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''Pawn Stars'' is a reality show on [[The History Channel]] about a three generation pawn store called the "Gold & Silver Pawn Shop" operating in Las Vegas (713 Las Vegas Boulevard South, if you're ever in town). It features historical and rare objects being bought and sold by a family of characters.
The owner of the shop is [[Bald of Awesome|Rick Harrison]], a shrewd businessman who often finds the most obscure and sometimes bizarre things being brought to his shop to be sold. As he has been in the business for a long time and has other hobbies of his own, Rick is generally knowledgeable in music and American History (especially firearms). Anything that is outside of his expertise and/or needs a more proper appraisal he calls upon an assortment of experts who are [[Proud to Be
A big part of the show, and anyone familiar with basic business would know about, is that Rick is generally not willing to purchase an item unless he can get it for about 60% of its market value, and that's not considering any additional costs such as restoration or cataloging, because otherwise he won't make a profit for himself. And not all items are brought into the store itself, as they are often asked to look over exceptionally large items or collections.
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Rick took so much old stuff to be restored to another guy named Rick, Rick Dale, who runs a Las Vegas antique restoration company, that another spin off, ''[[American Restoration]]'' was created, which shows them restoring old things like old toys, gas pumps, coke machines and other vending machines, and various other things.
Now has a game show spin-off called ''[[Pawnography]]''.
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: The Old Man tries to start in on a "walking two miles to school" story, and Corey teases him about needing to occasionally kill a raccoon and wear it on his feet since he probably didn't have shoes. The Old Man guffaws.
* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Whenever Chumlee gets to fire a gun at the shooting range, he quickly adapts to whatever character and/or situation described to him pertaining to the gun. It's often hilarious.
* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: A lady came in to sell a set of frosted glass Disney figurines. After remarking how much he loves Disney, Chumlee asked if she had any of [[Bugs Bunny]].
* [[All There in the Manual]]: A number of interviews Rick has given, both before and after the show began, give some insight into why the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop runs and functions the way it does. For example, the reason it has so many insanely antique and valuable items instead of just the usual collection of TVs and cameras and whatnot? Every other pawn shop in the area was bought by a single company that used a database for its offers... if something wasn't in the database, they referred the seller to a non-company pawn shop, and Rick's was the only one of those around.
** Rick's autobiography ''License To Pawn: My Life At The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop'' contains a lot of interesting background information, too. The book contains stories of high rollers who come in to pawn their valuables for gambling money, the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat
* [[Artistic License Economics]]:
** The team has to spell out why exactly they make offers significantly lower than market price way too often: There can be numerous additional costs to buying an item like overhead, storage, restoration, authentication, cataloging, etc. Not to mention that they have to buy items to sell them for profit and the market price is a best-case scenario that they likely will not be getting, or that an item may be difficult to sell and until they do that's money tied up into the item.
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** Some customers do the sensible thing and try to determine what their items might sell for. Many of them have done so by looking at what other people are trying to sell similar items for online. Unfortunately, the Harrisons have to point out what sellers want to get and what buyers are actually willing to pay are often two separate things.
** One common
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*** When Corey bought a coin-operated crane game, he filled it with chocolate bars that customers could pay to grab. He also steals Chumlee's car keys and puts them in the machine to screw with him.
*** When Corey bought an Evel Knievel pinball game and would only be able to break even on it, Rick forced him to set it up so customers could play it. When they made $300 from people playing the game, Corey would be able to sell it to break even. See [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]], below.
*** When Chumlee bought a coin-operated kiddie ride, he set it up outside the store so they could make some extra money from customers to ride it while waiting in line.
** Some of the things customers try to sell, like art, can fetch high prices in shops that specialize in selling them. Unfortunately, since the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop buys and sells a wide variety of merchandise, it can't sell these things for prices as high as the specialty shops. Rick's had to tell more than one customer selling paintings or photographs that he doesn't get gallery prices for the art he sells, which is why he can't offer them as much money as a gallery would.
** To sum it all up: Rick and the others cannot be accused of not offering fair prices for goods, because a "fair price" is any mutually agreed-upon sum that will result in the voluntary exchange of goods. If the seller doesn't think the price is fair, he shouldn't sell it to them. If he does, he agreed that the price was fair, no matter what he [[Confession Cam]]s after.
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: Usually averted, but there are exceptions:
** Corey had to reprimand one customer for pointing a gun he was selling at him. Granted it was actually a lighter, but it was made to look so much like a real gun, his concern is justifiable. (And as Rick's original pilot indicates, there are numerous guns under the counters ready to be used on anyone trying to rob the place.)
** Played a little more straight with the customers. Whenever they are handed a gun, no matter how old, the Pawn Shop employees always check to see if it is loaded. Granted, the ones still loaded are often 150+ year old muskets which most likely WON'T shoot, but they don't take that chance.
* [[Aside Glance]]: When one woman brings in a ''[[The Rat Patrol
* [[As You Know]]: It's often quite obvious the customer either already knows the history of the item or isn't interested in it, and the history is only being given for the audience's benefit.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Many items that come through the door, either because they're ''inherently'' impractical (but possibly still valuable), or because they can't be sold for a profit in a downtown Las Vegas pawn shop:
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** Gun Key? Try Gun ''[[Up to Eleven|Desk]]''. Or for a very literal case of [[Bling Bling Bang]], a Gun ''Ring''.
** Rick sometimes won't even make an offer on items because he doesn't think any of his customers will want to buy them (e.g., Native American totems, TV scripts, animatronic restaurant displays).
** [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|A glass sword]] (which might appeal to [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Dovahkiin]], but isn't too practical in our world.)
** On other occasions, he passes because he doesn't think he can sell them at a profit (e.g., [[Doom It Yourself]] classic car restoration projects and pretty much anything else that will cost more to repair/restore than he can sell it for).
