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Wife Swap

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Season 0

• _{Monday, March 7th, 2005}

  1: Silver/Caden (Boss Swap)

  A supportive, laid-back CEO of an all women promotional firm swaps roles with a chauvinistic, tough-talking boss from an all-male car dealership who refuses to hire women for sales positions.

• _{Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005}

  2: Hawn/Orlando (Vacation Swap)

  A millionaire family accustomed to living a life of luxury leaves the butler behind when they go on vacation with a blue-collar family whose favorite vacation spot is a low-budget RV trailer park next to a dairy farm.

• _{Monday, February 20th, 2006}

  3: Wife Swap Saved My Marriage

  Updates on “Wife Swap” families and how their lives changed as a result of appearing on the show. Included: the Smoaks; the Bakers; and the Pitts.

Season 1

• _{Sunday, September 26th, 2004}

  1: Pitts/Policchio

  On the premiere episode, a disorganized, animal loving mother with 25 pets trades places and families with an obsessively tidy mother who loves to-do lists and detests animals.

• _{Wednesday, September 29th, 2004}

  2: Spolansky/Bradley

  A 36-year-old multimillionaire heiress and mother of three from New York swaps lives with a 45-year-old wife and mother of two from rural New Jersey. Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review for this episode is complete! To read it, click the RECAP button below.

• _{Wednesday, October 6th, 2004}

  3: Smoak/Beaver

  A gun-toting conservative who hasn't shared a bed with her husband in 10 years trades places with an anti-NRA animal rights activist with no job and less control over her daughter. By the end of week two, one of their husbands is in tears, while the other is tearing his hair out over his liberal new houseguest. Due to personal reasons, Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review could not be written for this episode. I apologize for any inconvenience.

• _{Wednesday, October 20th, 2004}

  4: Donahoe/Baker

  with the day too thing...it was actyaully 4.45 not 5.45 (yes i know im getting picky

• _{Wednesday, October 27th, 2004}

  5: Ghani/Stallone

  A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home Mom in New Jersey who had a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.

• _{Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004}

  6: Smith/Weiner

  A fitness-minded type-A mom ditches California for the life of an emotional, overweight housewife in Florida. The switch shakes things up for both women, but even more so for the one who can't get used to a home devoid of fast food and friendly attitudes.

• _{Wednesday, November 10th, 2004}

  7: Reimers/Bittner

  A strict, vegetarian, ex-Navy wife who disciplines her children swaps lives with a junk food-eating, living-large mother who allows her two headstrong teens free rein.

• _{Wednesday, November 17th, 2004}

  8: Harris/Van Noy

  This week in ""Harris/Van Noy,"" an Oklahoma mother of three who agrees with her husband's edict that an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen, swaps lives with an unorthodox, working mother from Texas who believes her stay-at-home husband should rule the kitchen.

• _{Wednesday, December 1st, 2004}

  9: Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

  The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.

• _{Wednesday, December 8th, 2004}

  10: Ray/Aguirre

  A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.

• _{Wednesday, December 15th, 2004}

  11: Elliott/Burkhalter

  A Mississippi stay-home mother who gets gets walked all over by her by her children swaps places with a strict mother from Maryland who lays down the law at home and at her job.

• _{Wednesday, January 12th, 2005}

  12: Parsons/Bramhall

  An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.

• _{Wednesday, January 19th, 2005}

  13: Fontaine/Herman

  A coupon-cutting, bargain-hunter, stay-at-home, mother from Ohio trades lives with a high-powered executive from Maryland who despises coupons, clutter and children ruling the house.

• _{Wednesday, February 9th, 2005}

  14: Boone Luffey/Gillespie

  One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.

• _{Wednesday, February 16th, 2005}

  15: Pyke/Smith

  Stay-at-home mom Michelle Pyke swaps life at the family owned funeral home for life on the road in the Smith family's converted Greyhound bus.

• _{Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005}

  16: Flummerfelt/Bray

  An assertive, domineering wife of an inter-racial couple swaps lives with a subservient, stay-at-home wife from a very different minded inter-racial couple.

• _{Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005}

  17: Patrick/Leierwood

  A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.

• _{Monday, March 7th, 2005}

  20: Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

  A supportive, laid back CEO of an all women promotional firm swaps roles with a chauvinistic, tough-talking boss from an all-male car dealership who refuses to hire women for sales positions.

