the "Jersey invasion", with Jersey Shore, Jerseylicious, etc. I was born and raised in Jersey (and still unfortunately live here), and I can count on one hand how many women I actually saw that looked and acted like Shannon before the Jersey invasion of reality shows. Even today I don't see that many.
I was actually asked by the producers of Wife Swap to be on a show where murder mystery show performers swap wives. I had just divorced my wife and told her about this. I wrote the following to Wife Swap, "I have since divorced my wife and when I told her about being in your show she said, 'Never since our marriage ended have I ever been so happy to be divorced.'"
😂😂😂
Do the episode of wife swap where the husbands got into a fist fight at the end. That episode was hilarious 😂
Which episode is that?
Wait now I wanna watch
Yesss that one was funny lol lol
Is that the one where he flipped the table??? I think one of the families were cowboys lol
“Electrizzity” 🤣 the internet is gonna find that woman and cancel her now that you got this out there
“We’re the core and you’re the Apple”😂😂 Those kiddos dragged her for FILTH
They were told to say that. This actually isnt cute at all. All children deserve to have a chance at life. Granted- both parties are doing the most for the sake of tv. But this isnt cute.
One day my wife and I were in the car and we stopped to get gas. So we paused our conversation and later as I got back in the car I said, “babe, you know what show was really weird?” Without hesitation, she goes “wife swap!”. I’ve never been more proud to be married to her! Lol
Steve playing "himself" is my new favorite clip
I remember this episode when I was a teen. I actually agreed more with the poor no electric family than the rich one even though I always fantasized about being rich but she was just horrible! Rich does not equal good.
Bro if I was pulling in as much money as rich people I’d be looking like a Greek aristocrat. Fat and happy
No one thinks rich equals good, this did not need to be said
@@beepbeeplettuce5890How did you miss Shannon’s whole point?(poor=bad/rich=good. Seems that was obvious.
@@icu3869 I didn't miss her point at all, I'm just pointing out her kindergarten lesson of the day bullshit was unnecessary
That family is far from rich
There was one solid episode where a mother assigned her swapped children books to read and they kept putting it off until their actual dad stood up for the mom and basically told them "go read the book like your mom told you too!"
Parents like that man, they hit different
When the guy took that lady to the thrift store he seemed to be embarrassed by her when he said these are our friends maybe even ashamed by her
“Those kids are ZOOTED”
I died 🤣🤣🤣
"We're the core and you're the apple."
"Spit away, spit on Santa Claus."
"Emotional Bowels"
"You butted me with your apparatus. (breasts)"
probably the best quotes out of all your videos.
He's really well spoken, amazing what a lack of screen does for the brain.🤣
Omg Noom 100% is dieting 😂😂 It's literally just calorie counting and restriction dressed different for a millenial consumer.
Everyone likes to act like they invented stuff that's been around for generations. Why aren't we calling ads commercials anymore? Didn't we all hate commercials? Which company succesfully screwed with our heads and hanged the name?
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Calm down kyle
@@karenamyx2205 Stop being a Karen.
@@kyleellis1825 booo lame comeback
@@yaboithegod5007 boo, lame name.
The lack of brain cells saying "go get a job" because people are shopping at what looks like a regular ass local grocery store to me is insane lol
Do you think they foraged that money in the wild or something?
I wish that was possible ngl
I'm gonna hunt those wild moneeeey
What was weird is that I never actually saw her doing any actual work herself
@@bigbearkat2010 my thought exactly, I doubt she does any work and just lives off her husband’s money or something
When he said " you idiot, why would you believe me?" I started dying because idk. Idk know why. 🤣
I like the dichotomy of one wife being a humble person with a simple life and the other wife being a literal piece of garbage.
cry more, weirdo.
That’s the point….
Shannon was so damn disrespectful from the get go💀 that family has a lovely house and a sustainable lifestyle and all she saw was that they didn't have what she had
People like Shannon wouldn’t make it through any hard times, especially the ones that will be coming soon.
The rural family won’t even know the difference.
I wouldn't call sharing water (which not even people who HAVE to live "rural" do) sustainable.
@@HughAverageHomoMan I think that’s more choice and conservation. And it’s sustainable if you have water.
Sorry man. I’ve got four kids. You had better believe they share a tub one after the other. When they get older, we can go from there, but for right now, I’m going to do what I’ve got to do. Draining and refilling the tub for each kid is ridiculous, especially when they will immediately run outside and mess themselves up. Nope, nah, no thanks.
@@kathrinen3834 Just give them a shower then. What you're doing is gross.
Wooow, I remember watching this show, but honestly... I'm so sad that those kids were subjected to all this. Just listening to Shannon berate that family, I can't imagine how that woukd have impacted those girls. 😥
All I hope is that husband Shanon is divorced by now and finds a kind and grateful wife.
In another Wife Swap review video one of the comments found Shannon Michael’s social media accounts and he had his relationship status as divorced.
