History Series / ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition

** Ty and the crew are in the bus watching the family's story. One or many or ''all'' the children or members of the family have some chronic disease or something else, the family may or may not be working for the good of the community but all of them lives in a crappy house or the house has been destroyed. Move often than not, there ''will'' be crying involved.

* SpinOff: Though technically far closer to the original ''Extreme Makeover'', ''Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition'' was spun off due to the success of ''Home Edition''. Basically, though, that one is ''Extreme Makeover'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/TheBiggestLoser''. The third season re-named it to just ''Extreme Weight Loss''

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Season one, when the show was still finding its niche, is a bit different from the latter seasons. The first total demolition didn't happen until episode fourteen, and early episodes emphasized the struggle of building a house in a week's time, while later seasons don't place as much emphasis on that being problem, seeing as how they'd built up enough good karma to have hundreds of volunteers to help them every time. "Bus Driver, move that bus!" wasn't established as a catch phrase yet during the first season. Also, the first build outside California didn't take place until during the second.
* EnforcedPlug: For Sears, Disney, and, apparently in later seasons, other Mouse shows and acts.

* GenreBlindness: A [[DoubleSubverted Double Subversion]]. The Craft family included a little boy named Todd, who was only seventeen months old when his family's new house was built. Paige asked Kermit the Frog, who was working with the design team in Ty's place, to ask little Todd what he wanted for his new bedroom. Kermit said that after years of working with children, he speaks toddler. However, in the footage of their meeting, Kermit makes the big mistake of walking right up to Todd, who did what nearly every child under the age of two who was ever on ''Series/SesameStreet'' did when in close Muppet proximity: he grabbed at right where Kermit's nose would be, and in this case he got subjected to some pretty rough handling. Kermit suggested Todd might have gotten some coaching from his dad, who coached some of the local high school sports teams.
--> '''Kermit''': *Shaking* I think you'd be safe with anything that has to do with contact sports. \\

'''Kermit''': Excuse me while I... faint! *Keels over* \\

* NumberTwo: Paul Dimeo was by far the most consistent presence on the original design team after Ty himself, taking part in multiple builds during all nine seasons of the original show, including one where the design team had to start without Ty (the Harper family) and another where he was altogether absent the Craft family). In each case, the duty of playing the recipient family's application video was left to Paul, and he was the one to tell the Craft family to check out the rest of their house in Ty's place.

** Ty ends every episode by welcoming the family home. And everyone lived happily ever after.

* TranquilFury: Ty, following the SideBet incident listed above. He called off the bet, said he was buying everyone pizza, and pointed out that they could eat a slice with one hand while painting with the other. His demeanor was still relatively jovial, but his eyes and his tone (which was a bit less perky than usual) made it clear that he was ''very'' displeased with his designers' antics.
* YouCantHandleTheParody: After the design team emptied out the old Dickinson house in season 8, Paul said he just wanted "to know the truth about demo", to which Ty replied "You can't handle the truth!"

Creator/{{ABC}} RealityShow where a group of people build (or rather get other people to build for them) a BigFancyHouse for the poor, downtrodden family of the week. Frequently features former ''Trading Spaces'' carpenter Ty Pennington; later seasons frequently include various celebrities in the design teams.

'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]:''' Well done. That show was really something!\\

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The Vardon house was actually finished early, allowing the design team to spend the extra time perfecting their work. However, for a few hours, they had nothing to do but wait around for furniture.

** Ty ends every episode by welcoming the family home. The end.

** Ty ends every episode by welcoming the family home.

* Catch22Dilemma: People who received homes were usually poor, meaning that later on, they would be likely to take out loans using their new home for collateral. If they couldn't repay the loans, the bank would foreclose on their home, landing them in the same situation as before.

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* Creator/{{ABC}}'s community service website, [=ABetterCommunity=].com, must have shut down later in the show is right, because in later episodes, members of the design team instead feature in bumpers plugging the network's main website, even though the show already routinely featured the narrator making a similar plug featuring the show's title card near the end of each episode.

* NumberTwo: Paul [=Dimeo=] was by far the most consistent presence on the original design team after Ty himself, taking part in multiple builds during all nine seasons of the original show, including one where the design team had to start without Ty (the Harper family) and another where he was altogether absent the Craft family). In each case, the duty of playing the recipient family's application video was left to Paul, and he was the one to tell the Craft family to check out the rest of their house in Ty's place.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The Vardon house was actually finished early, allowing the design team to spend the extra time perfecting their work. However, for a few hours, they had nothing to do but wait around for furniture.
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In 2019, HGTV announced that they would be reviving the show, in addition to broadcasting reruns of 100 of the original episodes. The revival is scheduled to premiere on February 16th, 2020.