• _{Wednesday, March 16th, 2005}

  18: Cedarquist/Oeth

  A home-schooling, stay-at-home mom who lives in a tree house swaps places with a Type A, Harvard educated mom who works full-time for a finance company.

• _{Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005}

  21: Vacation Swap: Hawn/Orlando

  A millionaire family accustomed to living a life of luxury leaves the butler behind when they go on vacation with a blue-collar family whose favorite vacation spot is a low-budget RV trailer park next to a dairy farm.

• _{Wednesday, June 1st, 2005}

  19: Hodge/Kolpin

  An animal rights activist mother who eats only raw food and has a vegan cat that doesn't eat meat swaps lives with a back-country mom whose motto is "Kill it and grill it".

Season 2

• _{Monday, September 12th, 2005}

  1: Allison/Hagerty

  A Mississippi mother of three who teaches etiquette trades places with a freethinking Massachusetts mom with three rowdy boys. One tries to teach manners to a trio of roughnecks, while the other allows the kids to have burping contests.

• _{Tuesday, September 20th, 2005}

  2: Wiggins/Felix

  A black North Carolina mom switches places with a white upstate New York mother whose unemployed husband uses racist language. The North Carolinian teaches the two New York children discipline, while the New Yorker introduces the two strictly raised young men to a freer lifestyle.

• _{Monday, September 26th, 2005}

  3: Collins/Matlock

  A baseball-obsessed Texas mother of two sons trades places with a Michigan hairdresser who has raised her daughter and son to express themselves. The Texas mom deals with being a financial provider and having no help with chores, while the Michigan woman copes with a family that thrives on baseball.

• _{Monday, October 3rd, 2005}

  4: Mayfield/Wasdin

  An untidy Texas mother switches places with a strict, very neat Alabama mom. While one tries to cope with five kids, the other deals with an 18-year-old, eight dogs and a goat. For the second week, the Texans learn about housework and a no-rules policy is introduced in Alabama.

• _{Monday, October 17th, 2005}

  6: Downs/Bailey

  A career-obsessed South Carolina mother of two switches with a Texas mom who's devoted to her seven home-schooled children. Roz Bailey sends the Texas kids to a classroom and allows the sheltered daughters to date. Meanwhile, Paula Downs goes to work in S.C. and teaches the Bailey children at home.

• _{Thursday, October 20th, 2005}

  5: Yonts/Jan-Turan

  A Kentucky mother of two who's devoted to children's beauty pageants trades places with a Pennsylvania artist who shuns makeup.

• _{Monday, October 24th, 2005}

  7: Nazario/Lassell

  A Manhattan mom switches with a Kentucky mother of five. While the lenient New Yorker tries to adjust to rural ranch life, the strict Kentuckian is exposed to big-city party life. The Kentucky mom insists on a modest dress code for the two Big Apple kids, and the Manhattan mother throws a party for the five ranch children.

• _{Monday, November 7th, 2005}

  8: Heiss/Kestrel

  A well-off Rhode Island mom who does all of the cooking and cleaning for her boisterous Italian-American family swaps places with an energy-conserving, dreadlocked, dumptser-diving, egalitarian mom.

• _{Monday, November 14th, 2005}

  9: Hodge/Kolpin

  A Kentucky hunting mom steps into the peaceful life of an animal activist in Arizona who only eats raw foods and is raising a vegetarian cat.

• _{Monday, November 21st, 2005}

  10: Johnson/Blackburn

  A military mom who helps run a fitness business trades places with an undisciplined mother whose 370-lb. husband hasn't unpacked their home-gym equipment.

• _{Monday, November 28th, 2005}

  11: Stonerock/Finley

  An atheist trades places with a pastor's wife, who leaves her Bible-study group to spend two weeks with a devout disbeliever.

• _{Monday, December 12th, 2005}

  12: Fuentes/Lawson

  A career police detective in California trades places with a Maryland homemaker who believes in serving her husband's every need.

• _{Monday, December 19th, 2005}

  13: Ast/Green

  A do-good mom who believes in teaching her children civic responsibility changes places with a free-spending, high-maintenance mom who pampers her children and her dog.

• _{Monday, January 9th, 2006}

  14: Roy/Maness

  A clean-freak mom who rules her family with an iron fist trades places with a construction-worker mom who lives in a messy home with six pets and no rules.

