Who else spent the entire episode wanting to kick the British asshole in the nuts? Man, I hate ignorant rednecks too, but I’d rather live in the worst backwater hickville than anywhere near him. At least hicks are nice!
Now that I’ve admitted that I actually watch this show and he was probably exaggerating his behavior for the camera, I need to slink off in shame to the Lost thread…
I’m just watching it now, and I wanted to kick him in the nuts by the time he said 2 sentences. What a tool.
Damn, but that man was probably kicked out of Blighty for being too much of an overeducated, pompous ass. And this is from someone who recognizes that raising prize-winning overeducated pompous asses is a British cottage industry.
This is the first time watching this show that I’ve felt that one of the parties was being abused to the point where they shouldn’t have to put up with it. I wouldn’t have blamed that woman one bit if she just walked out.
I am not by nature a violent person; but that Steven guy is making me stabby.
He was bad enough that I was planning to come out of the “I love Wife Swap” closet and post about it. (99.99%ile? They don’t break down GRE scores that finely.)
What I found noticeable was when the Missouri woman said to the California woman, “what do you think about your husband’s behavior,” and she didn’t answer, just started talking about the overweight Missouri son.
The Missouri husband was also an asshole (“Whaddya mean you’re not a proud American? Answer my question!” um, she just did), but he showed an ability to let in alien concepts by the end – and he wasn’t as completely rude as the other.
BTW, this makes it two weeks in a row they had a husband who was utterly insufferable – the white Rasta last week also made me want to pull his dreadlocked hair. Not letting your kids talk to the swapped mom? Not a very loving attitude, ya, mon!
And great way to impose your prejudices on your children. There is, in that pommy bastard’s world, no need to even *pretend *to be respectful to persons less educated or heavier than you, or to people from states you believe you don’t want to visit.
Today on MSNBC: Hatred for ‘Wife Swap’ husband still grows
You can see his apology on his wife’s blog here.
Thanks for the link. It explains one thing that had been unclear to me – why the wife, who didn’t seem that bad, didn’t rip her husband a new one for his behavior.
God, poor woman – can you imagine watching that show at the same time as the rest of the country?
sigh I can’t believe I’m going to admit to watching this stuff. Though like Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Day’s, or to a lesser degree Discovery’s two wilderness survival shows, I love the concept of dropping someone into a situation where they are so far removed from what they consider “normal”. How they cope with their environment and how, at times, that environment copes with them. Someone on HuffPo said it well in that they are excellent character studies; though they are filtered through the eyes of the editors. Okay, now that I’ve excused my guilty pleasure…
As much of an ass this guy was and as much as he deserves some sense knocked into him, I think the real outrage of this show should have been at the episode with the “home school” parents that had also aired recently. Did anyone see that episode? Their “lessons” consisted of talking on a fake phone, the “time machine”, and standing on what I think was suppose to be a global map, going to an amusement park(“make your own lessons kids!”), and “science class” meant feeding the family’s pet cockroach. The kids were suppose to be, iirc, in fourth or fifth grade, but had, at best, a first grade reading and writing level. Hell, their mom admitted that she didn’t really believe in gravity! It was criminal.
My question is, and it might be better suited to another forum, but I’m trying to keep my admitted “WifeSwap” watching confined as much as possible; could it really be considered criminal? Could the home schooling of a child be so abhorrent that CPS could be called to intervene? I can already predict the can of worms that that could open up, but this was just a travesty.
The ‘other mom’ on this episode was an actual teacher herself; I have no idea how she was able to show the restraint she did.