The BEST episodes of Wife Swap (US)
Every episode of Wife Swap (US) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wife Swap (US)!
Have you ever wondered whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Two wives discover that it often isn't when they hand over the keys to their homes and literally switch families ” but not bedrooms ” for two weeks on the new reality show Wife Swap, already a critically-acclaimed smash hit in its third season in the U.K. Wife Swap is not a competition or a contest. It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn't a cash prize, but a couple's opportunity to re-discover why they love each other and decided to marry in the first place. In the first week of the swap, the wives move in with their new family and adopt their very different lifestyle. They agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that sets out the rules of their new household how they parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and their social lif
#1 - Nazario/Lassell
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2005
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#2 - Patrick/Leierwood
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2005
A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.
#4 - Haigwood/Hess-Webb
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2007
#5 - Boone Luffey/Gillespie
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2005
One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.
#6 - Pyke/Smith
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2005
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.
#7 - Flummerfelt/Bray
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2005
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.
#8 - Cedarquist/Oeth
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/2005
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.
#9 - Downs/Bailey
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/2005
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - Elliott/Burkhalter
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2004
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.
#14 - Flannagin/Logan
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/25/2010
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
#16 - Smith/Weiner
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2004
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - Rush/Rios-Bolman
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/6/2007
#20 - Fontaine/Herman
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/2005
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.
#22 - Spolansky/Bradley
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2004
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#24 - Smoak/Beaver
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2004
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#25 - Avery-Lamb/Martin
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/11/2013
A strict disciplinarian trades lives with a woman who believes children should be given freedom.