# Wife Swap 9/4, 9pm EST

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 5, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498 "2006-09-05T13:20:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498/1 "2006-09-05T13:20:36Z")

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Would someone who could stand more than 10 minutes of this glurge please summarize what happened during this episode? It’s the one with the African American mom who had two jobs and didn’t trust her kids vs. the… apparently utterly insane medieval family\*. I made it to the first commerical break and had to change it (oddly enough to The 13th Warrior. 😃 )

-BK

[sub]\*Now, before anyone gets het up, let me say: I’m all about the SCA. I even give extra credit to my students who join the school chapter. I’m also (in certain cases) supportive of the decision to homeschool. However, even the geekiest SCA geek takes their garb off and deals with the real world every now and then, which apparently this family… really, really didn’t.[/sub]

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498/2 "2006-09-06T02:32:18Z")

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I only paid attention to one part of it - the 13 year old from the medieval family didn’t know how to use a phone. Literally.

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**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498/3 "2006-09-06T11:47:22Z")

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[QUOTE=interface2x]  
Literally.  
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Well, that’s because his friends are the _dogs_, and dogs can’t use phones. They keep mashing the wrong buttons with their little paws.

All these views and no one will cop to having watched the whole thing? 😕 :dubious:

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498/4 "2006-09-06T15:54:44Z")

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[QUOTE=bobkitty]

All these views and no one will cop to having watched the whole thing? 😕 :dubious:  
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Well, **this** viewer popped in to see if it was an episode I remembered, but it wasn’t. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Skipper\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Skipper\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skipper_Too)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wife-swap-9-4-9pm-est/371498/5 "2006-09-06T16:49:26Z")

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I watched the last half, and as soon as I saw a family so wrapped up in SCA I thought to myself these kids must be homeschooled, I was right! I thought the black father had a point when all he saw being homeschooled was making more SCA crap, that does not make well round kids ready to be productive members of society. I know quite a few kids who are home schooled and much better adjusted to the “outside” real world.