Switched at Birth is kinda dumb... 

NissyB 😂😂😂

NissyB awkward...

I never had a blood test at school

I didn't either

TROY & BRITTA GRAFF because they must have stopped doing it

Disagree. The deaf thing is a big part of it, but that's not the hook. Even the fact that Daphne is deaf is dependent on her having been switched.

Akia Sembly if the show was just about how they survived being switched at birth then it would have stopped being interesting after the second or third season. By the end of the show the two switched girls are calling each other sister. The families have fully integrated into one. Basically they came to terms with it and were over it. If the writers relied on that as the main plot devise they would have stopped finding interesting way to have, “because they were switched at birth” be any factor in the plot points. But Daphne’s deafness, as well as the deafness of the other several main deaf characters keeps being a major factor in the characters story lines because that is the real main plot devise. If the shows principle objective was not deaf representation, then they wouldn’t have included more then one deaf character, or worked so hard to expose real deaf culture and the real life experiences, challenges, and discrimination that the deaf community deals with. Deaf representation was what the writers and creators of the show were really after. The “switched at birth” angle was the interesting plot device they’d used to push the real agenda. Agenda makes it sound nefarious in some way, but u know what I mean.

@@Jah_LEASE_yah Do you have any basis, other than the show's having more than one deaf character, for a show called Switched At Birth not being about two girls who were switched at birth?

Akia Sembly if you don’t know about deaf culture u can’t really understand it. I’m not saying that that show was not about two girls that switched at birth. I’m saying that wasn’t the heart of the show. Deaf representation was the real heart. And if u studied deaf culture, or if your are involved in deaf culture, either as a Deaf person or as a friend or family member, you’ll see how much attention and care the writer took to exposing deaf culture and the experiences of Deaf people. Also the show didn’t just have Deaf characters. it hired real deaf and hard of hearing actors. That might not seem significant but it is. It shows how important it was for the creators to genuinely and honestly portray deaf culture. They didn’t take that much care to hire real Puerto Rican’s to portray Puerto Rican characters but they did with deaf characters because that was what they cared about the most. Deaf representation.

thank you! i felt like that comment was an insult to the show tbh

No offence but I though red heads are people with red hair 😅😅

@@sprisyatasedai640 They are

@@jewelv1652 thanks 😊 But I mentioned coz of her blonde profile 😅

@Scary ghost, that’s not what she was trying to say-

Don't wanna be that person but honestly that's kinda offensive. It's great that people feel empowered with their disabilities but don't bring down other people for it. Redhead jokes are not okay honestly. EDIT: Yall need to stop that was 2 years ago lol.

Me too i know I little and wanna learn more lmao

Same🤩

I know ASL. I have lower average hearing and I am at higher risk to lose it. so I learned ASL and "get" to visit the audiologist ever year. But ASL is interesting and "when in doubt spell it out." 😁

Me too, I am actually currently learning it because of this show.

Same

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@Lillian Glover Thats sad :(

@Lillian Glover Dad's do make the best comebacks lol

😂😂😂

This quote was SPOT ON. I watched the first few episodes of this show when it came out and I had to stop because she was so goddam annoying 😂

Same😂

candiigurl7893 **gasp** *A redhead!*

candiigurl7893 even though the show constantly said she’s blond

I LAUGHED SO FUCKING HARD AT THIS OMFG

My absolute reaction

I knew she was familiar lol She's Lauro Marano's sister

@@nanaadowaa Vanessa also played Luke's daughter on the show Gilmore girls.

i guess im terrible with age because i dont see the age difference e

Yes

vanessa was 19??? dang i thought she was younger

Mr. Serr 😂😂😂

Nah, our local dealer had a bright gold suv. When he got busted the van got repoed and is now the school lesion officers van.

Actually there is a completely different neighbour hood right behind our house and there an ice cream truck drives like at 2 am when I am awake and it’s so weird but luckily we are moving out soon

@@crystalclear5287 I bet it sells more than ice cream lol...

RedRoseSeptember22 oof

@@tomsparey176 lol

GyroMurphy I agree more people should think like that im learning to be a interpreter and I think deaf people are better than hearing people because they’re more honest and less shady 😂

Yeah, I have a friend who was born without one hand and people always say she can get disability benefits or treat her differently but she doesn’t consider herself disabled or struggling. She was born without her hand and has lived her whole life that way.

saffysaffyrocks I had a friend when I was little who was born without a hand. She did kinda have one ,but it was really really tiny and she couldn’t use it for anything really.