** And then there are the items that, while they might be profitable, are simply more trouble than they're worth. Rick once declined a Baldwin piano because it would take up too much space for too long a time in his shop, while he told the guy offering him an automatic corn-shucking machine that if some kid got his hand caught in the thing, the resulting lawsuit would put him out of business. Or the titanium ignition keys of a Russian space rocket and many other things shown in the show, which are very awesome but are also very expensive and there are so few people collecting them that it would not be profitable.
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** The Kount gets quite rightly pissed when anyone questions his knowledge of and passion for automobiles. It's more of a [[Tranquil Fury]] in his case, though.
* [[Betting Minigame]]:
** Sometimes, when Rick and a customer can't agree on a price, the customer will offer to settle the dispute by gambling with whatever it is they're trying to sell, with Rick paying the winner's price. Unfortunately, for all his skill as a pawnbroker, Rick has really shitty luck. Whether it's flipping a collectible coin, spinning an antique roulette wheel or playing a hand of blackjack on a gaming table, Rick always seems to lose. He even [[
** Rick and Corey have a habit of betting on Chumlee missing when they go to test out an antique firearm they had just purchased. This has come back to bite them more than once, as Chumlee's actually not a bad shot.
* [[Big Fun]]: Corey, and Chumlee. Just imagine those two on a see-saw together.
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** On the History official Youtube channel, he even does one of the How To segments regarding how to tell real gold jewelery from an imitation, so even if he is that goofy, he knows how to do his job.
** In an episode, he brought a broken RC car to full functionality, including rewiring it.
** Rick's book reveals that despite appearances, between Corey and Chumlee the one who's actually more reasonable and grounded is ''Chumlee''.
* [[The Cameo]]: George Stephanopolous (Good Morning America, This Week with George Stephanopolous) bought a first-edition of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" for $675 (though when they shook, Rick slipped in that offer; the original offer was $625).
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Rick and Chumlee visit a cute redheaded college student who wants to sell them her Baldwin piano. Rick decides against buying the piano because it'll take up too much space for too long a time in his shop, but the real entertainment is in watching Chumlee try (and fail) to ask the girl out.
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: When customers are told that the items they're selling are fake or otherwise not worth anything, the typical reaction is [[Oh Crap]], as noted below. Some customers, though, simply refuse to believe whatever Rick or the other guys tell them. See [[Jerkass]], below.
** "I don't care what you say!"
** A customer comes in with a Bugs Bunny poster to sell. Chumlee says he doesn't really know much about Bugs, but that he was in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. The customer snaps back "No, that was another rabbit", and Corey sighs and says "You never cease to amaze me, man" to emphasize him being an idiot (he's just identified Louis Armstrong as the first man on the moon). But as anyone who remembers the movie knows, Bugs is in fact in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.<ref>
** Rick unwittingly invoked this trope with a customer who brought in a bar of gold that his grandfather found in the Caribbean. Rick jokingly asked if the customer's grandfather had found it on a sunken ship...and when they got the gold appraised, they found that it ''was'' from a sunken ship because of the coral that had grown on it.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: The guys have a bunch:
** Rick's is, "I'd love to have this/This would look great in my shop, but ''only'' if I can get it at the right price." Might double as [[Captain Obvious]]. Cory's begun using this phrase too.
** Old Man: "Damnit, [[Idiot Ball|Chum]][[Butt Monkey|lee]]!" "[[Face Palm|Oh my God....]]" "Whatcha wanna do son, pawn it, sell it, donate it?" "Back in the day..." Rick's also begun using the pawn/sell/donate phrase as well.
** Rick saying that the current buy "could be worth a ''lot'' of money." He's also taken to saying "Why can't I find sh*t like this?" whenever he sees something particularly rare that [[Grail in
** Everyone has their own particular version of saying it's time to go fill out the sale forms, and generally sticks to it. Rick prefers "Let's go do some paperwork", while Hoss uses some variation on "You wanna go write him up?/Let's go write this up." The Old Man either lets Rick or Hoss use their phrase or "Chumlee! Go write (this person) up!" since he doesn't know how to use the computer forms.
** Also:
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*** The crew will sometimes use the phrase "cash money" when customers are trying to decide whether or not to accept their offers.
* [[Character Development]]: Chumlee's become less of a liability over the show's run. We've seen him learning the difference between real and fake Rolex watches and artwork, and he's begun negotiating for several low-level items and doing a pretty good job of it.
* [[Character Tics]]: Rick's not Italian, but he ''really'' likes to [[Italians Talk
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Corey bought a hot air balloon without consulting Rick because he interpreted him saying "I want to expand the shop" as being "do things other than pawn/sell things." Rick very angrily explained that didn't mean "give people balloon rides." There might have been a possibility of reselling the balloon for a profit, but finding a buyer for something like that would be extremely difficult. And Rick pointed out that if he buys something that expensive, he has a buyer lined up BEFORE he buys the item so he doesn't risk his money being tied up for months.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Each episode is designed to be extremely self-contained (and thus, for example, regular viewers have heard the experts' identify themselves dozens of times), but there are a few:
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** When the crew finally sees the restored helicopter (see [[Epic Fail]], below), Rick points out to the Old Man that it was going to work out after all. The Old Man shot back by pointing out that if it hadn't, he would have sold one of Rick's kidneys to make up the loss. Knowing the Old Man, he probably wasn't joking...
** Chumlee takes a bath on what turns out to be a bogus Mandolin made by Gibson. He loses $1500 on it, and Rick tells him he's gonna get him that money back. He turns to busking just outside the shop:
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** Even when the Old Man just angrily yells at someone, whether it's Rick for his occasional money-losing purchases or Corey for his occasional irresponsible actions, it's frankly a little scary.
