As deplorable as the idea for this show is, that cheating blonde hoochie of a contestant, like all of its other contestants, was to blame. I saw the episode. The show allows family and friends to be present to either cheer the contestant on to be tough and honest, or to admonish them to fold when the potential for personal upheaval is too great. And admonish they did. Her sister actually blocked a question that was sure to wreck her marriage, only to have another equally damaging question fall into place. The fucking HOST pleaded with her several times to cut her losses.

But she fucked herself like any stupid narcissistic attention whore of her time. The further along she got in the money, the clearer it became: lie, lose the money, ruin your life; or tell the truth, win the money, ruin your life.

The real kicker? This Nobel Physics Prize laureate had to take a preliminary polygraph before she even got on the damn show, a polygraph that featured all the questions she was asked during broadcast. She knew damn well which questions she had a chance of being asked before she even got to the studio, though she didn't know the polygraph reading based on her answers. In light of that, that "good person" piffle question at the end might have been a bit unpredictable, but the rest of her answers were cut and dried. She was either objectively going to be lying or objectively telling the truth. And she knew which information might come out either way.

I have no sympathy. (I don't usually watch this show, I was just waiting for the Terminator)

This was a very very bad idea.

Who said anything about sympathy for her?

I believe something like this was outlined in Dante's Inferno.

Well, I guess nobody.

I guess I'm just advocating for Fox doing the profit-taking equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. These shows wouldn't exist (and they shouldn't) without idiots like this willing to humiliate themselves and misguided souls out there willing to watch these idiots humiliate themselves (did I mention I was just waiting for the Terminator?).

The thing that gets me about shows like Wife Swap and this one is why people would agree to go on them even when they know what the show is like (this being a relatively new show, it might not apply, yet)... the only thing I can figure is that people look at the people on the show and think, "well, I'm not like that. I'm normal/well-adjusted." Folks, if they pick you to go on one of these shows, it means you are anything but.

You know, deep down, that the producers were hoping that her husband would shoot her, on camera.