• _{Monday, January 16th, 2006}

  15: Bimonte/Hubbard

  A mom who believes in raising children without rules trades places with a mom who relies on structure, discipline and martial arts.

• _{Monday, January 30th, 2006}

  16: King/Reeves

  A penny-pincher trades places with a spendthrift who spoils her son and wants him to become a child star.

• _{Monday, February 6th, 2006}

  17: Kraut/Hardin

  A shopaholic mom who spoils her kids and hosts in-home lingerie parties for a living trades places with a devoutly religious mom who homeschools her children and expects them to carry their weight in the family.

• _{Monday, February 27th, 2006}

  18: Schachtner/Martincak

  A woman who runs a Miami modeling agency and spoils her two daughters changes places with a bear-hunting, ice-fishing mother of five from Wisconsin.

• _{Monday, March 6th, 2006}

  19: Thompson/Askam

  A Wiccan priestess whose husband worships her swaps places with a traditional, stay-at-home wife and mother of two who waits on her husband hand and foot.

• _{Monday, March 13th, 2006}

  20: Stamper/Haggerty

  A mom with a medieval mind-set and a 21st-century mom who holds two jobs switch families, creating culture shock for both women.

• _{Monday, March 27th, 2006}

  21: Kinison/Czerniawski

  A freak-show performer trades families with a former Miss Teen New Jersey who owns a tanning salon.

• _{Monday, April 10th, 2006}

  22: West/Grimes

  A strict, conservative mom switches families with a laid-back mom who wants her kids to be her friends.

• _{Monday, May 1st, 2006}

  23: Ridgely/Corrao

  A rodeo champ who believes in chores and discipline for kids switches places with a free-spirited hairstylist from the suburbs.

Season 3

• _{Monday, September 18th, 2006}

  1: Jeffrey/Greiner

• _{Monday, September 18th, 2006}

  2: Baur/Fine

• _{Monday, September 25th, 2006}

  3: Zemanek/Brandon

• _{Monday, September 25th, 2006}

  4: Boyd/Milory

• _{Monday, October 2nd, 2006}

  5: Slater/Williams

• _{Monday, October 9th, 2006}

  6: Alcorn/Booker

• _{Monday, October 16th, 2006}

  7: Lovazzano/Clover

• _{Monday, November 13th, 2006}

  8: Mink/Oaks

• _{Monday, November 27th, 2006}

  9: Rowland/Rivera

• _{Monday, December 4th, 2006}

  10: Talbott/Broider

• _{Monday, January 8th, 2007}

  11: Lawrence/Caddel

• _{Monday, January 15th, 2007}

  12: Allemon/Johnson

• _{Monday, January 22nd, 2007}

  13: Koopman/Early

• _{Monday, February 5th, 2007}

  14: Starling/Sweany-Ernst

• _{Monday, February 12th, 2007}

  15: Meeks/Hoover

• _{Monday, February 19th, 2007}

  16: Haigwood/Hess-Webb

• _{Monday, February 26th, 2007}

  17: Lowe/Hamilton

• _{Friday, April 27th, 2007}

  18: Browne/Robinson

• _{Monday, May 28th, 2007}

  19: Silver/Pitney

• _{Monday, August 6th, 2007}

  20: Rush/Rios-Bolman

Season 4

• _{Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008}

  1: Boss/Gustaferro

• _{Wednesday, January 9th, 2008}

  2: Flynn/Orris

• _{Wednesday, January 16th, 2008}

  3: Harrison-Velasco/Marshall

• _{Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008}

  4: Galvan/Martin-Portala

• _{Wednesday, January 30th, 2008}

  5: McDonald/Robarge

• _{Wednesday, February 6th, 2008}

  6: LaBrie/Zaring

• _{Wednesday, February 13th, 2008}

  7: Beckman-Heskett/Childs

• _{Wednesday, February 20th, 2008}

  8: Blankenship/Phillips

• _{Wednesday, February 27th, 2008}

  9: Myers/Sutton

• _{Wednesday, March 5th, 2008}

  10: McGoldrick/Noel

  A traditional wife, who works in the family business, trades places with a punk-rock wife who works as a shock jock on the radio.

• _{Wednesday, March 12th, 2008}

  11: Graf/Medici

  A mother who devotes her life to fulfilling her children's dreams trades places with a demanding innkeeper who expects her children to work hard.

