What Really Happened Behind the Scenes on Pimp My Ride
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Yo dawg, this may be painful to hear, but a lot of the Pimp My Ride episodes were actually a TV disaster. Of course, the show gave the audience many gifts, like rapper Xzibit memes that just keep giving. And while fans will treasure the show forever, Pimp My Ride car fails are alarmingly common. Many contestants still regard the auto body shop from Seasons One to Four, West Coast Customs, as garbage reality TV people who aren't the real deal.
#PimpMyRide #MTV #WeirdHistory
I'll never forget my Dad once retorting "all this is fake" while I watched this show religiously. I was appalled at his audacity 😂😂😂😂😂
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My dad used to ruin things all the time by talking about how stupid/fake things were lol I mean by the time I was a teenager I was like "yeah right 🙄" about everything, and I hated it cuz I didn't want to become like my dad lmao
Fake news CNN
Your dad was right all the time.
Funny how it's very shady lying management resembles how Penelope Spheeris contrived loads of weird lies in that Decline of Western Civilisation junk like Ozzy Osbourne pretending to live in a different house like Chris Holmes which even his mother joined in with.
Also very Strange how Ozzys wife/manager Sharon did not sue Spheeris over that strange as hell addition of fake footage "showing him spilling orange juice", they helped horrible people sh*t on the metal scene, at least Lemmy was honest about it saying he thought it went out it's way to try and make metal look stupid, it was after that when shit like this show came long.
same...and my dad did it with every thing on tv
I used to think these cars were so cool when I was younger… now I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to lose my trunk space to a cotton candy machine.
Or the cost of insurance. Yikes!
@@artreehayward2237 well the insurance wouldnt go up lol. On paper that car is still gonna be a pos 95 nissan maxima
@@bowlofsoup12 Come to the UK then, where adding a sticker can raise insurance premiums to stupid amounts.
@@itIsI988 yea the uk is screwed. You guys cant even mod your cars and have them street legal. Its absurd
@@bowlofsoup12 I mean you can mod them if they can pass MOT etc, but insurance here is stupid.
We’re at a point where early 2000’s is now considered history…
I feel old...
Yes. When we were in school we were taught about things that happened in the early 90's/late 80's.
Fall of the Berlin wall for example.
i mean yesterday is history
Bro literally one second ago is considered history.... I don't think the word means what you think it means.... Lol
Want me to blow your mind? That inflection point you are speaking of? It actually happened twenty years prior.
As a poor kid who loved video games but couldn't afford them,watching their cars getting fixed with game consoles always made me so jealous
me too. I'd upvote, but you already Got 69 likes. let's not mess this up
@@defnotathot 296 now
@@defnotathot Upvote? This ain't reddit 💀
I would 100% be ripping any TV and game console right out of the car and into my house.
Seeing it now, it's likely not ideal anymore.
I remember eagerly insisting to my parents to call xzibit so our family car could get pimped out. Not only did I not live anywhere near West Coast Customs at the time, but I'm pretty sure the producers wouldn't want middle aged parents trying to get a tricked out ride.
This was an unexpected Weird History episode, and I loved every single minute of it.
Me too!
PHAQZ 😁👍
@@Oldjongcrow416 ?
@@REDACTEDrose184 facts
@@lone1mis Oh!Okay,thanks!
When I was a kid I honestly thought these cars were so cool. I could have not processed the idea that these cars were anything other then the coolest things in the world.
Same. Shows the power of marketing. They have enough people saying how cool it is on the show that you just assume it's cool too
@@arthurdurham yer you dont relise how suggestible you are as a kid.
I feel the same way… totally ruined my childhood lol
It's 'reality tv', they were all sketchy and fake for a lot of it. A lot of exagerrated and manufactured drama, nips and tucks and producers and showrunners encouraging certain things and showing 'spicy stuff' for the camera. MTV Cribs was similarly sketchy in how some of those homes weren't even theirs to begin with. You should just think of reality TV as a woman in tons of makeup and dressed to the nines, in a wig with fake boobs.
@@ruekurei88 i get that now. Just a little nieve as a kid.
Thank God someone is addressing this pivotal piece of history.
😂 funny
@@lawrenceirvin2899 The question is - could aliens have been behind Pimp My Ride? And I say “YES”!!
EDIT: For those not getting this reference, there is a video called “Giorgio Tsoukalos says yes!” from a CZcams account called “Monsieur Nonsense” - it’s less than 30 seconds long ^_^
@Alexander Hazell what a nonsensical comment this is the epitome of weird history
@@Texasmade74 Would you define “epitome” for me?
@@Texasmade74 2002-2007 is definitely weird history
I used to love the show, was so disappointed to learn it was all fake. You would at least expect them to fix the bloody cars.