** This backfired spectacularly on the Old Man in one episode. After Corey bought the plastic head of a Stretch Serpent toy for $500, the Old Man popped a blood vessel and yelled at Corey for his apparently stupid purchase. They decided to settle the ensuing argument with a bet on whether or not Corey would be able to make a profit on the plastic head, with the loser cleaning all the display cases in the showroom. The toy expert they called in confirmed that the Stretch Serpent toy was so incredibly rare that one intact toy sold for a whopping $12,000 at an auction, and that the head alone was worth between $4,000-$5,000. The Old Man is completely stunned, and ends up eating crow when he loses the bet and had to clean the display cases.
** Cory bought an Evel Knievel-themed pinball machine that they were either going to lose money on, or at best break even. Rick refuses to let Cory sell the machine, and makes him set it up for customers to play. He also orders Cory to collect the quarters from the machine at the end of every shift, and turn them over to Rick. Once the machine makes $300, then Cory can sell it to break even. Being the manager, Cory's pissed off at having to do grunt work:
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'''Cory''': A life lesson in what?
'''Old Man''': ''In not losing money!!!'' }}
** Chumlee broke a 200-year-old vase while goofing off in the warehouse with a [[Star Trek|Bat'leth]]. Rick emailed the security video to every employee of the shop to embarrass him. It backfires on Rick when [[Viral Marketing|the video "goes viral."]]
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* [[Cool Sword]]: The shop also has its share of weird and exotic swords.
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Rick is obviously in the pawn business to make money, but he also has a genuine passion for American history, culture and heritage, which he indulges with his work.
* [[Crisis Crossover]]: "The Pick, The Pawn and The Polish", an event wherein Rick asks the ''[[American Pickers]]'' to find an item which will then be fixed up by [[Name's the Same|Rick]] on the ''
** The July 2011 arc starts with Harrison calling the pickers to find a [[Cool Car|1957 Chevy]] to restore and give to the Old Man on his birthday. The ''Pickers'' episode ends with the sale and goes right into the ''Restoration'' episode which deals with Rick Dale's effort to restore the car. He also buys an old neon sign from Mike and Frank and partially restores it. The ''Restoration'' episode, in turn, leads into the ''Pawn Stars'' episode where Dale and his team finish the project and Harrison gives it to the old man. The kicker: It's estimated that it would take 6 to 8 months to restore the car. [[Impossible Task|Rick needed it in three]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Pretty much the entire core staff, except for Chumlee.
** Rick is looking at a "Rat Patrol" lunchbox. He tells the woman who's trying to sell it that [[Self-Deprecation|"It was a low-budget TV show about four guys in the desert,"]] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|then looks right into the camera.]]
** Even Chumlee gets his moments. When a man brings in an animatronic restaurant display installed on the back of a novelty firetruck, Rick doesn't make an offer because he doesn't think he'll be able to sell it. The display is so weird that it looks like something out of a [[
*** And then there was the time Chumlee and the Old Man were dealing with a woman who wanted to sell a collection of glass Disney figurines:
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'''Old Man''': Thank you, Chumlee. Now shut up. }}
** Then there was the customer who brought in a collection of Atlanta sports championship rings. He admits that he's a fan of the Detroit Tigers and Lions, and Chumlee points out that he must be used to losing.
** Some of the customers can cross into this territory, too. Take the man who was haggling with the Old Man over a book owned by [[Sir Isaac Newton]]:
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'''Customer''': You give me $7,000, and I'll ''buy'' you dinner.
'''Old Man''':...Sounds like a plan. }}
** Rick and Corey had Fat Back, one of the shop's mechanics, evaluate a car that they were considering buying. Fat Back takes the car for a test drive, and comes back to them with his verdict:
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* [[Did Do the Research]]: Some customers take the time to research their items and what they might expect to get for them before they ever come into the shop:
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Rick's reliance on experts who ''have'' done the research (or doing his own research) makes the times where this happens all the more glaring. For example, when they go to see a reproduction Tim Burton movie [[Batman|Batmobile]], he not only avoids taking along the person most likely to know about it (Chumlee), but both he and the expert he ''does'' call in muse on how authentic it is. (Hint: It's not. Especially the Adam West-era phone with bat-symbol sticker on it.)
* [[Dirty Cop]]: When a customer brings in a 1930s-era Chicago police badge, Rick recounts how [[Al Capone]] had the entire Chicago police force on his payroll. You could be beaten up by the cops, and there wouldn't be anything you could do about it.
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Rick likes this one. See also the "Rat Patrol" joke above,
** When someone brings in medical records of [[Elvis Presley]], he says this about him (and the circumstances behind his death)
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'''Chumlee''': ...?
'''Rick''': ...until he died!
'''Chumlee''': [[Not So Different|This coming from a guy who eats fried food every day]]... }}
* [[Doom It Yourself]]: Several customers have ruined their items' value in one way or another:
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** A customer who brought in an unopened box of pre-embargo Cuban cigars that he inherited from his father could have gotten a good price for them...if his father had actually stored them properly in a humidor, rather than just putting the box in a larger trunk. The Old Man didn't even need to open the box to know that the cigars would have dried out and crumbled by now.
** One was one interesting case where a sale was doomed because the seller put ''too much'' effort into his customized trike. Rick and Corey were floored when they found out the seller poured '''$100,000''' into the trike. They pointed out that with that sort of money, the seller could have just gone and bought a top of the line Mazzerati. What was even worse was that when Count inspected the trike, he appraised its worth at only $15,000. Rick and Corey theorized that the seller [[Did Not Do the Research]] when buying the parts and got badly fleeced.
* [[Do You Want to Haggle?]]: Basically almost everything the store buys purchased on the basis of ''lots'' of haggling, in some cases when the seller or the store's buyer (usually Rick) sticking to a close price (sometimes a differernce of $50 or $100) the other party is shown agonizing whether to give in over the difference.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Sometimes there are items that the crew would '''love''' to have, but the customer simply decides to keep the item. One notable example was a complete gaming kit used by a wandering [[Wild West]] gambler that was worth somewhere between $7,000-$10,000. The customer didn't accept Rick's initial $4,000 offer, and refused to change his mind even after Rick raised his offer to $6,000. The customer walked out of the store with the kit, and Rick was almost despairing when he talked to the camera crew about it afterward.
