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  • Reality TV, that isn't really reality but scripted bullshit. Is destroying TV. There are to many sheople in this world... =(. Bahh.. Hmm is that based on a misconception or a fact..? Do a nature video about sheep following their fearless leader off a cliff. =)

  • Pawn Stars is awesome. I don't give a fuck.

  • MTV really deserves one of these! I honestly don't know if they show ANYTHING music-related anymore...

  • @AllHailZeppelin They show sucker free, a hip hop music video compilation. But, judging by your username, you're not into that kind of thing. I'm with you by the way.

  • @Fraugee I just chose that cause I couldn't think of a good username and didn't really care, and Zeppelin's my favorite band. But there's a lot of rap I do like. While rock is my favorite overall genre, rap is my second favorite.

    But to the point, I haven't had cable for a long time, and pretty much only know about MTV's programming from friends and hearing about its shows.

  • Make an MTV one plz

  • I believe in aliens, I just don't think we'll see them since they're too far away. And while Ancient aliens is interesting, I feel it shouldn't be on the history channel but rather on the discovery channel.

  • BTW i dont understand why are you guys complaining about history channel. have you seen MTV????? i mean, its the crappiest crap in the whole crappy world, they do horrible shows like teen mom, 16 and pregnant and jersey shore, and guess what? those shows are not only extremely stupid but also not about music, so yeah, i think we can forgive history channel for pawn stars.

  • @AppleJuicePacks

    That's not the point.

    MTV has always been shit.

    History Channel "used" to be pretty good.

  • ok pawn stars is history, yes it has the stupid properties of a reality show, yes its about money and not history but i teaches you enough history to appear in that channel. the other day i watched it and some guy brought a baby gas mask from ww2, thats crazy! im sorry, i understand your argument and i hate all the alien shows but pawn stars has enough history to be there and more importantly: people actually watch it wich is kind of important.

  • someone said this in my history class and my history teacher went on a huge rant about how the history channel is stupid...

  • LEAVE.....PAWN STARS...... ALONE :3 jk great vids

  • The history channel made there slogan "history, made every day" in order to be able to say "yeah pawn stars is history, everyday that passes is history, and pawn stars qualifies"

  • but... i like pawn shop.. before i lost cable :/

  • bwahahahaha

  • do one for mtv :D

  • Finally someone with my own opins like 2012 and achinet aelins

  • well you need to do that with mtv, most people dont know what the m stands for. MUSUC!!!!

  • @marton891 Well put. This once admirable network has bowed to the gods of this superficial "me" generation. Sad, isn't it?

  • In Portuguese "we" unificate the word. História means Story and History also.

  • FINALLY! Lets all let history channel know that they've become bullshit and that they've sold their soul to profits instead of culture

  • YES. Thank you for this.

  • The same deterioration happened at the Discovery and Learning channels. As time passes I think the bean counters get more and more control of the studio. Between the accounting and Sales departments they conspire to supress creativity. Its easy to sell ads for familiar WWII but not for say a rich interesting subject like a history of South American revolutions. Bolivia alone has had 200 or so. So to keep revenue up its WWII, Pawn shops and Aliens all around.

  • that was... AWESOME!

  • MTV anyone...?

  • @CGPGrey The problem is the changing face of television, and the problems of keeping the audience. Sure, when TV was at it it's most watch from the late seventies to the early two thousands, one could easily have a niche channel dedicated to history, but with viewership dropping so quickly, the WW2 documentaries and Modern Marvels just aren't cutting it with the attention of Americans constantly being divided among more and more pieces of technology.

  • Could say the same thing about TLC...back when it used to mean "The Learning Channel." Now all you can "learn," is how to make cakes, and whine about raising 8 kids by yourself.

  • @mikevandergaag Let's watch TLC: "The Boy With 18 Breasts" is on!

  • THANK YOU!!!

  • That mens were history!!

  • Pawn stars/ american pickers at least have some historical facts (that could be read on the first line of that items wiki page)

    Still better then the historical relevance of swamp people

    But yes I miss the old history channel specials that are only aired during the mid day when we are all at school or work :(

  • I'm not saying it was aliens, but aliens.

  • Ancient aliens - Aliens from the past

    Pawn stars - They talk about historical items

    Nostradamus: 2012 - He is from the past...

  • @cheatmasterbw That's the sort of logic, for good or bad, that the History Channel seems to use to justify their widening range of programs. They could just as easily start airing re-runs of "Wheel of Fortune" because, technically, those are a part of our history as well. Everything is or will eventually become history. The question is: Do we want to spend a couple of hours each day learning about the gradual evolution of the universe around us, or the de-evolution of the Swamp Loggers?

  • 109 people with names like Drew Peacock and Dan Druff watched this video =P

  • Don't worry, southpark already made a parody of 'the History Channel'.

