1.06.2009

TV Gold: Operation Repo

I spent the better part of tonight watching a show on Tru TV called Operation Repo, a reality show that follows a crew of reposession agents around San Fernando Valley retrieving various vehicles from all kinds of delinquent owners for the finance companies that hire them. The boss is Lou Pizarro and he works with his sister, Sonia, her ex-husband Froy, and occassionally Lou's daughter Lyndah. Matt Burch is the muscle of the crew and is the most confrontational of all of the agents, frequently shoving and instigating fights with the car owners. The scenes are so outrageous that you think it could be staged, but they couldn't get people to do this good an acting job for such a low-budget show.
On one episode, Froy and Matt enter the backyard of a property with a person who says that they are going to give them their car. People rarely ever give up their car on the show, so it seemed sketchy, especially since the guy had just pushed Matt (who is a bald, tattooed muscle-bound Stone Cold Steve Austin type and not the guy to be pushing). Suddenly you hear one of the guys yell "GUN! RUN!" and the two agents and a herd of cameramen are racing for the cars, but not before the cameramen get a few shots of the car owner with two other guys we hadn't seen before, one carrying a .45 and the other two carryign assault rifles. On another episode, they run into a mentally disturbed preacher who claims that the Lord has paid his car note and that the devil has sent Lou and the guys to pick up his car. Priceless.
At the end of the season, Matt is apparently fired for flipping a car he was towing while a cameraman was riding in it. To his defense, Matt had to take a dump really bad and the cameraman was told a few times by both Matt and Froy not to ride in the car. I don't see how the show can continue without Matt, who was responsible for many scuffles that took place on the show, including the guys (and a surprisingly useful Sonia) going up unarmed against two men armed with a 2x4 and a crowbar. Regardless of whether this was the first and last season, I want physical copies of the show in-house and on-shelf!!! Nothing is safe as the crew reposesses ice cream trucks, tractors, forklifts, motorcycles, and luxury cars (one was even reposessed from the set of a porno). Matt is offered a 3-foot tall marijuana plant on one episode from a delinquent, immensely baked owner in exchange for allowing him to keep the car, which Matt rejects. Each episode, you're inches away from deciding that the people they come in contact with but then you think: how would you act if these guys showed up at your house and were trying to take your car? Probably something worthy of fifteen minutes on Tru TV.

7 comments:

  1. Just finished my first episode.Off the hook!Like watching a train wreck and I loved every minute of it. Type of reality show I can really appreciate

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  2. That's what's up! Exactly what the blog was for...puttin' people up on game.

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  3. I remember the "white girl" you used to work with. That incident created quite an interesting dynamic at the workplace. Lol

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  4. This is a show that we came across by accident and now we are addicted! They are people you could laugh and be friends with. Down to earth family just doing their jobs. Keep up the good
    and send me a tshirt!

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  5. The show is fake, I watch it every time it is on. I don't care that it is fake, quite entertaining. Sonia is someone I love to hate. The way she dresses is hilarious. I wonder if she ever looks in the mirror when she dresses or puts on her clown makeup. One day her hair will fall out from all of the bleach she uses, it already looks like straw. Hilarious show! kutedymples@highland.net

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  6. In which season did Matt get fired??

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