The BEST episodes of Wife Swap (US)
Every episode of Wife Swap (US) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wife Swap (US)!
Have you ever wondered whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Two wives discover that it often isn't when they hand over the keys to their homes and literally switch families ” but not bedrooms ” for two weeks on the new reality show Wife Swap, already a critically-acclaimed smash hit in its third season in the U.K. Wife Swap is not a competition or a contest. It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn't a cash prize, but a couple's opportunity to re-discover why they love each other and decided to marry in the first place. In the first week of the swap, the wives move in with their new family and adopt their very different lifestyle. They agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that sets out the rules of their new household how they parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and their social lif
#1 - Patrick/Leierwood
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2005
A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.
#2 - Heiss/Kestrel
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2005
A well-off Rhode Island mom who does all of the cooking and cleaning for her boisterous Italian-American family swaps places with an energy-conserving, dreadlocked, dumptser-diving, egalitarian mom.
#3 - Nazario/Lassell
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2005
A Manhattan mom switches with a Kentucky mother of five. While the lenient New Yorker tries to adjust to rural ranch life, the strict Kentuckian is exposed to big-city party life. The Kentucky mom insists on a modest dress code for the two Big Apple kids, and the Manhattan mother throws a party for the five ranch children.
#4 - Haigwood/Hess-Webb
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2007
#5 - Smith/Weiner
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2004
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.
#6 - Thompson/Askam
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/2006
A Wiccan priestess whose husband worships her swaps places with a traditional, stay-at-home wife and mother of two who waits on her husband hand and foot.
#7 - Fulco/Samel-Garloff
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2010
A family of pop-star wannabes swaps with a family of social activists.
#8 - Talbott/Broider
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2006
#9 - McLeish/O'Dell
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/16/2010
A family that prize etiquette and elegance for their daughters swap with a family with down-home mud-racing tomboys.
#10 - Harris/Van Noy
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2004
This week in ""Harris/Van Noy,"" an Oklahoma mother of three who agrees with her husband's edict that an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen, swaps lives with an unorthodox, working mother from Texas who believes her stay-at-home husband should rule the kitchen.
#11 - Cathrea/Stewart
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/9/2010
A survivalist family preparing for the end of the world in 2012 swap with a family that dote on their kids, particularly their 12-year-old golf-prodigy daughter.
#12 - Adams/Hess
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2010
An animal-obsessed family with 29 pets and a disregard for appearances swap moms with a fashion-obsessed family that don't tolerate animals.
#13 - Kuncaitis/Zdanzinsky
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2013
A Las Vegas mother who loves to party switches places with a religious mother of six who lives on a rustic farm.
#14 - Lovazzano/Clover
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/2006
#16 - DiBella/LaRosh
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/18/2013
A fitness fanatic and workaholic from San Diego swaps lives with an Italian mother from New Jersey who likes to spoil her family.
#17 - Avery-Lamb/Martin
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/11/2013
A strict disciplinarian trades lives with a woman who believes children should be given freedom.
#18 - Cochran/Curry
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2013
A self-proclaimed redneck trades places with a pageant mom.
#19 - Long/Stephens-Fowler
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/2009
The Long family are avid patriots who enjoy the "American way," which includes fast food, 4X4s and paintball, and the man in the family believes the wife is there to do "skirt work" such as cooking and cleaning. The wife will be switching places with the Stephens-Fowler family of California, who believe in higher education, taking care of the environment and a healthy style of living.
#20 - Starling/Sweany-Ernst
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2007
#21 - Heene/Martel
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2008
The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi and storm scientist Richard take their three kids, Bradford, Ryo and Falcon, out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. Meanwhile on a quiet street in Connecticut, the Martel family -- wife Karen, husband Jay and their two kids, Max and Dean -- live a life of calm and safety.
#23 - LaBrie/Zaring
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2008
#24 - Gillette/Turner
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2008
#25 - Firehart/Terry
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/25/2013
A pagan woman trades places with the mother of a world champion tap dancer.