The BEST episodes of Wife Swap (US) season 1
Every episode of Wife Swap (US) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wife Swap (US) season 1!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Ray/Aguirre
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/2004
A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.
Watch Now:Apple TV#8 - 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#9 - Reimers/Bittner
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2004
A strict, vegetarian, ex-Navy wife who disciplines her children swaps lives with a junk food-eating, living-large mother who allows her two headstrong teens free rein.
Watch Now:Apple TV#10 - 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.
#11 - Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2004
The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - 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#13 - 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#14 - Harris/Van Noy
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2004
This week in ""Harris/Van Noy,"" an Oklahoma mother of three who agrees with her husband's edict that an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen, swaps lives with an unorthodox, working mother from Texas who believes her stay-at-home husband should rule the kitchen.
Watch Now:Apple TV#15 - Ghani/Stallone
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2004
A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home Mom in New Jersey who had a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.
Watch Now:Apple TV#16 - Donahoe/Baker
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2004
with the day too thing...it was actyaully 4.45 not 5.45 (yes i know im getting picky
Watch Now:Apple TV#17 - Parsons/Bramhall
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2005
An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.
#18 - Pitts/Policchio
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2004
On the premiere episode, a disorganized, animal loving mother with 25 pets trades places and families with an obsessively tidy mother who loves to-do lists and detests animals.
Watch Now:Apple TV