  • Last sentence made me laugh my ass of

  • I hear that like Syfy changed from Sci Fi channel, that they're going to change to Hystry...

  • Pawn Stars is a crap reality show for and about rednecks. NOT history.

  • @TheKarmaComedian So living in Las Vegas now constitutes being a redneck? gtfo bigot

  • This is almost the same as remember when MTV use to actually show music videos?

  • I don't know. I think that saying that Pawn Stars is related to history is like saying a movie is about history if there happens to be an antique car in the background. Just not solid enough for me.

  • @tedirelan That and most of it is fake.

  • @BrynTheSkits No argument here.

  • How do I join this society?

  • Pawn Stars is not really history. Sure, they like to showcase old stuff and give little tidbits, but almost all of it is trivia. I remember when the History Channel used to have real history like documentaries and such. I miss those days.

  • Lol

  • even though it's not history, i like pawn stars. it should though be put on a different channel.

    they should just make a whole new channel for these shows like pawn starts and storage wars.

  • c.) The experts that they do have on still occasionally say things that are incorrect. And so there needs to be better oversight toward fact checking.

    d.) The experts give half-baked answers:

    (ex.:customer: Is this a Babe Ruth autograph?

    expert:probably, but I can't tell without authentication.

    customer: oh okay.)

    If it was historical, they would've been able to authenticate it themselves (i.e. Antiques Roadshow)

  • No. Pawn Stars is not history for the following reasons:

    a.) When the show's character relationships upstage- nay overshadow, the historical aspects, it becomes a reality drama.

    b.) Much of the appraisals that are done on site are done from a business perspective, not a historical perspective. (i.e.: I used to sell bicycles especially old Schwinns. the fact that I could determine a Chicago-made Schwinn v. a Taiwan-made Schwinn does not make it historical)

  • ancient aliens is epic :D

  • I see what you did there.

  • So, I'm not the only one who noticed this.

  • Hehe. TSPTTNSMS. Say that 5 times as fast as u can.

  • You want history....go to history2 channle.

  • Thank you very much for saying what I've always felt for a long, long time.

  • Although, I do enjoy Ancient Aliens immensely. :D

  • Now Full Metal Jousting! That's where it's at!

  • I agree!

  • I'm sorry but pawn starts doesnt count...the whole story is based on them selling and making profit and arguing and making fun of the people

    now that other show there a thin guy and chubby guy travel around finding stuff....that one counts

  • pawn stars sorta counts. top shot does not. along with most of their other shows.

  • history channel stands for history as much as g4 stands for gaming

  • Tell the same message to the Weather Channel!

  • Tell the same message to the Weather Channel!

  • Word..

    

  • TLC, Discovery, and MTV are suffering from the same madness.

  • @AdamofEarth As well as Animal Planet, Military Channel and Science Channel 

  • You left out their stupid psychic episodes!

  • I really want to know what you think about MTv

  • Kind of like TruTV with Operation Repo, and Southern Fried Stings, and Lizard Lick Towing, and their newest pile of crap South Beach Tow...

  • an open lesson to history channels, we know the nazis were bad, get over it.

  • You could make one of these for MTV, but it would take too long to outline how much of their programming isn't music or even music-related.

  • Welcome to the continuing industrial age. If it isn't making money, we can't afford to host it, and if it is making money, but something else would make us more, then it isn't making enough. Because education and communication don't matter, money does - and a better educated and more clever populace might be able to do new and very impressive things that would contribute to the happiness and wealth of all, but that wealth would not be as easily monopolized. So the answer's still no.

  • Would you rather have it go back to The Hitler Channel? I remember The Hitler Channel.

  • I remember when I was home sick when I was a kid I used to watch the history channel for hours on end. I hated when it switched to its current garbage programming

  • DAMN RIGHT! ... history channel is hardly history at all... History Channel International (if it still exists) still actually has history... dang I miss it....history channel used to be very educational... now there are aliens, redneck truckers, ax men, swamp men..... ugh

  • I'd say that pawn stars and ancient aliens are both history, as pawn stars talks about cool stuff they had in the past (kind of a push on the history channel's part, but still exceptable), and ancient aliens is definately a show about history (albiet a rather hypothetical and psuedoscientific one)

  • pawnstars is sort of history because they explain the historical significance of items that come through the shop

  • THANK YOU- you made a video that reflects exactly what I feel about History Channel which is not History, just as Discovery Channel isn't about discovery (or science) like it used to. Now if we could start a movement to get them to put up some real history, maybe I will get cable tv back.

  • i love pawnstars>:(

  • @thecat0799 Well then the history channel should keep the show but change the channel name. "Fake history channel" perhaps?

  • SoPWTNSMS

    That's some acronym!

