The BEST episodes of Wife Swap (US) season 2
Every episode of Wife Swap (US) season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wife Swap (US) season 2!
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 - Heiss/Kestrel
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2005
A well-off Rhode Island mom who does all of the cooking and cleaning for her boisterous Italian-American family swaps places with an energy-conserving, dreadlocked, dumptser-diving, egalitarian mom.
Watch Now:Apple TV#3 - 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#4 - Johnson/Blackburn
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/2005
A military mom who helps run a fitness business trades places with an undisciplined mother whose 370-lb. husband hasn't unpacked their home-gym equipment.
Watch Now:Apple TV#5 - Collins/Matlock
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/2005
A baseball-obsessed Texas mother of two sons trades places with a Michigan hairdresser who has raised her daughter and son to express themselves. The Texas mom deals with being a financial provider and having no help with chores, while the Michigan woman copes with a family that thrives on baseball.
Watch Now:Apple TV#6 - Mayfield/Wasdin
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/2005
An untidy Texas mother switches places with a strict, very neat Alabama mom. While one tries to cope with five kids, the other deals with an 18-year-old, eight dogs and a goat. For the second week, the Texans learn about housework and a no-rules policy is introduced in Alabama.
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - Thompson/Askam
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/2006
A Wiccan priestess whose husband worships her swaps places with a traditional, stay-at-home wife and mother of two who waits on her husband hand and foot.
#8 - Wiggins/Felix
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005
A black North Carolina mom switches places with a white upstate New York mother whose unemployed husband uses racist language. The North Carolinian teaches the two New York children discipline, while the New Yorker introduces the two strictly raised young men to a freer lifestyle.
Watch Now:Apple TV#9 - Allison/Hagerty
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/2005
A Mississippi mother of three who teaches etiquette trades places with a freethinking Massachusetts mom with three rowdy boys. One tries to teach manners to a trio of roughnecks, while the other allows the kids to have burping contests.
Watch Now:Apple TV#10 - Yonts/Jan-Turan
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2005
A Kentucky mother of two who's devoted to children's beauty pageants trades places with a Pennsylvania artist who shuns makeup.
Watch Now:Apple TV#11 - Hodge/Kolpin
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2005
A Kentucky hunting mom steps into the peaceful life of an animal activist in Arizona who only eats raw foods and is raising a vegetarian cat.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - Ridgely/Corrao
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/1/2006
A rodeo champ who believes in chores and discipline for kids switches places with a free-spirited hairstylist from the suburbs.
#13 - Bimonte/Hubbard
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/2006
A mom who believes in raising children without rules trades places with a mom who relies on structure, discipline and martial arts.
#14 - Stamper/Haggerty
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/2006
A mom with a medieval mind-set and a 21st-century mom who holds two jobs switch families, creating culture shock for both women.
#15 - Stonerock/Finley
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/2005
An atheist trades places with a pastor's wife, who leaves her Bible-study group to spend two weeks with a devout disbeliever.
#16 - Kraut/Hardin
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/2006
A shopaholic mom who spoils her kids and hosts in-home lingerie parties for a living trades places with a devoutly religious mom who homeschools her children and expects them to carry their weight in the family.
#17 - West/Grimes
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/10/2006
A strict, conservative mom switches families with a laid-back mom who wants her kids to be her friends.
#18 - Fuentes/Lawson
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/2005
A career police detective in California trades places with a Maryland homemaker who believes in serving her husband's every need.
#19 - King/Reeves
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/30/2006
A penny-pincher trades places with a spendthrift who spoils her son and wants him to become a child star.
#20 - Schachtner/Martincak
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/2006
A woman who runs a Miami modeling agency and spoils her two daughters changes places with a bear-hunting, ice-fishing mother of five from Wisconsin.
#21 - Ast/Green
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/2005
A do-good mom who believes in teaching her children civic responsibility changes places with a free-spending, high-maintenance mom who pampers her children and her dog.
#22 - Roy/Maness
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/2006
A clean-freak mom who rules her family with an iron fist trades places with a construction-worker mom who lives in a messy home with six pets and no rules.
#23 - Kinison/Czerniawski
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/2006
A freak-show performer trades families with a former Miss Teen New Jersey who owns a tanning salon.