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Wife Swap: Real Homes, Real Lives, Real Drama
Family Feud meets The Odd Couple in ABC's Wife Swap, a reality-TV show with a simple premise: two drastically different families swap mothers for two weeks; emotionally fraught hilarity ensues. For many contestants, the show reiterates what they had always assumed — the grass is not greener elsewhere. But for some, the two weeks prove to be a much more profound learning experience. The kind of learning experience only a TV producer could love.

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