God I loved ‘The Swan’.  Every reveal was met with the same dramatic pause/hands to face/”OMG I’M SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!” bit.  And then they had to go home to their schlubby husbands now that they look a 10.  I wonder what became of all those contestants......

He’s also hangry because he didn’t get any hamberders.

One of the makeovers was near a town I lived in. The town, and neighboring towns and local businesses got tons of publicity and the amount of people who came and volunteered was amazing. The whole process was broken down in the local news and things, and although I know they ran into that problem, the show started…

They got into a mode where they had one of the sponsors pay off the mortgage. So while property taxes went up, for many (most? all?) of them, their mortgage payment went away. So the net should have been a drop in monthly obligation.

Anyone else remembers that Ty had an E! True Hollywood story? Just me? Ok.

Hey thanks for the G&F update - the new season started on my grandmother’s birthday weekend last year too - perfect respite from the family gatherings that get worse every year!

That’s the only way I’d watch this. However, according to Wikipedia, Mike Nelson and Bridget Jones are Christian, so I don’t know where their opinion would fall.

Does the middle guy have 60 teeth?! And does he have more rows behind those Ross Geller blacklight-friendly choppers?!

When one was built near where I live, our school made multiple guilt-laden announcements tell us to go volunteer and have all our friends and family join us. No joke, a few days before the week was up and the project was supposed to be over, our principal made an announcement in the vein of “Come on guys, this is…

The whiteness of the teeth really accentuates the unnatural contours of their face things.

As someone who this month is commencing a knock down/rebuild project, I struggle to contemplate huge houses being built within a week for people who didn’t have to pay for the work, property taxes aside.

They’re so white I was uncomfortably conscious of this fact while watching any episode he was on.

All I could think about during every house reveal was: how the hell are they meant to resell a house with such a bizarre assortment of made-to-order bedrooms? Unless you strike upon a 4-child family with respective interests in volcanos, billiards, black metal, and calligraphy.

Are home owners going to continue to lose their homes after the makeovers because they can’t afford the property taxes just like before?

I thought they canceled the show because the realized all these people were losing their homes, either because the renovations caused their taxes to jump so they couldn’t afford them, or else they would take out mortgages against them and fall behind on the payments all lose them that way?

I’d like it if they somehow transformed my 20ft RV into a 3 bedroom mid-century house. Let’s make this happen people!

There is something about the teeth and the smiles and the...Why does everything nowadays have to come with the double helping of veneer?

I want them to first revisit all the shoddy “improvements” they did from the first run and see how the owners feel now.

Question (that I’m too lazy to google right now): How many of the homes renovated on this show are still owned by the families and how many were forced out to massively increased taxes due to the renovations? I thought I remembered reading some story a while back about some of the participants selling (either for…

I work at a not for profit that relies on a resale shop to fund most of our programs. We are absolutely fucking THRILLED about this.