Because you don’t have enough tattoos, or a big beard, don’t wear funny sunglasses, and don’t have stupid catchphrases like “Git you some of that!” Oh, and you don’t drink Miller Lite.
It will be interesting to see how long the business lasts once that lame show has run its course.
If being a bad show was the criteria for them being off the air…then we’d be back to just having 3 channels.
Gotta agree with Mike there. I don’t know why I need a hundred channels with pure crap on it. Not that I long for the old days of five channels with several of them snow but geez, the stuff being produced is really bad.
No one drinks Miller Lite. You swill it.
I don’t want to veer off too much but in the past week I’ve seen promos for at least 3 more car restore shows. The premise will be the same; sniping, utter mechanical idiocy, and faux deadlines.
It all goes along with the plethora of shows about storage buildings, yard sales, home flipping and remodeling, etc, etc, etc. All staged BS.
It’s downright sad that television has degenerated to the lowest common denominator; or plural of that.
No wonder my remote just got swapped out yet again yesterday; a premature death due to being worn out in a futile search for something requiring a double digit IQ. 
Not only that, but the shameless product placement. Miller Lite on GMG, and Subway sandwiches on Counting Cars. The Subway thing on Counting Cars has gotten ridiculous. Half the show is them sitting around the shop eating Subway sandwiches. If I were Danny I’d be embarassed. What’s more important, your cars or Subway sandwiches? Oh yes…Subway sandwiches.
mmmmm. subway…
Danny Koker of Counting Cars has been in the entertainment business for years. He was the host of Saturday Fright Night at the Movies in the 1990’s.
He was known as Count cool rider, an Elvira type movie host for a Las Vegas TV station. This is where the nickname “The Count” comes from.
I don’t think he is too proud to sell sandwiches.
Anything for a buck in Vegas, i guess.
Product endorsement in shows is nothing new. It’s been going on for over 40 years.
I don’t like it…I just ignore it. Not a big fan of Subway either.
I do like Counting Cars. It’s entertaining…and I love some of the cars/bikes they’ve done over the years. But you can easily tell a lot of it is staged.
Got the beard, I guess I’ll have to work on my catchphrases…
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Along with the beard I’ve got a small number of catch phrases. The vast majority of them aren’t suitable for a family friendly forum as I can be an extremely volatile XXX if tweaked just right.
The thing about customizing cars though is that with few exceptions there’s not a lot of money in it but there’s a ton of aggravation and risk. The same holds true for motorcycles.
Some of these junk shows exist purely because there’s so many chanels and they need to fill the air time with something…anything…so they’re grasping at any idea that comes along…letting every joe take a stab.
One ofmy favorite chanels has begun to show an awful lot of junk too , and the shows that were appointment tv for me are nowhere to be found. ( I’m finding Dirty Jobs in sydication on…Animal Planet of all places ! )
E-mail or write to all those networks (usually at the bottom of their web page in the fine print ‘‘contact us’’)
If we all say something maybe they’ll see it.
If we all say nothing . . . .
The only one I really enjoyed was Monster Garage. They intentionally made junk, sometimes out of good vehicles. My favorite was the Peterbuilt Trike. The show’s star, Jessie James (a true descendant of the legendary Jessie James, as it turns out) wanted to make a motorcycle out of a Peterbuilt, but when they got the engine & tranny out and he realized it was 4’ tall and 4,000 pounds, he had to acquiesce and build a trike instead. But man, was it cool!!!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=monster+garage+peterbilt+trike&qpvt=monster+garage+peterbuilt+trike&FORM=IGRE
Yeah he did some crazy things but I just lost all interest in him after the Sandra Bullock thing.
Speaking of Peterbilts, I’d pay to watch a show about this guy’s builds.
I agree; that first couple of years of Monster Garage was great. There was some cheap but outstanding engineering on those home brew rigs they built.
That Ford Explorer trash truck and floating school bus was pretty neat too. My gut feeling is that the show started going downhill because of too much intrusion by the producers as the projects became more outlandish and James was less and less involved with the creative control of the projects.
At one time the Discovery Channel, NGC, The Learning Channel, etc was interesting and somewhat educational to watch. Now they stick a camera on every circus clown and redneck on the planet with the only miracle being that no one (mostly) has killed themselves through sheer stupidity.
That vehicle is “Pissed Off Pete”, built by Randy Grubb. If you like this, you’ll love his other creations.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=randy+grubb+cars&qpvt=randy+grubb+cars&FORM=IGRE
One talented dude. I guess the problem with a TV show about his builds is that no one has the patience to watch for an entire year while he builds one vehicle.