I knew that the participants' reactions were fake, and I realized that many of the upgrades were useless. Still used to love that show and really liked Xzibit's personality through it. Too bad about everything else this video revealed :(
It is kind of the point of the video though
Yup, just another thing from childhood ruined by truth
I remember one woman was a yoga instructor with a Jeep Wrangler. They painted the exterior bright yellow and put a yoga symbol on the hood, then replaced the arm rest area in the center console with a decorative water fountain. I just imagined the water going everywhere whenever she turned or drove on uneven roads.
😂 that was the point if I remember correctly
It was a 72 Toyota land cruiser and I almost cried with that one because they just about ruined a classic.
The danger of water going everywhere is an especially good idea in an old car as it will only increase rusting even more.
I remember when they aired this show most car insurance companies came up with policies that they refuse coverage if you customize your car similar to the ones on the show.
@@elevatewithoutlimits "Et moi, je suis la reine d'Angleterre!"
I didn't realize they never actually fix those guys cars. I feel bad for those people.
Makes being boring, no name person with normal struggles that much more valuable👍
I noticed it during the time because I was like 19 when this aired and I had a beater. I knew my car had tons of mechanical problems and thought- wait, are they fixing anything? But they never mentioned that. It was always jacuzzis in the back seat and gaming systems built into the dash. I felt bad for these people.
Back then, I had a strong feeling they weren't repairing anything.
Fixing up a beater can add up REAL quick...WAY more than the custom woo woo crap they put on the car. Fixed cars ain't flashy lol.
Plus the body shops I've seen don't fix under the hood stuff, just interior and exterior stuff.
It sucks they weren't fixing the cars though. I'll be more happy with a complete repair job than a TV or cotton candy machine in my car.
The only one that actually gained something from that show was the guy that had a car that was welded together so badly they had to commit buying him a brand new car otherwise they were liable for the thing breaking in half after the show lmao. I'll never forget that one.
Yeah, that was slightly surprising. You’d have thought it was the least they could do given the money they were making. I suppose though it’s not surprising when you factor greed in.
I remember when my dad pointed out that they never popped the hoods of the cars to show the engines (meaning they left them untouched). Complete changed my perspective on the show.
In the Netherlands this show made a lasting impact on our language. To "pimp" something is now a completely acceptable expression, I think I heard my grandma say it the other day.
Was the Same in Germany
Same in France.
Seems to ne everywhere the Same 🤣
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Honestly I'd love to hear the sordid details behind the scenes of ALL the early-00s 'Reality TV" shows. It's just such a weird moment in time and tied to a lot of nostalgia to all of us who were teens in the 00s.
monster house
My whole thing is how they walk into a room or some other place for a first time or unexpectedly, and a cameraman is already in there
Stop saying that like we're old.
Alot of it staged and fake for entertainment. Not much changed though
@@goobernoodles YOU ARE OLD!
I always knew it was fake, but I never knew it was as crazy as this!
Epic episode.
Every American reality show is fake.
Funny how it's very shady lying management resembles how Penelope Spheeris contrived loads of weird lies in that Decline of Western Civilisation junk like Ozzy Osbourne pretending to live in a different house like Chris Holmes which even his mother joined in with.
Also very Strange how Ozzys wife/manager Sharon did not sue Spheeris over that strange as hell addition of fake footage "showing him spilling orange juice", they helped horrible people sh*t on the metal scene, at least Lemmy was honest about it saying he thought it went out it's way to try and make metal look stupid, it was after that when shit like this show came long.
Ok
@@Me-qp8vz Even My life with 600lbs? Damn, the fat suits are incredible these days
Facts
Do one about Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. That was pretty messed up behind the scenes too. I heard some people had to sell their homes afterward because they couldn't afford the increased mortgages.
Seconding this. There was a case near me where the family who got the nice new house had to sell it & move into an apartment cuz they just couldn't afford the utilities/taxes/unkeep/etc.
Move that bus!
They did a house here in Buffalo a few yrs back that was broken into during a home invasion. It's in a bad neighborhood. The house just looks so out of place and cheaply made.
They paid the mortgages for people it was the increased property taxes, upkeep etc since they usually ended up with a more valuable and larger house.
@@allienixon8959 Ah I knew it was something like that, thanks for the clarification.
Man, I used to like this show a lot. Didn't know it was so messed up. That been said, I always found it shady how they stuck PS3 or X360s inside those cramped spaces when YLOD and RROD was such a big thing back then, they were a fire hazard
The dreaded "Red Ring of Death"...
Besides the YLOD and RROD, the concept of having 360 and PS3 in the vehicle was stupid, no online for most kids during that time period would make it pointless to have them in the vehicle. Plus who would say, I'll be in my car playing 360/PS3? Anybody who been a passenger and who drives knows vehicles feel cramp after a while of driving, so no space to really to get comfortable to play any games. Battery usage if vehicle is off and gas being wasted if vehicle is on. Nobody will turn the vehicle on to get the alternator to keep the battery charged to play video games.