• _{Wednesday, March 19th, 2008}

  12: Ketchum/Sheron

• _{Wednesday, March 26th, 2008}

  13: Gillette/Turner

• _{Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008}

  14: Figaratto/Martinez

• _{Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008}

  15: Stockdale/Tonkovic

• _{Wednesday, April 30th, 2008}

  16: Sundstrom/Tower

  A Massachusetts woman who keeps a picture-perfect home and places a high value on appearances trades families with an Arizona mother whose cluttered home and parenting style revolve around the family's love for drag racing.

• _{Wednesday, May 7th, 2008}

  17: Tassie/Tyson

• _{Wednesday, May 14th, 2008}

  18: Coste/Ives

• _{Wednesday, May 28th, 2008}

  19: Espinosa-Marquez/Pay

• _{Wednesday, June 25th, 2008}

  20: Carmichael/Hanna

Season 5

• _{Friday, October 3rd, 2008}

  1: Heene/Martel

  The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi and storm scientist Richard take their three kids, Bradford, Ryo and Falcon, out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. Meanwhile on a quiet street in Connecticut, the Martel family -- wife Karen, husband Jay and their two kids, Max and Dean -- live a life of calm and safety.

• _{Friday, October 10th, 2008}

  2: McCaslin/Deekens

  A female weight-lifter who can bench press over 340 lbs. switches families with a mom who gives tea parties and stresses etiquette.

• _{Friday, October 17th, 2008}

  3: Kinsman/Thompson

• _{Friday, October 24th, 2008}

  4: Melton/Dufrene

• _{Friday, October 31st, 2008}

  5: Martin/Vallone

• _{Friday, November 7th, 2008}

  6: Brown/Neighbors

• _{Friday, November 21st, 2008}

  7: Berwick/Roachford

• _{Friday, December 12th, 2008}

  8: Cooper/Kukta

• _{Friday, January 9th, 2009}

  9: Dusseau/Smith-Snider

• _{Friday, January 16th, 2009}

  10: McIntyre/Keyser

• _{Friday, January 30th, 2009}

  11: Long/Stephens-Fowler

  The Long family are avid patriots who enjoy the "American way," which includes fast food, 4X4s and paintball, and the man in the family believes the wife is there to do "skirt work" such as cooking and cleaning. The wife will be switching places with the Stephens-Fowler family of California, who believe in higher education, taking care of the environment and a healthy style of living.

• _{Friday, February 6th, 2009}

  12: Jones/Martinson

• _{Friday, February 13th, 2009}

  13: Bonett/Linkins

• _{Friday, February 27th, 2009}

  14: Petersen/Vaughn

• _{Friday, March 6th, 2009}

  15: Chi/Edwards

• _{Friday, March 13th, 2009}

  16: Heene/Silver

  The families that have been chosen for the 100th episode swap are the storm-chasing, science-obsessed Heene family from Colorado and the psychic, performing arts-loving Silvers from Florida. When the Heene family aren't chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm. In this ultimate swap, the Heenes swap lives with a psychic mom who speaks to the dead and can control the weather, her husband and her children -- who believe they are destined to be stars. This show will feature aliens, punk rockers, past-life regression and, for the first time ever, the children from the two families will face off in a kids' table meeting. "Heene/Silver," the 100th episode of Wife Swap, destined to become a classic!

• _{Friday, March 20th, 2009}

  17: Henstein/Toulou

  A hard-working real estate couple who never take a day off swap with a fun-loving family of jokesters.

• _{Friday, March 27th, 2009}

  18: Brown/Holland

  A family of four who love to demolish junk cars and eat fried foods swap with a family who run on a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables and a military-driven schedule.

• _{Friday, April 3rd, 2009}

  19: Mallick/Stewart

  A biker family obsessed with leather, wheels and all things motorcycles swap lives with a family passionate about their wholesome Irish heritage and keeping to their strict, structured schedule.

• _{Friday, April 17th, 2009}

  20: Burroughs/Padovan-Hickman

  A family who choose to live off the grid, without modern conveniences like electricity or a refrigerator, swap lives with a wealthy, materialistic family obsessed with status.

• _{Friday, April 24th, 2009}

  21: Brazenwood/Taylor

  A meat-loving cowboy family with traditional values swap lives with a free-spirited vegan family who consult the stars.

