Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm a Casting Producer with ABC Television and we're looking to feature families who participate with reenactments on our hit family primetime show, Wife Swap! We're looking for great families who spend true quality time with each other and value old fashioned traditions. Do you enjoy teaching your children about history and culture through your reenactments? Do you feel other families could benefit from learning about these ways of the past? We want to hear from you!! We’re looking for all sorts of reenactors (historical or more entertainment minded), so please feel free to contact us with any nominations and referrals.
Please don't be confused by the title - Wife Swap is a family show on ABC primetime. The premise is simple: two moms from two very different families get the opportunity to swap lives (but not bedrooms - everyone has their own!) for a week to experience what it's like to live a different lifestyle - and to see what they can teach each other about their own! In this case we're looking to feature families who spend time together by remembering (and reenacting) significant times or events in our history. I would greatly appreciate you forwarding my information on to any of your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and family members who might be interested in sharing their lives with us for a week!
All featured families receive a $20,000 financial honorarium for their ten day filming commitment - and $1000 goes to anyone who nominates a family that appears on the show! We are looking for two parent families with children (between the ages of 5 and 18) who are ready for adventure! I appreciate your assistance in reaching out to these great families and look forward to hearing from you soon!
Best,
Heather Teta
I almost fell over laughing......LMAO
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We got it
The 3rd Maine's recruiting Sergent got a similar one quite a while ago, I don't remember exactly when. Our collective response was about the same as yours. I think it speaks volumes that 6 months+ later they're still looking for idio...people to "participate".
Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins
Hi Jason, this is the Jerry Springer Show...
I never understood why anyone would ever respond to such a call? I mean let's face it, no good has ever come from it, has it?
Now I enjoy much that ABC has to offer but have only watched Wife Swap once. Can't say I see any good coming from agreeing to be on that show.
Life is strange enough without tossing an experience like that into it!
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Michael Johnson
replacement
Doc,
I found that vile waste of electrons to be a perfect alternative to "Nux Vomica"
"In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals." – Napoleon
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys"
Desparate men do desparate
Desparate men do desparate things in Desparate times.... my red mule is dead and I need a family type replacement with all wheel drive that can haul a trailer under $12,000. $20,000 is a good number but $50,000 would be better.....do they negotiate? if I dont wear any underwear will it help or hurt my pop singing career?
all valid questions, with many invalid answers.
plus I doubt the missus would go for it, could I rent a fake wife for the show? but she would want at least a 50% cut...or one of you ...my friends could dress in drag for a 50% cut...hmmmmm?
C'mon guys lets see those Gams!
Seamus
"Im your huckleberry"
Hmmmm
I did do the "Rocky Horror" thing once in my youth, although massive quantities of alcohol were involved...50% of $50,000 huh?
I have been told I have nice legs...I'll get back to you, but I am insisting on the seperate bedroom clause
Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins
Sing it with me! the rebel
Sing it with me!
the rebel reenacting transvestite from pennslyvanniaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
adds new meaning to "lets do the time warp again"
But maybe we have struck on a new money making deal, just as the audience participation thing began to happen at a movie released as an actual movie that bombed, thus making a financal flop into a stellar cult success story. we could maybe do the same things to gods and generals, at this point im not sure what we could do with what scenes but stuff like "he crys for all of us" squirt guns into the air, everybody gets out their blanket and hides under it during stonewalls prayer before Manassas, during fredricksburg we throw fake hands and feet into the air everytime a artillery round impacts.....
Have i gone too far?
Seamus
Doc's Legs
Seamus,
Don't do it! I've seen his legs, but we wont go there
"In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals." – Napoleon
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys"
Awww come on,
I think you're just still mad about that carbolic acid "injection" I gave you at Willowbrook.
Either that or you're trying to edge me out of my shot at fame in an attempt to play Seamus' wife yourself.
Wow. Did I just write that?
Mike, Aren't you sorry you made this an open forum now?
Keep taking your silver nitrate!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins
Injection
It wasnt so much the injection, but you laughing!
What was that magnifying glass for?
"In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals." – Napoleon
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys"
I'm not sorry...
'Cause didn't write anything about seeking fame as Seamus' wife! I leave those choice words to others. But thanks! :)
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Michael Johnson
First I am Flattered buy all
First I am Flattered buy all the attention, maybe the jumping off point for our own Reality TV show "Missus Seamus" where contestants vie For the Dubious Distinction to play Seamuss wife in an episode of wife swap, a Reality show to get into a reality show.
