MPDP appears, wearing a black sweater with a modified Union Jack image on it, jeans, and an off-white coat. Since there isn't quite enough international tension in the world at present, the bright bulbs at Trading Spaces have decided to send Gen and Hildi to London. MPDP welcomes us to Trading Spaces, the "program on the telly" (with the predictable bad English accent) where two sets of neighbours swap houses...you know the drill. She carries on: "Well, God save the Queen, 'cause Trading Spaces has jumped the pond to London, England." They're redecorating flats in Westminster. She adds that the homeowners "truly reflect the international nature of this great city." Meaning, of course, that in a population of something like seven million people, not one of the participants is actually English. Perhaps all the English folk knew better than to sign up with this crew, or maybe they're all holding their breath to be on Changing Rooms, the British show on which Trading Spaces is based.

We see Laura -- who's American but has been living in London for the last ten years -- and her cute Scottish "friend" Moray, who will be her partner for the purposes of this show. Whether they are other than friends is anyone's guess, since there are clues leading to various conclusions throughout the show. Moray and Laura walk out into Laura's garden to kick around a soccer ball. The other homeowners are Jovo (a British citizen from Yugoslavia) and Kim (an American); we see them walking merrily down the street with their two daughters, Camille and Yasmina.

MPDP's back with more quasi-British accented commentary: "Well, we might be playing an away match of sorts, but we can't bloody well be changing the rules of game, now, can we?" I don't know if this is going to be shown in the U.K., but I figure if it is, viewers all over the British Isles will be laughing themselves sick as they heap scorn on the fake accents from the Americans. I think it would do wonders for international relations if everybody stopped imitating or mocking everybody else's accents, but that's probably just me. MPDP informs us that the designers will have ₤648 to work with, and introduces the team, who are walking around the Abbey Road area: "Handy" Andy Kane, of Changing Rooms, wearing his trademark "Handy Andy" sweatshirt. Then there's Gen, who seems to think she's auditioning for the Radio City Rockettes, or something, since she keeps doing high kicks. She appears to be barefoot, despite the weather's being cold enough to require jackets. (I guess Paul is her favourite.) Hildi skips happily after Gen, kicking, but not quite as high. The three of them are shown crossing Abbey Road, in the manner of the Beatles. However, as several forum posters have pointed out, the walking is a bit more John Cleese than John Lennon. It might have been cool if they'd set up the shot exactly like the album cover, but they didn't. They could have used MPDP to fill it out. Anyway, as they cross, there's a white van stopped, its driver watching them, and you can just hear the driver thinking, "Flippin' exuberant idiots. Must be Yanks." What I wouldn't give for a Pop-Up Video version of this show!