• _{Friday, May 1st, 2009}

  22: Schults/Smith

  Young parents who celebrate Halloween year-round swap lives with older parents who believe in strict, traditional values.

Season 6

• _{Friday, April 2nd, 2010}

  1: Cameron/Drago

  In the sixth-season premiere, a wife with three children and 14 plastic dolls called "reborn babies" swaps with a strict family that employ their three boys at the family coffee shop and hot-dog stand.

• _{Friday, April 23rd, 2010}

  2: Fulco/Samel-Garloff

  A family of pop-star wannabes swaps with a family of social activists.

• _{Friday, April 30th, 2010}

  3: Schroeder/Wardle

  A family of Goths who dance ballet and commune with the dead swap with an ultracompetitive hockey-playing family.

• _{Friday, April 30th, 2010}

  4: Adams/Hess

  An animal-obsessed family with 29 pets and a disregard for appearances swap moms with a fashion-obsessed family that don't tolerate animals.

• _{Friday, May 7th, 2010}

  5: Beauvais/Clayton

  A successful entrepreneurial family who believe in positive thinking swap with an unemployed family struggling to make ends meet in a trailer park.

• _{Friday, May 14th, 2010}

  6: Haller-Wren/Spencer

  A male-chauvinist family of football fanatics swap with a hippie family that place high values on creativity and individuality.

• _{Friday, May 21st, 2010}

  7: Herrington/Trevino

  A strict, clean-cut clan who put on a wholesome traveling variety show and live in an RV swap with a family of lowrider and car-show fans who don't believe in rules for their five daughters.

• _{Friday, June 25th, 2010}

  8: Flannagin/Logan

  A family who live like pioneers, including traditional roles for man and woman, swap with a family headed by a breadwinner mother and obsessed by modern technology

• _{Friday, July 9th, 2010}

  9: Cathrea/Stewart

  A survivalist family preparing for the end of the world in 2012 swap with a family that dote on their kids, particularly their 12-year-old golf-prodigy daughter.

• _{Friday, July 16th, 2010}

  10: McLeish/O'Dell

  A family that prize etiquette and elegance for their daughters swap with a family with down-home mud-racing tomboys.

• _{Friday, July 23rd, 2010}

  11: Funderburgh/Warren

  A family that operates an organic goat farm swaps with an upscale family with a workaholic, shopaholic mom and a stay-at-home dad.

• _{Friday, July 30th, 2010}

  12: Parker/Robinson

  A family who focus their energy on one of its five children, a 9-year-old hip-hop artist, swap with a family in which the parents are obsessed with tracking down Florida's "Swamp Ape" to the point of ignoring their teenage son.

• _{Friday, August 6th, 2010}

  13: Harris/Weasel

  A driven, conservative family of gymnasts swap with a freewheeling family that enjoy kickball and karaoke.

• _{Friday, August 13th, 2010}

  14: Cyboran/Owen-Ladino

  In the sixth-season finale, a New York City couple who teach relationship workshops and dress as superheroes swap with a strict couple who moved to the country to shield their children from the influence of cities and believe in chores and discipline.

Season 7

• _{Thursday, March 21st, 2013}

  1: Kuncaitis/Zdanzinsky

  A Las Vegas mother who loves to party switches places with a religious mother of six who lives on a rustic farm.

• _{Thursday, March 28th, 2013}

  2: Envy/Loudon

  A conservative Tea Party activist trades places with a woman in a polyamorous relationship.

• _{Thursday, April 4th, 2013}

  3: Cochran/Curry

  A self-proclaimed redneck trades places with a pageant mom.

• _{Thursday, April 11th, 2013}

  4: Avery-Lamb/Martin

  A strict disciplinarian trades lives with a woman who believes children should be given freedom.

• _{Thursday, April 18th, 2013}

  5: DiBella/LaRosh

  A fitness fanatic and workaholic from San Diego swaps lives with an Italian mother from New Jersey who likes to spoil her family.

• _{Thursday, April 25th, 2013}

  6: Firehart/Terry

  A pagan woman trades places with the mother of a world champion tap dancer.

• _{Thursday, May 2nd, 2013}

  7: Markiewicz/Zusin

  A laid-back mother switches places with a strict disciplinarian.