@@tomsparey176 she sounds dope 😂

Big mood. That was my show 😂

It’s my guilty pleasure

no. it is FUN! buffy the vampire slayer just less dramatic

Omg yess!! I used to love that show

I always saw the commercials but I thought it was pretty dumb and then one day I accidentally started watching a couple episodes as they came on after the shows I was watching, and I actually started to like it, yet I was old enough that I kept being like "WAIT WHY IS THAT ORB A DEMON?" "IF THEY KNOW IT'S EVIL WHY ARE THEY STILL HOLDING IT!?" "WHY DOESN'T HE JUST TELL HER HE LIKES HIM IF SHE ALREADY LIKES HIM BACK!?" XD you know, standard 12 year old questions

It always makes me mad how they baby Daphnie so much and don’t pay attention to bay, or make her out to be a huge outcast.

Rigbt?! I hated that and after finding out about the guitar case I started to not trust her I mean I understand her pov but it still was a lot to take in

And both sides of the family kept saying or implying that Bay is the trouble child but when you look at it, Daphne's a freaking mess. I mean, I'm not saying Bay doesn't have issues but Daphne is more impulsive and goes over drama. Bay, on the other hand, focuses on her art and finding herself.

@@michiko1086 When Bay struggled it hurt her. When Daphne struggled it hurt everybody around her.

@@MuzzyBarker Exactly. And just the pilot alone. When they first met Daphne. Everyone simply wanted her. At that point, Regina wasn't that interested in getting to know Bay as much as Katherine and John wanted to spend time with Daphne. So it was frustrating to see Bay try to fit in either families and struggle on her own.

Ohhhhhh

I thought it was a kidnapper or serial killer.

I thought he was just on his way home

Sweet Tooth

Hehe was your 1200 like

Ubaldo Alvarez is this where the term “Candy man” comes from?

Not just at night

Sweet tooth is in the neighborhood

Ice cream trucks come around even in the winter in my neighborhood 😭

@@joRA848 no

An oddly specific angle. I feel like 95% of people would be like, why is there an Ice-cream truck at night?

@@Athkore Absolutely. Which is why I doubt it's what they were actually going for but who knows, I'm just trying to think of any possible way in which that ice cream truck could be justified

I remember visiting my family in Puerto rico and at night one time an ice cream truck drove by but it sold donuts. Weird I know...

Wait donuts? Uh, yes!

i thought maybe he was also kinda realizing how much daphne couldn’t hear in her own neighborhood instead of it just being him realizing it’s a bad neighborhood

UTAWTURATDUATURTUABN THAT LINE GOT ME

comedy GOLD

Lol same

Nathaniel Foga ikr

Nathaniel Foga True, I always like finding out about a show or a movie that I had never heard about through Alex's reactions to them!

Under-rock livers!!

I only knew about it because it's on Netflix. I tried watching it but I hate it.

Caitriona Quigley Lmaaao

I actually felt a little creeped out by it. Lol

Gurl OKAYY SO I LIVE "in the hood" and no joke ... There was an ice cream truck late at night...but the sounds weren't on I know it might seem creepy, but the man who sells ice cream is like a family fren and his only car is the ice cream truck so... Its not the "unusual" in "the hood" 😂😂😂😂

Actually the ice cream truck thing happens in my country. Don't know what kid would be awake for ice cream by 11pm but the ice cream is good.

To be honest, the ice cream truck was so "wtf..." and out of place that it DID make the neighborhood feel more creepy. It's like... in *what* neighborhood is there an ice cream truck at night. It actually does make me NOT want to be in that sort of neighborhood.

@@daydream5120 yeah but i would be curious about my biological family

Ya fr I wouldn’t care

I would still live with the people who raised me but want to meet by biological parents, wouldn't go live with them tho.

