Things I Saw On The TeeVee
Jul 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm by Susie
Now that I’m home during the day, I’m discovering all sorts of TV shows that open a window into different segments of society. My current fave is a makeover show called “Mobile Home Disaster” on CMT. (So far, they only do homes in California.)
What I especially like is that the show doesn’t condescend at all to the mobile home dwellers. The head of the makeover team is John Caparulo, and he’s funny as hell. Here’s the synopsis for one upcoming episode:
The Fricks are big advocates of living green. They insist energy-efficient mobile homes are the wave of the future. Andreas and Katie met on Match.com. Their compatibility drew them together. Both grew up on chicken farms, both broke their shoulders horse-riding and love hiking and other outdoor activities. The two moved in together and shortly after, Andreas’ daughter Kimberly moved in with them. The three never imagined they’d be living in a mobile home but were drawn to the Palisades Bowl after responding to a misleading ad about a condo for sale. Andreas is an architect who saw potential. He gutted the mobile home and has now run out of money to finish it. The Fricks live out of the master bedroom. Katie has no kitchen and does dishes in the bathtub, and Kimberly uses it as the living room to watch TV and do school work.
It’s a lot more fun than the over-the-top tearjerker episodes of “Extreme Makeover,” where homeowners who were struggling to begin with are left with a greatly inflated tax bill.
“They looked alot better as beer cans.” ~Jimmy Buffet