Mobile Home Disaster
Hosted by comedian John Caparulo, Mobile Home Disaster finds deserving families that are living in less than desirable mobile homes and gives them the home makeover that they so desperately need. With help from the accomplished Home Disaster Team including Lori-Lynn Lively, Joe DeRobbio and Kyle Carlson, they use their expertise to revamp these houses on wheels into beautiful trailer park palaces. The series provides families with the opportunity to have the mobile home makeover of a lifetime. Caparulo and the Mobile Home Disaster team will surprise needy families with a chance to start fresh and have a mobile-home facelift. They will skillfully update the rundown trailers with updated appliances, new design elements and furniture that is comfortable, yet stylish.
- 2008-2008
- 1 season
- Reality
Hosted by comedian John Caparulo, Mobile Home Disaster finds deserving families that are living in less than desirable mobile homes and gives them the home makeover that they so desperately need. With help from the accomplished Home Disaster Team including Lori-Lynn Lively, Joe DeRobbio and Kyle Carlson, they use their expertise to revamp these houses on wheels into beautiful trailer park palaces. The series provides families with the opportunity to have the mobile home makeover of a lifetime. Caparulo and the Mobile Home Disaster team will surprise needy families with a chance to start fresh and have a mobile-home facelift. They will skillfully update the rundown trailers with updated appliances, new design elements and furniture that is comfortable, yet stylish.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
The Bigelows
Fri, May 16, 2008
Jim Bigelow is the all-American single dad raising his five sons, ranging in age 7 to 16. The Bigelow Six live in a two-bedroom, two-bath mobile home in Palmdale, Calif. The guys are a tight knit bunch, but there's one big problem. There's nowhere for 10-year-old Jake to sleep, so he has to spend nights at his grandma's. Jim recently changed careers to become a teacher so he could be closer to his boys. He even coaches them in sports. Jim's dream is to one day be able to give his sons a home they can all live in together -- a log cabin.
Episode 2
The Tylers
Fri, May 23, 2008 43 mins
The Tylers are a family of three living in Sylmar, California -- mom, her fiancé, Ken and her son, Tim. Angela has a house full of antiques, but Ken and young Tim would rather use the china cabinet to store Harley Davidson parts and Hot Wheels. As Angela puts it, they are stuck ... in a world of inherited furniture and a 1973 mobile home that's falling apart.
Episode 3
The Schmidts
Fri, May 30, 2008 43 mins
The Schmidts are a blended family building a life in a multi-colored mobile home that once served as a daycare center.
Episode 4
The Fricks
Fri, Jun 6, 2008 43 mins
The Fricks are big advocates of living green. They insist energy-efficient mobile homes are the wave of the future. Andreas and Katie met on Match.com.
Episode 5
The Furrers
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 43 mins
The Furrers are a funny, quirky, upbeat family. Their mobile home is 40 years old, but when they moved in 21 years ago, they never dreamed they'd be sharing it with a former owner.
Episode 6
The Baques
43 mins
This blended family consists of Kim, her boyfriend Jon, her older daughter Shadi, Jon's two young kids, Kim's mother's boyfriend and nine animals.
Episode 7
The Talcotts
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 43 mins
Bonnie Talcott bought what she could afford - a mobile home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She has a long-term boyfriend who stays with the family part time, but it's tough because there is a real lack of space.
Episode 8
The Edwards
Fri, Jul 11, 2008 43 mins
Sabrina and her husband Donald have been married 10 years but have been separated by the sea for nearly five years because Donald is in the Navy.