I'd be like "well thanks for spending money on me even though I'm not your child." And move on with life

I would say buhbye to my moms side in a flash especially my aunt and uncle who cousin who Grandparents took guardianship of after death of her parents and dads moms side quickly especially moms cause honestly my aunt has been nothing but negative since death of my mom back in October and I'm already stressed out to the point my room has become my haven when none of them are around cousin is no better and my uncle lives in another state but he can be just as bad

It's a percentage because all humans are related in a way, at least in 2020. It is in that sense. But if you knew that already, the joke is nice

It' weird that the show got this wrong. If they aren't related, you can say it with a 100% certainty. But if they are related you can only say it with a 99.something % certainty.

Dalaila Rose did they switch the kids back or just spend time with the kids back and forth

Killa Barbie now I want to know too

Blue Panda me too

the mystery is killing me! were they switched back?

Yo what happened

skagerakk In the words of M Night Shyamalan, what a twist!

@@trinaq you would only be so lucly if thats the only twist he put in that situation

she got ridiculously annoying when she went through that rebel phase for no reason! it seemed like bay was growing up but daphne was getting more immature

Bay was the reason I stopped watching the show. I tried to be patient with her but I gave up.

I hated daphne

SniperWolf895 trust me that’s only in the beginning of season 1 she gets way better

@@fiorella3031 I still hate her and I'm almost done with season 1.

Chim Chim Panda as someone that is hard of hearing and obviously when i don't have my hearing aids in , i can't hear anything, i have to read lips, but it comes to you the more you are around someone.

@@CaiteGosselin so, you know what she's actually saying at 5:38 without your hearing aids?

Ghefira Sonia , if i knew her , and i was in that room. yeah i probably could tell. it's not only just being around the person, it's body language and literally everything. hearing people depend on their ears so much you don't really notice other things. it's literally natural for me, you can tell by the weight of footsteps, literally everything. you could probably tell what bay's saying based on how her upper half of her face is questioning something and it's just really easy to read her. and that's from an actress, say real emotions, those are easy to read . it's not as difficult as it sounds tbh.

. . . Telepathy

I guess she is like Daredevil, but deaf instead of blind.

It is kinda. It’s him realizing she doesn’t know how bad her neighborhood is because she can’t hear it

@@samfielder8789 that makes sense!

@@samfielder8789 ... You don't need to hear to know a neighborhood is bad lol deaf people having lost one sense are often much more visually perceptive than we are. A study in Australia even find that the deaf are better drivers

That's just what I thought!

@@flibnit1 yes we are better drivers in more than just australia for the simple reason that we have to be me and other Deaf (community raised around only deaf culture) little d deaf (as in you can’t hear but we’re raised like a typical hearing person) and Hard of Hearing (where the level of deafness can be all over the map but definitely not normal hearing)

Emmet tho 😍

They ruined Emmet in the last ones 🤐💔

@@lizzy4827 emmet really annoyed me in the last two seasons. He had moved to LA and was such a jerk. He wanted to be able to date whoever he wanted but he didn’t want Bay to date anyone. I didn’t like his character development

@@malloryweeks3306 Honestly Emmet was kind of boring to me the whole time. XD For Bay and Daphne, at first I liked Daphne more but then she got like really weird and different and I ended up liking Bay. ~:~

@@harshmnr same

Oh man I actually loved that show! But yeah, Season 2 was wild, especially with Carter's half brother and the murder at the end .

She was too edgy for me.

I honest loved that show, season 2 was wild but I still can’t believe it got cancelled. I still think about max in jail and Ben laying in the middle of the street.

tigerlily_010 finding carter was a great show until mtv cancelled it on a cliffhanger

Yeahh shit was good but I stopped watching around season 2

I liked switched at birth too I just found Daphne annoying in some episodes

I liked it but it got to political near the end.

I loved it too, I'm learning Kenyan Sign Language because of it...

I wouldn't treat it like it's the law. It's a good starting point, but a lot happened in the show is that kind of a debate within the Deaf community.

@@meghanstanley1765 I know I mean like BLM and cultural appropriation the stupid stuff. It started to ruin the show for me.

Nope. Noticed right away.

After watching the whole series i re-watched HSM and was like noooo this is so weird he shouldn't be that idk pink?¿

T o b y

Yes. He plays bay’s brother Toby.

Toby aka tiny lips

I watched the first three seasons.

Just Isabel same bro!

@NeverMindGaming It's not weird?!

I KNOWWWWWWW SAME

I watched it. And I’m re-watching it.

