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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1943843, member: 4626&quot;]It depends on your point of view; if you think professional wrestling is &quot;fake&quot; because all the matches are planned out beforehand, then yes, Pawn Stars is &quot;fake.&quot;&nbsp; If on the other hand you recognize that even if a professional wrestling match is not spontaneous, it still take a lot of physical effort and skill to do what they do, then no Pawn Stars isn&#039;t really &quot;fake.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>What Pawn Stars <i>isn&#039;t</i> is spontaneous.&nbsp; But be fair and realistic; they&#039;re not going to have a camera crew hanging out in the shop all day and hope somebody brings something interesting enough to put on the show while the camera is rolling live.&nbsp; So yes, they recruit sellers with interesting items, have them audition, see if the item is interesting enough to make the show, <i>then</i> film them talking about the item and discussing the deal.&nbsp; The items are real, the expert is usually the person selling the item (though they do have perennial outside experts who come on the show for sake of the publicity), the story is real (about the item at least, though they&#039;ll sometimes enhance the story of how it was found to make it sound more interesting), the offers are real (though they&#039;re settled in advance, not live on camera).&nbsp; The pawn shop owners are well versed in many different items but they&#039;re nowhere near as expert as they look on the show; they do their research ahead of time and rehearse the facts before the cameras get turned on.</p><p><br /></p><p>But well if you can use your suspension of disbelief a little, they&#039;re not lying about the history and details of the actual items, and what they&#039;re worth.&nbsp; That part is real enough, and interesting enough to make it an interesting show.&nbsp; It&#039;s just not spontaneous.&nbsp; But if it was, it would be a pretty boring show: how often, even in an upscale pawn shop, do you think someone randomly coming in off the street brings in an item interesting enough to make a show out of?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the show staged?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; But that doesn&#039;t mean what they say about the the details about the items and their value is false.&nbsp; That part is real, and that&#039;s the most interesting part of the show anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>(BTW all &quot;reality television&quot; is staged.&nbsp; &quot;Staged&quot; and &quot;fake&quot; do not mean the same thing.&nbsp; Just because it isn&#039;t unscripted doesn&#039;t make it &quot;fake.&quot;)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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