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{{quote|''"Come on out, Cohen family! You ''have'' cancer! You ''have'' cancer!"''|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthZ4hjcxms I'm Nice!]'', a Creation Nation parody of ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''.}}
[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[Reality Show]] where a group of people build (or rather get other people to build for them) a [[Big Fancy House]] for the poor, downtrodden family of the week. Frequently features handsome handyperson Ty Pennington; later seasons frequently include various celebrities in the construction teams.
The story behind this one: ABC had a series called ''Extreme Makeover'' which was about improving people's looks through plastic surgery. Someone decided to make a spinoff -- technically, what this show is ''supposed'' to be doing is like plastic surgery, only to houses. As it happens, while majorly rebuilding a person is [[Squick|a little uneasy]] even among the mainstream, majorly rebuilding a ''house'' for deserving people is definitely feel-good programming, besides offering ample opportunities for [[Product Placement]] -- and the show always tries to make sure that those who are having their houses rebuilt appear deserving. Thus, while the original ''Extreme Makeover'' only lasted two seasons, this is a [[Long Runner]]. In December 2011, however, it was announced that the show would end in January 2012 after nine successful seasons.
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* [[Artifact Title]]: It has been much more successful than ''Extreme Makeover'', outlasting it by five years, yet the spinoff-style title was never changed.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Ty Pennington literally has it, [[Reality Subtext|which may explain]] the overwhelming enthusiasm he shows for everything.
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** [[Muppet Cameo]]: The celebrities in the first 2010 episode.
*** [[Sesame Street|Elmo]] showed up a few seasons ago, back when Tracy Hutson was still pregnant. In fact, Tracy's unborn child actually kicked Elmo when he put his ear to her stomach.
**** Kermit took over as team leader for Ty twice, once when he had appendicitis and the other time when he was helping build homes for people who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.
* [[Celebrity Star]]: Rapper Xzhibit was on the building team for about a year.
* [[Cool House]]: The whole point of the show.
** Too cool, unfortunately, as some of the families [[Downer Ending|end up not being able to afford the house and find themselves in foreclosure]].
*** [[Subverted Trope|However]], in some cases, the hired contracting company will pay off their mortgage for them. And, according to [[The Other Wiki]], [
* [[Enforced Plug]]: For Sears, Disney, and, apparently in the newer seasons, other Mouse shows and acts.
* [[Friday Night Death Slot]]: [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] moved this show to Friday nights, and was somehow shocked when they had to cancel it.
* [[The Glomp]]: The design team will often get this from the more energetic and outgoing families.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Following the events of the Walswick family episode in season one, designer Constance Ramos fell in love with and married J. J. Carell, the Walswick family friend who nominated them for the show and helped build their house.
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** The Stott family. The mother had leukemia and was saved by a bone marrow donation by a guy who helped with the project.
** The Okvath family in Season 2. Their eight-year-old daughter Kassandra was dealing with cancer, and had sent a video to the design team requesting that they help redecorate the interior of the pediatric hospital that had helped treat her cancer. They set her up with a redecorating team for the hospital and left her and her family to take charge of that project--and doubled-back to rebuild her family's home as well.
* [[Melodrama]]: '''''OH, BOY.'''''
* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Highly averted.
** If one of the guys on the Build Team isn't crying or teary-eyed, you're watching the wrong show.
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: TY. NO, SERIOUSLY. JUST ALL THE TIME.
* [[Product Placement]]: Lots of it.
* [[Punny Name]]: One of the building companies is called Holmes' homes. [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|No, seriously]].
* [[Reality Show Genre Blindness]]: Every family that appears on the show in how they (over)react to their new house.
** [[It Makes Sense in Context]], considering that several of the families lived in giant rat holes, even though they may be encouraged by the producers.
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** "Bus driver, '''''MOVE THAT BUS!'''''"
** [reactions of the family as they tour the house]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: When Ty asked the Teas family what they should do with their old house, the mother replied, [[Kill It
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Why did they give Ty Pennington a loud-hailer?
** Because it's funny.
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