Instead of rambling on for 20 minutes DA, you could have just made a 2 min video saying it was fake, obviously it was fake it's MTV and it's TV. Get a life Dbag!
I know everything what you told about the "enthusiastic" pimp my ride remembrance. I've watched it. Thanks for that clear look of yours to don't diss or disrespect any person, deal or programm, crew an whatsoever. This skill was nice to see. Cya
I actually used a lot of time out of my days to watch this show when i was younger cause you'd have to catch it on TV at certain times. I loved it, fake or not , it was definitely enjoyable and a part of my childhood growing up. No complaints here lol.
Same. I'm from Dublin, Ireland and this show was big over here too. It used to be on MTV every Saturday night when I was a kid. I loved it. My parents would go out for drinks every Saturday and I would chill on my parents bed and watch this while my babysitter was downstairs lol! Good times.
@@waynedonoghue4071 the good old days man. Miss it dearly when we had no worries. I find regular TV to be far better, at least for me at one point because there were commercials we couldn't skip lol and it just built anticipation for a good family night. Like okay this movie or TV show is coming on at such and such time let's do our homework before it comes on or let's do the chores mom told us to do before this comes. You'd have to catch certain things at certain times, other wise you'd have to wait til they replay it lol. I miss that feeling of planning out a day based on what was coming on the TV
@@PVRGE7 I agree bro. I miss the times of waiting in anticipation for my favourite show or movie to be on TV at a certain day and time. I remember watching Breaking Bad and it used to air once a week with a new episode. Netflix and stuff is cool.. But to me, nothing beats the anticipation of waiting for that next episode and talking about it all week. Good memories
Same. Especially since it was pretty clear that they never adressed actual mechanical problems the cars might have had. They just made them look flashy and installed a bunch of bogus stuff like multiple PlayStations or some ludicrous shit like that. Loved it. Glad I was around to experience it.
Telling the contestants that it might be a production member telling them no knocking on the door to get a genuine reaction is genius. The actual excitement was a big part of the show.
yea... most producers and TV Host fucks with contestants and/or humiliate them on National TV for drama and entertainment.cough cough American Idol cough.
No one could replace Xzibit in this show. He was too charismatic, funny and despite being one of the biggest mainstream rappers back then he was so down to earth it was insane.
@@MediaPastimes I don't know him in real life but sometimes you can just tell someone is a good person. I see him the same way I see actor Michael J Fox, you just know he's a great guy :D
I always got the impression he saw the funny side of the "bling bling" rapper image and was able to laugh at himself, as much as anything else. He's cool
The house thing was to preserve the contestant's privacy. Production couldn't shoot the openings of the show outside someone's actual house with the address and surrounding neighborhood shown. They were protecting themselves against any liability from people stalking the contestants by weirdos who would think they'd won cash instead of cheesy car upgrades.
There was one episode where the round table was totally unscripted where they had to pimp a guys ride who was into bowling, the entire team broke out in laughter after one of them said they were installing a bowling ball cleaner in the trunk and one of them said "You gotta have clean balls".
I met Xzibit on his birthday at a car show in Washington, he took the time to sign autographs and talk to all the fans. I have the deepest respect for him. The concert was awesome, and he was very down to earth. Not that many artists exhibit his class and rhetoric. If anyone actually thinks these cars were fully restored, they clearly have never turned a wrench. It's supposed to be light humor and fun.
To order parts to fix the engine can take months to even deliver. If your lucky to even get them in these old cars. Not to mention the liability of the car breaking.
I used to always say that if I was on Pimp My Ride, I would never tell them any of my hobbies or interest because they always ended up doing something crazy to it. "You like bubbles? We put a bubble machine in your exhuast!" "You like going to the park? We put a fold out badmitten set in your trunk!" I would just tell them I like cars that are fast with good sound systems and nice rims lol
@@voidremoved Reality very much is a thing. But within Reality, Mankind has created many Constructs to maintain an order within the world. Things like Time. Are all created to maintain that order and balance within the world. Because no of us really know what's going on.
Besides any reality tv show worth is name gotta be somewhat fake for it to work out, I mean everytime a camera is around the whole thing became staged , reality tv is a contradiction in terms everyone knows it ,the movie Ed Tv (1999) summed up this thing perfectly, even the so called scientific questionnaries , polls are not entirely real , when people got asked about their lives, priorities etc they take on a certain stance , either they straight lie or they sugarcoated their replies
I always knew the houses aren't theirs, and the contestants were always in on it. I was just wondering how they got those genuine looking reactions from them. Really clever how they did it. Well done there PMR.
LOL what?! They scammed poor people, ruined their cars, destroyed them financially, made them sign horrific contracts not to disclose the scam, and the show producer was a murderer who’s now in jail. Lol. The biggest scam in TV history.
@@greatdane331 scammed how? cars were already in a bad shape, they just made it LOOK a bit worse, then they re-did the exteriors, you saying that if they didn't redo the painting and install pretty useless gadgets the run down engine wouldn't fail down the line?
Even back in the day, when I watched episodes as they were new, I always thought the customizations were extremely impractical and many made the cars practically undriveable.
Great video my man! Xzibit was the shit. I loved that show. Btw. I am from Germany and I think it is safe to say that this show established the use of "to pimp something" in the everyday language.
My main gripe about some of the cars was that they made some of them so much heavier when they already lacked engine power.... so the cars would struggle take off and strain the engine so it dies quicker.
I loved it purely cause that one guy would add like 30 monitors that were completely unnecessary just cause. “We heard he was a TV and movie guy, so we decked it out with 200 monitors playing all his favourite movies at once”
NFS Underground really deserves a reboot. Yeah sure car culture is nowhere near the same, but I think most of us would still enjoy playing around with all the crazy stuff in a video game, even though we wouldn't do any of those crazy things in real life anymore.
Can't do it anymore without microtransactions and some bullshit story shoved in. EA Games has no idea what to do with NFS anymore. Forza Horizon and Grid is the closest we'll ever get again I'm afraid.
I'm 50 and would still customize a car to fast and the furious standards. I'm not a fan of the dodge charger and Challenger hype. Big engine don't mean nothing without proper ignition timing adjustment. Top speed doesn't win races, quick response and rapid acceleration win races.
Thanks for the mention! To anyone who wants to know more. I am working on a where are they now. I'm a big nerd and have tried to pay attention when the other cars have popped up later. I have 3 episodes up so far.
@@tylerp1019 May have been some issue with the car. As I heard somewhere he lost control getting off the freeway and it slid down an embankment and hit a tree. Funny that he has never made a statement. Possibly mtv gave him a check and said shhhhh. I hope to find out some day and have a conversation with him.
At 0:11 I thought that was Xzibit's right arm lol. And I realized this show was fake, which clued me in that nothing was probably real on these shows, when I saw a mic on the back of a person opening their door when they supposedly had no idea he was going to show up.
I was in the television industry at the time this was around. The fact that the person and the car they owned was real was a product of the time. It was fully understood true reality was too boring and unpredictable on its own, but there was this idea there had to be an element of reality maintained. Exaggeration was fine, but the envelope kept getting pushed further and further. To add to the situation, production companies absolutely loved how cheap these were to make. And because there were no writers getting credit, or residuals to pay the non-union people appearing on them, they kept every penny generated by DVD sales and reruns. So, the whole thing morphed into the Pawn Stars style show that is completely fictional, but maintains the reality cheap production value. PS- another fact about this show you skipped is the fact that winners had to pay all of the taxes for the work and items installed into their cars. That is likely the real reason a lot of high dollar stuff was removed after the episode filmed. How many of these people had the $20-30K to spend on the taxes? They probably had items removed to lower their tax burden.
$20-30k? For taxes?? Idk what country you live in but that's not how things are in the US. They most likely stripped the high value stuff off of the car because it was the only part that was worth anything. They probably sold it or just used it in a more convenient way.
@@taotao98103 do you live in Europe somewhere? Because there is no way the taxes are that high in America. I have a $57k car and I pay like $300 in taxes on it a year. So idk where you guys are getting these numbers from, a couple of speakers, TV's, and a popcorn machine(or whatever other corny stuff they put in the car) wouldn't cost anywhere near $20k in taxes.
