YMMV / Wife Swap

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• Growing the Beard: The Paramount Network revival. To be sure, there will always be polar opposites clashing, but the producers have clearly learned from the Heene and Childs periods.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The ultra-strict, homeschooling Stockdale family where the father and his four sons have a bluegrass band is this when nine years after they were featured on the show, 25 year old Jacob shoots and kills his mother and younger brother James before failing to shoot himself.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Bacon is good for me!", and every other line by "King Curtis".
  • Richard Heene's son, the "Balloon Boy".
  • SHE'S NOT A CHRISTIAAAAAAHN!!
  • "Dorksided."
• Moral Event Horizon: Anything Christopher Childs does.
• Strawman Has a Point: On occasion.
• Tear Jerker: Christopher Childs successfully brainwashing his daughter Columbia into ditching her dreams of becoming a successful woman in favor of being a servant to her future husband. Kim (the replacement wife)'s reaction to this is also quite upsetting.
• The Woobie:
  • The children of Christopher Childs.
  • Gayla Long.
  • Jennifer’s daughter Elena. Not only is she forced to do all the chores alongside her brother, she’s neglected by her family and hasn’t spent time with Jennifer in five years. It’s rather telling that the major change Melissa puts on Jennifer’s family is to spend time with her doing something she loves.

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