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Best reality show on TV. I Barry Weiss - they could give him his own TV show and I'd watch it!
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)to his comments. Yeah, he's the best thing on that show. Would love to know more about where he stores this stuff. Maybe we'll see him on an episode of the hoarders?
Mopar151
(9,977 posts)I like it pretty well. Barry is way cool - Dave Hester, not so much.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)but one I actually enjoy watching on TV. There were a few weeks where Hester wasn't on the show and the guy they had replacing him was boring.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)would be much better without him. He deliberately bids, just to screw others.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)And to be fair the other bidders know what he's doing and a few times they've dropped bad lockers on him.
I think that's why Storage Wars: Texas hasn't been as good because there is no really well defined douchebags and thus we lose that 'let's root against the bad guy' thrill of the show.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Then there's Dave and Darryl.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I know they tried really hard to do the same thing with Storage Wars: Texas but they just didn't find the right combination of personalities to make the show interesting. The original worked because they had the clearcut hip guy (Barry), bickering cute couple (Jarrod and Brandi), Douchebag (Dave) and Darryl to boot. I can't figure out who has those roles on Texas. I think the guy originall from Long Island is the douchebag but sometimes that Uncle/Nephew pair act like it. And the 'hip guy' they brought in is just a clown. No one can touch Barry Weiss.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)and funny.
Jarod and Brandi piss me off.
Dave can be a bit of an ass, but he doesn't really bother me.
Darryl...I always feel like hitting him.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)I even like the Texas one.
But I wonder if Barry really owns all those crazy vehicles, or if the show gets them for him or if he borrows them for the show or what.
And I don't understand why Barry doesn't team up with say Jarrod and Brandi, since 99% of the stuff he is not interested in at all.
Kingofalldems
(38,440 posts)Doing pottery: 'All you have to do is gently massage it and watch it grow'---and they left it in. Funny.
Is it true that Brandi was a stripper?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Barry will do just about anything for a laugh.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out Brandi was a former stripper. First she does have really big um, you know those things. And Jarrod looks like the type of guy that spent time hanging out at strip clubs. But those 2 have been together for ages and have 2 kids now.
Callalily
(14,889 posts)the show. Brandi and Jerrod? Some times funny and engaging, sometimes not so much.
I feel sorry for Darry's son . . . well, I think that's his son.
http://storagewars.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Weiss
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Always bickering with each other.
One of these days that kid is gonna tell his dad to 'F##%% Off'