@@pimplepickerton You're talking about the registration tax for your car. I'm talking about sales tax for the cost of making the custom car modifications. This is no Mexican custom car shops. These are well known respectable expensive car shops. The labor can get really expensive too because there's redesigning work involved here. Have you seen the designing cost of remodeling a condo? the design cost itself could go as high as $60k. I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost of making all the modifications can go as high as $100k. 10k for the sales tax is possible.
I remember enjoying that show. As a kid, I thought the idea of having a video game console setup in your car was dope as hell. Then again, as a kid I thought having a video game console would be dope... lol. In retrospect, I ain't into the idea quite as much as I used to.
The show was installing Xbox 360s into cars for a very brief period of time, but eventually went back to installing PS2 slims instead. As a kid, that confused me, but now I know it was probably because of the red ring of death issue that the 360 had. I can’t even imagine how hot the 360 must have gotten in a car trunk…
@@MediaPastimes Yeah I never considered the logistics of having a console just BE in your car all the time so I was just like "yooo that's cool" but yeah not the best idea, imo
@@JJMomoida honestly those systems would of been cooked....especially if the weather got hot or water got in the car somehow. Plus it's silly! I want Trunk space for my groceries etc. Not some stupid system
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Yeah that's true. As I said, not really something I thought much about... lol. Back then, the idea of having a console AT ALL, be it bolted to your car or existing in your living room, was enough for me.
The show did help his career immensely, because a lot of people discovered his music as a result of it. But the trade off was that everyone knew him as “that rapper who fixes cars”.
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage ICP is one of the worst acts in Hip Hop history. Juggalo are some cool people but my Gosh their music is horrible. Xzibit had one of the greatest vocals in Hip Hop history, that alone makes him an artist who can draw listeners. Plus he's been rapping since the 90s, At the Speed of Life, 40 Dayz 40 Nightz + his work with Tha Alkaholiks. Even rapping over beats made by producers like Easy Mo Bee or Madlib, if you wanna go very Hip Hop purist.
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage Lol you can't say rap went to complete shit after those two died. That's an ignorant generalized take. It started declining but it did not die. There is a difference. Saying everything was shit is a disrespect to rappers like Big Pun or Mos Def who did music in late 90s. Or rappers like Busta Rhymes or Redman and many others still making great music in late 90s. The average quality of albums went downhill from the year 96, meaning the music started regressing, not going to complete shit like you just said.
The timeframe actually was a huge problem because a lot of contestants needed their car to get to work and ended up having to find some other means of transportation.
I saw the '67 Mustang from season 1 in person back in 2004. I was on duty at work in the Venice/Mar Vista section of Los Angeles and saw this teal blue Mustang on huge wheels scoot passed me with a blonde girl behind the wheel. The Mustang looked fine to me, I didn't see anything different from how it looked on the show. No flame throwers though LOL
Honestly, this is one of the shows that really never had to fake anything - it has always been about the fun upgrades and x being fun to watch, no? But then again, mid 2000s was really into reality tv, they probably knew why they faked it lmao
I was a kid in the early mid 00s 2Fast 2Furious and Need For Speed Underground came out when I was 6 and they got me into cars. I still remember watching pimp my ride on MTV 2? IIRC with my family in 2005 I still remember the old MTV2 two headed dog logo. I miss the 00s except for the bad stuff that I was too young to know about.
@@MediaPastimes The early 2000's wasn't really that bad, at least compared to now..... Yes, we had 9/11 and that was tough to deal with late in 2001 and the aftermath of it in 2002 and 2003 to some extent from a travel standpoint, but these past two years with the pandemic have arguably been tougher than 9/11. Yes, entertainment did keep us distracted from 9/11 and the threat of war and then the Iraq war back in the early to mid- 2000's, but I still have fonder memories of the early 2000's. You can make a case nothing has kept us distracted from the pandemic. Yes, things are getting back to normal, but everything we enjoy from an entertainment standpoint, has been affected by the pandemic one way or another or we're reminded we're still in a pandemic. One day down the line if we look back at this era the pandemic era and compare it to the early 2000's, I think most people would take the early 2000's in a heartbeat.
@@86byrdman yesss everything about the '00s were superior to now. Just going to the beach was so much more fun people weren't weary of one another we came together for fun.
I think the homes not being the contestants homes is alright, helps them with privacy. (Though I have to admit that them having such a iconic car parked on their driveway would give away who they are so they don't gain much privacy after all, but in either case, the show was about the cars not about the homes so who cares if the homes were "fake" as long a the cars were real.) When it comes to the reaction, when I watched this originally, I also felt that as the season went further along that the contestants themself got more into the show, By that point they had seen how other contestants reacted and had an idea of what was expected of them. This was easy to tell because the reactions got more crazy the further the show went along. So if that part was put on to make it more fun, I think that's acceptable too. Honestly as long as the people actually owned those cars and they got to have the cars that was shown at the end, then I think everything else is fine, sucks that the show removed some of the parts that they put on before giving it to the contestants though.
I mean, you can't have a car that fires playing cards out the exhaust or silly stuff like that, you'd at best get littering tickets or at worst you'd get put in jail lol
Growing up in north Long Beach I remember always seeing the blue and white ice cream truck drive around wit ice cream. What sucked was that the robot arm wasn’t used , the guy said it didn’t work. Makes me think that the production crew removed it before they gave it to him. But it was always dope to see it regardless.
Xzibit really was the star of the show, no doubt. His bits were always super funny and idk, he generally seemed like a fun dude to hang out with. He is irreplaceable I don't care if any or even all of it is fake either. For me it was entertainment. Xzibit + the crazy car concepts was one hell of a time even as someone who isn't into cars. So if they added and changed stuff for the purpose of making it more fun I can only say: they succeeded!
I remember even when I was a kid watching this I found it so funny nearly all the pimped cars the solution was always add more screens. Put some in the back of the head rests put some in the edges of the door interior, big one in the trunk one that descends in. Hell well put little screens on top of the big screen we just installed.
For me, by far the most memorable thing to come out of this phase of society was the VW “Unpimp ze auto” ad campaign. I still regularly say “oh snap” in a German accent under my breathe.
I heard about pimp my ride from my classmates in elementary I never really saw one episode we did not have money to buy a tv. But seeing this now I am really happy it reminded me that I am still poor.
I live in Iran. I remember watching this TV show on satellite television when I was a kid. I loved this show so much that I used to argue with my sisters and my parents on watching this show. This video brought back so many memories.
I remember that one guy had an old Ford Escort that was 2 Escorts welded together down the middle of the car. They ended up getting him a Scion TC (EDIT: It was a Xb) I believe cuz it was unsafe. Never hear anyone talk about that one. I would like to think it had to be fake, but my brothers friend worked at a junkyard and pulled stuff like that all the time - his specialty was the homemade convertible, and it was good as you think it would be.
I always felt a bit bumped down that they dident fixed this wreck but of course this would have needed a lot of actual car work and less pimp work. Its understandable in the end that they didnt.
Thanks for sharing. I like watching "reality" shows that involve being creative, and stuff like that. like the house fixing stuff, and so on, but it always makes me sad to know that the so called lucky contestants end up getting the short end of the deal.
back when mtv was in my tv, i would watch pimp my ride with my brothers every day with excitement and awe for the crazy modifications that they were doing to the cars, fake or not.. it was an awesome show and truly perfect for its time
I always assumed that the show did a similar thing to house hunters.. People who are at the end process of finding a new home are used, people who have access to their old place still as well as having or nearly having the new place. Think about it, they visit 3 places every show and always pick one. I assumed people had already paid for and setup their own work being done on the car and the stories at the start were all made up for the show, and the show would cover a small portion of the bill for being on the show. I never understood how they could afford to give all those upgrades to a car "for free" for being on the show.. Most of the cars were cosmetic work sure, but even still that kind of car work isn't cheap.
I always thought this show was fun but had two glaring 'plot holes'. Pimping was pointless without basic mechanical work too. At least some was done at times. And who was gonna _maintain_ all those accessories they _didn't_ remove, the same struggling contestant?
We had it also in Italy, it was called: "Pimp My Wheels"... They were working only on 2 wheels vehicles, like motorbikes and scooters. Once they put a PS2 on a Vespa and my brain exploded into a walhalla trip...
My step mom worked on this show. She ended being the person that would inspect the cars after they were "pimped". She got the job while working at Galpin. She got the job because she was overheard talking shit about the quality of the pimped out cars and the production team respected her honesty.
