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Title: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Supertoaster on July 22, 2012, 06:21:40 PM
They used to be good. Now its always a reality show about a bunch of guys cutting down tree's, 2012 Nostradomus shit, Pawn Stars, Ancient Aliens with more drama then actual show.


Discuss
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: ursus on July 22, 2012, 06:29:05 PM
Don't forget "Jesus was a gay alien."
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Tiger Guy on July 22, 2012, 06:30:03 PM
>Pawn Stars
>not good
(http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5256/5559512265_15b8b56c54.jpg&sa=X&ei=9agMUIzNO6jq2AXQqNgk&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEOASgUGFo9CXGpsehw0_A2qPnhGA)
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Supertoaster on July 22, 2012, 06:36:28 PM
>Pawn Stars
>not good
(http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5256/5559512265_15b8b56c54.jpg&sa=X&ei=9agMUIzNO6jq2AXQqNgk&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEOASgUGFo9CXGpsehw0_A2qPnhGA)
ask deacon about it
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Cake Faice on July 22, 2012, 06:46:43 PM
>Pawn Stars
>not good
(http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5256/5559512265_15b8b56c54.jpg&sa=X&ei=9agMUIzNO6jq2AXQqNgk&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEOASgUGFo9CXGpsehw0_A2qPnhGA)
I've passed by their shop so many times. I might end up going there and get a cheap guitar for christmas or something. I was going to test a theory of getting a used toothpick, going to the shop, and claim it was used by Eric Clapton, and see how much they'd haggle me down in price for it. Maybe if I asked for Chumlee it might work.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: ursus on July 22, 2012, 06:55:23 PM
I've passed by their shop so many times. I might end up going there and get a cheap guitar for christmas or something. I was going to test a theory of getting a used toothpick, going to the shop, and claim it was used by Eric Clapton, and see how much they'd haggle me down in price for it. Maybe if I asked for Chumlee it might work.


I will mail you $20 if you videotape you walking in and asking for Battletoads.

Please.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Cake Faice on July 22, 2012, 06:59:10 PM
I will mail you $20 if you videotape you walking in and asking for Battletoads.

Please.
I'd probably get my ass handed to me by the bald guy.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Sabb on July 22, 2012, 06:59:52 PM
They used to be good. Now its always a reality show about a bunch of guys cutting down tree's, 2012 Nostradomus shit, Pawn Stars, Ancient Aliens with more drama then actual show.


Discuss
You have no say in this.
Also, Pawn Stars is awesome. What's wrong with it?
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Seb on July 22, 2012, 07:11:32 PM
Pawn Stars is great.

While we're on the subject, can anybody tell me who said "a guitar won't play blues unless you got it from a pawn shop"?
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Deacon on July 22, 2012, 07:15:06 PM
PAWN STARS IS A CON.

My dad was on that show.

We went in and its just a normal ass pawn shop in a bad part of town. Its old, run down, fucking walls cracked outside and shit.
The guys you see on the show don't "work". They are just there for filming. Sure, they're the owners and all, but they stay in the back (unless filming, or making the 100 guests there to see their dumb shit happy). You can't walk in and talk to them.

All filming done on the show is staged. They tell you what you have to ask for, the amounts and whatnot.
If you have a story about the item, you can tell it...but if they don't like it, they make you change it.


If you didn't know it was on TV, you would go to the shop, then turn around and leave. It's like any other pawn shop in this town (though they get their high price items due to the publicity of the show, now).
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Cake Faice on July 22, 2012, 07:20:31 PM
PAWN STARS IS A CON.

My dad was on that show.

We went in and its just a normal ass pawn shop in a bad part of town. Its old, run down, fucking walls cracked outside and shit.
The guys you see on the show don't "work". They are just there for filming. Sure, they're the owners and all, but they stay in the back (unless filming, or making the 100 guests there to see their dumb shit happy). You can't walk in and talk to them.

All filming done on the show is staged. They tell you what you have to ask for, the amounts and whatnot.
If you have a story about the item, you can tell it...but if they don't like it, they make you change it.


If you didn't know it was on TV, you would go to the shop, then turn around and leave. It's like any other pawn shop in this town (though they get their high price items due to the publicity of the show, now).

...how bad would it be if you actually try to sell a physical copy of Battletoads to them?
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Deacon on July 22, 2012, 07:25:52 PM
...how bad would it be if you actually try to sell a physical copy of Battletoads to them?

A: I had to google that. wtf.
B: You wouldn't get a reaction, because you wouldn't be showing it to the guys you see on the show. You'd be showing the normal employees. Which they have. And they're douches (probably hate all the tourists). Only if they think its interesting, you take it to the producers. If the producers think its interesting, they show the OTHER producers. Then the guys parade it around the back office for awhile. Never during the process do you talk to the guys you see on camera. They just come take the item from you. If they want to film it, they "will call you".

