Rocket City Rednecks...

is the best show on TV. No argument...

One of my friends works at the same place as one of the guys. And apparently a number of things have disappeared from the lab and then reappeared on the show. Also she has dealt with him and says he can be an major shiny happy person.

I saw them on Leno, might have to check out their show

I can see a couple of those guys being pricks just by how they act in certain situations.

Based on this thread I stopped on this show.

Just as unwatchable as every other "Reality" show on TV. I despise the way that every show from pawn stars to american chopper to this rocket show sounds so similarly horridly scripted when the characters talk to the camera.

ditchdigger wrote: Just as unwatchable as every other "Reality" show on TV.

+1 I cannot sit through that kind of stuff

I despise the way that every show from pawn stars to american chopper to this rocket show sounds so similarly horridly scripted when the characters talk to the camera.

They all sound the same because they are all produced in the same way....people off camera coach/question/prompt the person on camera until they say something inflammatory or stupid enough to use on TV.

There's a nice behind-the-scenes here from a production assistant who's story was on This American Life. (start at 36:00 into the broadcast) It is amazing how much of the stories from those shows are created in the editing room.

I watch some of these shows with my brother and we pick their science and engineering apart all the time. Did you notice that most of the time the stuff breaks?

Bruce

I caught it by accident last night. It's torturously contrived, like all the other 'reality' shows out there. (BTW, Mythbusters started out real good but as they got more popular the quality of the show started to slide downhill.) But on the bright side I did see an X1/9 in the junkyard along with what I think is a Plymouth Arrow.

Curmudgeon wrote: I caught it by accident last night. It's torturously contrived, like all the other 'reality' shows out there. (BTW, Mythbusters started out real good but as they got more popular the quality of the show started to slide downhill.) But on the bright side I did see an X1/9 in the junkyard along with what I *think* is a Plymouth Arrow.

Junkyard? Was it a public junkyard in Huntsville?

JoeyM wrote: They all sound the same because they are all produced in the same way....people off camera coach/question/prompt the person on camera until they say something inflammatory or stupid enough to use on TV.

But it is more than that. I swear that they are written by the same person and read off cue cards by the same high school dropouts.

Listen to Paul Jr. and then the sleeveless wonder from american restorations, Then that Ryan guy from west coast customs. The phrases, cadence and simple sentence structure are all identical.

93EXCivic wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: I caught it by accident last night. It's torturously contrived, like all the other 'reality' shows out there. (BTW, Mythbusters started out real good but as they got more popular the quality of the show started to slide downhill.) But on the bright side I did see an X1/9 in the junkyard along with what I *think* is a Plymouth Arrow.

Junkyard? Was it a public junkyard in Huntsville?

I don't know if it's public or not. The X1/9 was sitting on top of what looked like a shipping container, the possible Arrow was on top of a pile of cars in the background. The episodes I saw were the tornado proof outhouse and the homemade rockets for July 4th.

I saw them on Leno, not impressed at all. 1/2 of a Geo metro dropped on a bunker from 30 feet is not going to be the same as a lincoln navigator at 100+ mph in a tornado. It looked like it barely survived the geo hit.

egnorant wrote: I watch some of these shows with my brother and we pick their science and engineering apart all the time. Did you notice that most of the time the stuff breaks? Bruce

Hahaha all I can think of when you say this is when their home made CCUBA apparatus failed in the submarine project. I even told my girlfriend that would happen when they never bothered to seal off the bucket holding the soda lime or whatever chemical scrubber they jacked from their lab.