I mean, as I got older before the show ended, I've come to my senses that it was fake...plus some of the winners didn't even seem that excited..it seemed staged and pre-planned. I hate that though
I actually bought the "pimp my ride" game on xbox as a kid. I was saddened to hear that most modifications couldn't be kept after modification. I still love cars but the fact most of the famous ones were fake made me upset. I mean it made sense but why air it, other than for views?
I remember watching this show as a kid mainly because of how the people in the show customize cars, at first I thought it was cool but now it's way too ricy but regardless I love how Xzibit roasts them at the beginning also the crazy thing is that I remember watching a live event where Xzibit talked about the show and how the idea of putting certain parts of the cars were added he said they never touch the performance parts just the visuals 😂
True story: I was part of a teen mag thing back in college where they were doing a "what's in a guy's fridge" article. Yeah. Anyway, I was totally coached through the whole thing. They had me take all the food out of my fridge so I'd be "the party guy" with condiments and beer only. It was so dumb. All this crap is staged, don't believe any of it.
Most of the people in these comments think it was real and don’t care that people struggling financially got their lives ruined by a scam Tv show who’s producer is in jail for murdering his wife.
It seems that one of my all time favorite TV shows was significantly more real than I assumed! Namely, they worked on real cars from real people. The rest is TV and selling the product, and even that had bits of reality which I did not expect. 🙂
What really was amazing (and I’m sure unexpected to the creators) was the range this show had in terms of demographics. My dad loved it, I loved it as a middle schooler, I remember my 10th grade bio teacher talking about loving this show… It was made to be entertainment and they let the people on the show entertain. Even if they exaggerated numerous parts of the show, they let people be them. It was believable and it worked.
One of the best comments I’ve received on this vid, because it’s so damn true. I always watched this with my mom back in the mid-2000s, when I was like 11 years old and she was almost 50.
When I first heard this I wasn’t surprised. I was at the MTV beach house when it was in Seaside Heights, and it was so fake and produced. Young 20 year old me was so let down by reality lol. I also hear it’s almost the same for those HGTV dream home giveaways. Many of the winners sell the home. They can’t afford the taxes. Even for shows like Love It or List It, it would be interesting to see how many love it’s stay, because that added value also adds to your tax bill.
I’ve heard “house hunters” was also completely staged. That the prospective home buyers already chose their new house prior to filming. They were filmed touring a bunch of “options” & made to choose one when They already had one of the houses.
Yeah a lot of those shows that give gifts actually gift cars, and houses because they know that most of the people isn't goign to be able to pay the tax on them so the winner needed to return the prize, with money prizes that doesn't happen you just need to pay income tax no that money.
@@cailin5309 I’m sure some of them are actors, because you’re showing where someone is living. It’s like, “Hey I’m an attractive single woman in this large house all by myself. Come and stalk me.”
I have such good memories of watching PMR with my siblings after school. I was a fan of makeover shows, which this one was. Every car brought in was "by far the worst" they've seen 🤣🤣. I always wondered how practical the customizations were, but it was fun to see what they came up with
I completely forgot about PMR many years ago. Now I remember watching it with my cousin when we were growing up. What a great show it was and it was a big show in Poland. All my friends watched it. I was born in ‘91 and my cousin in ‘90. We were like brothers, always together, doing fun things every day, playing NFS underground and other great games, inspired by mtv, extreme sports and other American productions. What a time it was to be a teenager, everything was so much simpler. I got tears in my eyes. Thanks a lot for this video!
I’ve been waiting for this since it was announced, and I wasn’t disappointed. Thank you for your efforts, man. This is gold! Edit: Also, on behalf of an incredibly embarrassed Britain, we denounce the existence of Tim Westwood and Pimp My Ride “UkAy StAyLe”
I was laughing so hard at the way he said that when I was searching out clips for this video. But you guys provided the world with Mr. Bean, Wallace and Gromit, and the Nick Frost/Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright trilogy - so his sins are forgiven. But thank you, I really wanted this video to be a step up in quality compared to my other content, and I think it turned out alright!
I'm going to do a search for that right now, it was so bad. His arms seemed to be 6 foot long, and all that the crew could say was " I'm gona' hit you with some big rims, hit you with some big sounds, hit you with some mad graphics" etc. Like what Russel Brand is to Johnny Depp, Westwood was to Xzibit.
In Germany, legal pimping of cars is almost impossible, that is why they took bikes. My dad once asked for brighter front lights as they were used in newer models of his car and was declined for legal reasons. Simply fixing a car and doing hours of paperwork is just not that interesting.
Saw on one video from a few years ago, one of the cars caught on fire on a street. They found another pimped out minivan in a Boston junkyard around 2017 after it was sold multiple times. Most of the shit in it still worked after laying up in a junkyard for 4+ years
Nothing wrong with pimping a worn down vehicle, though I remember one of the controversy they faced is with the obsession of putting unnecessary tweaks deemed luxuries over the basic safety features a vehicle needs, they got into a complaint because they allegedly removed like airbag apparatus on the steering wheel to install LCD monitor on it, and other forms of whackery. Other than that, I just love their paint works on the vehicle and overhauling on vehicle upholstery
The reality show illusion was made clear to me in the late 90s. I was in a documentary pre production class. The teacher went out to Cali a to film conventions and such. He learned that "The Real World" on MTV was totally produced, even scripted with broken scripts then they would tle models to act like they would act in real life settings (in that script). Every show after that has been so fake. You can tell when people are acting like they're not acting in front of the camera. That Repot show on TruTV was the worst. A True reality show would be boring as all. Even people you find interesting in your own life would be boring if sat in front of a camera.
Wow I truly appreciate this video because as a a fan of the show I thought everything was fake when the articles came out. You did excellent research and broke it down for us, I hope they bring this show back
Just a bit late to the party, but there was also a latin American (Mexican actually) version of Pimp my ride called "Tuneame la nave", It was made in 2009 and it wasn't on an MTV platform but an open channel from a big mexican TV broadcast company.
I'd be willing to bet they had quite a bit of help and influence from Junkyard Wars and Monster Garage, both shows who were in their prime right about that time. I'd think if those two shows weren't on, Pimp My Ride would have been a completely different show, if it even existed.
I haven't seen monster garage in years. I think I still remember the episode where they built a jet powered Celica. I also had the game adaption of Monster Garage on Xbox.
@@MediaPastimes Overhaulin' was the anti- pimp my ride wasn't it? I loved that show. Real muscle cars and classics being restored by Chip Foose, an actual hot rod guy. But yeah car customization at the time was HUGE.
@@RedSkylinex60 I still remember one of the behind the scenes shows they did when they were talking about one episode where the team didn't finish in time (forget which one now) and the director had to call the producers to tell them the bad news. He thought he was going to get in trouble, but the reply was basically "that's great!" because it showed that the team had a real consequence for not finishing on time :D
Definitely not fake. Just a normal “reality show”, and honestly, it appears to me to be one of the realest. They had to make it look good for the TV. The thing is, in the words of wise Thanos, “Reality is often disappointing”.
It was fake. They told people what to say. They took away upgrades after putting them in for the camera. They made the cars appear worst than they were by adding damage to the vehicles. I don't know what video you watched but this one showed that the show was fake and staged.
Pimp My Ride Brazil also existed, but as a response to other show in the most popular network in Brazil, Globo. you can search about "Lata Velha" as a segment on the show "Caldeirão do Huck" that had other tone aside tunning/pimping cars, giving them a purpose related to the contestant profession. Pimp My Ride Brazil was a "rock" version of the show, with a hardcore singer/songwriter as the head of the show
and you and me know that the "lata velha" was a ruse, none of the cars were ever fixed at all, the host was a asshole who hated its contestants and gave them the most humiliating situations live on tv and the cars ended up in a scrapyard or sold some time after it.
Like you said, reality shows are always fake at some level, but seeing them often sparks the fire of interest that may grow into a huge thing (like career choices, hobbies, interests, etc). Thanks for the balanced video.