You get there, they tell you what to do.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Cake Faice on July 22, 2012, 07:28:54 PM
A: I had to google that. wtf.
B: You wouldn't get a reaction, because you wouldn't be showing it to the guys you see on the show. You'd be showing the normal employees. Which they have. And they're douches (probably hate all the tourists). Only if they think its interesting, you take it to the producers. If the producers think its interesting, they show the OTHER producers. Then the guys parade it around the back office for awhile. Never during the process do you talk to the guys you see on camera. They just come take the item from you. If they want to film it, they "will call you".

You get there, they tell you what to do.

Damn...so much for that one. But on a relevant topic:

Pawn Stars Parody: Presidential Poo (Animated) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydWcaXd3Mo#ws)
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Sabb on July 22, 2012, 07:55:07 PM
PAWN STARS IS A CON.

My dad was on that show.

We went in and its just a normal ass pawn shop in a bad part of town. Its old, run down, fucking walls cracked outside and shit.
The guys you see on the show don't "work". They are just there for filming. Sure, they're the owners and all, but they stay in the back (unless filming, or making the 100 guests there to see their dumb shit happy). You can't walk in and talk to them.

All filming done on the show is staged. They tell you what you have to ask for, the amounts and whatnot.
If you have a story about the item, you can tell it...but if they don't like it, they make you change it.


If you didn't know it was on TV, you would go to the shop, then turn around and leave. It's like any other pawn shop in this town (though they get their high price items due to the publicity of the show, now).
That's basically every reality TV show though. I don't really see a big problem with it as it's still entertaining.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Seb on July 22, 2012, 07:56:07 PM
While we're on the subject, can anybody tell me who said "a guitar won't play blues unless you got it from a pawn shop"?
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Nemisous on July 22, 2012, 07:58:25 PM
They used to be good. Now its always a reality show about a bunch of guys cutting down tree's, 2012 Nostradomus shit, Pawn Stars, Ancient Aliens with more drama then actual show.


Discuss

Dont forget about American Sodomites and American Glossification. Its a good thing the Military Channel will never suffer these effect.....til they starts showing shit like Army Wives.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Cake Faice on July 22, 2012, 08:26:31 PM

Sounds something like Muddy Waters or B.B. King
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Alkaline on July 22, 2012, 09:27:58 PM
What about Storage Wars on A&E? That's a fun show to watch. It's obvious half the people stand there for show but I'm not sure if the show buys the storage cells and make shows around the miscellaneous stuff they find.

Tru TV hauled it the extra mile and made a Pawn show for almost everything.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Shawn on July 22, 2012, 09:35:40 PM
:s I never see much reality tv on the history channel.... maybe becuase i watch very late at night? its always movies on when i tune in....
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Supertoaster on July 22, 2012, 10:09:44 PM
I wasn't trying to talk about how the shows are bad.

I'm trying to talk about how they went from actual shows that could teach you something to this kind of stuff.

Also, Hardcore Pawn on Tru TV = a black woman screaming about how she wont get $100 for her sons stolen PS3. However. They wen't full retard and I have to purchase the channel now if I want to watch it. It was free before.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Captain Communism on July 23, 2012, 10:21:28 AM
I'd say this sums it up
(http://images.4chan.org/v/src/1343062742814.jpg)
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: ursus on July 23, 2012, 11:15:08 AM
Basically, the History channel became the Future channel.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Alphaggot on July 23, 2012, 04:41:36 PM
Do they still play 'How it's made'?


I stopped watching it after my family canceled tv service.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Nemisous on July 23, 2012, 05:40:54 PM
Ah history channel, once it taught us about science and history. Now its teaches us how to pawn and sell are precious family items for rent money.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Alkaline on July 23, 2012, 05:44:46 PM
Do they still play 'How it's made'?
I think that show is dedicated to the Science and Discovery Channels only.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: ๖Ϝцzsioᴎ on July 26, 2012, 12:43:34 AM
Mountain men, and Swamp People are not history, and should be on Discovery instead of HISTORY.
.-.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Eion Kilant 739 on July 26, 2012, 09:12:59 AM
I grew up watching the History channel. I now do not watch it at all simply because of how much they have changed.

I actually don't watch TV at all anymore.
Title: Re: History Channel and Discovery Channel are becoming MTV
Post by: Supertoaster on July 27, 2012, 05:14:48 PM
I keep the TV on to mute my own voice from the rest of my house when I talk. That's it.

I love Allstate/State Farm/Progressive insurance ads, though.