Pawn Stars

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Why History Channel can't find a couple of people with a little charm and class to put on television instead of those losers, I don't know. All the show is about is ripping off desperate people. Even the show's title is tacky.

I'd rather watch Antiques Roadshow.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'd rather watch Antiques Roadshow.

Why can't PBS find some people with charm?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Why History Channel can't find a couple of people with a little charm and class to put on television instead of those losers, I don't know. All the show is about is ripping off desperate people. Even the show's title is tacky.

I'd rather watch Antiques Roadshow.

Have you tried American Pickers? It might be more up your alley, I've only seen one episode but it felt a lot more like Antiques Roadshow except with the buyers meeting the public instead of vice versa. They spend a lot of time hunting and showing the stuff they aren't able to buy in addition to the items they are snagging.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Ryan, true enough, but if I can make a couple of thousand more auctioning the rare item after the acution house takes their cut I would do it.

 

[Kail]

I've never heard anyone say Chumly is family. I think he's just an old friend of Big Hoss.

 

[mythme]

They've explained that Chumley and Hoss have been best friends since they were 10. Why that qualifies him as an employee is beyond me. I guess he just does all the grunt work. They've shown other employees in those back rooms; i guess they just don't have enough charisma to get on-screen (although they did feature a ditzy young thang in early episodes who got canned for arriving late repeatedly)

 

[bigdaddy]

They've explained that Chumley and Hoss have been best friends since they were 10. Why that qualifies him as an employee is beyond me. I guess he just does all the grunt work. They've shown other employees in those back rooms; i guess they just don't have enough charisma to get on-screen (although they did feature a ditzy young thang in early episodes who got canned for arriving late repeatedly)

I thought Chumley was a cousin. The young girl was a cousin/niece, I know that for sure.

 

[Nowhere Man]

What happened was ratings. They need higher ratings and the reality/doomsday shows deliver that.

Too bad as I enjoyed the history better.

But I do like Pawn Stars at times even if it is pure editing and staging. Chumley can't be as dumb as they show, that has to be editing. If he were that stupid there is no way they would keep him behind the counter. I can't imagine he really appreciates the depiction (unless he is that stupid).

I understand that ratings were low, but look at Discovery I mean yeah they have reality shows, but they still maintain a lot of Science and Discovering. History offers little to no actual History, I'm sick of hearing about Nostradamas and The Myan calander. I was into when I was a teenager, I don't believe in it anymore. You know what interests me is the actual Mysns, not thier frackin calander. The world is not going to end, quit making people think it will. It just drives me nuts, I can't learn anything, I just have to watch someone fight over race cars or logs or how much they think thier guitar is worth. The other thing that drives me nuts is seeing grown men spend do much time and money into proving or disproving aliens and monsters. Come back when you have real evidence and not just hearsay. I believe or am willing to believe in these things, but I'm not seeing anything that wasent covered in the 90's or on the X-Files. The ratings went down because OC the constant WW2 shows, not because we want to see reality shows.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The ratings went down because OC the constant WW2 shows, not because we want to see reality shows.

Do you have any statistics or any other hard numbers to show the programmers at History to support the contention that they would be getting better ratings with "some kind of history besides WW2 shows" than they're getting with their current programs, and for a similar cost?

 

[bigdaddy]

All History Channel used to be was WW2 shows and UFOs, at least now they have different things.

 

[propita]

They've explained that Chumley and Hoss have been best friends since they were 10. Why that qualifies him as an employee is beyond me. I guess he just does all the grunt work. They've shown other employees in those back rooms; i guess they just don't have enough charisma to get on-screen (although they did feature a ditzy young thang in early episodes who got canned for arriving late repeatedly)

I thought Chumley was a cousin. The young girl was a cousin/niece, I know that for sure.

Yeah, the girl was Hoss' cousin, Rick's niece--I think his wife's sibling's (brother?sister?) girl. Not sure if she's related to The Old Man or not.


Chumley is Hoss' childhood friend. Yeah, he IS that stupid. I think the family puts up with him because they do like him and know that he's actually lost without them. Rick said, "He's a village idiot, but he's my village idiot." And honestly, he has been right on a couple of things. Not many, but a couple. And he's their guinea pig. He's lazy and dumb as a stump, but he will never intentionally screw them. Likely he'll do it unintentionally.

You can get pissed at him, but can't really stay pissed. Not forever.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I enjoy Pawn Stars, though I'm a bigger fan of American Pickers as I've known Mike Wolfe for years and I'm proud to call him a friend. (The NDA while History was deciding whether or not to pick his show up was a bitch and a half, though.)

Keep in mind that the vast majority of the people going to the shop in Pawn Stars are idiots who have lost their life savings at a blackjack table, so they need money and they need it now.

American Pickers is such a great show. And Mike seems like a really down-to-earth guy. He chit-chats with people on his Facebook wall all the time.

 

[Timby]

He's incredibly down-to-earth. He really is just a ridiculously enthusiastic, goofy guy who loves antiques and old stuff. I don't see him as often as I used to since I moved to Wisconsin, but we do meet up when we can. Every so often, I watch my copy of the proof-of-concept video I produced a few years ago for him (the video he used to pitch the show to various channels), and it's amazing how close the finished product on History is to how he envisioned it.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I love the characters on this show, and the bits of history that the experts bring to it.

Don't like American Pickers because it reminds me too much of the UK's daytime crap like Cash In The Attic, and anything with David Dickinson in it. All right, it's way better than that UK daytime crap, but still doesn't have the hilarious character interaction that Pawn Stars gives us.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

He's incredibly down-to-earth. He really is just a ridiculously enthusiastic, goofy guy who loves antiques and old stuff. I don't see him as often as I used to since I moved to Wisconsin, but we do meet up when we can. Every so often, I watch my copy of the proof-of-concept video I produced a few years ago for him (the video he used to pitch the show to various channels), and it's amazing how close the finished product on History is to how he envisioned it.

Yeah, he definitely comes across as very genuine. I'm glad the two of them were able to achieve so much success doing what they love. It really shows in the series, and I think that's a large part of its appeal.

 

[Scout101]

I think the one thing I see as missing on the American Pickers show is the RESULT. They show them picking stuff out, and what they pay the people for it, and then just a random number for how much it's "worth". Seems really arbitrary, and often a guess. Would be more interesting if the number they showed at the end is what it ends up selling for after, to get a real idea of return on investment...

 

[Maestro]

Whenever I hear the name Chumley I can't help but think of the Tennessee Tuxedo show.

Chumlee isn't his name, it's his nickname, and it was given to him because of the Tennessee Tuxedo show.

 

[Timby]

Yeah, his real name is Austin Russell, or something along those lines.

His Twitter is perversely hilarious.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I love this show too!

Chumlee does seem awfully dumb, but there were two episodes that i remember off the top of my head where his appraisal of an item blew me away. He really knew what he was talking about (one was for sneakers. Can't remember what the other was for.) So, he may look dumb, but when it comes to certain items, he does know his stuff!

What made me laugh was in one episode where a woman came in with a vintage Faberge Black Widow Spider brooch. She initially wanted like $2000 i think. Rick said he was too honest to give her that little, and offered her $15,000. The woman comes back with ,"How about $17,000?" WTF? Was she kidding?

Meanwhile, i did a little research afterwards and that brooch could have gone for even way more. That kind of item should be brought to an auction house, not a pawn shop.

I love American Pickers and Roadshow too. I really love all of those types of shows as i am into picking myself.

 

[Maestro]

According to the show, Chumlee is a warehouse of knowledge when it comes to the NBA and basketball shoes.