Star Trek Props on Pawn Stars

[coolhanluked]

The TV series Storage Wars was also accused of using staged items in their show, instead of supposedly found in storage lockers.

I worked on storage wars for a bit. It was completely staged.

 

[coolhanluked]

Most reality shows are devoid of reality

All reality shows are fake. I worked on a lot of them. Every last part is scripted and staged.

 

[Jintosh]

I worked on storage wars for a bit. It was completely staged.

Yeah, I guess it's really about the people,....so, a modern day soap opera. Not much else.

 

[coolhanluked]

Yeah, I guess it's really about the people,....so, a modern day soap opera. Not much else.

Pretty much. Theres a saying in the business. "No drama no show". Reality tv was some of the worst crap i ever worked on.

 

[kruleworld]

I worked on storage wars for a bit. It was completely staged.

I supposed if you're contracted to make 13 episodes in a season, you can't really wait around for stuff to happen that may be good enough for the show. kinda sad though.

 

[coolhanluked]

I supposed if you're contracted to make 13 episodes in a season, you can't really wait around for stuff to happen that may be good enough for the show. kinda sad though.

Ha! Thats true.

 

[SickleClaw]

Virtually everything on Pawn Stars was a fake /set up. While it is possible the item was real, the back story likely was not. We rented things to a number of this type of show. I know of a couple of things on Pawn Stars that where borrowed from small museums as props.

I had long suspected/known that these things are set up... yeah i figure the same is true for storage wars, american picking, pawn stars, with these rented props items. I know that a lot of times the fakeness goes all the way down to the prices which are agreed on before. And sometimes the scripted stuff with Chumlee can get beyond cringe when he does stuff that would get him fired in an instant in a real shop.

 

[Jintosh]

Like when Chumlee took a bunch of solid silver quarters and put them into a vending machine ?
Current price for a solid silver quarter is like $8 or something. Nobody in the business would stick $8 quarters into a vending machine at face value.

 

[Zombie_61]

I supposed if you're contracted to make 13 episodes in a season, you can't really wait around for stuff to happen that may be good enough for the show. kinda sad though.

Not only that, but it costs a lot of money to produce a television show so they have to account for everything that's supposed to happen long before they even start filming.

But each show handles things somewhat differently because of the different natures of the shows. American Pickers, for example, sends a crew out to look over whatever Mr. & Mrs. Hoarder are sitting on in their barn. If it's worth it Mike and Frank will pay them a visit, but the crew won't tell them what's there; they'll have to find it themselves. Sometimes they get a little "nudge" to move them in the right direction, other times they find things even the advance crew didn't find. But time is money, so they don't just randomly drive through the neighborhood looking for targets regardless of how they make it look on the show because they might strike out, and that would be far too costly.

 

[Jintosh]

Yep, shooting lots of film that can't be used would make the show non-viable.
They have to make sure they're going to places that actually HAVE stuff before they even arrive.

 

[Riceball]

But each show handles things somewhat differently because of the different natures of the shows. American Pickers, for example, sends a crew out to look over whatever Mr. & Mrs. Hoarder are sitting on in their barn. If it's worth it Mike and Frank will pay them a visit, but the crew won't tell them what's there; they'll have to find it themselves.

With American Pickers it was really obvious that the show was at least partially staged since you'd always Mike and Frank pulling up to Mr. & Mrs. Hoarder's driveway as well as see Mr. & Mrs. Hoarder answer the door (from the inside), when Mike and Frank come a knocking.

 

[SickleClaw]

Like when Chumlee took a bunch of solid silver quarters and put them into a vending machine ?
Current price for a solid silver quarter is like $8 or something. Nobody in the business would stick $8 quarters into a vending machine at face value.

Not only that but when he used the shops money to go to a bank and get like 500 all exchanged into quarters so he could go through them for one of the W mint quarters or whatever...and then used shop card to buy a hotel room/room service for himself. And then wasn't immediately fired when Rick and Corey traced his activities to the hotel room and confronted him.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Wait, what, woah!!!

You are telling me that all the “Reality TV” shows on TLC and Lifetime, starring various people of small stature, in mildly interesting situations, are all staged????

My sense of my own reality is now shattered. Every life lesson I have ever learned, over the past few years, has been revealed to be a lie.

Never again can I say to my friends, “Wait a second. Before you make that important life decision, I think you should watch episode number 408 of Little People Big World, and see how family patriarch Matt Roloff dealt with a similar situation...”

I will cry myself to sleep, tonight, weeping bitter tears into my pillow. The wisdom of the people of small stature is nothing more than a Hollywood fantasy.