Wife Swap - Husband Edition

I'm not bashing reality TV anymore. I like it.

Last night I watched Wife Swap - Husband Edition and actually enjoyed it. I always watch LOST on Wednesday nights and then there is nothing else to watch and so I flip from channel to channel hoping to catch something that won't bore me to tears.

So Lost is over and I am perusing all 4 of my channels- 4, 5, 8, and 11 and there is nothing on but that stupid show with Nick and Jessica Simpson- talk about kitsch. There was so much cheese on the program that I had to buy a gallon of lactaid- and I am not even lactose intolerant!

So, after finding nothing on my 4 channels, and I mean nothing from 8-9, I finally got to watch something that I quite enjoyed- Wife Swap.

The great thing about this show is that in my world people get up and go to work and they come home and they cook dinner and they watch tv, workout, go out to dinner, have friends over for poker. Apparently ABC has scoured America for the most opposite of couples- which makes sense for a good show, otherwise it would be really boring. However, the kicker here is that not only are they totally opposite of each other, they don't fit the idea lifestyles that American's normally aspire to achieve.

Last night one family lived in a commune like area where apparently no one had real jobs anymore and all they did was recycle and pray to Mother Earth. The other family apparently prayed to Harley Davidson. The entire time I kept asking myself, do people really live like that? Are you kidding me? Who has time to composte? Who in the world would leave their yard in such a mess?

Reality shows give us a glimpse into other people's lives. That is what makes them so fascinating. The internet has already made the world a smaller place, and reality tv is helping to make it that much smaller.