Kilian Kirkegaard I did too and I was looking to see if anybody else was gonna say anything

YES XDD

I noticed him and Angie from George Lopez 😆

Kilian Kirkegaard or angie from george lopez

HEY HOLD UP check it out,,,

Also, i dont think she invited both of them, i believe she said her name was Daphne to get Regina there since she though she would go easy on her or just didnt want to deal with Katherine... And then Regina called Katherine...

he prolly just said it wrong, you need to chill girl lmao

osnfjsjdj pls chill im the most sarcastic person

Was definitely a police station haha

The hair of the whole family change. In the first season they claimed Daphne as a "little blonde girl" child, in the fourth she is a redhead

They just want to be true to Scooby Doo

yeah ppl grow and hair colors change...

@@voidtectonic Ahahahaha good one 😂

Jasmine Dornan I'm not deaf and don't have any hearing issues but I also learned LOTS of asl from the show I j ow how to say know think love and some either words aswell sometimes I isn't even have to read the caption I just knew what it meant

@@TheBuildingFreak oh me too, the show incorporated good details with the asl and "complications" for Daphne. I personally think the creators and actors did an amazing job portraying a normal teen show with serious issues

Jasmine Dornan Same I probably wouldn't have known what an aneurysm is

You didn't learn ASL from it. I promise you didn't. The ASL in the show isn't very well presented and not very clear.

Meghan Stanley well maybe not completely fluent but I can keep up with a conversation

very agreeable. u hit the nail right on the head.

I completely agree, I wish Alex had recognized that, it had a lot of cultural value

No one is denying that more deaf actors/characters being represented is a good thing. And Switched at Birth deserves credit for presenting deaf culture and ASL to young viewers in an accessible way. But that doesn't change the fact that a lot of the story lines in that show were pure garbage. Honestly, when I watched the show, I was disappointed that a lot of the shitty teen drama overshadowed the more interesting aspects like deaf culture and what it means to learn that you're not the ethnicity you thought you were.

thank you for commenting!! i was about to say this exactly.

MsBrendalina in my opinion, the show got better. the first season’s storylines were pretty trash simply because they were teenagers but as they got older they started maturing and it was pleasant to watch the girls having to grow up and tackle huge problems that are bound to come their way as they virtually become adults. i don’t think it’s fair to judge a show specifically for its first season, or any one season at all. one season or episode does not define the entire show.

i don't know why ABC Family always does that :( its so immoral to normalize that stuff to a primarily adolescent audience

bay was the most annoying one of all of them daphine was right behind her the two main characters were terrible people

rewatch the show again they would constantly ruin other people lives do things they knew were wrong completely ruined others but somehow they deserved happiness in the end when in reality they are two terrible people who constant would do people wrong then wonder why their own life eventually became shitty due to their own consequences that they were making

erm dafuq that’s exactly it lol! I used to live in the hood and he would drive around at night selling ice cream and weed lol

i think that switched at birth started off as mediocre and grew into something so fascinating and mature, but then went back down to mediocre and annoying after they forced a fifth season onto the show. but even during the fifth season the characters had grown a lot and matured and had learned a lot of life lessons and i think it's important for that to happen in teen shows. i also think that after they got over a lot of the boy drama the show was very realistic with how they tackled subjects. honestly in my opinion this show will always be remembered by me as something that took itself seriously.

definitely agree with you! everything was passable all up to the 5th season. While it was not bad, it was just too forced and left a somehow bittersweet ending to the show.

Me too, I'm learning Kenyan Sign Language because of it

he always puts kinda dumb at the end to get more veiws

@@Jazmin_Tea I must say I haven't finished the show yet and it's been years since the last time I've watched it,but I'm pretty sure I've watched most seasons and I AM sure I remember being genuinely surprised by how much sense ALL the actions of ALL the characters made,considering backgrounds,circumstances AND the fact sometimes in real life people DO some stupid things for stupid reasons. My point is that even when you find yourself telling a character:"Why the hell did you do that?!?>:-O"you can actually answer yourself:"OK,I GET why you did that 🙄,but,still...you could avoid that!🤦‍♂️"and it's not the same as thinking:"This thing you just did makes NO SENSE AT ALL!X-P"

It happens kinda a lot...

@@user-po9iy3pk2y We have a running joke that my daughter was switched at birth. She was born at home.

