# Boo Hoo: TWoP will not be recapping Trading Spaces Season 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416 "2003-07-23T17:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/1 "2003-07-23T17:13:20Z")
[Link](http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=87&story=5318&page=16&sort=&limit=), go down to the final paragraph. That’s too bad. I really liked the insight into the show that TwoP had. They pointed out things I missed and really went into great depth. ☹ ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/2 "2003-07-23T17:56:56Z")
With this, TWOP will be down to one show I like to watch. In their mad rush to cut costs, they have either quit recapping shows (Big Bro) or overlooked some seriously snark worthy shows (pretty much every faux relationship based summer reality series). As long as they keep up with The Amazing Race I will still pop in once in a while. Otherwise, they don’t hold my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/3 "2003-07-23T17:56:56Z")
With this, TWOP will be down to one show I like to watch. In their mad rush to cut costs, they have either quit recapping shows (Big Bro) or overlooked some seriously snark worthy shows (pretty much every faux relationship based summer reality series). As long as they keep up with The Amazing Race I will still pop in once in a while. Otherwise, they don’t hold my attention. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/4 "2003-07-23T18:05:21Z")
I’m shocked that this place actually paid people to write those things. When I first went there, I thought “cool, fans get together and recap the shows in case you miss it, and then you can blab about it on their message board”. I figured the days of paying people to do stuff like that on the internet were long gone. Honestly, aren’t there enough dedicated fans to bound together and keep something like this going? Or maybe it’s just karma for their over-nicknaming of characters. Just TRY and read their 24 recaps. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/5 "2003-07-23T18:52:53Z")
Oh, I gave up on the 24 recaps. They were just too snarky for words. I guess they have different recappers for different shows. Deborah, who does TS, always did a good job and I always LOL at least once or twice while reading her recaps. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/6 "2003-07-23T19:04:09Z")
The reasoning seems reasonable. (Hee!) They presumably pay per article, i.e. episode. Trading Spaces had a season of 60 shows or so. So that same money could have covered six of the short summer reality shows! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boo-hoo-twop-will-not-be-recapping-trading-spaces-season-4/190416/7 "2003-07-23T20:17:01Z")
Maybe someone can invite Deborah over here, but she seems sick of TS…