You actually proved it was less fake than i thought. They actually did a really good job with this show other than shaming some contestants. Idk about you guys but even as a kid watching the show i didnt think it was fake, but could tell it was scripted. Theres a difference
LOL holy shit delusional. They scammed poor people, ruined their cars, destroyed them financially, and the shows producer is in jail for murdering his wife. Great show LOL 😂😂😂👍👍👍🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
A few of the cars from this show were restored not to long ago on youtube one being a pink aquarium van. "Rebuilding An ABANDONED "Pimp My Ride" Minivan In 2 Days" is the title, there is a video series on it.
I remember watching this back then and shaking my head at the way they completely erased a vehicle's utility in favor of gimmicks. I get that it was the point of the show, but I would have rather they toned the dumb shit like weird trunk gimmicks down a bit.
In 2004 I was roughly 12 or 13 years old and I thought this was the coolest show on MTV. Looking back now in my 30s, the show was completely ridiculous. But still entertaining none the less.
I used to like watching this show here in Australia back in the day, had no idea people thought it might be real, was always under the impression it was just a bit of entertainment, Hollywood style. Even though I believed it wasn't real, did get a lot of entertainment from it. Maaaaaaaaaad Mike was my favorite.
@@brettadkins4968 lol it’s interesting how you’re trying to lowkey diss their laws yet still they haven’t had a mass shooting in awhile, meanwhile America is onto its umpteenth mass shooting since the year started..plus the whole knives argument is ridiculous cause someone can’t do as much damage and kill as many people as an assault rifle. Secondly if the guns are just to defend yourselves then why do you need weapons used in war? lol y’all should use your common sense as much as you worship your guns
Pimp My Ride was a fun show and one of my reasons why I ever saw MTV. Xzibit was the face of the show but he was clearly best thing about it. I didn't know Chamillionaire was a guest host.
How to fail at modifying cars: 1) Do all kinds of external and interior colorful modifications. 2) Make the car look faster then it actually is. 3) Don't do any performance driven modifications. 4) Put a bunch of non car parts in the car (like TV, video game, freezers etc...) 5) Don't fix the car mechanical problems.
This show fulfilled its mission, which was to entertain the public, I grew up watching it and enjoyed it too much, if it is released again, I will come back and see it whether it is a lie or not....
@@sv3ta7 I think you're completely misunderstanding his terminology, he means that the people are real, the cars are real, but it's a show and it's rehearsed, reshot, etc.
Awesome vid. What I get from this great documentary is that Pimp My Ride was 80% authentic. 20% was to make it more fun. BTW: I think American Idol and other reality TV shows are 20% realistic.
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Good content on this channel bro, I have subscribed and can't wait for more
Instead of rambling on for 20 minutes DA, you could have just made a 2 min video saying it was fake, obviously it was fake it's MTV and it's TV. Get a life Dbag!
I know everything what you told about the "enthusiastic" pimp my ride remembrance. I've watched it. Thanks for that clear look of yours to don't diss or disrespect any person, deal or programm, crew an whatsoever. This skill was nice to see. Cya
There also was a show called Pimp my Whatever
Yh bars of 🧼
“We noticed you have Kidney failure… So we installed an entire dialysis machine in the back seat.”
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bro hahaha
Ctfu
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I actually used a lot of time out of my days to watch this show when i was younger cause you'd have to catch it on TV at certain times. I loved it, fake or not , it was definitely enjoyable and a part of my childhood growing up. No complaints here lol.
Same. I'm from Dublin, Ireland and this show was big over here too. It used to be on MTV every Saturday night when I was a kid. I loved it. My parents would go out for drinks every Saturday and I would chill on my parents bed and watch this while my babysitter was downstairs lol! Good times.
@@waynedonoghue4071 the good old days man. Miss it dearly when we had no worries. I find regular TV to be far better, at least for me at one point because there were commercials we couldn't skip lol and it just built anticipation for a good family night. Like okay this movie or TV show is coming on at such and such time let's do our homework before it comes on or let's do the chores mom told us to do before this comes. You'd have to catch certain things at certain times, other wise you'd have to wait til they replay it lol. I miss that feeling of planning out a day based on what was coming on the TV
Yes true..
@@PVRGE7 I agree bro. I miss the times of waiting in anticipation for my favourite show or movie to be on TV at a certain day and time.
I remember watching Breaking Bad and it used to air once a week with a new episode. Netflix and stuff is cool.. But to me, nothing beats the anticipation of waiting for that next episode and talking about it all week. Good memories
Absolutely.
Just one of those shows where I don't care how fake or scripted it was... purely entertaining
Same. Especially since it was pretty clear that they never adressed actual mechanical problems the cars might have had.
They just made them look flashy and installed a bunch of bogus stuff like multiple PlayStations or some ludicrous shit like that.
Loved it. Glad I was around to experience it.
Only for the first 6-months... then 🫡 see yah
Only nerds tuned into this show. Real pimps were NOT watching MTV in the early 2000s.
Telling the contestants that it might be a production member telling them no knocking on the door to get a genuine reaction is genius. The actual excitement was a big part of the show.
yea... most producers and TV Host fucks with contestants and/or humiliate them on National TV for drama and entertainment.cough cough American Idol cough.
True. In fact, the show itself was actually more "real" than I thought it was.
I feel bad for the wcc employees but their comedic npc like attituede lines are funny😄
No one could replace Xzibit in this show. He was too charismatic, funny and despite being one of the biggest mainstream rappers back then he was so down to earth it was insane.
I know that his experience as a performer helped him transition to TV hosting, but the dude was a natural.
@@MediaPastimes I don't know him in real life but sometimes you can just tell someone is a good person. I see him the same way I see actor Michael J Fox, you just know he's a great guy :D
I always got the impression he saw the funny side of the "bling bling" rapper image and was able to laugh at himself, as much as anything else. He's cool
I loved this show as a kid but as an adult I realize the stuff they put in these cars was absolutely ridiculous!
True
Same for me. Now it looks stupid. Back then it was a cool thing.
I always thought they looked ridiculous. I honestly watched it cause it made me laugh
It took you a while 🤣🤣🤣🤣 to realise it.
Thats what made it fun.
The donut dispenser was pretty dope
The house thing was to preserve the contestant's privacy. Production couldn't shoot the openings of the show outside someone's actual house with the address and surrounding neighborhood shown. They were protecting themselves against any liability from people stalking the contestants by weirdos who would think they'd won cash instead of cheesy car upgrades.
Was it though? I mean what's easier to dox someone with? A generic looking suburbia house, or a pimped out car that is visible from space?
more like contestant shitty houses and appartements wasnt good enough for cameras....
@@txcforeveris doxing a real thing? Everybodys name and adress was in the phone book at one point.
I get that
@@txcforeverHome
There was one episode where the round table was totally unscripted where they had to pimp a guys ride who was into bowling, the entire team broke out in laughter after one of them said they were installing a bowling ball cleaner in the trunk and one of them said "You gotta have clean balls".
Homeboy wasn't wrong.
I met Xzibit on his birthday at a car show in Washington, he took the time to sign autographs and talk to all the fans. I have the deepest respect for him. The concert was awesome, and he was very down to earth. Not that many artists exhibit his class and rhetoric. If anyone actually thinks these cars were fully restored, they clearly have never turned a wrench. It's supposed to be light humor and fun.
I was today days old when I realized that Xzibit was actually a reference to exhibit.
Jesus lord.
@@sh4nX2k10 It takes time, to get your walk on. :p
The whole show was showing how to put lipstick on a pig.
Or the whole slapping expensive rims on a Whoumpty fad of that era.😂🤣
I wonder if the owners of these cars still have them or they sold them.
To order parts to fix the engine can take months to even deliver. If your lucky to even get them in these old cars. Not to mention the liability of the car breaking.
Honestly the most shocking part was that it took them 5-7 months. Can you imagine being without your car for that long? It would be a nightmare.
The contestants had to rent cars which MTV offered to reimburse but apparently they had to fight with the network to get paid...
Shit, half the cars barely ran to begin with and just took up space. Im sure they didn't miss their roach infested car too much.
Wenn man die Teile aus China bestellt und alles schritt für Schritt macht ist das klar
@@moldy_burrito_ You kiss your mother with that mouth?!
And get back a ridicolous lookung still trashed shit underneth that msot fo them doesn't worked properly or some of those caught fire ...
Everything about the 2000's seems like a fever dream.
LMAO yes.
@@japlunkett6789 and fake but not as fake as now
The 2000's feel like the more normal version of reality compared to now. 2020 is the most absurd time since the 80's.