Oh yes, I remember that show! It was decent, and that show and "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" introduced me to Lindsey Shaw.

Yassssssssss please

The movie was better.

Literally watched that movie for the first time like last week

Omg I’ve been commenting this form months 🤣

I was just about to say that 😂 I just noticed the brown haired girl is Luke's daughter

Oh my god yes! I want him to react to the revival and the original series so he can be like what the heck happened?!??

YES

Scarlett Buchanan YES

justabitofamug lmao I watched Gilmore Girls after I watched Switched at Birth (I know I’m like 13 years late but whatever) and I saw April and was like “that’s Bay from Switched at Birth”

I loved April

Emma Lynch it’s Lucas Grabeel

Yea same

@Kanoa Sari awww I miss Johnny Bravo

I think they're drug dealers or kidnappers. Same thing happens in my aunt's neighborhood.

WTF?? Im glad it doesnt happens in my neighborhood

4.0 oh

I know and it is creepy when you’re trying to sleep and it’s all quiet and you hear the ice cream truck song or ring or whatever it is called. Like what child is going to get ice cream at 12 in the morning. So you might be right it could be drug dealers (or kiddnappers)

I grew up in a not so great neighborhood but they never came around at night for me....what DID happen was a normal looking car rolling through every so often blasting ice cream man music out the windows lol

Me too. That show definitely isn't dumb though.

Louise Andersen i love that show, balled when it was over

Yes!! Not dumb at all, just very dramatic but in a good way

Even riverdale Is better

@@Quirrel now way

Me: drinks water This: happens Me: chokes on water

Me too

Why

Why what happens? I gave up after like ep 5

Both girls got annoying and bitchy.

Same

It was like Bey finally had to grow up.... but then who will be annoying and whiney?? Oh look Daphne!! ☹🤦‍♀️

baby girl it was based on a true story

Yeah I agree

Yes I completely agree!! I loved the show until the third season when all the characters became annoying and unlikeable

Britney Gordon it went downhill after season 2

I loved the fosters until like season 4 and 5.

Frostbitegaming yeah season 5 was alright. The ending had plot lines that didn’t even go anywhere, like Corey for example.

Lol all this shows (besides Veronica Mars, because I've never seen it) were super cringey and annoying 😭

I love Jane by design it was charming and sweet...kinda disappointed they canceled it...specially at THAT cliff hanger

Yes to all those anybody remember that gymnastics drama Make It or Break It? No... OK...

I would be to scared to even hear that icecream noise at 10 pm :/

J Lo Bay wasn’t that bad, she maybe started off that way, but she was a great person and grew from mistakes. Very unlike Daphne

@@whycaninotfindagood true #teamBay

I stopped watching this show because both these characters became super annoying and brats

I used to love it but then my mom cut me off because she didn’t want me Turning into a brat

@@ohno7018 That makes no sense at all. I recommend that you watch it if you can.

Please

Helena Rosno yes yes!!!!

would be so hilarious to watch :)

Helena Rosno Yes, it's one of my favourite shows that's currently airing, and I'd like to see how he reacts to some of the more "out there" musical numbers!

YESS!

tHATS ME

MTV might block/delete it like they did his Teen Wolf video.

For realllllllll

Check out Rochelle Barrow here on RU-vid. She taught me some stuff.

Oh sweet! Thank you!

@@amorfatikhb Welcome! It was fun for me

It got me to learn ASL and try and fail at becoming an interpreting major but i know ASL.

Same. I started watching RU-vid videos on learning sign language. I only learned a few things tho 🤣

I think she wasn’t worried about how Daphne would act, more like how the other kids would act.

I didn't like the Rivalry between Bay and Daphne in season one, I was a much bigger fan when they became sisters who did anything for the other. But yeah, it did become a classic teen drama, but I wasn't mad at it to be honest. I was here for the ASL.

​@@neivilde.1242 well, if you looked at it closely it was bay who harbored all the rivalry actually. daphne was just mostly trying to keep to herself, and adapt to her new life-situation. on later seasons her character got so ruined for me along with emmett's. i was very fond of the ASL too.

that's seriously upsetting! id like to say that switched at birth started off as a mediocre teen drama that grew into people maturing into adults and making serious decisions. it tackles a lot of tough subjects. although the series was pretty stupid by its fifth season it still never really let go of the idea of being realistic in it's own fictional way. i'd honestly recommend watching the fourth season but stay away from the fifth if you don't want the rest of the show to be disappointing. and yes, the cliffhanger at the end of season 4 looks good but it's really lazy so yeah. at the end of the day, i'll always remember this show because of how unique it is.

