The Best Episodes of Wife Swap Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.8/10(20 votes)

   #1 - Pitts/Polchios

   S1:E19/26/2004

   On the premiere episode, a disorganized, animal loving mother with 25 pets trades places and families with an obsessively tidy mother who loves to-do lists and detests animals.

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   6.8/10(18 votes)

   #2 - Spolansky/Bradley

   S1:E29/29/2004

   A 36-year-old multimillionaire heiress and mother of three from New York swaps lives with a 45-year-old wife and mother of two from rural New Jersey.

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   6.9/10(12 votes)

   #3 - Smoak/Beaver

   S1:E310/6/2004

   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 two, one of their husbands is in tears, while the other is tearing his hair out over his liberal new houseguest.

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   7.4/10(12 votes)

   #4 - Donahoe/Baker

   S1:E410/20/2004

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   6.6/10(11 votes)

   #5 - Ghani/Stallone

   S1:E510/27/2004

   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 had 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.

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   7.0/10(10 votes)

   #6 - Smith/Weiner

   S1:E611/3/2004

   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.

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   7.3/10(10 votes)

   #7 - Bittner/Reimers

   S1:E711/10/2004

   This week, in ""Bittner/Reimers,"" a strict, vegetarian, ex-Navy wife who disciplines her children swaps lives with a junk food-eating, living-large mother who allows her two headstrong teens free rein.

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   7.2/10(13 votes)

   #8 - Harris/Van Noy

   S1:E811/17/2004

   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.

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   7.4/10(12 votes)

   #9 - Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

   S1:E912/1/2004

   The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.

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    5.8/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Aguirre/Ray

    S1:E1012/8/2004

    A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.

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    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Burkhalter/Elliott

    S1:E1112/15/2004

    A Mississippi stay-home mother who gets gets walked all over by her by her children swaps places with a strict mother from Maryland who lays down the law at home and at her job.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Parsons/Bramhall

    S1:E121/12/2005

    An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Fontaine/Herman

    S1:E131/19/2005

    A coupon-cutting, bargain-hunter, stay-at-home, mother from Ohio trades lives with a high-powered executive from Maryland who despises coupons, clutter and children ruling the house.

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    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Boone Luffey/Gillespie

    S1:E142/9/2005

    One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.

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    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Pyke/Smith

    S1:E152/16/2005

    Stay-at-home mom Michelle Pyke swaps life at the family owned funeral home for life on the road in the Smith family's converted Greyhound bus.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Flummerfelt/Bray

    S1:E162/23/2005

    An assertive, domineering wife of an inter-racial couple swaps lives with a subservient, stay-at-home wife from a very different minded inter-racial couple.

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    5.9/10(12 votes)

    #17 - Patrick/Leierwood

    S1:E173/2/2005

    A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Cedarquist/Oeth

    S1:E183/16/2005

    A home-schooling, stay-at-home mom who lives in a tree house swaps places with a Type A, Harvard educated mom who works full-time for a finance company.

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    #19 - Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

    S1:E203/7/2005

    A supportive, laid back CEO of an all women promotional firm swaps roles with a chauvinistic, tough-talking boss from an all-male car dealership who refuses to hire women for sales positions.

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    #20 - Vacation Swap: Hawn/Orlando

    S1:E213/23/2005

    A millionaire family accustomed to living a life of luxury leaves the butler behind when they go on vacation with a blue-collar family whose favorite vacation spot is a low-budget RV trailer park next to a dairy farm.

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