Chicken nuggets is like my family
Brown/Holland is the 18th episode of the 5th season of reality show Wife Swap. It originally aired March 27th, 2009 in the United States. It is the one of the most famous and acclaimed episodes of the series due to the performance of Curtis Holland becoming a viral hit on the Internet.In 2014, Curtis Holland resurfaced on the Internet asking "fans" for money because his family's finances don't stretch enough for him to afford his dream car as they supposedly adored him so much. His efforts failed when online responders dismissed his begging and corrected him that his behavior was ridiculed, not revered.
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- Artistic License – Linguistics: Curtis and Ginger calls chicken nuggets their favorite food. But what they're really eating is chicken fingers, not nuggets.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Cliff doesn't mind how obese his wife Ginger is.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Curtis Holland. He declares himself the King of the house hence the nickname "King Curtis".
- Control Freak: It is clear that Curtis is the king of his family dictating what they eat every night endangering their health by enforcing an "all junk-food diet" regime. Also for the Brown family, the children never get their way and admit to being miserable, undernourished and overworked under their parents' militaristic dictatorship.
- Deep-Fried Whatever: Ginger Holland declares "Fried food is the only way to go".
- Doting Grandparent: When Joy came in and took away everything Curtis loves (which amounts to nothing more than video games and greasy, fried foods), Curtis went to go stay at his grandma's and eat all the chicken fingers he wants. Though he didn't pack any video games, he got bored after eating, and came back in only a few hours.
- Everyone Has Standards: While both Cliff and Ginger are morbidly obese and subsist on a diet of junk food, they agree they don't want Curtis to stay a picky eater who only eats fried chicken all the time.
- Extreme Doormat:
- Unlike Curtis, his sister Courtney is accepting of Joy's strict parenting regime that includes early morning exercises and eating low-calorie meals.
- Cliff is a self-admitted pushover parent who refuses to stand up to his spoiled Bratty Half-Pint son Curtis.
- Fat and Proud: Cliff Holland claims, "I'm poor, fat and happy!"
- Fat Slob: The Holland family, with Cliff admitting so. Ginger is the fattest of the Hollands.
- The Fundamentalist: Joy and Sarge, for their reasoning for not allowing their children to go hang out with other kids, see movies, or read Harry Potter. Their beliefs are clarified further in this article
. - Hypocrite: Curtis tries to pull off an insult at Joy saying that she can't run in high heels. As though he can run at all.
- Insane Troll Logic: Joy seems to think that the collection of cars lined up for derbies are a gold mine and can be sold off for money, when the viewer can tell those cars are extremely worn down and outdated.
- Jerkass Has a Point: There's no denying that Demarcus Brown is a Drill Sergeant Nasty overly strict father but he does make the point that if he just let his kids eat whatever they wanted, they'd only pick high-caloric sugary foods like cookies, cake, chocolate and ice cream.
- Money Is Not Power: Joy tells the Hollands to start selling off their cars and stop roller derbies. Curtis tells off Joy, "We don't care about money! You do!"
- Ironically, in 2014 Curtis tried to milk money off his appearance on the show such as having his own reality show, his own brand of bacon, or using GoFundMe to afford a car asking for $80,000 (nobody gave in). Curtis stated he was never paid anything by the show's producers. When asked by people over the Internet why is he asking for money now in spite of his famous statements denigrating money, Curtis answered that his parents' finances dried up and they can't buy him the muscle car he wants.
- Nutritional Nightmare: The Holland family indulge in Deep-Fried Whatever dinners every night, and the Holland parents blame Curtis for their eating habits claiming he's a very picky eater. Their fridge and freezers speak for itself. All they ever have in the house is chicken fingers, frozen processed meats, bacon, cheese-spray, Oreo cookies, Chips Ahoy and candies.
- The Brown family doesn't have it much better. Their mother refuses to make anything other than fruits and vegetables, and so the kids are dizzy, light-headed and have slurry voices because they're not getting enough proteins or nutrients.
- Parental Neglect: Demarcus and Joy Brown hardly ever pay any attention to their children, leaving them alone at home for most of the day to focus on their militaristic boot camp. The Brown children aren't getting enough nutrition such as protein since they're only allowed to eat fruits and vegetables.
- Right Way/Wrong Way Pair: Averted; both the Holland and Brown families might think they're the Right Way and the other one the Wrong Way. But it's clear that the families outright ignore FDA nutrition guidelines and make up their own food pyramids.
- Curtis Holland forces his families to eat deep-fried foods, especially fried chicken, for every meal. He even wants chicken strips for breakfast first thing he wakes up in the morning. His family have to eat what he eats because he self-imposes his rule over everybody in the house, and they're all morbidly obese.
- Demarcus and Joy Brown force their children (and themselves) to live a militaristic lifestyle throwing out their beds if it's not made up, banning all sweets and meat or dairy products from the house (even though banning it altogether isn't healthy and they're important for eating at least in moderation). They don't spend much time with their children outside the discipline, and the daughter claims to be illiterate.
- The Runaway: After Joy throws away all the junk food in the house including the bacon, Curtis packs up his bags and abandons his home. It is said he was at his grandmother's house.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Demarcus has a very objectifying view of women, as he expects his wife Joy (and then Ginger) to give him a facial and vehemently rejects everything Ginger tries to change about his lifestyle.
- Straw Vegetarian: Demarcus and Joy are strictly vegan and forbid any meat, sugar, dairy and simple carbs such as flour and starches from getting into their house. They feed their children a vegan dish for every meal. They back this logic in that they feed their children vitamins that are found in meats and dairy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Curtis Holland just loves fried chicken fingers, and it is said he eats this everyday. He erroneously calls them chicken "nuggets", when they're actually chicken fingers or strips.
- The Voiceless: Courtney Holland, Curtis's older sister, doesn't talk at all. She seems very shy and doesn't like to speak in front of a TV camera.