@@eVidentt that's so sad to read! I'll watch the final season regardless because I don't like to give up on shows I've already watched and enjoyed most of it. Even if it's bad, it's clousure, to me. Like Once Upon a Time was. Anyway, I agree, SaB always gave us storylines to think about. By the end of the day, it's a show about family and it gives me a good feeling.

Kath I agree. I loved the last season because they involved a baby with Down syndrome. It was very relatable for me... (I went through something similar after having my daughter with Down syndrome) so it really meant a lot to me.

You're not missing anything by skipping the last two seasons. It went downhill.

i felt like with season 5 their job was done. bay and daphne had graduated from university or college and the end of season 4 could’ve been satisfactory if they didn’t add so many unnecessary cliff hangers that were underwhelming when the fifth season aired about 6 months later than it should’ve. with the fifth season, they just tried to force so many political topics that didn’t really need to be political. i don’t want to spoil anything but there was something that happened to bay in season 4 that was horrible but at the end of the day it could’ve happened to anybody and the way they dealt with it seemed realistic. the fifth season to me was underwhelming and disappointing but that’s fine because the show had served its purpose at the end of the day and no matter what season you’re on you’re still going to see what you came to watch.

I’m on season 3 right now 😁

와우Ɲαi yah To me it was just overall how she acted. By the end it was her blaming everyone else for bad things happening when they were her fault in the first place. I guess she just was acting really entitled and it bothered me when I watched it 😂

i know right

@와우Stamped Adventures Ahhh wow!! What?

LIES!!! BAY AND DAPHNE ARE WONDERFUL

They both made shitty decisions over the course of the show.

@@mama456100 like we don't in real life make bad choices sometimes??

@@lawaynesneed6878 nah bae sucked lol. daphne was moderately better. i just felt like bae always whined. i literally watched the show bc the premise was really cool.

Looking back?? By episode 4 I was super done with her. Bae’s reactions were common of a girl going through the crisis of her parents and all, but all parents were so focused on Daphne that she genuinely had no one. Even if she (Bae) was annoying, she still found a way to make the best out of it and Daphne literally became more chaotic as time went on

I completely agree, I wish Alex had touched on it and recognized its value instead of just rendering it as "dumb" for entertainment purposes

Audrey R I mean the points he made are valid; you can’t keep a show running off of just the basis of being switched at birth and they didn’t, they branched out to other things. but it felt like a natural progression of the show and I felt like it was one of a kind in a lot of ways. I loved that their diversity inclusion wasn’t just gender and race based like so many shows but it features differently abled people, regular sized people (not just the skinny skinny models) and of course the Deaf representation is a huge part of the story. The people looked more like the kind of people o see every day and they had difficulties that normal every day people face not just the problems that only seem to happen on tv (but there were some of those too) also I love that when facing difficult issues like sexual assault and racism they were very balanced and showed a lot of different viewpoints. I love that they have characters who don’t agree politically and still get along, I love so many things about the show that you just don’t see in the pilot which is part of why I think you shouldn’t base your judgement entirely off a pilot because pilots are usually so different from the rest of the show in a ton of ways

@@awkwardsity I mean, Switched at Birth was really a fucking dumb show. And this is coming to the basis of a Deaf person.

NeverMindGaming it’s not that I disagree, in a lot of ways it’s nothing special, but for those of us in and around the Deaf community it’s special

I have seen two different versions of The Parent Trap.

Ya Boi yes

Who hasn’t seen parent trap lmao

Who hasn't?

Before that I knew the story as I grew up with it cuz there's an Indian ver of it that was made even yrs before that. But I love Parent Trap so much more

Here, here, let's give a moment's silence for Stan Lee!

💔💔

Excelsior !

RIP ❤️

Rip 🙏 he was amazing man

YESSSS!!!!!

Armin Seyed Nejad that'd be fantastic

Yes.

Yes! So much yes(ness). I loved the TV show and the movie.