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This very weird and very clever TV show already ended in 2004, sadly. Please update this website.
On another note, the shootings that happened only two years later started to make me wonder, "Uh, if these people are never even allowed to stand up for themselves or their neighbors, then what do they do in emergencies?" Oh, I feel so sorry for those students at the schoolhouse. Those poor teenaged girls, they did not exactly need to use their fists. They could have just shouted, "Hey, what's that object over there? Look behind you!", keeping their fingers crossed that it would have worked. However, sadly, no, their faith would never even allow something like that.

I've never seen it but sounds fake. Because Amish wouldn't get excited about flushing a toilet because most of them have indoor plumbing now. Also they've used them in public places. We know because we live in Amish Country. NO WE AREN'T AMISH. Not everyone who lives there is. Only about 10% of the population is Amish, the rest are just like everyone else. They might not use modern technology, but they know about the modern world.

this show jumped the shark from day one. A camera and reality just don't go together. And then when you pair the bad with the good, you end up with mediocre entertainment.

I thought the best moment of TV I have seen in the last year was the Amish going to see the ocean. One girl couldn't sleep the night before and several cried because it was so beautiful. From then on they were the normal ones and the others were the weirdos. Unfortunately the show went downhill week by week. The experiences they had were not ones that everyday non-Amish people face. All the situations were extreme. There were no shades of gray. But at least the Amish had values and a sense of who they are. I can't say that for the city kids.

This show was fascinating the whole way through. Not only for the obvious reason: seeing the world through the eyes of the Amish and how so amazing every new experience was for them (flush toilets! WOW!!) but also because it broke down a lot of stereotypes most of us held regarding the Amish. Most of us would expect them to be totally weird and unable to connect with the city kids, but the opposite happened- the Amish kids turned out to be WAY more normal and well-adjusted than those city brats. It was the AMISH who consistently behaved in a more mature, calm, well-bred manner, in the way they conducted themselves and in how they were 1000 times more open and accepting of other people/cultures than the "worldly" city kids. The city kids constantly embarrassed themselves with their spoiled immaturity (I'M NOT GOING TO AMISH COUNTRY!!! NO WAY!!!) and it was fascinating to see the Amish kids be the "cool" ones (rather than the nerds we expected them to be) as opposed to the childish, whiny city kids. Mose was fantastic, I so enjoyed watching his quiet wisdom permeate everything he said and did. I sure would like to know what happened to him- and the rest of the Amish. The city kids? I couldn't care less about those losers.

This was the most vile excuse for a show ever put on tv (with exception maybe of star search)All this was was some puke of an anti religious producer putting these kids on display and smoking them showing them "look how foolish you are thing are so much better for the rest of us" shallow self promoting creeps one and all. And I am not even religious!

The greatest reality show concept ever! Whoever put the cast together should get an Emmy. Vegan chick, ultra-gay dude,... all classic. The funniest part was at some point every show the one Amish gal would excitedly tell the camera it was her first time doing something, all in that heavy German/Dutch accent. "I haad nei-voor sceen tha ooh-shahn be-foor..." "I haad nei-voor sceen a con-soort bee-foor..." I mean come on, her parents must have kept her in a cage in the basement or something, because she had never seen or done ANYTHING before apparently. If they kept her another season, they would have had to come up with wilder and wilder stuff for her to do. Imagine season 3 of Amish in the City: "I haad nee-vor beeen een ah three-way gang bang with a midget beee-fooor..."

Exposing Amish "kids" to unreal and surreal activities and environments that "normal folk" experience is not a good foundation for showing them what life is like outside of Amish life and having them base their entire future lives on. The person who pitched this must've been reading the country-mouse/city-mouse to his children. My wife watched this show and was supper-into it. I laughed my ass off when they changed the airing date by one day for the finale and she missed it.

This show was surprisingly brilliant!! Finally, a show that does not shame simplicity, honesty in character and religious values. It was fun to watch wholesome people. I enjoyed watching people whose religious values are important to their daily lives. I really don't know why, I was born and raised in LA with your average family and religious life. I have all of the fast paced excitement at my fingertips (I live in Vegas now). I want to know more about that great family life they described growing up in an Amish community (not that mine was so bad). Just want to see the other side of the fence.