* GenreBlindness: A [[DoubleSubverted Double Subversion]]. The Craft family included a little boy named Todd, who was only seventeen months old when his family's new house was built. Paige asked Kermit the Frog, who was working with the design team in Ty's place, to ask little Todd what he wanted for his new bedroom. Kermit said that after years of working with children, he speaks toddler. However, in the footage of their meeting, Kermit makes the big mistake of walking right up to Todd, who did what nearly every child under the age of two who was ever on ''Series/SesameStreet'' did when in close Muppet proximity: he grabbed right at where Kermit's nose would be, and in this case, he bowled Kermit over.
'''Kermit''': *Shaking* I think you'd be safe with anything that has to do with contact sports. \\

* NumberTwo: Paul [=Dimeo=] was by far the most consistent presence on the original design team after Ty himself, taking part in multiple builds during all nine seasons of the original show, including one where the design team had to start without Ty and another where he was completely absent. In each case, the duty of playing the recipient family's application video was left to Paul.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Season one, when the show was still finding its niche, is a bit different from the latter seasons. The first total demolition didn't happen until episode fourteen, and early episodes emphasized the struggle of building a house in a week's time, while later seasons don't place as much emphasis on that being problem, seeing as how they'd built up enough good karma to have hundreds of volunteers to help them every time. Also, the first build outside California didn't take place until during the second season.
* EnforcedPlug: For Sears, Disney, and, apparently in the later seasons, other Mouse shows and acts.

* NoIndoorVoice: TY. NO, SERIOUSLY. JUST ALL THE TIME.

* LaterInstallmentWierdness: In the last couple seasons, families receiving homes would be introduced to the contractors building a new house for them before leaving for their vacation.

* Creator/{{ABC}}'s community service website, ABetterCommunity.com, must have shut down later in the show is right, because in later episodes, members of the design team instead feature in bumpers plugging the network's main website, even though the show already routinely featured the narrator making a similar plug featuring the show's title card near the end of each episode.

In 2019, HGTV announced that they would be reviving the show, in addition to broadcasting reruns of 100 of the original episodes. The new episodes are scheduled to air in early 2020.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Jacob Grys was one of a handful of house recipients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta; as he examines his new bedroom, a cast can be seen on his left arm, meaning that presumably he broke it sometime during the week.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: The team has 7 days to construct a new house. Typically the house itself was constructed in 4-4 1/2 days, with one build in Michigan (the Vardon house) completed in 56 hours, 54 minutes. There was one build in Washington state which could not be completed in time due to an issue involving mold contamination in the old house.
* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Every family that appears on the show in how they (over)react to their new house.

* SideBet: In a first season episode, Constance and Tracy took on Paul and Michael in a boys-versus-girls competition to build the best room. The losers were to make dinner for the winners. It was amusing until they started sabotaging each other's rooms, endangering the timeline of the entire makeover. Ty was ''not'' pleased.

* TitleConfusion: Also unofficially known as ''Extreme Home Makeover'' and referred to as such by some fans and media, and even by ABC affiliates themselves who promote the show.

* BadassInDistress: Recipients of home builds included many families with connections to the United States military.

* PunnyName: One of the building companies is called Holmes' homes.

** Ed and Paul were both carpenters on the design team, so they would apparently work on alternating builds for the most part, but Paul met up with the design team on site and filled in for Ed three times: twice when he was hurt and a third time while he served as the tour guide for the Hughes family's trip to London.

** The Okvath family in Season 2. Their eight-year-old daughter Kassandra was dealing with cancer, and had sent a video to the design team requesting that they help redecorate the interior of the pediatric hospital which had helped treat her cancer. They set her up with a redecorating team for the hospital and left her and her family to take charge of that project... and doubled-back to rebuild her family's home as well.

* MenDontCry: Highly averted.

** Ed and Paul were both carpenters on the design team, so they would apparently work on alternating builds, but Paul met up with the design team on site and filled in for Ed three times: twice when he was hurt and a third time while he served as the tour guide for the Hughes family's trip to London.

* LittlestCancerPatient: Most episodes feature either this or a severely disabled family member. Some, however, do feature people who have worked hard to help others.

The story behind this one: ABC had a series called ''Extreme Makeover'' which was about improving people's looks through plastic surgery. Someone decided to make a spinoff -- technically, what this show is ''supposed'' to be doing is like plastic surgery, only to houses. As it happens, while drastically making over a person is [[{{Squick}} a little challenging]] even among the mainstream [[note]](that show, along with fellow plastic-surgery-happy reality show ''The Swan'' on Creator/{{FOX}}, attracted considerable controversy for promoting [[HollywoodBeautyStandards unrealistic body image goals]] and normalizing [[UnnecessaryMakeover plastic surgery]] as a way to solve personal problems)[[/note]], majorly rebuilding a ''house'' for deserving people is definitely feel-good programming, besides offering ample opportunities for ProductPlacement -- and the show always tries to make sure that those who are having their houses rebuilt appear deserving. Thus, while the original ''Extreme Makeover'' only lasted four seasons, this ran for nine. In December 2011, however, it was announced that the show would end in January 2012 after nine successful seasons. The series has been resurrected for special episodes, including a ChristmasSpecial in December 2012.

* BridalCarry: Sometimes Ty helps disabled children and their parents by performing this carry.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The Vardon house was actually finished early, allowing the design team to spend the extra time perfecting their work.

During its original nine-season run, the show completed a total of 203 single family homes, as well as two schools, a Wilmington, Delaware duplex, and a Colorado duplex for homeless families. They keep a time limit, but there seems to be no expense spared. (There are willing donors.)

In 2019, HGTV announced that they would be reviving the show, along with acquiring reruns of 100 of the original episodes. The new episodes are scheduled to air in 2020.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Jacob Grys was one of a handful of house recipients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta; as he examines his new bedroom, a cast can be seen on his left arm, meaning that he broke it sometime during the week.