** Things like this happen often enough that you begin to wonder if some people are simply using Rick's experts to get a free value appraisal for insurance purposes, rather than having to pay someone to do it.
* [[Dueling Shows]]: TruTv's ''Hardcore Pawn'', though it deals more with the drama of a pawnshop rather than the items. Ironically, both shows now air on History Television in Canada.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Peaches is one of the few employees who gets some screen time besides Chumlee and the Harrisons. One episode centered around her constantly coming in late, with Rick and the Old Man giving her grief over it. This conversation sums it up well:
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'''Peaches''':...Because I'm pretty? }}
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Go look up the video pitch Rick made and submitted to History as the original show idea. It shows all three of the family members smoking like chimneys, footage of the guns kept under the counters with Corey announcing "Try to rob my shop and I ''will'' shoot you", and tried to play up the drama of people flipping out and actually having to be thrown out of the shop. History clearly decided to do a bit of a [[Retool]] to make it a little more low-key and (slightly) more family-friendly. Oddly enough, this is the angle ''[[Hardcore Pawn]]'' would eventually take.
** Another pitch focuses more on people affected by the economy who're coming in to pawn. This one lacks Chumlee, but features Rick's niece and a night shift pawnbroker named Charles Ingalls, who mans a drive-thru-style pawn window. Ingalls is later mentioned during the fifth season, when the decision is made to hire people for the night shift, and the pawn window is seen when Chumlee is training a new employee on the shift with him.
** The early episodes of the show itself also count. The very first episode features a guy pawning his table saw for $4,000, and we actually see Rick's moving crew come out to the guy's house and load the saw onto the truck. Another episode featured a couple who actually wanted to ''buy'' something, namely the "death clock" that Rick's shown polishing in the opening credits and that he keeps in one of the main display cases behind the front counter. Another bizarre inversion featured a ''customer'' in the role of [[Mr. Exposition]] when he gave Rick the lowdown on some of the jewelry he was selling. Rick even [[
** Not an early installment, but a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvu6APT3JLY 2003 episode] of ''Insomniac with Dave Atell'' featured Rick and the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop before ''Pawn Stars'' aired in 2009.
* [[Epic Fail]]: Rarely, Rick and the others will lose money on a deal.
** Rick bought a Austin Healey car for $5000. The car didn't start, and he figured it just needed a battery and/or a tune-up. It cost over $6000 to fix. Rick's expert said it would be worth about $8000 when fixed. To add insult to injury, Rick bought the car ''right after it broke down''. The guy who sold it to him had actually used it to drive down to the pawn shop.
** Chumlee once bought a fake Gibson mandolin for $1500 without getting it appraised first, and was told by an expert that it was worth no more than $100.
** To say nothing about when Chumlee and Corey bought a $38,000 hot air balloon. You could almost see Rick's face red with rage throughout the rest of the episode; he even ordered them to do something he never asked
** Rick bought copy of [[Bob Dylan]]'s ''Self Portrait'' on vinyl with the intention of selling it for $75. But he realized Bob Dylan was in town doing a concert, and if he could get the record signed it would be far more valuable. Only he gave that particular duty to Chumlee. Big Hoss immediately objected, "You've got 40 other employees who ''won't screw this up;'' why are you giving this to [[The Millstone|Chumlee]]?" Incredibly, Chumlee actually finds Bob Dylan out on the Vegas Strip, and gets him to sign it. They allow you to think Chumlee's actually gonna do something right for a second, but then: "How do you want it signed?" "Have it say, 'To Chumlee.'" [[Face Palm]]. Rick was so pissed at him he just told Chumlee to keep it. Chumlee never even realized Rick was angry at him. "Cool, I've got my own signed Bob Dylan album."
*** The cynical viewer may consider the odds of just finding Dylan in town the way Chumlee did and suspect that this episode was, if not fully scripted, at least pointed in a direction to become a particularly hilarious [[Epic Fail]].
** Rick bought an antique ball and chain and made the mistake of having Chumlee put in a case. Chumlee accidentally drops it on the glass counter top, smashing the counter AND possibly damaging the jewelry inside. This was in addition to an already bad day. Later Corey is set to deliver an antique chair. He forgets to put the tailgate off after the Old Man gives him the directions. The chair falls off and breaks beyond repair.
** Rick bought a collection of 175 custom wine decanters for $600. He soon gets buyer's remorse when he realizes just how much time he's going to need to pack up, catalogue and sell each item. The Old Man, predictably, is not amused.
** Rick bought a perpetual motion [
** A happier subversion came when Corey bought a top of the line 1984 Chris Craft boat for $16,500. Rick was pissed, because boats tend to be expensive money pits that are more trouble than they're worth. Rick and Corey have a shouting argument over it, and Corey takes the boat to get repaired and refinished. It costs an addition $4,000 to fix. In the show's first Christmas episode, Corey mentions that he sold the boat for $22,000 at a $1,500 profit, but the Old Man points out that he got really lucky on that one.
*** Rick himself dodged a major bullet when he bought a junked-up helicopter for $10,000. The Old Man has a coronary when he finds out, and then has another one right afterward when he learns it'll cost $100,000 to fully restore. Fortunately, the helicopter looks absolutely gorgeous when it's finally repaired, and they'll be able to sell it for about $160,000. The Old Man goes up in the helicopter's maiden flight, and finally admits that this was a good idea.
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*** Corey bought an antigue 1940s Belgian motorcycle for $4,000. The bike is so rare that he'll probably be able to sell it at a huge profit, right? Not so fast-as Rick points out, there are parts missing, and their car restoration guy says that replacement parts are so rare they'd probably cost as much as $25,000 to restore the bike. Naturally, Rick is pretty irritated. They end up taking the bike to sell at auction, which Rick hates doing because the entry fees and the auctioneer's cut will cut into his profit margin. The bike would have to sell for at least $5,200 for Corey to be able to profit on it, and in the end it's sold for over $7,000. Rick finally admits that it was a good buy and says he's proud of Corey, but once again it's clear that the Harrisons dodged a major bullet.