I guess they divorced not long after the airing of their Wife Swap episode.
Yeah, you can tell he'd be a totally different man with a good wife...but men that choose women who are fake and good looking in their youth deserve to suffer for being shallow lol
@barbieblues7639 Yeah she's probably just a good lay and that's it. I'll smash lol
Poor guy is so pussy whipped he deserves so much better
That means the guy last half his money though
That bathtub thing happens even nowadays... In the early 00s my family did that as we had to pay for water and we didn't have hot water so we had to heat our water on the hob. The youngest went first and the oldest went last. Poverty is still a thing in the 21st century.
"Spit on me, spit on santa claus" LOL WHAT hahaha
Nice review! I kept wondering how the "shack" family, who lived without electricity and presumably television, knew anything about Wife Swap and reality TV in general.
That is good question.
I knew them actually. I'm from the same town. They definitely know what electricity is. They just chose not to use it. I went to CNA school with one of the daughters, and honestly she was pretty normal. Her mom gave me a huge bag of sweet potatoes on graduation day. They were good af.
As a side note: King George, VA is quite rural but we still have electricity and internet. Most people who live there are government contractors at the local Navy base and not your typical "hick" type. I moved a few hours away but I still shop at the Opp Shop when I visit my parents!
I imagine they would have friends who have electricity/TV.
There's at least a few of these families where some friend found out about the show and applied for them (presumably with permission).
I feel so bad for every child on every tlc show
"Shovel guy from home alone".. "Mario being sentenced to life" 😅 this type of random humor is what keeps me coming back!! Lol
Wife-Swap was one of the few shows that me and my parents watched together and it always gave me respect for what my Mom is doing and has done for my life. If you think your upraising was hard, remember that it could be incredibly worse and if you think it was that bad, find help. Every life is precious, especially when you're an adult.
imagine someone is going through something and you tell them it’s not that bad and other people have it worse lol that’s just mean spirited!
"They both want her to spit on him but not for the same reasons" 🤣 Yup
She actually installed a chandelier in the shack 😅
THE inspiration for the 'I need to speak to your manager' haircut was obviously this episode. Also, sniffing ppl is so very primitive & conjures up so many disgusting scenarios 🤢
Sniffing food is normal but people? 😆
Pheromones people! It's very natural, especially when it's your mate. I agree weird for some however, when one is close to a person, a partner, there is the attraction which lies in that familiar scent. It can be comforting.
@@emilyheyokaevans I agree, but my idea of it is smiling when i feel my gf's smell on the pillow or in a shirt i lent her. Armpit smelling is NOT the way to go.
@@Origami84 why? Because you have different likes and dislikes? That makes it NOT the way to go? I mean as long as your partner does not mind, you can smell her/him/etc as you wish. Who are you to judge?
No it is not. It is just another way to use your senses, same as touching. Key is the mutual consent :D
I like that Steve's eccentric vernacular has you completely befuddled.
Soooo bad for the children in those homes to have been in the midst of parents fighting with strangers in their homes!!!
One of my best friends was on Wife Swap. The episode with Kenny and Bella. He's a long black haired tattoo artist that I was living and working with at the time. He and his wife were separated at the time of shooting, but he wanted that 50k paycheck so he played along. He said that every moment is fake and that he was told to do everything he did by the producers. He tried to get me to come be on the show for a day, but reality tv isn't my bag lol. Shout out Kenny Thompson!!!!
Around '08-'09 I used to drink an ungodly amount of Tanqueray and watch Wife Swap. Good times.
That sounds sad dude.
@@barbieblues7639 I actually wasn't too bad at that time, it got way worse.
I haven't had a drink in a year and three months1.
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This video clogged my emotional bowels. Thanks Chris. Love the video!
There’s an early episode with a family in Ohio that has a bluegrass band… one of the sons killed the oppressive mom and if I remember right some of the other members as well
Yes it's on discovery+ can't remember what season
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The Stockdales. Yikes.
He killed one of his brothers, because wrong place/wrong time.
Whaaaaaaat?
2 years late, but I'm stuck in bed with strep and binging my old "feel good" saved videos and I'd forgotten what gems you and your videos are ❤
The shovel guy from home alone. 🤣🤣🤣
The rich woman is literally "Snooki want smush smush"
LMAO when you said "I think both of them want her to spit on him" I was thinking the exact same thing like "I don't think he's bluffing" XD
one of my teachers in middle school was in the season 5 premiere and i remember her telling us about how the producers had them portray themselves in an overly dramatic light. she also told us that the whole experience sucked lol
I think the saddest part are the moments where they're so close to figuring it out, to actually approaching the core of some issues.
please do more wife swap that show is amazing, the episode where the dads got in a fist fight at the final meeting was particularly good.
I would love if he did that one!
Thank you Chris, I love laughing at the depravity of reality TV. I sometimes wonder how much crazier it will be 20 years from now.
