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Dear iTulip.com Members,
Casting producer for ABC television Jodi Friedman is looking for a registered member of our community or a visitor to our community for the TV reality show Wife Swap.
This promotion is a bit out of the ordinary for iTulip.com. Our advertising is usually confined to wealth management and financial planning sponsors and ads related to economics and investment, books on investing and trading, and so on. Our advertising policy states that we do not accept ads for products and services that are bad for our members' financial health, such as "suicide loans," no matter how lucrative these products are to sell. We turn them down all day long.
After reviewing our advertising policy, talking to Jodi, giving it some thought and talking it over with my wife and iTulip, Inc. co-founder, I decided that the show Wife Swap fits with iTulip.com's spirit of debunking popular albeit incorrect notions about society and of honest intellectual exploration. Also, creating an opportunity for our members to make $20,000 is positive, and of course iTulip, Inc will earn some revenue, always good for keeping the new features and services coming.
For those of you who have never watched the show, the premise of Wife Swap is to take two different families and have the mom's switch place to experience how another family lives for six days. Half of the week, mom lives the life of the family she is staying with. The other half, she introduces a "rule change" where she implements rules and activities that her family has. It's a positive experience for people to not only learn, but teach about other families and other ways of life.
Despite the connotations of the show's name, Wife Swap is anything but a low brow reality show. My wife and I have watched the show and have found it full of moving and revelatory moments. The show has received wide critical support. This recent New York Times review is typical:
Why didn't "Wife Swap" come along sooner? It's such a simple idea: two married women with children change places for 10 days. You can have princesses swap with paupers, carnivores with vegans, obsessives with slobs. The twisted interior logic of a family is forced into public transparency, a full-on (if rigged) audit — and that's fantasy for anyone who's ever thought her family was uniquely bonkers. The series is cheap to make, and rewarding: the families either decide they like the new woman better (which is intriguing but rare), or they want the old wife back, and there's a tearful reunion.
Like any good family show, "Wife Swap" is fundamentally conservative: nearly all the participants realize there's no place like home.
Tonight ABC congratulates itself on its elegantly ripped-off concept ("Wife Swap" first appeared in Britain, in 2003) with a highlight reel intended to demonstrate not just how entertaining the program is, but how morally elevating. "Wife Swap Saved My Marriage" suggests that the funny series is more than funny: it's social work, defending the sacrament of marriage one reality-show spectacle at a time.
Or this one from PopMatters.com:
"Wife Swap is compelling as cultural commentary because it torpedoes the Stepford-esque, nuclear family ideals of functionality. Beyond that potentially positive social value, it provides gripping TV drama by opening a window onto the exquisite, unique wackiness of everyone's family life."
Jodi is looking to feature a family on the show who is non-mainstream, anti-consumerist and anti-materialist, to share their way of life and raise awareness on how people can reduce waste in their everyday lives, and figures she has a good chance of locating one from among our members. Given that we iTulipers are a pack of non-mainstrean contrarians and skeptics, she's come to the right place.
Families featured on the show receive $20,000 and iTulip.com will be mentioned on the show. Each family should consist of two parents, at least one child between the ages of 5-17, and should reside in the continental U.S.
If you or any families you know are interested in applying and/or speaking with Jodi, you or they are welcome to email swap@itulip.com. Say a bit about the family and a number where you or they can be reached and we'll put you in touch with Jodi. Of course, iTulip.com's privacy policy applies. We will only share the information with Jodi.
This should be fun.
Sincerely,
Eric Janszen
Founder & President
iTulip, Inc.
Jodi Friedman
Casting Producer
ABC TV/ RDF Media
New York, NY
Casting producer for ABC television Jodi Friedman is looking for a registered member of our community or a visitor to our community for the TV reality show Wife Swap.
This promotion is a bit out of the ordinary for iTulip.com. Our advertising is usually confined to wealth management and financial planning sponsors and ads related to economics and investment, books on investing and trading, and so on. Our advertising policy states that we do not accept ads for products and services that are bad for our members' financial health, such as "suicide loans," no matter how lucrative these products are to sell. We turn them down all day long.
After reviewing our advertising policy, talking to Jodi, giving it some thought and talking it over with my wife and iTulip, Inc. co-founder, I decided that the show Wife Swap fits with iTulip.com's spirit of debunking popular albeit incorrect notions about society and of honest intellectual exploration. Also, creating an opportunity for our members to make $20,000 is positive, and of course iTulip, Inc will earn some revenue, always good for keeping the new features and services coming.
For those of you who have never watched the show, the premise of Wife Swap is to take two different families and have the mom's switch place to experience how another family lives for six days. Half of the week, mom lives the life of the family she is staying with. The other half, she introduces a "rule change" where she implements rules and activities that her family has. It's a positive experience for people to not only learn, but teach about other families and other ways of life.
Despite the connotations of the show's name, Wife Swap is anything but a low brow reality show. My wife and I have watched the show and have found it full of moving and revelatory moments. The show has received wide critical support. This recent New York Times review is typical:
Why didn't "Wife Swap" come along sooner? It's such a simple idea: two married women with children change places for 10 days. You can have princesses swap with paupers, carnivores with vegans, obsessives with slobs. The twisted interior logic of a family is forced into public transparency, a full-on (if rigged) audit — and that's fantasy for anyone who's ever thought her family was uniquely bonkers. The series is cheap to make, and rewarding: the families either decide they like the new woman better (which is intriguing but rare), or they want the old wife back, and there's a tearful reunion.
Like any good family show, "Wife Swap" is fundamentally conservative: nearly all the participants realize there's no place like home.
Tonight ABC congratulates itself on its elegantly ripped-off concept ("Wife Swap" first appeared in Britain, in 2003) with a highlight reel intended to demonstrate not just how entertaining the program is, but how morally elevating. "Wife Swap Saved My Marriage" suggests that the funny series is more than funny: it's social work, defending the sacrament of marriage one reality-show spectacle at a time.
Or this one from PopMatters.com:
"Wife Swap is compelling as cultural commentary because it torpedoes the Stepford-esque, nuclear family ideals of functionality. Beyond that potentially positive social value, it provides gripping TV drama by opening a window onto the exquisite, unique wackiness of everyone's family life."
Jodi is looking to feature a family on the show who is non-mainstream, anti-consumerist and anti-materialist, to share their way of life and raise awareness on how people can reduce waste in their everyday lives, and figures she has a good chance of locating one from among our members. Given that we iTulipers are a pack of non-mainstrean contrarians and skeptics, she's come to the right place.
Families featured on the show receive $20,000 and iTulip.com will be mentioned on the show. Each family should consist of two parents, at least one child between the ages of 5-17, and should reside in the continental U.S.
If you or any families you know are interested in applying and/or speaking with Jodi, you or they are welcome to email swap@itulip.com. Say a bit about the family and a number where you or they can be reached and we'll put you in touch with Jodi. Of course, iTulip.com's privacy policy applies. We will only share the information with Jodi.
This should be fun.
Sincerely,
Eric Janszen
Founder & President
iTulip, Inc.
Jodi Friedman
Casting Producer
ABC TV/ RDF Media
New York, NY
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