Well, we are still in the 2000's now.
@@HereComeTheTrainComingBlues nah dude when people say 2000s they mean the early 2000s. It’s the 20s now dawg. Let that sink in.
I used to always say that if I was on Pimp My Ride, I would never tell them any of my hobbies or interest because they always ended up doing something crazy to it. "You like bubbles? We put a bubble machine in your exhuast!" "You like going to the park? We put a fold out badmitten set in your trunk!"
I would just tell them I like cars that are fast with good sound systems and nice rims lol
Exactly this - many times recounted this exact thing with friends and family
ny car wouldn't even be driveable for my hobby.........
They'd install a slot car track in the rear.
Spoilers: All "Reality" tv shows are scripted to a point. Some WAY more than others.
"You mustn't forget the importance of Entertainment!"
Facts. One of the contestants was a cast member on a BET reality show called College Hill
spoiler: reality isnt a thing
@@voidremoved Reality very much is a thing. But within Reality, Mankind has created many Constructs to maintain an order within the world. Things like Time. Are all created to maintain that order and balance within the world. Because no of us really know what's going on.
@@thatonemovieguy-h4b wdym ? We're obviously live in a matrix
Besides any reality tv show worth is name gotta be somewhat fake for it to work out, I mean everytime a camera is around the whole thing became staged , reality tv is a contradiction in terms everyone knows it ,the movie Ed Tv (1999) summed up this thing perfectly, even the so called scientific questionnaries , polls are not entirely real , when people got asked about their lives, priorities etc they take on a certain stance , either they straight lie or they sugarcoated their replies
Pimp my Ride was the Best show on MTV!
I always knew the houses aren't theirs, and the contestants were always in on it. I was just wondering how they got those genuine looking reactions from them. Really clever how they did it. Well done there PMR.
well imean they really did pimp their car....just not as functional or long lasting as they make it seem probably
It's called they were paid actors lol
LOL what?! They scammed poor people, ruined their cars, destroyed them financially, made them sign horrific contracts not to disclose the scam, and the show producer was a murderer who’s now in jail. Lol. The biggest scam in TV history.
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@@greatdane331 scammed how? cars were already in a bad shape, they just made it LOOK a bit worse, then they re-did the exteriors, you saying that if they didn't redo the painting and install pretty useless gadgets the run down engine wouldn't fail down the line?
LOLOL i loooved xibit saying "this season"when talking about the engines
A fake reality show??? I'm shocked and appalled.
I was too, Elijah.
@@jari2018 r u sure?
@@jari2018 explain
I would like to see a real fakeality show.
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Even back in the day, when I watched episodes as they were new, I always thought the customizations were extremely impractical and many made the cars practically undriveable.
yooo that part where he says "we change motors here *this season*" was funnyy.. xizbit really has a great energy and humor
Great video my man! Xzibit was the shit. I loved that show. Btw. I am from Germany and I think it is safe to say that this show established the use of "to pimp something" in the everyday language.
My main gripe about some of the cars was that they made some of them so much heavier when they already lacked engine power.... so the cars would struggle take off and strain the engine so it dies quicker.
I'm thinking about the boondocks episode
Lols I was watching that same episode the same day you made this comment and I'm only seeing today 😂
Someday, we all realize, the whole "fakeness of TV" runs across the board.
Exactly!!
When everyone on reality tv knows they’re being recorded .. it’s fake tv.
Yep Just like santa!
@@internetstress society of the spectacle
nah brah, thers a war in ukraine and covid real
"Pedophiles, start your engines."...😂😂😂 The early 2000s were wild. What a time to be alive.
Where does he say that
@@andrewmelton2686 4:08, my dude.
@@donavonseibert507 Ty 😄
I do
@Jason Fitch you weirdo bro
I loved it purely cause that one guy would add like 30 monitors that were completely unnecessary just cause. “We heard he was a TV and movie guy, so we decked it out with 200 monitors playing all his favourite movies at once”
Lol, that made me actually laugh out loud.
NFS Underground really deserves a reboot. Yeah sure car culture is nowhere near the same, but I think most of us would still enjoy playing around with all the crazy stuff in a video game, even though we wouldn't do any of those crazy things in real life anymore.
Can't do it anymore without microtransactions and some bullshit story shoved in. EA Games has no idea what to do with NFS anymore. Forza Horizon and Grid is the closest we'll ever get again I'm afraid.
I'm 50 and would still customize a car to fast and the furious standards. I'm not a fan of the dodge charger and Challenger hype. Big engine don't mean nothing without proper ignition timing adjustment. Top speed doesn't win races, quick response and rapid acceleration win races.
This was a well detailed, knowledgeable, and entertaining video about a show I really loved.
Thanks for the mention! To anyone who wants to know more. I am working on a where are they now. I'm a big nerd and have tried to pay attention when the other cars have popped up later. I have 3 episodes up so far.
No problem at all, the information you provided was invaluable!
I remember the follow up episode they did years ago. Can't believe the guy with the Chevelle totalled it right after getting it. Probably showing off.
@@tylerp1019 May have been some issue with the car. As I heard somewhere he lost control getting off the freeway and it slid down an embankment and hit a tree. Funny that he has never made a statement. Possibly mtv gave him a check and said shhhhh. I hope to find out some day and have a conversation with him.
At 0:11 I thought that was Xzibit's right arm lol. And I realized this show was fake, which clued me in that nothing was probably real on these shows, when I saw a mic on the back of a person opening their door when they supposedly had no idea he was going to show up.
I was in the television industry at the time this was around. The fact that the person and the car they owned was real was a product of the time. It was fully understood true reality was too boring and unpredictable on its own, but there was this idea there had to be an element of reality maintained. Exaggeration was fine, but the envelope kept getting pushed further and further. To add to the situation, production companies absolutely loved how cheap these were to make. And because there were no writers getting credit, or residuals to pay the non-union people appearing on them, they kept every penny generated by DVD sales and reruns. So, the whole thing morphed into the Pawn Stars style show that is completely fictional, but maintains the reality cheap production value.
PS- another fact about this show you skipped is the fact that winners had to pay all of the taxes for the work and items installed into their cars. That is likely the real reason a lot of high dollar stuff was removed after the episode filmed. How many of these people had the $20-30K to spend on the taxes? They probably had items removed to lower their tax burden.
$20-30k? For taxes?? Idk what country you live in but that's not how things are in the US. They most likely stripped the high value stuff off of the car because it was the only part that was worth anything. They probably sold it or just used it in a more convenient way.
@@pimplepickerton I'm not surprised the taxes for the stuff they put into the cars including labor could be as much as $10,000.
@@taotao98103 do you live in Europe somewhere? Because there is no way the taxes are that high in America. I have a $57k car and I pay like $300 in taxes on it a year. So idk where you guys are getting these numbers from, a couple of speakers, TV's, and a popcorn machine(or whatever other corny stuff they put in the car) wouldn't cost anywhere near $20k in taxes.
@@pimplepickerton You're talking about the registration tax for your car. I'm talking about sales tax for the cost of making the custom car modifications. This is no Mexican custom car shops. These are well known respectable expensive car shops. The labor can get really expensive too because there's redesigning work involved here. Have you seen the designing cost of remodeling a condo? the design cost itself could go as high as $60k. I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost of making all the modifications can go as high as $100k. 10k for the sales tax is possible.
@@taotao98103 sure, but OP isn't talking about the sales tax. The sales tax is covered by MTV, just like the rest of the purchases are.
I remember enjoying that show. As a kid, I thought the idea of having a video game console setup in your car was dope as hell. Then again, as a kid I thought having a video game console would be dope... lol. In retrospect, I ain't into the idea quite as much as I used to.
The show was installing Xbox 360s into cars for a very brief period of time, but eventually went back to installing PS2 slims instead. As a kid, that confused me, but now I know it was probably because of the red ring of death issue that the 360 had. I can’t even imagine how hot the 360 must have gotten in a car trunk…
@@MediaPastimes Yeah I never considered the logistics of having a console just BE in your car all the time so I was just like "yooo that's cool" but yeah not the best idea, imo
@@JJMomoida honestly those systems would of been cooked....especially if the weather got hot or water got in the car somehow. Plus it's silly! I want Trunk space for my groceries etc. Not some stupid system
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Yeah that's true. As I said, not really something I thought much about... lol. Back then, the idea of having a console AT ALL, be it bolted to your car or existing in your living room, was enough for me.