  • Pmsl you should watch the South Park Episode "A history Channel Thanksgiving"... They basically say exactly as what you saying here just more surreal! Its so clever! Season 15 ep 13 i think it is!

  • i've seen ancient aliens and pawn stars and i didn't like pawn stars but did like ancient aliens

  • dont make fun of acient aliens.....its really cool

  • I like those history shows, they make me laugh! xD

  • Relevant Video : /watch?v=Us52tqtn7TA

    

  • i feel like pawn stars is on EVERY SINGLE TIME i turn on the history channel.

  • I still like Ancient Aliens though...

  • He should definitely do an MTV one.

    Music (Beethoven, Bach, Wagner), Not Music (Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Jennifer Lopez)

  • @charliesbass Haha, I just laughed so hard at your comment; that is brilliant!

  • Discovery too. Why do they have to have all those chopper programs?

  • THANK YOU! 

  • You should do one for animal planet!

  • I thought I was the only one making fun of ancient aliens and american pickers being on the history channel. That's why I switched to Science channel.

  • Pawnstars is the only reason I watch History now. Now I USED to watch war documentary's all the time, but they are boring as hell after you have heard of every war and conflict.

  • @BlackIce131 yeah we need a new war, WW3 ftw!

  • @Enerluap1 WW3? are you mad? that won't be history, until it will end in a few years (or atomic blasts) and it will be at first a live show on the eye-brain channel. Good ideea!

  • APPLAUSE! Nomen est omen, or so it used to be.

  • Well SyFy (and its stupid name change) think that wrestling and ghost hunting shows qualify as programing. I could maybe give them the ghost hunting if they weren't canceling amazing shows like Eureka, and I don't watch stargate or its spin-offs but I don't think they care much about it either (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't really know much about the history of stargate)

  • Yes! Someone who actually knows what they're talking about!

  • Pawn Stars is acceptable on History Channel. It's mainly about historical items. Of course, standard history related programming should be in the limelight.

  • @TraditioEtInnovatio agree'd also ancient aliens show they talk all about history they just talk about things that happened that some say was by aliens on a side note history is anything in the past

  • TLC: The Learning Channel

    Don't remember the last time I learned something from TLC. Unless you count how to dress your child up for pageants or how to Hoard

  • @MustangErin i dunno if we're talking about the same channel but here in australia TLC stands for the travel and living channel (and is a discovery channel)

  • pawn stars is awesome and they do talk about historical stuff quite a bit. It's better than the alien shows.

  • You should do this for MTV. I mean, it's called MUSIC Television. What do Jersey Shore and Teen Mom have to do with Music?

    *rage*

  • HOLD UP

    Pawn Stars IS history IN A WAY

    It tells you about things like old technology and stuff like that

  • @johnson1095 not... really..

  • History.. :Aliens:

  • THANK YOU!

  • Four years ago, when I was younger, my brother and I would watch this history channel and LEARN something. Or, we would watch animals on discovery channel and LEARN something. Today, I avoid those channels at all costs due to the fact that it is worse than most MTV reality shows. Our world has so much potential, but the mindless viewers have ruined it. Thus, Youtube and therefore you, are my hero. Thanks for believing names should mean something :)

  • I want to be a part of The Society of People Who Think Names Should Mean Something.

  • Pawn Stars is the shit!

  • PAWN STARS IS THE BEST SHO ON THE PLANET+ THE ANTIQUES ARE HISTORY

  • But Pawn Stars does teach you history, though! Also, it brings in a ton of ratings.

  • So true. I love it.

  • same with the discovery channel and mtv, they use to do shows that had to do with their names, now its all reality crap on both........

  • I agree! I miss the days when I could turn on the history channel and find a program about Rome, the American Civil War, and other such things. Now... it's a lot of reality t.v. crap. I DON'T CARE ABOUT FULL METAL JOUSTING, OR WHAT LIFE WILL BE LIKE....... WITHOUT PEOPLE!

  • Well, Pawn Stars is about people making money in pawn shop, and sometimes buying/selling historic artifacts ergo: Related to "history".

  • @lundell100 yea and theres music in the background of the jersey shore, thats why its on Music Televison right...

  • @lundell100 Wait, you mean to tell me you can vaguely relate anything to anything else?! Whaaaaaaaa

  • and... Music Television?!

  • Your point is quite valid, Pawn Stars is a very entertaining show, but it has nothing to do with history. They need to move that show over to the Discovery Channel.

  • @CGPGrey - As a fellow member of The Society I would love to see a vid bashing Tru TV.

  • Well I think Pawn Stars is kind of the exception considering there is a slight bit of history whenever people come into their shop with civil war items, etc.

  • I'm shocked no one has said this but...