*** Another bullet was dodged when Rick bought a maritime navigational clock that didn't seem to be running. He decided to take a chance even though it seemed like it was broken, and called in a clock expert to see what it would cost to fix. The clock expert found that the clock was actually working fine, but its mechanisms were being held in place by special cork restraints so it wouldn't start ticking until the operator wanted it to. After removing the restraints, the clock starts up and is working fine. Rick expresses his relief that it wouldn't cost anything to fix the clock, [[Refuge in Audacity|and then the expert demands fifty bucks for getting it started.]]
** On the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130204003504/http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars/videos/playlists/how-to-be-a-pawn-star#biggest-bust Pawn Stars section of the History Television website], the boys describe their worst money losses. The Old Man took a $25,000-$30,000 bath when he spent a fortune on cubic zirconia, which he mistook for diamonds; Corey spent $4,000 on six fake Rolex watches in his first week of working the night shift at the store; and Rick laid out $40,000 for a pair of diamond earrings that were then confiscated by the police when it turned out they were stolen.
* [[Expository Theme Tune|Expository Opening Narration]]: ''I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my Old Man and my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a price, and everything in here has a story. If there's one thing I've learned after twenty-one years, it's that you never know what's going to come through that door.''
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Capitalists Have Standards]]: Rick always buys as low as he can, but also always makes sure that the customer makes an informed decision. One notable instance: A woman brings in a jeweled brooch in the shape of a spider, hoping to get $2,000 for it. Rick refuses that price... because "I have a conscience". The brooch is an ''authentic Faberge piece'' which he offers her $15,000 for. [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|She tries to haggle him up to $17,000.]]
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** In another instance, a woman came into the shop with a classic Japanese musical monkey toy in mint condition. She did not know what it was worth, and was ready to sell it for $100. The Old Man insists on giving her $150 because he doesn't want her to be taken advantage of.
** Rick also mentions at one point that he dislikes everything about ivory and tries to avoid buying it. It helps the "ivory" was fraudulent.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: The Old Man...mostly. Chumlee even brings this up when discussing a collection of prosthetic eyeballs someone tries to sell:
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'''Chumlee''': I can't tell, they're always closed.
''(Old Man opens his eyes unusually [for him] wide)''
'''Chumlee''': Oh; they're [[Blue Eyes|blue]]. }}
* [[Face Palm]]: The Old Man does these on a regular basis. Rick occasionally does them too, although usually more out of astonishment than frustration.
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** See Dueling Shows above as well.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Chumlee is sanguine, Corey is choleric, Old Man is melancholic, Rick is phlegmatic.
* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]: The Old Man's favorite president.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Rick buys a radio-controlled car for cheap because it's broken and won't run. He needs to get it fixed, and Chumlee immediately volunteers for the job. Believe it or not, Chumlee actually ''succeeds'', and Rick pays him $50 for getting the car running. The episode ends with Rick playing with the car with a big shit-eating grin on his face.
* [[Grail in
** One man who brought in a 17th-century multipurpose German sundial and compass made out of ivory was hoping to pawn it for $500, but the expert Rick called in said that it was worth $7,000. He eventually decides to sell it to Rick for $4,500, or about ''nine'' times what he initially hoped to get.
** In two episodes, two items that both happen to be associated with Paul Revere were appraised well into the five-digit range. You could just about see their jaws literally drop. One of them, the owner of a Revolutionary War-era government bond, was so floored he actually considered changing his mind and saving it for an auction house even after Rick put up big bucks because "[[Catch Phrase|he had to have it]]." The kid was originally hoping to trade it for an electric guitar, but he was hesitant about accepting Rick's $12,000 offer until Rick offered to throw in the guitar the kid wanted as well. The way the kid's face lit up when Rick made that offer as well had to be seen to be believed.
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** At one point, Chumlee goes to attend a ''poetry reading'', and even recites some lines to a disbelieving Hoss. Though arguably, he was doing this to pick up girls.
*** When someone comes in selling a 1st Edition of ''[[Walden]]'', Chumlee correctly summarizes the plot, flooring Hoss with what he knows ("In between ditching class, you read a book?"). Chum even admits its one of his favorite books.
*** An art dealer friend of Rick's brought in a painting of [[The Beatles|John Lennon]] by speed painter [
** Rick himself may look and sound like any middle-aged nine-to-five blue collar nobody, but he's actually a math genius who used to work on solving ''cold fusion'' in his spare time for fun.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The Old Man when counting the money from the swear jar. "Holy *bleep*, this is a lotta swearin'."
** Rick mocking Chumlee for his weight gain as recounted under [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] above, even though Rick himself could easily pass for a real-life version of [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]].
** Rick's given Corey and Chumlee grief for buying things without getting them appraised, but he ended up making the same mistake when he bought a Native American vest for $1,300. He got it appraised ''after'' he'd already bought it, and the expert pointed out that it was a replica made for the tourist trade. You could practically see the steam coming out of the Old Man's ears when he found out.
* [[I Can't Believe I'm Saying This]]: "The Count," who appraises vehicles when Rick might want to buy them, tells him to "pass" on a limo owned by Jackie Gleason. (It turned out that there was some barely noticeable rust damage on the car that would have raised the total cost too high after repairs were factored in.)
