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20 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 26, 2004 60 mins
A mom with 25 pets swaps lives with a tidy wife who hates animals. Which should make one woman's new home life very interesting.
Episode 2
Wed, Sep 29, 2004 60 mins
A rural New Jersey mom fills in for a Manhattan socialite, who learns that raising kids means more than having four nannies and a full schedule. In New York, the homey transplant has a hard time dealing with the uptown world and her counterpart's husband.
Episode 3
Wed, Oct 6, 2004 60 mins
A gun-toting conservative who hasn't shared a bed with her husband in 10 years trades places with an anti-NRA animal-rights activist with no job and less control over her daughter. By the end of week 2, one of their husbands is in tears, while the other is tearing his hair out over his liberal new houseguest.
Episode 4
Wed, Oct 20, 2004 60 mins
A Southern belle heads to upstate New York to live the not-so-simple life of a dairy farmer's wife, who finds the pampered world of Tennessee's rich leaves a lot to be desired, especially once they change the house rules and stick one another's husbands with more than they can handle.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 27, 2004 60 mins
A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A. to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home mom in New Jersey who has a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.
Episode 6
Wed, Nov 3, 2004 60 mins
A fitness-minded type-A mom ditches California for the life of an emotional, overweight housewife in Florida. The switch shakes things up for both women, but even more so for the one who can't get used to a home devoid of fast food and friendly attitudes.
Episode 7
Wed, Nov 10, 2004 60 mins
A strict vegetarian leaves her ex-military hubby and disciplined kids behind to live in the roomy shoes of a free-spirited junk-food junkie who lets her children call the shots. Which means that someone is going to have a hard time taking control, while the other faces an uphill battle with a Navy veteran.
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 17, 2004 60 mins
A working wife leaves her stay-at-home man to see how things are for the bride of a fellow who feels a woman's place is in the kitchen. Which means somebody's dinner is about to be very late. And probably burnt to a crisp.
Episode 9
Wed, Dec 1, 2004 60 mins
It's the men's turn to trade places in an hour that sends a leather-bound biker off to fill the eco-friendly sandals of a neo-hippie whose wife bristles at the abrasive new man in her communal home. Good thing week two gives the guys a chance to change the rules. Because one of them may not be able to handle that much red meat.
Episode 10
Wed, Dec 8, 2004 60 mins
A punk-rock mother of three teens trades places with an old-fashioned Southern mom who has a son and daughter. The punk mom takes the other family's girl to get tattooed; the Southerner insists that the three teens change their style of clothes.
Episode 11
Wed, Dec 15, 2004 60 mins
A devoted mother from the deep South trades lives with a strict working mom from Maryland to see if coddling her kids is better than berating them.
Episode 12
Wed, Jan 12, 2005 60 mins
A college-educated Type-A mother steps into the shoes of a single, blue-collar waitress with three unruly kids. Just wait until they get a load of their guest's kitchen-sponge system.
Episode 13
Wed, Jan 19, 2005 60 mins
A frugal stay-at-home mother of four trades places with an executive with a household staff and a daughter who needs a little parental attention.
Episode 14
Wed, Feb 9, 2005 60 mins
A lesbian leaves her partner and daughter back in Arizona to assume the life of a Texas Republican whose interracial marriage is filled with strict rules for the kids and a decidedly anti-gay view toward adults.
Episode 15
Wed, Feb 16, 2005 60 mins
A woman who travels the country with her hubby and kids in a converted bus steps into the life of a homebody married to a real working stiff: a mortician.
Episode 16
Wed, Feb 23, 2005 60 mins
Two women from biracial families trade places to disprove certain stereotypes.
Episode 17
Wed, Mar 2, 2005 60 mins
The matriarch of a peace-activist household switches places with a woman from a military family who thinks everyone should serve their country. Needless to say, there's going to be a war of the wills when it comes to changing one another's house rules.
Episode 18
Mon, Mar 7, 2005 60 mins
Two bosses trade positions. One is a car dealer who runs his all-male sales staff with an iron fist; the other is a woman who takes a nurturing approach with her all-female co-workers.
Episode 19
Wed, Mar 16, 2005 58 mins
A stay-at-home (and practically back-to-nature) Vermont mother of six trades families with a Pennsylvania mother of four whose regimented suburban home life is almost as corporate as her work life. She's going to a place that's off the electric grid, while the fire-stoking, home-schooling mom discovers that her new husband has a computer program for supermarket shopping.
Episode 20
Wed, Mar 23, 2005 58 mins
Two families---one working class, the other uptown---trade trips.