    'what is in a name, would a rose by any other name smell just as sweet'

  • The one that gets my bee in the bonnet is Ice Road Truckers. Cool show? Yes. Any relevance to History whatsoever? No. At least Pawn Stars there's often History in the stuff they bring in, and Modern Marvels does often talk about the History of the topic of the week.

  • They are clearly researching the history of stupidity in America...

  • @jyanixbach It would be a short 200 year lesson, Europe, Asia, and Africa on the other hand... they had thousands of years to exploit stupidity.

  • pawn stars at least deal in historical artifacts, and there is some historical merit to Nostradamus etc, it really is silly what gets put on that channel.

  • I would gladly join that society. Fox News should be their next target. Fox opinion, fox slant, fox stories, and fox advertisements would all be fine.

  • thank you.

  • Pawn Stars actually is history, man. Recently on TV they found something from the American Civil War, and actually had a man identify it

  • i ASSUME they only want to put up history videos, but since they´ll loose money from commercial when not airing, they find ways to fill it out

  • I sometimes watch those ancient alien shows, I like to laugh at how stupid the "experts" on them are.

  • Pawn stars has some history, but not much. Shows like american pickers, swamp people, and ice road truckers have absolutely no history in them. What happened to the shows and documentaries that actually taught you some history?

  • make one about MTV

  • Aliens.

  • THANK YOU

  • Owned

  • he should do one on MTV

    LOL

    Music > Not music x 10000000000000

  • @Refused2Break

    I'm gonna give you a thump down just for saying "LOL", all of whom are capital letters I might add.

  • @kjarri42

    i will pretend that it hurt my feeling in a tremendous way just so your day can be a little bit brighter.

    <3 LOL SCRUB <3

  • @Refused2Break I don't think he,ll find examples of what is music on MTV.

  • Thank you so much :'D

  • Hitler Pwned the Pawn Stars!

  • i am a member of TSPWTTNSMS.....need a better name...

  • Actually I think the Pawn Stars has a little history because of the fact that there is the stuff they buy which is usually historical and they tell about it but I can see where you are coming from.

  • Pawn Stars is all about old things that have great historical value and is still entertaing to the public, Nostradamus was an OLD (keyword) psychic-ish person who predicted things that are resembled by things happening today, and Ancient Aliens is about explaning HISTORICAL EVENTS that could possibly be explained by the existance of extra-terrestrials. So yeah, it's still the HISTORY channel......

  • @G0ldkloud ok then it is the history channel in the same way that me jerking off to vintage porn is me studying film.

  • @G0ldkloud They are kinda overdoing it with the aliens stuff though ...

  • @BlackDragonIvan Its because the people who believe the stupid ass alien shit are sponsoring and paying history channel.

  • @G0ldkloud 1. Pawn stars is about a pawn shop. It's a reality show. It's like saying something's porn because it shows the silhouette of a bare-chested man.

    2.Nostradamus was incredibly vague. Seriously, he doesn't say ANYTHING of value. If he was psychic, why didn't he say at least the YEAR? Or who the thing involved? Also, it's about how the world will end, which it won't.

    3. We know that people built the pyramids and crap. Shut up.

  • Mtv should take a hint.

  • @MechanizedPencil Who cares about the name having nothing to do with what is actually shown, MTV is just terrible

  • @G0ldkloud

    and the reason for this is because what's shown is terrible.

  • History channel has sold out.

  • I hereby give this video with the most common sense video on YouTube award.

  • @GiveMeLiberty3 Pawn Stars is totally historical!

  • I give Pawn Stars a pass because, quite frankly, you're bound to actually learn something when someone brings in historical items. Yeah there's the reality show aspect to it, but it's not nearly as bad because it's business rather than relationship drama or what have you on any other reality television program.

  • @Atomsk88 i agree all the way

  • On a similar note.

    To cartoon network:

    Adventure time, cow and chicken = Cartoons

    Harry hill = Not cartoon

  • Thank you! You do not learn anything of value when you are seeing pawn-stars or any of the other crap shows.

  • I think the history channel tried to reform their stuff so it was interesting. Some old documentaries from them were appallingly boring, so they tried to spice things up with reality tv and aliens. While pawn stars and American pickers are my guilty pleasure, the alien stuff is crap. If the science channel can make string theory interesting, I think the history channel could make the civil war good...

  • @JaguarRawr Gettysburg was interesting.

  • @JaguarRawr I wish they would stop trying to repackage everything to make it "interesting" to the public. Discovery channel is mainly explosions and manly men doing manly things these days, and I would rather have someone that know what they're talking about explain dark matter, than Morgan Freeman.

    When you dumb things down too much it just becomes too dumb to understand.

    But then they wouldn't make any money, so fuck me in the dick with popular science and a wad of cash.

  • @WlatPziupp then you should get discovery science and discovery turbo