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Old 03-12-08 | 11:16 PM
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Really, really sad news about the Corvallis, Oregon family featured in an Extreme Home Makeover episode that aired last October. Their little girl lost her battle with cancer in December and now they're on the verge of losing their home. It's a shame the EHM team couldn't have figured out a way to pay off the mortgage for the family...as they've done for others.


http://www.komotv.com/news/local/16383191.html
its stories like this that make me wish i was a billionare. i would pay their house off in a heart beat.
Old 03-31-08 | 03:30 AM
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I dare you to watch Extreme Makeover:home edition and not cry!

Watching this show last night and I realized that it is phsyically impossible to watch this and not cry at the end. Sure the 2 women bug the hell outta me, and I know the show is there to tug at the heart strings.
I was watching the episode where a mother gave bone marrow to a little girl she didn't know. And the house they built was amaziing!
I would have wanted that house.
Old 03-31-08 | 04:11 AM
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I donated bone marrow to someone I didn't know, and I didn't get jack-shit from E.H.M.
Old 03-31-08 | 04:37 AM
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Watched it. Didn't cry.

You are now honor-bound to do what I dare you!
Old 03-31-08 | 06:11 AM
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I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
Old 03-31-08 | 07:05 AM
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I cry also because I can't bang the chics nor find any nekid pics of them.
Old 03-31-08 | 07:52 AM
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I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
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Old 03-31-08 | 08:03 AM
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Old 03-31-08 | 08:08 AM
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I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
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Old 03-31-08 | 09:03 AM
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I'm so able to not cry at this show I'm not allowed to watch it with my fiancee anymore, particularly because I can't keep my big making-fun mouth shut.
Old 04-01-08 | 12:48 AM
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I don't cry. But I make a lot of fun of my wife because she cries most of the times.

(Of course most of the times I'm in another room)
Old 04-01-08 | 12:55 AM
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Didn't watch this one but saw one where a family lived in a small house in cramped quarters and with this show got a freakin' MANSION. Yeah, that makes me want to cry. Not! No more for me.
Old 04-01-08 | 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Lastyear
I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
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Old 04-01-08 | 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Lastyear
I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
Originally Posted by abrg923
+3
I'm taking you back to +2 because you aren't using a DVR.
Old 04-01-08 | 03:44 PM
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I couldn't possibly watch that show without rolling my eyes constantly at the cheesy way they exploit the families and manipulate the viewers.

If I were to cry, it'd be for the people who can't afford to live in their homes anymore after these folks pimped their house.
Old 04-01-08 | 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Lastyear
I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
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Old 04-01-08 | 07:54 PM
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I couldn't possibly watch that show without rolling my eyes constantly at the cheesy way they exploit the families and manipulate the viewers.

If I were to cry, it'd be for the people who can't afford to live in their homes anymore after these folks pimped their house.
Same here. I'm all for being moved by a TV show, not when it's artificial and cloying like this show is.
Old 04-01-08 | 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by the big train
I couldn't possibly watch that show without rolling my eyes constantly at the cheesy way they exploit the families and manipulate the viewers.

If I were to cry, it'd be for the people who can't afford to live in their homes anymore after these folks pimped their house.
That's exactly what I was going to post. I've seen the show once and found myself extremely angry at the end at how cheesy and manipulative it was. Their marketing strategy is to clearly try to reach a viewer who wants to cry--and they give them reason to do so. But anyone who is aware of their tricks will most likely be frustrated by the experienced rather than moved.

Then again, maybe I'm just way out of touch with my emotions. :P
Old 04-01-08 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Lastyear
I would cry because I was wasting an hour of my life on this crap.
+5....Ive watched the show and Id rather pull my toenails one by one slowly which WOULD make me cry.
Old 04-02-08 | 10:17 AM
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Watch it weekly, but I never cry.
Old 04-02-08 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by jdslater1
I dare you to watch Extreme Makeover:home edition and not die!
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Old 07-29-08 | 09:52 AM
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From: Land of the Lobstrosities
'Extreme Makeover' house faces foreclosure
LAKE CITY, Ga. (AP) - More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.

Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.

After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it's set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.
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The story goes on to say that in addition to the free house the family was given a quarter million dollar fund for college tuition and house maintenance expenses. I hope ABC did a better job ensuring they weren't able to blow the kids' college funds.
Old 07-29-08 | 10:10 AM
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I've always wanted to see some follow up stories on that Pimp my Ride show. The few times I watched it, the people weren't in the best neighborhoods and probably didn't have garages. Then they basically paint a big sign on people's cars that say "Plasma TVs inside" and advertise it on MTV.
Old 02-19-10 | 08:26 PM
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KISS rocks Extreme Makeover: Home Edition -- 2/21/10

I know I'm a few days early on this one, but I just wanted to put this on everyone's radar.

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"They want to rock and roll all night, and put up drywall every day."

Good on them for lending their support to a deserving family. Still, it's hard for me to rectify the sappy, rip your heart out style of EM:HE with the band that sang 'Love Gun'.

I wonder if they're going to perform as they blow up the house. That would be pretty bad ass.
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