seriously, ever since I found out they plant their "amazing finds" in the lockers I can't watch, im amazed the network just ignores that and keeps churning it out like this, if they stopped the tomfoolery (yikes) the show would be pretty interesting. have the producers talked at all about this?
shareI kind of understand why the producers plant items, because 98% of the lockers would be nothing but trash with no value items.. No one would watch, the show would be cancelled within weeks..
share<<I kind of understand why the producers plant items, because 98% of the lockers would be nothing but trash with no value items.. No one would watch, the show would be cancelled within weeks..>>
You have to reckon any of these shows, whether it's Storage Wars, or any of those pawn shop shows, or any of the other similar programs, they're not going to do a show on something, just on the off chance that something interesting might happen. You think it was just dumb luck that Barry happened to find a very rare Revenge Of The Jedi jacket in one of his lockers?! Something like that had to have been planted.
Asf far the network allowing it, they let Duck Dynasty on the air, which is way worse than Storage Wars. The guys on Duck Dynasty aren't even real rednecks. They were clean shaven rich kids who hung out at the country club, until someone came up with the idea for the TV show, and so they started growing their beards like they were forming a ZZ Top tribute band (is anyone here besides me even old enough to remember ZZ Top?!). And don't even get me started on Si.
Personally, I liked the show best when Barry was there, pulling all of his crazy antics, like the time he brought the psychic with him, and Hester got all upset about how Barry was making a mockery of his living or whatever. Or the time he brought the German guys who were supposed to distract the other bidders. I also liked the time that he bought a locker, which turned out to be one half of a two locker pair, and Brandi and Jared had the other half. After they struck a deal about figuring out how to split up the stuff, and Barry walks away, Jared says, "I feel like I just made a deal with the devil" (and that also reminds me of Jared's comment in one show, "There's a lot of people here...and Barry!").
Dirty mattress, box of crappy clothes, cheap dishes and Bam! Faberge egg!
shareAre you saying all these shows (Storage Wars , Curse of Oak Island , Hunting Hitler, etc....) aren't on the level, so to speak?????????
I have a feeling the only reality TV show ever that was actually on the level was An American Family. Contrary to popular belief, MTV did NOT invent reality TV with The Real World.
PBS ran An American Family back in the early 70's, when they sent a camera crew to follow a family around for several months. They ended chronicling the parents' separation and eventual divorce. The oldest son, Lance Loud, came out of the closet during the show's run, which theoretically makes him the first continuing gay character on a US TV show (if you can consider a real life person to be "a character").
Even then, there were talk of the producers editing the footage they had at hand in such a fashion as to emphasize all the negative stuff.