http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMzxBwuoGMw

Anyone else watch this? It's Hoarders meets Pawn Kings.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Like this show a lot Jimmy. Some interesting hoarders....I mean "collectors".

And welcome back.

That show fucking sucks...

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

I watch it occasionally. They seem to have a very limited range of items that they want to purchase. Their interminable search for vintage signs is fucking boring.

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Yes,you guys are right but still,I keep watching. Not stuff I would want but it still is interesting including the people they meet. One guy created an entire "town" in the back of his farm with little buildings that held all kinds of junk...I mean collectables.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

She's married with a bunch of kids. That information should have been kept off the air.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Oh yeah! Is she hotter than the tattooed girl with the glasses on Pawn Stars? Neither of them do it for me more than the two Pawn Girls from Naperville who did have their own show. Don't know if it's still on anymore.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

That show was awful. The network should have been shut down for putting that crap on.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

A friend of mine lives pretty close to their shop in Davenport. She says that since the show started, they're less about selling the actual goods than they are about selling t-shirts and coffee mugs.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I'd buy that for a dollar:

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

That's interesting. So what looks like crap to me is actually crap. What kind of client base is in Iowa anyway?? Just more shitkickers who are not paying top dollar for a rusted Sunoco sign.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I can absolutely see that.

The only of these shows that seems to have any substance is American Restoration. Now they only show 1 percent of the work but the items do actually get restored and they look great upon completion. Its just hard to say who is actually doing the work.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I'm sure they hit a home run once in awhile, but I'm sure it's mostly just grinding out a small margin like most any other business.

People see morons like Darrell Sheets and they figure anyone can go buy a storage locker for $500 and find a 3000 dollar bill inside. It's not really that easy.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Burlesque is for fat broads who wish they were hot enough to be strippers. Keep telling yourself it's about "female empowerment".

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I remember going to a strip club in Cicero as a young man. Looked like Burlesque was popular in that suburb.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Show of Shows. All-Star Revue.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Quad Cities, representing'!!!

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Man,is this what has happened to TV? A reality show inspires a comedy about the guy in the reality show? I love AmPic but c'mon now!


EXCLUSIVE: Mike Wolfe, the creator and star of History’s hit docu-reality series American Pickers, is venturing into scripted programming with a multi-camera comedy at CBS. The untitled project, from CBS TV Studios and studio-based Tannenbaum Co., is a workplace comedy set in an antiques and collectibles shop. It is based on Wolfe’s experiences starting off as a picker in his 20s, crisscrossing the country in search for valuable antiques and collectables. Tom Brady is set to write the script, with Fred Savage on board to direct the potential pilot. Wolfe, Brady, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum executive produce. “The story is based on my life as a picker, sure, but its appeal is that it’s really about everybody who ever looked for a treasure at a yard sale, bought a lottery ticket, rented a metal detector for a day at the beach or just found a curious old thing and wondered where it came from and if it was worth anything,” Wolfe said. “That’s just about everybody I know.”

American Pickers was a breakout hit for History when it premiered in 2010, becoming the year’s top new cable unscripted series. Wolfe, Brady and the Tannenbaums are with CAA.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Shouldn't Tom Brady be concentrating on football?

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That kind of touches on one of the underlying things I dislike about the show. And they can't really get into it because it would make the leads as unlikeable as they undoubtedly are in real life. They show those two making square deals with crafty old weirdos in little places like Anna, Illinois and they always spin it as if everything is a win/win.

That can't be reality though. I'm going to speak from personal experience here. For a long time I ran an electronics company. Eventually, we opened a retail outlet as a way for my partner and I to put a few extra bucks in our pockets. I actually did a lot of the repairs myself, mostly speakers. But anyway, I developed this motley crew of "pickers" that would bring me the stuff they picked at garage sales and such for clean up and repair.

I liked a lot of these guys, but most of them were scumbags. The kind of guys that see an ad saying the garage sale starts Friday at 10:00 am and knock on the door during Thursday night dinner to get a jump on the other assholes just like them.

One day, one of them came in with two vintage McIntosh amps. These were the kind of things I could sell to a guy in Japan for about $3,500 each. A recent widow of a guy who was an old time high end audiophile had a garage sale to clear the basement of the dead guy's stuff. She had the amps on a table marked at $50 each. But my douchebag couldn't just hand her the hundo. No, he had to bargain her down to fifty for the pair. Fuck, I probably would have thrown the old lady a little extra. But this guy was so proud of what he did. I Think I charged him more than I normally would have to fix one of the amps.

That's the dirty unspoken secret of American Pickers.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

1. No one pays full price at a garage sale.
2. I have seen on the show several times the guys offering more than what was asked. Even saw an episode where after they got an item appraised, they sent even more money back to the guy because they felt bad.

That's kind of my point. I don't think they feel bad and send extra money when there are no cameras rolling and only a scumbag wouldn't give an old lady her full price of $50 on an amplifier he knows he's going to sell next week for three grand.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Emeril thinks this is a great idea.

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Do the offers the Pawn Star guys give out offend you as well?

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I've seen a lot of episodes of this show. Overall I enjoy it but it can get tiresome buying old
toys that don't work and haggling over rusty signs. A lot of these shows including Storage
Wars and Pawn Stars have a similar formulaic problem.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

It doesn't offend me. I just think it's phony. They give out way too much. I saw them way overpay for a set of fishing lures. That would never happen at a "real" pawn shop. Go take some old lures in and see.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don