I liked it, and was glad when the Brooks "won." They were the only family that I'd like to live next-door to. That's probably why only about 1/8th of the show was devoted to them. (No fighting, backstabbing, cheating)

Watching Gordon Clune throw a tantrum upon finding out that he and his evil, lazy, greedy, stupid family (didn't care for them) had "lost" was the highlight of the final episode for me. He threw down the report, whimpered about how unfair everything was, and pulled a couple of "Malibu rabbit" (I'm guessing that means "cat") carcasses out of his freezer to demonstrate how easy it is to kill things is real life.

And the wife, crying about the make-up ban, and the girls sneaking out to watch MTV... Why couldn't that bear in their yard've been rabid?

That huge, hollow mansion in Malibu was so perfect for the Clunes.

The Glenns were bitchy and kind of disturbing to watch, but at least they were trying to keep things authentic (the mom even left her toilet paper behind in the "honesty box"). The fiddle on their wall was kind of depressing, I agree. (And not ONE of the families was seen to play the jew's harps supplied to them, grr)

So, pretty entertaining show, for a "reality" series. Nothing I'll save for my grandkids or anything, but good.

---Lepus Rex