You need to watch “Trading Spouses”. It was the same thing as “Wife Swap” but it was longer and aired on Fox. On that show they would sometimes trade husbands. The famous “God Warrior” lady is from that show.
"Spit on me, spit on Santa Claus."
How did he know my fetish?
Haha or her desire to get back at Santa for not wanting her milk and cookies lol
😂😂
When she said I don’t care what my husband and kids are doing and then it was the husband putting the kid to bed, that hurt my heart 😢
There was another show where rich families would exchange lives with poor lives and it was usually really nice because the rich family often helped the poor family at the end, by helping the kids out in some way. It was always really nice to see
Lol I love thrift shopping. Shannon Is missing out, but she's also awful.
Lady Shannon is the inspiration for the other mother in Coraline and you can't convince me otherwise.
This show is so cringy but taught me alot at a young age. We used to watch it as a family when I was young and even at that age I could see that both sides were extremists and neither way of life was better then the other. It's much of the reason I chose to have such a neutral stance on most things. You have to be open minded if you don't want to be crazy hahaha
True with most things but sometimes you have to pick a side because centrists don't get things done. And not picking a side sometimes is picking the side of the oppressor and not the oppressed.
Adding this to the reasons why I hate this show, it turned you into a centrist lmao
Absolutely disagree. You should recognize your interests and preferences while being aware of your means, and work within your means to pursue those interests and preferences.
Who cares if other people think you or your lifestyle is crazy? You're the one that has to live it - not them.
@@sambeck2510 Just don't complain when it takes 2-5 times as long to find a romantic partner, friends, reliable work, etc.
@@kyleellis1825 With employment it's pretty easy, just keep you business life and your private life separate. Friends who think like you are pretty easy to find in my experience; a lot of people think "crazy" stuff, it's getting them to share it that's the hard part. As for romance, can be a mix of both: find someone like you or keep those parts of you life separate.
It's not hard, it just requires a bit of self control and there's no reason for you to deny strong or extreme feelings on any given topic. Embrace them but control them and you'll be fine.
Gilbert Gottfried's wife swap with Alan Thicke was absolute gold though. "Yes my komandant" 😂
“What are you the queen of England?” Still laugh about that one
Bruh right she said “there poor what do they have to be thankful for” I got Gucci ad I’m dead 😂😂😂
I was obsessed with this show as a kid lol
same I would watch it every night 😂
@@wwefan2496ikr 😅😅
I can’t believe Shannon was that damn brutal with the comments lmao
So dedicated to RUclips that you recorded this straight after your shift at Trader Joes. You a real one
“Spit on me, Spit on Santa Clause”
I think he seriously wanted it
"Spit on Santa Claus" 😂😂😂
He finally renewed his license sticker. The joke is over
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@@ChrisJamesTV such a shame, gotta wait a whole 5 months to start procrastinating again 🥴
For real there's like no reason to stick around
I used to watch this show back then, but I got annoyed when it became strictly formula for each family to argue and not cooperate with the rule change. It's almost like nobody read the contract they agreed to.
Or it’s the network making them do it for views and attention. it’s a cheap way to get viewers. I wouldn’t doubt if they did most scenes a few times to “ get it just right”
I DIED @ "I didn't know he played the. . . Him" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Balance people BALANCE!! I'm an off-grid homeschooling homesteading mom who loves sparkly shit and dressing up. I shop at thrift stores, I shop at malls, wear makeup, and sometimes I don't, my girls like to wear makeup, and sometimes I don't. It's all about the balance.
Chris you should do the reality contest show Solitary, it's basically where they lock these people in pod rooms and make them do all these crazy physical and mental challenges without human contact. It has a robot voice host. It's wild, I only have the vaguest memories of it but wtf seriously.
Dude you picked the best episode of this show to review. Thanks for making another great video! "He's playing the... Him" 😂
Hell yeah, get that sponsorship money Chris!!! As someone that's been following you since you had around 10K subs, I'm really happy to see your count grow (and sponsors start to take notice!)
I love how this show encompasses life before the 2008 recession. At no point after 2008 did anyone act like this.
I love Chris James 😂 so funny . "That's a half point" bahahah and I have a penance for being gas lit. Checking all my boxes.
Every video is hilarious, but this one had me rolling. The way Steve ripped off his hat and flash light and his half comb over almost came with it 😂
“Emotional bowels” I’m holding you to it, Chris.
Either that little girl is ahead of her time or I’m tweaking. “We’re the core and you’re the apple” possible meaning: Shannon is materialistic.
I feel like Shannon and Steve low key slept with each other with the way their chemistry was after the one week mark 😂
This reminds me of the summer I lived in an old cabin for summerstock and basically lived off the grid lmao. The water was all collected rain water. Even the showers. Bugs and mice and snakes too. Was fun for two months but good god I was excited to sleep in a real house
Thank you SO much for covering Wife Swap. Another episode would be cool too. Great video as always 👍