@@JJMomoida I got an old Ps2...that survived many years till it broke lol
It's a shame X is known primarily for this show. The dude's got bars.
The show did help his career immensely, because a lot of people discovered his music as a result of it. But the trade off was that everyone knew him as “that rapper who fixes cars”.
@@MediaPastimes nah x from the chronic 2001
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage ICP is one of the worst acts in Hip Hop history. Juggalo are some cool people but my Gosh their music is horrible. Xzibit had one of the greatest vocals in Hip Hop history, that alone makes him an artist who can draw listeners. Plus he's been rapping since the 90s, At the Speed of Life, 40 Dayz 40 Nightz + his work with Tha Alkaholiks. Even rapping over beats made by producers like Easy Mo Bee or Madlib, if you wanna go very Hip Hop purist.
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage Lol you can't say rap went to complete shit after those two died. That's an ignorant generalized take. It started declining but it did not die. There is a difference. Saying everything was shit is a disrespect to rappers like Big Pun or Mos Def who did music in late 90s. Or rappers like Busta Rhymes or Redman and many others still making great music in late 90s. The average quality of albums went downhill from the year 96, meaning the music started regressing, not going to complete shit like you just said.
one of my favs
The timeframe actually was a huge problem because a lot of contestants needed their car to get to work and ended up having to find some other means of transportation.
MTV did reimburse contestants for rental cars, but apparently they were super slow about doing so.
When you mentioned NFS Underground, "Riders on the Storm" instantly started playing on the back of my mind. Golden memories ♥️
I saw the '67 Mustang from season 1 in person back in 2004. I was on duty at work in the Venice/Mar Vista section of Los Angeles and saw this teal blue Mustang on huge wheels scoot passed me with a blonde girl behind the wheel. The Mustang looked fine to me, I didn't see anything different from how it looked on the show. No flame throwers though LOL
Cracked me up when they showed the clip of the motor being replaced and the mechanic says we do this and xzibit quickly said this season.
Honestly, this is one of the shows that really never had to fake anything - it has always been about the fun upgrades and x being fun to watch, no? But then again, mid 2000s was really into reality tv, they probably knew why they faked it lmao
Love your videos man, can tell you miss the early 2000's just like me lol
Thank you! It was definitely a rough time for America, but our entertainment kept us distracted at least.
I was a kid in the early mid 00s 2Fast 2Furious and Need For Speed Underground came out when I was 6 and they got me into cars. I still remember watching pimp my ride on MTV 2? IIRC with my family in 2005 I still remember the old MTV2 two headed dog logo. I miss the 00s except for the bad stuff that I was too young to know about.
@@MediaPastimes 💯💯💯💯💯 real talk
@@MediaPastimes The early 2000's wasn't really that bad, at least compared to now..... Yes, we had 9/11 and that was tough to deal with late in 2001 and the aftermath of it in 2002 and 2003 to some extent from a travel standpoint, but these past two years with the pandemic have arguably been tougher than 9/11.
Yes, entertainment did keep us distracted from 9/11 and the threat of war and then the Iraq war back in the early to mid- 2000's, but I still have fonder memories of the early 2000's. You can make a case nothing has kept us distracted from the pandemic. Yes, things are getting back to normal, but everything we enjoy from an entertainment standpoint, has been affected by the pandemic one way or another or we're reminded we're still in a pandemic.
One day down the line if we look back at this era the pandemic era and compare it to the early 2000's, I think most people would take the early 2000's in a heartbeat.
@@86byrdman yesss everything about the '00s were superior to now. Just going to the beach was so much more fun people weren't weary of one another we came together for fun.
I think the homes not being the contestants homes is alright, helps them with privacy. (Though I have to admit that them having such a iconic car parked on their driveway would give away who they are so they don't gain much privacy after all, but in either case, the show was about the cars not about the homes so who cares if the homes were "fake" as long a the cars were real.)
When it comes to the reaction, when I watched this originally, I also felt that as the season went further along that the contestants themself got more into the show, By that point they had seen how other contestants reacted and had an idea of what was expected of them. This was easy to tell because the reactions got more crazy the further the show went along. So if that part was put on to make it more fun, I think that's acceptable too.
Honestly as long as the people actually owned those cars and they got to have the cars that was shown at the end, then I think everything else is fine, sucks that the show removed some of the parts that they put on before giving it to the contestants though.
I mean, you can't have a car that fires playing cards out the exhaust or silly stuff like that, you'd at best get littering tickets or at worst you'd get put in jail lol
I thought when ppl saw Tiffany haddish they knew for sure this was all fake... Guess not
They never owned the cars they had to find a car and say it was the contestants car
Good comment. I don't need to watch now.
@@gangsterghost6943 ummm OP meant aslong as contestant owned the cars. So ur comment just shows u never watched proper 🤦♂️🤭
Growing up in north Long Beach I remember always seeing the blue and white ice cream truck drive around wit ice cream. What sucked was that the robot arm wasn’t used , the guy said it didn’t work. Makes me think that the production crew removed it before they gave it to him. But it was always dope to see it regardless.
Lmaooo He was on the show &Indeed confirmed it was staged lol.
The production and voice narration on this is world class ❤ def subbing
Xzibit really was the star of the show, no doubt. His bits were always super funny and idk, he generally seemed like a fun dude to hang out with. He is irreplaceable
I don't care if any or even all of it is fake either. For me it was entertainment. Xzibit + the crazy car concepts was one hell of a time even as someone who isn't into cars. So if they added and changed stuff for the purpose of making it more fun I can only say: they succeeded!
I remember even when I was a kid watching this I found it so funny nearly all the pimped cars the solution was always add more screens. Put some in the back of the head rests put some in the edges of the door interior, big one in the trunk one that descends in. Hell well put little screens on top of the big screen we just installed.
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage so you watch while you watch and drive
Well in their defense, having more screens is the way to go back in the day :D
@@abirachman yeah but then who is watching the road? 😶
@@zoltanlakatos6623I have never been heads up from a RUclipsr before having to leave a comment on "Their comment" 🤔
@@zoltanlakatos6623 My touchscreen in my 2015 Jetta can only play movies when parked, but not when driving.
The intentional damages were too obvious but removing something they added later on was a letdown.
For me, by far the most memorable thing to come out of this phase of society was the VW “Unpimp ze auto” ad campaign. I still regularly say “oh snap” in a German accent under my breathe.
Trick My Truck sounds like the most unwatchable show ever
I heard about pimp my ride from my classmates in elementary I never really saw one episode we did not have money to buy a tv. But seeing this now I am really happy it reminded me that I am still poor.
Comedic genius.
At least now you have a phone/computer
GOT EEEMMMM
Has us in the first half
OMG PLEASE do more of these nostalgic shows!!! PLEASE!!! GREAT WORK
I live in Iran. I remember watching this TV show on satellite television when I was a kid. I loved this show so much that I used to argue with my sisters and my parents on watching this show. This video brought back so many memories.
I completely agree! XZIBIT was absolutely the perfect fit as a host! No doubt on that level!
I remember that one guy had an old Ford Escort that was 2 Escorts welded together down the middle of the car. They ended up getting him a Scion TC (EDIT: It was a Xb) I believe cuz it was unsafe. Never hear anyone talk about that one. I would like to think it had to be fake, but my brothers friend worked at a junkyard and pulled stuff like that all the time - his specialty was the homemade convertible, and it was good as you think it would be.
I always felt a bit bumped down that they dident fixed this wreck but of course this would have needed a lot of actual car work and less pimp work. Its understandable in the end that they didnt.
Let's be honest. The producers probably knew that car was borked before they picked the person and used it as a plug for Scion.
Thanks for sharing. I like watching "reality" shows that involve being creative, and stuff like that. like the house fixing stuff, and so on, but it always makes me sad to know that the so called lucky contestants end up getting the short end of the deal.
back when mtv was in my tv, i would watch pimp my ride with my brothers every day with excitement and awe for the crazy modifications that they were doing to the cars, fake or not.. it was an awesome show and truly perfect for its time
I always assumed that the show did a similar thing to house hunters.. People who are at the end process of finding a new home are used, people who have access to their old place still as well as having or nearly having the new place. Think about it, they visit 3 places every show and always pick one. I assumed people had already paid for and setup their own work being done on the car and the stories at the start were all made up for the show, and the show would cover a small portion of the bill for being on the show. I never understood how they could afford to give all those upgrades to a car "for free" for being on the show.. Most of the cars were cosmetic work sure, but even still that kind of car work isn't cheap.