* [[I'm Going to Hell For This]]: Someone comes in trying to sell a relic<ref>"relic" means something that was part of the deceased, be it blood, skin, hair, the ashes from their cremated bodies, etc.; this [[Squick
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'''Old Man''': You're going to hell anyway. }}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Pawn]]: The title.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: When Rick and Corey find an original Peter Lik panorama, "Beyond Paradise":
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'''Corey''': No, but it makes me wanna have a beer. [http://www.artbrokerage.com/artthumb/likp_32597_2/850x600/Peter_Lik_Beyond_Paradise.jpg Under that umbrella.] }}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Any customer that tries to argue Rick into increasing the offer for an item purely because of the customer's emotional attachment to it. Newsflash, people: if it meant so much to you that the sentiment alone should be worth extra money, ''you wouldn't be in a pawn shop selling it to a stranger''.
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** Basically, the breakdown goes something like this: the Old Man knows coins, militaria, Native American art, and old toys, Rick knows sports memorabilia, art, weaponry, and historical items, Hoss knows motorcycles, cars, and electronics, and Chumlee knows eighties and nineties pop culture iconic items. The specialists are then called in for the more rare or heavily-faked versions of these items.
** The Gold and Silver Pawn Shop itself is a Jack Of All Trades. Several of the experts the Harrisons call in own their own shops and businesses that sell the type of merchandise that they specialize in, such as classic toys, historical documents, Native American artifacts or what have you. The Gold and Silver Pawn Shop deals in all these things and more.
* [[Jerkass]]: Rick can sometimes come off as one during deals, though it may just [[Like Father, Like Son|run through the family.]] Rick is a hard-nosed businessman, but is still usually quite respectful. On the other hand the Old Man will often drop his original bid during a barter session just because he finds the customer's asking price annoying.
** Some of the customers can come across this way too, like the guy who insisted on trying to sell a trainer's Super Bowl ring for $20,000 even after Rick pointed out to him that trainers' rings aren't worth nearly as much as the ones given to players.
** Another example of a Jerkass customer is the guy who brought in a Perseus and Pegasus statue, and when Rick told him it was a reproduction and he didn't want to buy, the guy basically told him he was full of shit. The customer was such an ass, he almost got thrown out by the shops resident [[Scary Black Man|Bouncer]].
** And then there was the guy who wanted to sell Rick a classic 1980 car for $28,000. When he started the car, Rick decided that something didn't sound right with the engine and asked [[One
** When having to yet again explain that he couldn't pay the highest-end retail price for what the customer wanted to sell or he wouldn't be able to make any money and keep his shop open, the guy smirked at Rick and said "Well that's not my problem." Rick actually seemed flabbergasted by just how big of a dick thing that was to say, before responding, "[[Shut UP, Hannibal|Well yeah, it is.]]"
** One guy brought in what he claimed was a private poem written by Jimi Hendrix, which was just black marker on plain white paper, and claimed it was given to him by a family member that was a personal friend of Jimi. The expert explained that pretty much everything about the document screamed "fake" including the fact the handwriting looked nothing like Jimi's, but the owner sniffed he didn't need an expert to tell him it was fake, he ''knows'' it is real because his family lived it.
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** One customer was unhappy when Rick and the expert he brought told him that his autographed bat was most likely fake. The expert pointed out that finding those particular autographs on the same bat was highly unlikely, they were in too good condition for their age, and the company that authenticated it had been shut down since it was caught manufacturing fake autographs. The customer basically told to the camera that he thought the expert was full of shit and questioned his professionalism.
** Basically, any customer that acts like Rick is not only obligated to buy whatever they want to sell him, but to buy it for the price they'd like. Like the above car guy who claimed Rick was ripping him off ''by not buying the car''.
* [[Jerk
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The theme song sounds a ''lot'' like AC/DC's "Back in Black", doesn't it?
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Averted for the most part. The shop has seen its share of swords but a katana has not turned up yet. However, in one episode, Chumlee manages to sell a prop katana that was used in ''[[Kill Bill]]''.
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** One of the shop's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3_M6StbLx4 YouTube videos] has Rick showing off a katana, as well as explaining some of the finer details of valuing such an item.
** In a advertisement for the show, Rick is showing off one of his antique katanas and notes that if he took it to Japan, it would be confiscated as a national treasure.
* [[Kayfabe]]: The show and most interviews and such continue to act like Rick and the others still work the store normally. In fact, they can no longer actually see customers in the store because they're too famous and get too much attention, which would violate the confidentiality of their customers; the guys who star in the show really only come out of the back office to occasionally greet customers and sign autographs, or when the Discovery Channel crew has arranged a customer for them to haggle with (and thus cleared out most of the rest of the store).
* [[Know When to Fold
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Though we don't see it happen, more than a few of the above-mentioned jerks who groused and snarled and finally accepted a fairly generous price for their items then announced something along the lines of "Now it's off to the blackjack tables!" Considering the odds of actually winning or even breaking even, a lot of that money isn't going home with them.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: When Rick buys a glass decanter than can be used to store and pour four separate drinks at once, Chumlee uses it to try and brew his own homemade alcoholic beverage. He gets the other guys to try it, and they all (except the Old Man cause he could handle the stuff) think it's disgusting, although Chum himself still enjoys it.
** Chumlee had more luck with a coffeemaker that Corey later bought. The Old Man actually really enjoyed the coffee Chumlee served him.
** Chumlee tried his luck with making his own wine in another episode. Everyone hated
** Corey and Chumlee purchased a turn-of-the-century waffle iron. When Rick couldn't close a deal on a very rare cannon he wanted, Chumlee cooked up some waffles. The waffles ended up a little softer than usual, which Rick points out (Chumlee added too much water to the mix), but Old Man liked them.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: In one episode, Big Hoss buys a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle for $7,000. Chumlee falls in love with the bike, and asks to be put on the company payment plan so he can buy it himself. The Old Man refuses to do it unless Chumlee can come up with a $3,000 down payment. We then see a series of clips that shows Chumlee working hard and selling items left and right, including the previously mentioned ''[[Kill Bill]]'' katana, using the money he gets on commission for the down payment. The Old Man even [[
* [[Licensed Game]]: There's a ''Pawn Stars'' Facebook game.
* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: Present with all three generations of Harrisons. Rick has inherited the Old Man's occasional willingness to offer customers higher prices than what they were asking for, while Corey has begun using his father's [[Catch Phrase]] of only wanting something if he can get it "for the right price." All three of them are also master [[Deadpan Snarker
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Rick knows many different people who are experts at appraising or restoring almost anything he can bring them. Some of them have almost become regulars on the show themselves with the number of times Rick and the boys have called them for assistance.
** Restorer Rick Dale, who fixed up a lot of the shop's "americana" purchases, even got his own [[Spin-Off]], ''[[American Restoration (TV)|American Restoration]]''.
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* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Needless to say, our heroes have played up this trope for all it's worth. You can buy everything from T-shirts to bobblehead dolls to DVDs. One shirt in particular advocates Chumlee for President, which would probably put the Old Man in his grave if it ever really happened.
* [[The Millstone]]: Chumlee, so very much. One [[Eyecatch]] reveals that he once broke a $15,000 Bass violin. He's gotten more competent as the show has gone on, though.
* [[
* [[Missed Moment of Awesome]]: Several of them:
** A customer brings in a figurine of the ancient Greek hero Perseus, and goes crazy when Rick tells him it's a fake. This prompts Rick's security guard [[Scary Black Man|Antwaun]] to come marching up, ready to lay down the law...and Rick waves him off.
** Rick is offered a 17th century treasure chest with an extremely elaborate lock involving no less than eight deadbolts. They have to get an expert locksmith down to open the chest, and everyone wonders what's inside...and the chest turns out to be empty. Even so, the scene ends on a positive note as the chest itself is still valuable and Rick buys it anyway.
** Rick is offered a collection of 200-year old silver rupee coins from India that a customer discovered while scuba diving with [[Arthur C. Clarke
** A customer comes in with a framed [[Wanted Poster]] for John Wilkes Booth, the guy who shot [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Knowing that it could be very valuable, Rick calls in Dana, a dealer in American historical documents, to verify it. Unfortunately, Dana finds that the customer's poster is a worthless copy. However, the ''authentic'' John Wilkes Booth poster Dana brought for comparison is for sale, and Rick tries to buy it. Dana wants $180,000 for it, and Rick counters with $120,000...and again they just can't agree on a price.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: When one guy brings in a fairly large assortment of [[Mickey Mouse]] phones, after lining them up on the counter he says he's selling them because his girlfriend is moving in with him. Chumlee gives him a mildly surprised look and says "You have a girlfriend?"
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* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: The Old Man has a very, very thick one.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: While Chumlee's reputation is fairly earned, he'd almost ''have'' to be smarter than he looks on the show. It's pretty clear that at least some of the time, he's purposely playing the fool, either for the cameras or for his coworkers. He also shows occasional surprising flashes of expertise or competence when he actually puts his mind to something.
** In his chapter in ''License to Pawn'' he specifically refers to the way he seems on-camera as "my character on the show".
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: In his autobiography, Rick describes the hoops he and the Old Man had to go through to set up the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop. These ranged from corrupt city bureaucrats who were trying to keep Rick from horning in on the sales territories of the "good old boys" network to crooked city politicians who demanded campaign contributions in exchange for supporting their efforts to open their shop to a city mayor who came up with some pie-in-the-sky idea of making all the pawn shops in town gather on one street, and eventually in one large building.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: The Pawn Stars game on Facebook. Yeesh.
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** What about the guy that paid out the ass for an antique pistol only to find out it was a cheap reproduction? The [[Cluster F-Bomb]] just ''barely'' showed the audience how pissed off he was.
** Also the woman who bought a carved ivory tusk for a lot of money in Taiwan, only to find out it was bone shaped over a wood frame that was hardly worth $100.
* [[Only Known
** Though he was given business cards which were misspelled "Chum Lee" in one episode. While upset at first, he later mused that he liked the idea of being called "Mr. Lee".
** Inversion: The quote at the top of the page is what Rick says as each episode opens. It's usually the only time in an episode where Corey will be called "Big Hoss."
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: Antwaun, the greeter/bodyguard. 6'5" and gigantic. And carries a gun in a holster, as permitted for a security guard.
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Occasionally crops up either during the stingers or lulls in the buying and selling action. During an intermission when they were waiting on their resident toy appraiser to look at a very fancy stuffed teddy bear, the conversation devolves into seeing [[Cool Versus Awesome|who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear]]:
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'''Old Man''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Why are we having this dumb conversation]]?! }}
* [[Serial Escalation]]: So what kind of weird antiques are customers going to bring in today?
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* [[The Scrooge]]: The Old Man has been compared to the [[Trope Namer]] more than once.
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Old Man is a perfect example. At best, he's blunt and no-nonsense. At worst, he's bitter, sarcastic and insults pretty much everyone.
* [[Self
* [[Senior Sleep Cycle]]: "Old Man" would sleep at his desk during work. And still works harder than everyone else there. [[Unreliable Narrator|Or so he says.]]
** This was part of a storyline in one episode. Rick expanded the shop to make an office for the Old Man, so he wouldn't be sleeping at his desk within sight of the customers. At first he liked the office, but by the end of the episode he was back at his desk, once again sleeping.
* [[Sharp
* [[Skewed Priorities]]: [[Played for Laughs]] when demonstrating the homemade mortar cannon. Chumlee is tasked with lighting the fuse. Rick is worried about the cannon misfiring and/or blowing up, citing he doesn't want another workman's compensation claim on his business.
* [[Snark
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* [[Spin-Off]]: Rick will take certain antiques to be restored by one of his buddies, Rick Dale. Dale recently got his own show, ''American Restoration'', which focuses on his work restoring things such as bicycles, refrigerators and candy machines. In one of the first episodes, he restores a 1950s-era golf cart for the Old Man.
