I saw the old man last month at a show, he's HUGE.
Jr's pretty good-sized himself, and mikey's at least 6'3".
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I saw the old man last month at a show, he's HUGE.
Jr's pretty good-sized himself, and mikey's at least 6'3".
cool. paul sr was bench pressing 410 the other night on one of the shows. so he may be 50, but he still is pretty damn stout. i can hardley get 300lbs and i'm in my prime!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Quote:
Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
"Alright tomorrow we gotta big day ahead of us, and we're short on time. Let's go bowling!"
I noticed that, too.
Sr. rides everybody's ass about needing to get a bike built in less than a week, but seems to be the first one to say, "Okay, let's get out of here. We've got a busy day tomorrow."
Every episode I've seen recently has a sequence where Sr. and the crew leave the shop before it has gotten dark.
Now, if you're on a deadline, why not just pull a few long days instead of doing 9-5 all week? They could stay in that fabrication shop until dawn if they wanted to.
It sucks, and I can understand why they DON'T, but if you've got two or three days to get a chopper built before going to prime & paint, don't piss away your time by going out bowling or getting lunch.
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ February 17, 2004 04:34 PM: Message edited by: White Line Nightmare ]</font>
yeah, Sr's wacky like that.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Quote:
Originally posted by White Line Nightmare:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
"Alright tomorrow we gotta big day ahead of us, and we're short on time. Let's go bowling!"
I noticed that, too.
Sr. rides everybody's ass about needing to get a bike built in less than a week, but seems to be the first one to say, "Okay, let's get out of here. We've got a busy day tomorrow."
Every episode I've seen recently has a sequence where Sr. and the crew leave the shop before it has gotten dark.
Now, if you're on a deadline, why not just pull a few long days instead of doing 9-5 all week? They could stay in that fabrication shop until dawn if they wanted to.
It sucks, and I can understand why they DON'T, but if you've got two or three days to get a chopper built before going to prime & paint, don't piss away your time by going out bowling or getting lunch.
<font color="#cd6600"><font size="1">[ February 17, 2004 04:34 PM: Message edited by: White Line Nightmare ]</font></font></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...and that's why there's a big difference between what really happens and what the show's producers want you to beleive... It's all creative editing and set-ups...the only reality is that there is a bike being built. Any drama is manufactured by the producers.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whenever you're dealing with any kind of "reality" show, there's going to be a lot of production tricks to create entertainment.Quote:
Originally posted by Skull-n-Bones:
...and that's why there's a big difference between what really happens and what the show's producers want you to beleive... It's all creative editing and set-ups...the only reality is that there is a bike being built. Any drama is manufactured by the producers.
There's a lot of subjectivity there.
Instead of real people, we get edited-down characters. Sr. is "the hard-ass with a heart of gold." Jr. is the "arrogant genius." Mikey is the comic relief.
Though I love American Chopper, it's formulaic. You can pretty much call what's going to happen in every episode.
THIS WEEK ON AMERICAN CHOPPER:
-A chopper needs to be built in less than a week for a show/important client.
-Shit goes wrong with the fabrication.
-Sr. gets pissed off and goes on a tirade. Jr. gets pissed, Mikey laughs.
-Mikey pisses off Sr. for no other reason than because he can. Sr. tells Mikey to get out of the shop and go back to working in the office. His shop priviledges are revoked until next episode.
-Sr. cools down when he sees how good the design is looking in three dimensions, commenting on somebody's "good i-dears."
-The design/fabrication crew talk about how great it is to be working on such "an important/special bike."
-Sr. reiterates how happy he is about the progress of the bike, commends the Vinnie and the rest of the crew, though says they goof off sometimes. He also says how proud and surprised he is by Mikey and Jr.'s work.
-Sr. and the rest of the staff leave the shop, saying how the next few days are going to be busy.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Agreed! Plus, Vinnie is the hardest worker they have in that shop. And my favorite!Quote:
Originally posted by chaserfan:
I was pissed when he got all over Vinnie about cleaning the place. he's too compulsive on that shit. thats more important than the customers bike and thats fucked up. Too old fashioned thinking. he's like a lot of the idiot bosses I work for.
WLN - not to mention the people involved are liable to play to the camera at times. Jesse from Monster Garage seems like that. AC's still entertaining though.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Speaking of "altered" reality shows...Last night on Monster Garage they did a profile on the U-Haul expert. He wasn't keen about being on the show and kept calling it all "smoke and mirrors man! Ain't nothin' real about this show it's all smoke and mirrors. I prefer to do real work."Quote:
Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
WLN - not to mention the people involved are liable to play to the camera at times. Jesse from Monster Garage seems like that. AC's still entertaining though.
Truth is...there are no "real" reality shows. People on them shows are just cheap scab actors that will work for their 15 minutes of fame.
eh who cares its all for fun and entertainment of watching it.