One of the most provocative, successful and talked-about social experiments of the reality TV era, Wife Swap, has been renewed for 20 new episodes for season 2 on the Paramount Network. This all-new episode shows a teacher who believes in education swaps lives with a flat-earther mom. These two very different mothers try to convince each other that their views on education, science, and parenting are correct.
The Paramount network had brought back an old fan-favorite by reviving Wife Swap. The original show aired on ABC back in 2004. Cameras follow around two women from two completely different backgrounds as they decided to trade homes and their lifestyles for two weeks. Both women leave a manual for the other that is meant to help them run their new households when it comes to parenting and socializing. The second week brings a major shift when the new moms get to take over the household and run things their way. At the end of the two weeks experiment, the women and their spouses meet up to discuss what happened over the course of the last two weeks.
In the new season of Wife Swap that is set to air a new episode, tonight fans will watch the Frayall family swap moms with the Dutcher family. The wives first are able to look around the houses they will be living in for two weeks to form their first impressions. Frayall instantly calls her new abode a "hillbilly house" as there are axes outside, as she points out the dirty interior and the musty smell. While Aloni Dutcher found her new home to be spic and span with a chore wheel for the kids. The episode will show a strait-laced teacher who will swap lives with a conspiracy-loving homeschooler mom who teaches her children that controversial views on 9/11 and believes the world is flat. In the exclusive clip, Felecia Frayall addresses her concerns with Kyle Dutcher who seems a bit confused as he tried to explain it was not possible for there to be a molten lava core at the center of the earth. Kyle goes on to say that he was not aware of anyone who has ventured deep into the core, leaving his new teacher wife flabbergasted with his thinking, check out the exclusive Wife Swap clip below:
As Felecia tried listening carefully to be considerate of her new husband's ideas, he dropped some more of his controversial opinion by saying, "The guy who came up with a round, ball earth, shooting through the universe I don’t know all the math, but they didn’t have radar guns back then." Frayall replies instantly, saying that his belief was unreasonable. In a last-ditch effort to educate him, the teacher bluntly asked if he believed a man landed on the moon in which his reply was a firm "No." The nail in the coffin was when Kyle revealed his grandfather was an aerospace engineer who helped build Apollo 13, saying he doesn’t even think that his own grandfather was let in on the secret that the moon landing was a ruse.
Speaking to the cameras, at last, Felecia expresses her fear that the family is actually teaching their children conspiracy theories rather than trusted facts. The strong-willed teacher believes that the children are being set up for failure with such controversial views. Viewers will have to tune in to see if the Dutcher’s come around on their misguided beliefs in the shocking conclusion.
Wife Swap airs Thursdays at 9pm EST on the Paramount Network.
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