Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

[maxell1313]

The show that basically ensures Kleenex stays in business. I think I went through half a box for tonight's episode which, of course, would be two hours long. All three of those little boys were the epitome of adorable. I wanted to give all of them a big hug.

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What bugs about EM: Home Edition is that the designers cry in every episode, and it feels a little fake. Yes, these tragic stories are often tear jerkers, but they didn't seem to cry as much last season.

Ty Pennington has something in common with some of my ex-boyfriends. I used to think they were hot, now I find them extremely annoying.

[diciembre]

Unless you have a extremely sad story, Like you have less than six months to live and you are leaving behind 10 kids theres not a chance in hell that your family will be chosen to be on this show?

[Alexis Machine]

I knew that Ty Pennington reminded me of someone, and I finally figured out who: he's a tall, skinny version of Danny Bonaduce. They both have the same voice, manic personality, and seemingly assholish personalities.

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I don't want to insult someone who is trying to do good for people who need it (if that is what really happens on this show), but could someone please answer some questions for me?

I don't usually watch this show as I don't like to be emotionally manipulated by a TV show. But, I happened to catch the end of tonight's show. That Ty person was showing a little girl her "princess room" and a little boy "a lego room". There was an older couple with them (grandparents, perhaps?). After the kids ooohed and ahhhd over their rooms, Ty showed everyone some large pit full of balls to jump and play in. (Was that their LIVING ROOM??)

Grandma & Grandpa seemed pretty normal to me and the kids were excited, but all I could think of was how much work it would be to keep the girl's room clean and that the boy would be a nutcase with all those unrelieved primary colors and that the older couple could hardly be happy with a ball pit in their living room.

Could someone who watched this episode confirm if those were the grandparents? Was that their living room with the ball pit?

Who would ever want to live in such a place? It looked like a "Fun House" at the amusement park. Was that what it was? A mini-fun-house in their back yard?

If people have trouble in their live (as it seems one does to get on the show), wouldn't everyone be better off in a peacefully designed place rather than the house of sensory overload?

Are the results of all these episodes like this?

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Could someone who watched this episode confirm if those were the grandparents? Was that their living room with the ball pit?

Yes it was the kid's grandparents raising them. Their mother was Lori Piewata (hope i spelled it right). The native american woman who died saving PVT Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

No the ball pit was a special playroom for the kids.

Are the results of all these episodes like this?

No, the 'makeover team' tries to give the familes things they need, on this one they put in solar panels and wind machines to keep energy costs down. they have put in computers in houses to help the disabled get around.I am sure other people can elaborate better cause i have only seen a few episodes,

[Mugsy]

Miss Marple, be rest assured that this family had a lovely living room and very top of the line kitchen/dining room as well, as all the makeover houses do.

I watch this show regularly, and over at TWOP people are constantly grousing about the kids' theme rooms. I say, who cares? So they outgrow the theme in a few years; that would be true of plain ol' cowboy wallpaper, too, or flowers, or even a plain blue wall. Kids change and their tastes change; that is true, but that is no reason they can't give them an awesome toom for right now.

The houses on this show are usually very large and very overdone, but that is the point of the show, and that is why people watch - it's an "extreme" makeover, after all.

This particular house was quite lovely, I absolutely covet that courtyard. It is one of my dream house things. The firepit in the back was great, too.

In this case, as mentioned above, the children's mother died in Iraq (no mention of a father), so her parents - their grandparents - were raising them. They had never lived in a house before, only trailers (and maybe apartments).

Sometimes a big fuss is made at TWOP about upkeep and taxes on these large houses, esp. when the recipient family is poor, but often additional money is given to them as well.

One poster complained that they only help one family, while the rest of the neighbourhood is left wanting, but that seems like complaining for the sake of complaining. After all, you donate to the food bank, but you don't end poverty. In spite of that, you still give.

Anyway, that's the show. One family gets a big honkin' house and everyone cries.

[kafka]

Frances said:

What bugs about EM: Home Edition is that the designers cry in every episode, and it feels a little fake. Yes, these tragic stories are often tear jerkers, but they didn't seem to cry as much last season.
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I'm SO glad someone else feels that way. First, let me say that I really enjoy the show and it often makes me feel a bit sniffly. Second, it's so nice to watch something where people try to help others (product endorsement and placement notwithstanding).

That said, I can't stand how some of the designers start to cry huge, gawping tears before Ty has even finished talking about the family's story or showing their video. Constance is the worst (absolute WORST) about that. It's so artificial and extreme that I usually end up gritting my teeth during the first minutes of the show.

And the English guy seems so intent on fitting in that he seems to have adopted all the other designers' worst habits, and multiplied them tenfold. That includes the annoying, excess gushing at weird times.

Actually, now that I've started thinking about all the designers' quirks, I realise that I can't stand ANY of them. Well, with the possible exception of Paul or "Paulie" as they call him.

It's a great show in terms of what they try to do, and I love to see the final result and happy families, so I'm not trying to be a grouch but those designers.... {shudder}

[LurkerNan]

It's awful. But it was inevitable. The longer this show is on, and the more "queen for a day" it gets, someone somewhere is bound to think that they can work up a bigger sob story.

Real or manufacturered, this show takes the good deeds that people do and turns it into something mercenary. I stopped watching last season for just this reason.

[indygirl]

At least the second one is fron a different show. Dr. Phil's son is the shoddy laborer. Ty's team didn't do shoddy work. His team's work was too good. That's why the homeowners are booting out the orphans; they don't want to share!