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American Chopper the Series - First Season

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: American Chopper the Series - First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404977167
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404977163
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 580 minutes
Sales Rank: 24342
Studio: Sony Pictures



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Product Description:
Welcome to Rock Tavern New York home of the Orange County Choppers the legendary custom motorcycle shop of Paul Teutul and his son and chief designer Paul Jr. The highest-rated show on the Discovery Channel AMERICAN CHOPPER captures the excitement setbacks and trimuphs of Team Teutul as they race against the clock to design and fabricate the most awesome array of custom-built bikes on the planet. Among the butt-kicking choppers created in Season One's thirteen outrageous episodes are the Fire Bike the Comanche Bike Mikey's Bike and the Black Widow Bike.System Requirements:Starring: Paul Teutel Sr. Paul Teutel Jr. Justin Barnes Mike Campo Cody Connelly Vince DiMartino Michael Teutel Running Time: 583 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396105324 Manufacturer No: 10532

Amazon.com:
Let's just say Dr. Phil wouldn't last 10 minutes with the squabbling Teutels of Orange County Choppers in Rock Tavern, New York. American Choppers, the wildly entertaining reality series from cable's Discovery Channel, is a hybrid television show blending serious family dysfunction with gearhead razzmatazz and deadline tensions in a motor shop (as with that other Discovery series, Monster Garage, where nonconformist engineers work frantically to build unique vehicles). Choppers concerns generational feuding between two highly talented designers and builders of one-of-a-kind, sometimes beautiful choppers (no, no--don't call them motorcycles), a father-and-son team who happen to share the same name. Fiftysomething Paul Teutel Sr. is the walrus-mustachioed owner of OCC, a boulder of a man with a sharp tongue, ironic sense of humor (he's the first to laugh hysterically when he and his son, simultaneously backing out of OCC's icy driveway in a macho display of speed, collide their trucks) and passive-aggressive tendencies. Even to a casual viewer, Paul Jr., OCC's Chief Fabricator and Designer, is clearly the target of his dad's mid-life anxiety over creeping irrelevancy. But the younger Teutel has a nasty streak, too, especially a working knowledge of how to make his father feel isolated, marginalized, even unloved.

Most of the 13 episodes in this boxed set find Paul Jr. immersed in some kind of expensive project, building a spidery display chopper for a big trade show in New York City, a NASCAR-themed bike for a special event, or a Firebike to honor the fallen firefighters of 9/11. In each case, Paul Sr. hovers over his son's shoulder, observing skeptically, criticizing one or another detail, barking about the schedule. Junior fights back, attacking what he perceives as the old man's cluelessness, mocking his unwanted efforts to collaborate. It's ugly, but it's also compelling and somehow even fun--perhaps because both men are so transparent in their complementary issues. Not every episode is full of friction; there are lighter moments and times of emotional release and bonding. Late in the season, when Junior's brother Mikey gets involved in the family business, an added layer of sibling rivalry brings a whole new dimension to this unusual psychodrama. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Nice First Season to begin with
Well, the DVD is excellent to begin with the show. Although the season doesn't include the Pilot episodes ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - American Chopper Season One
Have been a fan of American Chopper from day one, and getting to see the first season as many times as I want ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - My students love American Chopper DVD's
I have used the American Chopper series in my Management 101 class for a couple of years. Rather than have students ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - KEEEEP BUILDING
I really like this show. And since I didn't start watching it untill the middle of the third season, I bought the DVD. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Orange County Choppers-Season One
What can I say, I am addicted! The personalities of Paul Sr and Paul Jr and son, Mickey, along with their valuable employees ... Read More

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