But I am also a little hurt that Mike doesnt want to be in the running for "Missus Seamus" after all look at the exposeure possible, Letterman.Ellen,The Tonight Show Fox and Friends Sat. with a personal interview with Mcuddy and not to mention the Swag that one could procure and the food in the Green room.....could lead to our own Sitcom based on the lives of reenactors called "Flags of our ggg-grandfathers" where you can portray a regular joe who reenacts and the halarity that ensues with the Family and zany co-workers.....
Fame is our oyster, all we have to do is reach out and pluck it from the branch....
Seamus
"if you try to fail and succeed, what have you really done?"--quote from a former co-worker of mine
swiping...errr, helping Mr.Johnson
So there I was reading one of the other threads and I see this post by Mike Johnson, you know the guy who's "too good" to play Seamus'wife :) Anyway, I was struck by how well it would fit with this thread as well, so I figured I'd cut and paste it here for him.
Just trying to help.
"What a mess
I just don't even know what to say. I have all kinds of thoughts and comments. But this just looks like it will turn out nothing but ugly.
Michael Johnson"
Keep taking your blue mass, and stop picking on my legs!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins
"my shot at fame in an attempt to play Seamus' wife yourself"
Why thank you Doc,
I didn't realize at the time that I was writing such profound words that they would be twisted and bent into all sorts of contorted uses. :)
Now in all honesty, the reason I am not interested in being Seamus' wife, the grand honor it would be, is that I have met Mrs. Seamus, as have you, and I know those are tough shoes to fill, high-heels or not! She is a fine woman with great character. The only questionable flaw is that she is too wise to buy into this scheme to 15 seconds of fame. I will leave Seamus to his own devices, as dangerous to western Maine as that may sound, that he can coerce his good-wife into attempting this travesty of modern entertainment.
In the mean time, I look forward to quoting your soon-to-be-famous words:
I'm not sure where it will fit or when. But I look forward to offering it up! :)
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Michael Johnson
Twisted thought
It just occured to me...
Why is it more interesting that Doc wants to be the wife than it is that Seamus needs a drag-wife? :)
Hmmm, perhaps your right Doc...
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Michael Johnson
Mike you are right about
Mike you are right about that, She most likely wouldnt stoop so low as to appear on a reality show like "wifeswap" even if they swelled the fee to $50,000 and depite what some may think ABC is just smart enough that I dont think we could slip either you or scott by as my wife(its the beard....)Soooooo I guess wife swap is out of the question BUT........
How a bout a new spinoff/theme for Survivor?
REENACTOR ISLAND!
reenactors from different time periods compete for 1 Millon dollars first season its medevial next its F&I up until say wwII....
english vs. the Scots
English vs. the French
English vs. the Americans(sensing a trend?)
Americans Vs. the Mexicans
North Vs. South....etc.
Havent worked out all the details yet but once again for all the castaways, appearances on Letterman,swag,endorsement deals possible spinoffs....I just need a good development team......the Brass Ring is dangling before us we just have to find the pearl......
Seamus
"if you try to fail and succeed, what have you really done?"--quote from a former co-worker of mine
Survior Reenactor Island - The Musical
One day, after my head injury, I started writing a musical civil war epic based on the life of some guys who fought in the war somewhere, and liked to sing before they brained their enemies with rifle butts. Sort of like the old show "Cop Rock", only for Yankees and Rebs. But now, I'm thinking even bigger...Reenactor's in a Survival Series, who sing!
Titles like,
"Bang, You're Dead...No I AIN'T"
"Who let the Rebs out...Who...Who..Who..Who..."
"Hard Tack and Hamm's Beer"
and my personal favorite:
"I Ain't Marchin' 'til I had my Hot Cakes"
We could get someone like Jeff Probst or even Jerry Springer (great for stirring up a good fight) to host it. We could use referees to eliminate reenactors, "Bubba, your powder is wet, please leave the camp..." and we could have our boys go at it with a song and a dance..."Kick two three, step, two three, spin and THRUST BAYONETTES!...."
GOD...How I love the smell of a Reenactor Reality Musical in the morning!
Now...what did my wife do with my medicine...?
"I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Maine Yankee by adoption. In me you have Missouri morals and Maine culture; this, my friends, is the combination which makes the perfect man." (A shameless misquote from the great Sam Clemens...