I always thought this show was fun but had two glaring 'plot holes'.
Pimping was pointless without basic mechanical work too. At least some was done at times.
And who was gonna _maintain_ all those accessories they _didn't_ remove, the same struggling contestant?
It’s like that extreme makeover: home edition show. People still gotta pay bills and taxes on those big ass houses lol
We had it also in Italy, it was called: "Pimp My Wheels"... They were working only on 2 wheels vehicles, like motorbikes and scooters.
Once they put a PS2 on a Vespa and my brain exploded into a walhalla trip...
As someone who has zero interest in cars or pimping them, this video kept me engaged all the way through. Nice job.
My step mom worked on this show. She ended being the person that would inspect the cars after they were "pimped". She got the job while working at Galpin. She got the job because she was overheard talking shit about the quality of the pimped out cars and the production team respected her honesty.
I don't think the production team would care that much about quality
@@PointNemo9 So this person is just straight up lying? 🤔
@@mochabearry Yes.
@@PointNemo9 Other than your opinion, do you have any evidence to back up this claim?
Yes tell us more
I mean, as I got older before the show ended, I've come to my senses that it was fake...plus some of the winners didn't even seem that excited..it seemed staged and pre-planned. I hate that though
I never got that.
If to "plan" something is to arrange it in advance, what does "pre-plan" mean?
To arrange something in advance, previously?
@@robbrown6495 🤷🏾♂️ I just googled pre plan and it has the same definition lol so idk
It means to make a early plan, earlier 😂🤷♀️.
@@gracet7248 🤣🤣 pretty much
I actually bought the "pimp my ride" game on xbox as a kid. I was saddened to hear that most modifications couldn't be kept after modification. I still love cars but the fact most of the famous ones were fake made me upset. I mean it made sense but why air it, other than for views?
For views
I remember watching this show as a kid mainly because of how the people in the show customize cars, at first I thought it was cool but now it's way too ricy but regardless I love how Xzibit roasts them at the beginning also the crazy thing is that I remember watching a live event where Xzibit talked about the show and how the idea of putting certain parts of the cars were added he said they never touch the performance parts just the visuals 😂
Great channel man, this nostalgia content is the one that makes me feel good, greetings from Mexico :)
True story: I was part of a teen mag thing back in college where they were doing a "what's in a guy's fridge" article. Yeah. Anyway, I was totally coached through the whole thing. They had me take all the food out of my fridge so I'd be "the party guy" with condiments and beer only. It was so dumb. All this crap is staged, don't believe any of it.
Most of the people in these comments think it was real and don’t care that people struggling financially got their lives ruined by a scam Tv show who’s producer is in jail for murdering his wife.
Yet you still did it.
@@ChiTownGuerrilla yet that was 20 years ago, so...
@@ChiTownGuerrilla it was a college tabloid lol it not like he was gonna lose anything for doing it just sharing relevant examples
@@ChiTownGuerrilla “yet you still did it” how is that relevant to the conversation that these shows are fake?
It seems that one of my all time favorite TV shows was significantly more real than I assumed!
Namely, they worked on real cars from real people. The rest is TV and selling the product, and even that had bits of reality which I did not expect. 🙂
08:30 imagine that
What really was amazing (and I’m sure unexpected to the creators) was the range this show had in terms of demographics. My dad loved it, I loved it as a middle schooler, I remember my 10th grade bio teacher talking about loving this show…
It was made to be entertainment and they let the people on the show entertain. Even if they exaggerated numerous parts of the show, they let people be them. It was believable and it worked.
One of the best comments I’ve received on this vid, because it’s so damn true. I always watched this with my mom back in the mid-2000s, when I was like 11 years old and she was almost 50.
yes totally im one of the biggest fans at 20 and my dad and my older friends 40+ love it
When I first heard this I wasn’t surprised. I was at the MTV beach house when it was in Seaside Heights, and it was so fake and produced. Young 20 year old me was so let down by reality lol. I also hear it’s almost the same for those HGTV dream home giveaways. Many of the winners sell the home. They can’t afford the taxes. Even for shows like Love It or List It, it would be interesting to see how many love it’s stay, because that added value also adds to your tax bill.
I’ve heard “house hunters” was also completely staged. That the prospective home buyers already chose their new house prior to filming. They were filmed touring a bunch of “options” & made to choose one when They already had one of the houses.
Yeah a lot of those shows that give gifts actually gift cars, and houses because they know that most of the people isn't goign to be able to pay the tax on them so the winner needed to return the prize, with money prizes that doesn't happen you just need to pay income tax no that money.
@@cailin5309 I’m sure some of them are actors, because you’re showing where someone is living. It’s like, “Hey I’m an attractive single woman in this large house all by myself. Come and stalk me.”
Yeah right.🤔
@@haroldbatesjr3260 Yeah right what?
I have such good memories of watching PMR with my siblings after school. I was a fan of makeover shows, which this one was. Every car brought in was "by far the worst" they've seen 🤣🤣. I always wondered how practical the customizations were, but it was fun to see what they came up with
I'm glad to hear the reactions to Xzibit were real. They seemed so genuine. I'd lose some faith in humanity if people were able to fake that
Xzibit was the realest part about that show!
That was a great video! Very well made and produced
I completely forgot about PMR many years ago. Now I remember watching it with my cousin when we were growing up. What a great show it was and it was a big show in Poland. All my friends watched it. I was born in ‘91 and my cousin in ‘90. We were like brothers, always together, doing fun things every day, playing NFS underground and other great games, inspired by mtv, extreme sports and other American productions. What a time it was to be a teenager, everything was so much simpler. I got tears in my eyes. Thanks a lot for this video!
We were lucky to witness these simpler times. My heart goes out for younger generations who have never experienced that.
I’ve been waiting for this since it was announced, and I wasn’t disappointed. Thank you for your efforts, man. This is gold!
Edit: Also, on behalf of an incredibly embarrassed Britain, we denounce the existence of Tim Westwood and Pimp My Ride “UkAy StAyLe”
I was laughing so hard at the way he said that when I was searching out clips for this video. But you guys provided the world with Mr. Bean, Wallace and Gromit, and the Nick Frost/Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright trilogy - so his sins are forgiven.
But thank you, I really wanted this video to be a step up in quality compared to my other content, and I think it turned out alright!
I'm Scottish, and the Tim Westwood one was super funny, I watched a couple episodes when it first aired.
The guys names Timothy 🤔😂
I'm going to do a search for that right now, it was so bad. His arms seemed to be 6 foot long, and all that the crew could say was " I'm gona' hit you with some big rims, hit you with some big sounds, hit you with some mad graphics" etc.
Like what Russel Brand is to Johnny Depp, Westwood was to Xzibit.
This was a great video. I loved Pimp my Ride and I agree that it couldn't have worked if Xzibit had been replaced. He was perfect in his role.
The man was irreplaceable.
Pimp my ride UK was made with this skinny white guy who acted all gangsta, oh God it was awful. That thought dredged back some horrible memories.
@@Tigermoto 😂
He was replaced... by Chamillionare.
Actually no one can say that with any certainty the show would not have worked with another host.
i’m not even finished the video but just want to say you’re touching on my childhood with need for speed underground and def jam
I remember playing the game on ps2, I was really confused at what "ghost ride the whip" could possibly mean
It's a lost art that current generations will never understand... and I hope it never comes back.
Look up la chona challenge lol
It's only a good thing if it's not your own whip
In Germany, legal pimping of cars is almost impossible, that is why they took bikes. My dad once asked for brighter front lights as they were used in newer models of his car and was declined for legal reasons.
Simply fixing a car and doing hours of paperwork is just not that interesting.
Oh gosh I wish the government here in the US would decline brighter headlights. Those LED ones are torture lol.
I’m glad i live in a country free from that crap.