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*** Which is odd given [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvu6APT3JLY Rick didn't seemed too wary] of profiting off a "Broke Nazi" in the past (as Dave Attell of Insomniac fame would joke when shown some old daggers identified by rick as being "Nazi stuff.").
** Another time, an "artist" brought in pieces of gold he himself cast. In addition to [[Doom It Yourself|painting them black]] and thereby defeating the purpose of the gold pieces, one of them incorporated the leg from a roadkilled owl.
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'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Rick]]''': "They're pieces of something."
'''Artist''': ''*[[Death Glare]]*'' }}
** Rick has also mentioned that he doesn't like taking in ivory items since he doesn't like how ivory is obtained nor does he like the politics behind it.
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** ''I'm so damn happy, I might just crack a smile today.''
* [[Stout Strength]]: One of Rick's employees is a large fat black man named Antwaun. He's occasionally seen in the background helping customers take heavy items into or out of the store, though his explicit role at the shop is as security.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Sometimes, when Rick or the Old Man and a customer are at an impasse, one of them will offer a straight-up trade as a means of sealing the deal. For instance, the guy who tried to sell Rick a Revolutionary War-era war bond drafted by Paul Revere wasn't very keen on Rick's $12,000 offer until he threw in the electric guitar the kid had originally wanted to get. Another customer who wanted to sell the Old Man a collectible poker chip finally agreed to his price if the Old Man also agreed to give him the figurines of some prominent Las Vegas entertainers. The Old Man later told the camera crew that the figurines were only priced at $300 and he paid only $100 for them, so it wasn't really a problem for him.
** One of the more interesting examples and the only such shown to date is when a man comes in to sell a South Pole glacier marker and one of the first ATM receipts from its science station. Since Rick has absolutely no way to value them but knows they're unique enough to be interest-drawers if nothing else, he accepts the seller's offer to simply leave them in the store to be sold and take a percentage of the profit if they do.
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** At times Hoss isn't much less of a liability than Chumlee. While Chumlee as mentioned is a [[Genius Ditz]], Hoss is often plain clueless on the true value of items people bring in, and thus makes them offers far below what the item is actually worth and what he could make selling it because he doesn't know any better. He also often makes deals without consulting experts or discussing it with Rick or the Old Man, and the two usually get furious when he does.
** The guy who, unable to deal with the fact that he'd ruined his Porsche engine by being too big of an idiot to store it properly, kept insisting the Count was wrong and that Rick should call in a "real" or "professional" mechanic. He was lucky that the Count is either a lot nicer than he looks or that the cameras were on him. The tension in the air when he says it makes it look like Rick's wondering why the Count hasn't beaten the crap out of him already.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Old Man loves him some chicken wings.
* [[Trophy Room]]: In a way, the entire shop. There are a select few items that Rick is proud of owning and will not sell them unless it's for absurd amounts of money, like his prized Patriots Super Bowl ring. Sometimes Rick is also tempted to keep choice items for himself, such as a jukebox that he could sell at a $1,400 profit but that plays some of his favorite music.
** Another such item is a stamp crafted by Benjamin Franklin that he bought and stuck an enormous price to it to keep people from buying it.
** In one of the videos posted on the shop's [[YouTube]] page, the Old Man mentions that he's got a collection of several classic cars and trucks, some of which he no doubt acquired from customers.
* [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]: The boys make an effort to avoid this trope. On the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130204003504/http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars/videos/playlists/how-to-be-a-pawn-star Pawn Stars section of the History Television website], there are a number of videos filmed by the cast that explain many of the ins and outs of the pawn industry. In one of the videos, Rick and the Old Man point out that if you really want to get a good deal from a pawnbroker, you should be polite. Being a [[Jerkass]] won't get you anywhere.
* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: The Old Man is never seen at work without one.
* [[The Watson]]: Chumley often plays this role accompanying Rick when he makes deals.
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** Rick bought four posters about movies dealing with pawn shops. Rick intends to keep them to decorate the shop, and sends Corey to get them framed ''[[What an Idiot!|without telling Corey that he wanted to keep them.]]'' Corey ends up selling one of the posters to the owner of the frame shop in exchange for $1,400 in cash and framing the other three posters for free. Rick is furious with Corey when he comes back, even though Corey not only sold one of the posters at a $1,000 profit but also saved the shop a fair amount of money in getting the framing done for free. [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|Corey ends up being yelled at and forced to go back to the frame shop to buy the fourth poster back]], but how was he supposed to know that Rick wanted to keep the posters and not sell them?
** Came close to being invoked by name in ''Blaze of Glory'':
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** One time, Corey buys a program from the 1932 NFL Playoff Game for $2,750, giving justifiable reasons for ''why'' it's worth it. Rick and the Old Man both chew him out for it until he gets it looked at by an expert who reveals it's worth $10,000 for pretty much the same reasons Corey thought it was valuable (it's extremely rare, there only being around four in existence, one of which is in the Football Hall of Fame and in ''worse'' condition than the one he bought). When Corey, reasonably, asks for an apology, they chew him out ''again'' even though he was completely right about it.
*** Though this was part of a rather obviously scripted and forced plotline where Corey was heavily considering leaving the shop if he wasn't made a partner. It was a bit of a [[Dork Age]] for the series and thankfully discarded after a handful of episodes.
* [[What Happened to
* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: Once when a customer brought in four movie posters about pawn shops, Chumlee remarks that a movie should be made about them. Rick replies with "No one's going to want to see us." [[Hypocritical Humor|As they're being filmed for their TV show]].
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: One episode has Rick testing Corey's knowledge of shop merchandise. If he wins, he gets 2500 dollars but if he losses he has to work the graveyard shift. Corey gets 3/4 right. The Old Man steps in, says he fails, and punishes Rick too for arranging the bet without his permission. To the Camera Crew, Old Man explains that neither one of them would win. He himself wanted a break from one of them and regardless of how the contest ended, one of them would not be working during the day.
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