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Maybe you guys have seen this before, I dunno. Anyway: So I was flipping channels with a couple of good friends tonight and we somehow wound up watching old episodes of Nanny 911. Yes. I know. A vile excuse for a TV show. Anyway, the folks had a 13 year old, 6 year old, and a couple even younger kids. There was the usual amount of silly dramatic "I could parent better than these people" garbage. All three younger kids spent all their time playing video games and (according to the show) generally behaving in an unruly manner. The 6 year old at various times tantrumed about how he wanted to "do models", with his older brother. Anyway, assorted drama and nonsense and during the finale, everyone was wonderfully tearful and such, including the oldest kid, at 13, who was (according to the show anyway) all too willing to do activities with his 6 year old brother who looked up to him, yadda yadda. Dramatic crap, absolutely. So in the glorious finale they show the happy family all doing things together, etc... and the 13 year old is shown getting out what is very obviously a 40k model kit (the scene is fast but I'm 99% sure I saw a 40k logo), dumps it out, and stares at the sprue with his little brother. I'm about 90% sure it was a Marine Land Speeder kit. A quick image of the two of them looking at the sprue, and it was gone. Still, I thought it was funny as can be to me. I was watching with two friends, one of whom plays 40k and admittedly in response to my laughter was like... "Hey, that was a 40k kit!". So we had a good laugh about how at 2-3 instances during the show they commented on the 13 year old (barely shown during the episode) and his liking of "doing model things". Anyone else seen that episode?

That landspeeder kit alone will cause the two brothers relationship to crumble.

I have seen it before.

I saw something similar on House Hunters International. Some kid was going to art school in Stockholm, and he and his dad (obviously loaded) went looking for an apartment/space to buy and live in. They found one, redid it. However, separately there was an outdoor building included in his purchase, and at the end they showed a video of it, and on the table I thought I saw some Leman Russ tanks.

Ivan wrote:Maybe you guys have seen this before, I dunno. Anyway: So I was flipping channels with a couple of good friends tonight and we somehow wound up watching old episodes of Nanny 911. Yes. I know. A vile excuse for a TV show. Anyway, the folks had a 13 year old, 6 year old, and a couple even younger kids. Anyone else seen that episode?

The two younger kids were 4 year old twins. And yes the kit was a land speeder. It appeared to me that the box was an older starter set, but it could be one of those collection boxes where everything is stored there until a proper bitz box is aquired. The 6 year old was a pain in the arse to his brothers. He hated playing with the 4 year olds and if I was 13, I'd not to be seen around him.. Whiney little bugar anyways. When he kicked his 13 year old brother down the stairs, I was surprised that nothing was done.

That was a house that needed attention. Using video games to babysit your children is no different than shutting them in a closet. It's abuse ... But let's not go down that road.. The nanny fixed those kids up properly and she fixed up the parents right nicely too. lol

"The nanny fixed those kids up properly and she fixed up the parents right nicely too."

Its always the parents that need fixing on these shows. Kids figure it out after a day or two - getting mom and dad to parent takes a bit more work.

Shows like that are all or at least mostly staged anyway

Well the 40k part prolly wasn't, but the producers tell em to act crazier than normal so it will make for better tv.

when we were casting our last film, the philly film office had ads for a lot of "reality" shows like that, looking for "families with good screen presence"

ha you should try doing child psychiatry, most of the time the child is not the problem