Amish in the City never jumped because of the fact the first season will always be the best one. Any future installments will always be of lesser quality because the novelty wears off. I watched the whole thing from beginning to end and even though it's a highly scripted "reality show" and never shows us what happened off camera, what was on camera kept you entertained. UPN should just try something new and not try to Jump the Shark with the "Amish in the City" concept by making a sequel. But going by the nature of the "suits" in the business, "dollar signs" will be the only things on their mind. The only thing they should do is make a reunion special about a year from now to see how the lives of the city kids and Amish kids have changed since they lived together in the same house.

The problem with this show is the selection of the city kids. Most of them are incredibly close-minded. Kevon seems like the only one to have any desire to learn or appreciate anything to do with the Amish culture. The reaction to the rest of the city kids when they found out they were going to spend a few days in Amish country was down right embarrassing. Their flat out refusal to do any physical labor was just ridiculous. ...but by far, the city kid me and my g/f can't stand the most is Nick. Nick seems like a guy who has seen Good Will Hunting or something too many times.. With that meathead tone and meathead attitude. I was shocked that he sort of could play the guitar - as he looks like the type of person who has a guitar and carries it around him just because it seems "cool." It just seems like each time he opens his mouth, its one more idiotic comment to further drive home the point that he is a total phony. I'm shocked he hasn't donned a John Deere cap yet... (of course, he does have his trendy gas station attendant shirt on).

It is alright if more of the same. The Amish seem fake and the token gay characters are always the most irritating bitches. Why do they show so many people huddled under blankets sleeping in these "reality shows"? They argue over the most stupid crap and why are all the guys allergic to shirts?...OH, ratings.God forbid Mose should run around less clothed more often. He looks too much like more of the regular human population. I like his mood and father role here.

When the roommates asked Kevan which parent was Persian and he replied," My stepfather." Then not only did the group diss him, but so did the middle eastern chick from the festival.

This show really had the potential to be a very good show. This was owing the Amish kids who were all at a very important point in their lives in deciding whether stay in the secular world or rejoin their families in the Amish community. This coming of age decision has an added power when one realizes that if they decide to stay in the secular world that means their Amish families need to thereafter shun them. However by the same token if they return to the Amish community that means they give up the obvious benefits available to them of living in the secular world. It's a tough choice and unfortunately the "city kids" that they've paired these wonderful Amish people with are ill equipped to show appreciation for anything, let alone the serious choice their Amish peers face. To use some for instances, Reese -- "the gay guy"-- seems hell bent to go out of his way to show that he's gay in everything he does. I mean, it's like he's consciously trying to make a point of showing that he's gay instead of just being gay. And yes, if truth be told he was lusting after one of his fellow male city kids. Another obnoxious city kid is Whitney. Over weight, obviously insecure, Whitney is, well, literally just as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside. For being the sole African American it is surprising how little she appreciates what the Amish must feel like being essentially minorities in the city community. She never hesitates to make fun of them and bait them. Also a recent episode where she was getting a facial was scary in revealing just how many bumps she has on her face. Yet another scary kid is Megan. Supposedly the "fashion person" Megan shows the least fashion and cosmetic sense of anyone, from the city or the Amish. In terms of cosmetics, she makes Tammy Faye Baker look like "natural look." The two city kids who had potential were Kevan and Ariel. Kevan a weight lifter (the guy who Reese had the hots for) at least had the courtesy to try and learn something about the Amish. However, his character has gotten too caught up in snot fights with some of the other city kids. Ariel is a vegan who never hesitates to give long speeches about how animals died for the food industry. However, and this is important, Ariel is also very, very hot. A pretty face, a great body, pictures of Ariel in a bikini or Ariel just standing around are never unappreciated. However, and this is where the show jumped the shark, it was truly gross when Ariel paired off with the final city kid, Nick. Nick is to this show seriously what Steve the fat guy was in My big fat fiance jokingly. Nick is uncouth, uneducated uninteresting. The scenes of him and Ariel kissing tempt the gag reflex. No Ariel, no matter how much you kiss him he will not turn into not being a gross pig. In fact by going out with him Ariel shows that all vegan I care about the world stuff really is just so much bunk. Next time they do this show they should concentrate just on the Amish.

The first episode because it just seems so fake. The people are not really amish! They all already have modern clothes when they get to the house and they just seem like actors.