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Faded copy

October 4, 2004

This one photo illustrates perfectly the rip-off that is Fox’s “Renovate My Family.”
I tuned in for literally one minute when I saw this. They gave one of the girls on tonight’s episode a special gift, but it seems that Fox did their usual careful checking before broadcasting it:
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I guess that the Fox folks never qualified for any scholarships themselves.
So, they cut corners with the spelling. I wonder what else they cut corners on?

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