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Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - TLB - 07-30-2009
Ty Pennington and Co are in town to film Extreme Makeover. Looks like demolition and build begins tomorrow. Really surprised at the buzz this has generated. Apparently there were so many volunteers they had to turn folks away. I guess I'll have to break down and watch this episode when it airs.
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - pRICE cUBE - 07-30-2009
From what I have heard and read, the show does good things. Everybody likes it except some neighbors that live close by. Apparently they work day and night. You won't sleep for a week.
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - mikebw - 07-30-2009
I'd like to see some pictures of the operation from afar, see what their cameras don't show.
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - Article Accelerator - 07-30-2009
TLB wrote:
Ty Pennington and Co are in town to film Extreme Makeover. Looks like demolition and build begins tomorrow. Really surprised at the buzz this has generated. Apparently there were so many volunteers they had to turn folks away. I guess I'll have to break down and watch this episode when it airs.
In case you miss it, I can tell you what happens: We find out how needy and swell the worthy family is. Ty yells into a megaphone. The owners see their renovated home. They cry. Everybody cries. The crowd gathers outside the home and cries and waves. The stars leave.
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - spacescape - 07-30-2009
I know "Extreme" is "Extreme" but sometimes I think what they do is "To Over The Top". I mean, they could help put 2-3 families in a better situation with the $$$$ the spend on one.
Bill
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - pRICE cUBE - 07-30-2009
Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=TLB]
Ty Pennington and Co are in town to film Extreme Makeover. Looks like demolition and build begins tomorrow. Really surprised at the buzz this has generated. Apparently there were so many volunteers they had to turn folks away. I guess I'll have to break down and watch this episode when it airs.
In case you miss it, I can tell you what happens: We find out how needy and swell the worthy family is. Ty yells into a megaphone. The owners see their renovated home. They cry. Everybody cries. The crowd gathers outside the home and cries and waves. The stars leave.
You left out the part where the family each says "Oh my God!" 30 times each and the house is filled with labels of sponsors.
A decent program. - RAMd®d - 07-30-2009
It's one of maybe three "reality" shows I like.
The empathy/sympathy/drama stuff is pumped to ad nauseam often, but still... What they do for people is amazing. I wonder how a house holds up twenty or thirty years later.
Sometimes the shows are so well done, so poignant, everybody cries.
So I hear.
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - djroga3 - 07-30-2009
and you miss the point where after everyone leaves reality returns and a year later the house is in foreclosure...
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - rgG - 07-30-2009
djroga3 wrote:
and you miss the point where after everyone leaves reality returns and a year later the house is in foreclosure...
That is exactly what happened to a house they did in the metro Atlanta area. The people took out a huge mortgage on the remodeled house to start a business which went bust and, you guessed it, the house went into foreclosure.
http://www.zillow.com/blog/atlanta-extreme-makeover-house-facing-foreclosure-for-second-time/2009/03/02/
Re: Reality Junkies--Extreme Makeover Home Edition is in town - spacescape - 07-30-2009
rgG wrote:
[quote=djroga3]
and you miss the point where after everyone leaves reality returns and a year later the house is in foreclosure...
That is exactly what happened to a house they did in the metro Atlanta area. The people took out a huge mortgage on the remodeled house to start a business which went bust and, you guessed it, the house went into foreclosure.
http://www.zillow.com/blog/atlanta-extreme-makeover-house-facing-foreclosure-for-second-time/2009/03/02/
It's called "Greed". You can put the overextended family into a paid off situation... And they will "re-overextend" themselves.