The Collins Family (U.K.)

The Collins Family (UK) is the first episode of Series 2 of the British Supernanny show. It was remade and re-released as the ninth episode of Season 1 of the American Supernanny show. This is also a dubbed in episode of "Supernanny" This is also the 4th episode of the (U.K.) Supernanny show.

Sypnopsis
In the Series 2 opener, "It’s a case of mob rule in the Collins household, with four little devils terrorising their parents. Aggression and destruction have turned the family home into a war zone where the usual method of communication involves spitting and constant use of the F-word. Dad’s authoritative approach seems to have no affect at all. Supernanny steps in and creates Naughty Zones to separate the kids when they misbehave. With their toys being confiscated as punishment and mum and dad being trained to work together, have the kids finally met their match?" - supernanny.co.uk

Episode transcript
The Collins Family/Transcript

Submission Reel
The Submission Reel introduces Jason, Karen, and their four children Ben, Lauren, Joshua, and Joseph. Ben encourages his younger brothers to engage in naughty behavior. He expresses that he loves to be naughty, even though he knows it's wrong. Lauren is well behaved, but sometimes can misbehave. Joshua engages in a lot of fighting. Joseph is very aggressive, will pick something up, throw it and smash it (light bulbs, coffee mugs, plates, analogue televisions) and even do such things as pouring out Karen's hair care products onto her bed. The two youngest boys all spit at each other and their mother. They will also engage in bad behavior in public, which humiliates Karen. All three of the boys swear and talk back. Jason lays down the law with discipline and overall the parents don't agree with their ways of discipline.

Observation
When Jo arrives at the Collins family home, observation begins in the backyard. While Lauren is calm, the boys are swearing, spitting, and engaging in destructive behavior. Karen has no control whatsoever. Jo realizes that the boys are testing her to see where she is going to snap and that their behavior would surprise her.

Karen struggles to get the children prepared for school. When she tries to get them in the car, Joshua runs off on the street. Eventually, the family is able to get to school, but they run 15 minutes behind.

After the children come home from school, they're still being destructive. At this point, Karen realizes she isn't in control and breaks down. When Jason comes home from work and sees what the children have done, he sends Ben up to bed early, but they didn’t do the Go to Bed Early technique.

Teaching
Jo starts of by bringing in her Usual Routine.

Afterwards Jo implements The Naughty Zone as The Discipline Method Karen and Jason would use. And it wasn’t long for Them to use it as Joseph hit Lauren, and when Karen Gave him a Warning Joseph shockingly Swore at her and then Spat right in her face, Causing him to go To The Naughty Zone, Joseph did give in The First Time, however while he was he just peed on The Floor like a Dog. After Joseph escapes a Few Times Jason points out the Lock and asks if they could lock Joseph in, Jo says they shouldn’t do that.

After a While Ben was placed in another Naughty Zone for Swearing and it was extremely Difficult for Karen to keep both him and Joseph in their zones as they kept escaping. Jo helped and eventually They both gave in.

Behind The Scenes
This was filmed in February 2005.

Version differences
In the UK version when Ben escapes from the Naughty Zone during the Family Test Run where Karen and Joshua have a wrestling match to try to get Ben back in the Naughty Zone, Jason sends Ben to bed as punishment he takes away another toy and put it in Ben's confiscated toy box.

Starting with this episode, Some of the original British episodes that ended up in the US series were edited like with the American episodes such as the change of pacing, the addition of the goofy sound effects, adding music in scenes that the original versions don't have, and having the swearing censored to maintain the TV-PG rating. These episodes were interpreted as if Jo was returning for a visit to the UK.

Trivia

 * This was the first UK episode to get edited for the American version.
 * In The UK version This is the First Episode Where Nick Frost Narrates.
 * During Multiple Interview Segments in the US Version of the Episode, Jo's Skin goes extremely pale and very white, it is unknown why this is as an explanation has never been given.
 * When Joseph Was On Discipline And Peed On the Floor It was never Taken Care Of It's most Likely That the Producers told Joseph to Say That
 * This is the first episode of the American Supernanny where Jo's nanny suit is black instead of purple.