Saw on one video from a few years ago, one of the cars caught on fire on a street. They found another pimped out minivan in a Boston junkyard around 2017 after it was sold multiple times. Most of the shit in it still worked after laying up in a junkyard for 4+ years
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The game Midnight Club was like pimp my ride it was one of my favorites I wish they came out with a new version.
Nothing wrong with pimping a worn down vehicle, though I remember one of the controversy they faced is with the obsession of putting unnecessary tweaks deemed luxuries over the basic safety features a vehicle needs, they got into a complaint because they allegedly removed like airbag apparatus on the steering wheel to install LCD monitor on it, and other forms of whackery. Other than that, I just love their paint works on the vehicle and overhauling on vehicle upholstery
That's actually really scary
I dont care about airbags but the luxury item TV monitors etc. were 75,3% cringe.
@@ashleymufasa airbags are a newfangled thing. Does removing it seem dumb? yes, but it's far from standard/required.
The reality show illusion was made clear to me in the late 90s. I was in a documentary pre production class. The teacher went out to Cali a to film conventions and such. He learned that "The Real World" on MTV was totally produced, even scripted with broken scripts then they would tle models to act like they would act in real life settings (in that script). Every show after that has been so fake. You can tell when people are acting like they're not acting in front of the camera. That Repot show on TruTV was the worst. A True reality show would be boring as all. Even people you find interesting in your own life would be boring if sat in front of a camera.
Wow I truly appreciate this video because as a a fan of the show I thought everything was fake when the articles came out. You did excellent research and broke it down for us, I hope they bring this show back
Just a bit late to the party, but there was also a latin American (Mexican actually) version of Pimp my ride called "Tuneame la nave", It was made in 2009 and it wasn't on an MTV platform but an open channel from a big mexican TV broadcast company.
I'd be willing to bet they had quite a bit of help and influence from Junkyard Wars and Monster Garage, both shows who were in their prime right about that time. I'd think if those two shows weren't on, Pimp My Ride would have been a completely different show, if it even existed.
Oh yeah, and overhaulin' came out at right around the same time too.
I haven't seen monster garage in years. I think I still remember the episode where they built a jet powered Celica. I also had the game adaption of Monster Garage on Xbox.
Thoes shows werevtrash comparedto PMR
@@MediaPastimes Overhaulin' was the anti- pimp my ride wasn't it? I loved that show. Real muscle cars and classics being restored by Chip Foose, an actual hot rod guy. But yeah car customization at the time was HUGE.
@@RedSkylinex60 I still remember one of the behind the scenes shows they did when they were talking about one episode where the team didn't finish in time (forget which one now) and the director had to call the producers to tell them the bad news. He thought he was going to get in trouble, but the reply was basically "that's great!" because it showed that the team had a real consequence for not finishing on time :D
Wow. This was thoroughly enjoyable. Nice work here!
Definitely not fake. Just a normal “reality show”, and honestly, it appears to me to be one of the realest. They had to make it look good for the TV. The thing is, in the words of wise Thanos, “Reality is often disappointing”.
It was fake. They told people what to say. They took away upgrades after putting them in for the camera. They made the cars appear worst than they were by adding damage to the vehicles. I don't know what video you watched but this one showed that the show was fake and staged.
Sorry to disappoint your reality, but Thanos is not real.
it was fake dummy. wtf.
@@angelminaj617 the video literally says it would be unfair to call the show fake.
@@javierhzo2846 baby girl, its fake
Pimp My Ride Brazil also existed, but as a response to other show in the most popular network in Brazil, Globo.
you can search about "Lata Velha" as a segment on the show "Caldeirão do Huck" that had other tone aside tunning/pimping cars, giving them a purpose related to the contestant profession.
Pimp My Ride Brazil was a "rock" version of the show, with a hardcore singer/songwriter as the head of the show
and you and me know that the "lata velha" was a ruse, none of the cars were ever fixed at all, the host was a asshole who hated its contestants and gave them the most humiliating situations live on tv
and the cars ended up in a scrapyard or sold some time after it.
Like you said, reality shows are always fake at some level, but seeing them often sparks the fire of interest that may grow into a huge thing (like career choices, hobbies, interests, etc). Thanks for the balanced video.
You actually proved it was less fake than i thought. They actually did a really good job with this show other than shaming some contestants. Idk about you guys but even as a kid watching the show i didnt think it was fake, but could tell it was scripted. Theres a difference
LOL holy shit delusional. They scammed poor people, ruined their cars, destroyed them financially, and the shows producer is in jail for murdering his wife. Great show LOL 😂😂😂👍👍👍🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I agree💪🏿
I was in my 30's when this show was on TV, back when I was a kid. Lol
no, there's no difference.
you tell yourself that, but in reality there is no difference
@@donkeyballs3307 hey we cant choose when we are born 🤣
Even boondocks had an episode to be “yeah thats fake as hell”
A few of the cars from this show were restored not to long ago on youtube one being a pink aquarium van. "Rebuilding An ABANDONED "Pimp My Ride" Minivan In 2 Days" is the title, there is a video series on it.
I remember watching this back then and shaking my head at the way they completely erased a vehicle's utility in favor of gimmicks. I get that it was the point of the show, but I would have rather they toned the dumb shit like weird trunk gimmicks down a bit.
Having bubbles come out the tailpipe 🤦🏾♂️
But if you can't make cotton candy in the trunk are you even driving a car??!
How about little TV screens (facing down) under the car to watch whilst you work on it? :D
that stuff on cars was like most early 2000s thing ive ever seen :D everybody would lost their mind about it but today we are like meh..
In 2004 I was roughly 12 or 13 years old and I thought this was the coolest show on MTV. Looking back now in my 30s, the show was completely ridiculous. But still entertaining none the less.
It was a good show and I wish it back.
There was nothing sinister that happened behind the scenes!
Facts I guess that’s why the title is about it being fake .. ironic
Bro this Is on point ! Good journalism here.
I used to like watching this show here in Australia back in the day, had no idea people thought it might be real, was always under the impression it was just a bit of entertainment, Hollywood style.
Even though I believed it wasn't real, did get a lot of entertainment from it. Maaaaaaaaaad Mike was my favorite.
Aren't butter knives illegal down there?
@@brettadkins4968 Nope!
@@brettadkins4968 Even Guns are technically Legal in Aus! (for hunting only )
@@brettadkins4968 lol it’s interesting how you’re trying to lowkey diss their laws yet still they haven’t had a mass shooting in awhile, meanwhile America is onto its umpteenth mass shooting since the year started..plus the whole knives argument is ridiculous cause someone can’t do as much damage and kill as many people as an assault rifle. Secondly if the guns are just to defend yourselves then why do you need weapons used in war? lol y’all should use your common sense as much as you worship your guns
@@brettadkins4968 Are you from the United States of America?
Pimp My Ride was a fun show and one of my reasons why I ever saw MTV. Xzibit was the face of the show but he was clearly best thing about it. I didn't know Chamillionaire was a guest host.
How to fail at modifying cars:
1) Do all kinds of external and interior colorful modifications.
2) Make the car look faster then it actually is.
3) Don't do any performance driven modifications.
4) Put a bunch of non car parts in the car (like TV, video game, freezers etc...)
5) Don't fix the car mechanical problems.
Its even worse than that, most of the mods that are being done are even taken out when the car is handed back over to the customer..
@@FonZ4590 I know I thought that was a joke
Great video man. Taking me down memory lane. I dont know if tv was better before or we are oversaturated now or what 🤔🤔
But anyhow, this was primo tv.
This show fulfilled its mission, which was to entertain the public, I grew up watching it and enjoyed it too much, if it is released again, I will come back and see it whether it is a lie or not....
It wasn't FAKE, it was 'manufactured' like 99% of TV shows. It was a great show and was only on for 30 minutes, loved it.
because u loved it so it was NOT fake? what a dumb reason
So, what you're saying is, that it was fake. Got it
@@sv3ta7 Spice Girls were manufactured, so they were fake?? 80 million fake album sales!!
@@sv3ta7
I think you're completely misunderstanding his terminology, he means that the people are real, the cars are real, but it's a show and it's rehearsed, reshot, etc.
@@sv3ta7 you’re not intelligent
Awesome vid. What I get from this great documentary is that Pimp My Ride was 80% authentic. 20% was to make it more fun. BTW: I think American Idol and other reality TV shows are 20% realistic.