If you’re an avid antiques collector or if you ever spent an evening with your grandmother in the 1990s, then you’re probably familiar with Antiques Roadshow, and in that case you know the show’s formula was a bit too slow for the short-attention span of the audiences of today. To bring that televised appreciation of antique and vintage stuff into the new millennium, the History Channel has since launched a series of shows that search for such things through peoples lapsed storage units and cluttered garages or apartments. If it doesn’t show up there, there’s always a chance it’ll surface in the Las Vegas-based shop of the series Pawn Stars. Now in its third season, the show continues along its basic pace with little to make it better or worse for any reason whatsoever.
The formula of each episode remains constant with Corey Harrison, Rick Harrison and Richard Harrison inspecting the rare and unique goods that come through their doors and then attempting to snatch them up if the price is right. If you watch it long enough, you start to realize two things. First of all, the price is almost always right as the people looking to hock their merchandise must be borderline desperate to get whatever cash they can. The second constant of the show is that unless Corey, Richard or Rick cracks the joke, which ever employee did will get ridiculed. Usually what they said was pretty stupid though, so it’s hard to fault the cast.
The third season sees the Pawn Stars coming across classic trucks, WWII papers, Spanish treasure, a rock star manager’s address book, and more.
DVD Bonus Features
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"Pawn Stars: Volume 3" is on sale October 18, 2011 and is not rated. Reality. Directed by Jairus Cobb. Starring Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison.