@@deathjoker666 yup, most of the times they usually did the job on the most cramped cars they could find lol
@@deathjoker666 Ideal for passengers on long road trips though.
The curtomizations are vomit inducing though, I wasn't watching this garbage when I was young, I knew better
I always thought having a bunch of tvs in your trunk was stupid
And it’s not like PMR invented this shit, that was pretty common for modded cars. They just sometimes took it to the extreme.
I’ve also read a story from one of the “lucky chosen people” saying that shortly after the episode aired , their car experienced many mechanical- functional problems and the auto shop denied to fix them. Nowadays you can find some of these cars being sold online for very little money , in very bad overall condition …
Well they never fixed them mechanically. Just added tvs to rusted up cars lol
May have been us. But overall we were very happy with the transformation. I got my wife on the show and we still have her car. I'm working on a where are they now follow up series on the cars.
@@Brainshatterer really ? That’s so awesome man. These cars are part of history now and I would love to read your research if you ever publish it.
@@andreww1279 I have many vids up. I can't link and have to be careful how I word things or CZcams deletes the comments. This is my channel. My thumbnail is my wife's car.
@@Brainshatterer ok bro thanks I’ll check it out
My whole life is a lie.. when I was a kid watching this show I used to dream about Xzibit coming to my house to pimp my ride
Now you wish he didn't!
Lol
*"So tell me about you car"*
"Well, there's problem with the engine"
*"Okay, we'll install some neon, what else?"*
"Yeah, and the exhaust hav- wait what?"
*"Got it, exhaust problem, more neon"*
"Wait a minute, why would you install some neon?"
*"What's the matter, don't you like some neon?"*
"Well yeah, but-"
*"More neon it is"* 😎
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The show is called pimp my ride not fix my ride. There's a big differencing between pimping something out and fixing something. This should be common sense but I guess you don't grasp that.
@@preston2636 alrighty there cheif... I mean it's a car shop I think they can fix a few minor issues with the vehicle. Fuck the guy that had to get a new engine though. That ain't west coasts issue
I wish this show was still happening. I would love to do this for my brother. His been also working hard fixing his car for ever.
You would love to do this for your brother? Did we watch the same video? Do you hate your brother? The people on this show got screwed.
@@qrowingYeah I can't even imagine trying to explain to the highway patrol why I have a whole gddmn bar in my car.
I feel bad for the workers and contestants from this pov, but this show will always have a special place in my heart nonetheless, it was so fun to watch. Especially as a child/teen! Also, it was definitely creative and I'm sure it inspired some of the audience's creativeness as well
This show was just one of the reasons MTV stopped being about Music.
MTV was lacking music long before this show.
Yup
I thought it was road rules
Remote Control was the beginning of the end for music on MTV in 1987.
Real World!
When a show you watched in TV ends in a history channel 😔
The sad thing is I always thought the show was faked, but never imagined the contestants were actually forced to keep those hunks of junk themselves.
wouldn't be surprised if they if had to pay a lot of taxes on it too
The show was fake lol.
@@shaniquapryor the show *is* fake, but the cars were pimped for real and owned by real people that had to deal with these turds painted in gaudy colors.
@@shaniquapryor you don’t sayyyy????!!!
Ya, it's one thing for the show to be fake and the cars to be fake. It's another thing if they people didn't get some cheap replacement ride and actually had to keep the unworkable car. The fact that they didn't fix the engine at all even tho they were forcing them to keep the car is the crazy part.
AAAhhhh, I forgot all about them, u brought back lovely memories. My young son and I were watching every single episode. It was funtastic real good entertainment at the time and I still cherish their crazy ideas and what they made out of those old cars. Upcycling at its best !!!
5:00 gifting the car was a smart move
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" This was a very entertaining show and Exzibit was very charismatic and funny. Having said that, the fact that the co-producer killed his wife and only ending up getting 7.5 years is bullshit..
I was thinking of all places wtf are you killing someone in Mexico. Then he gets 7.5 years and I'm like ok maybe not such a bad place to do it after all lol.
@@brucew7339 100%
Maybe she was a terrible person.
@@Bozar069 Possibly but I doubt it.
@@brucew7339 Probably because he underestimated their legal system. Not the first time, there have been several cases in later years when someone killed their partner on vacation in Africa. Most of these countries have tough punishments, but they are usually more lenient with westerners compared to their own citizens, just look at known narcotic and murder cases in most Asian, African and Latin American countries. There is bigger consequence if something happened to a westerner in their custody, not to mention they don't want to scare away tourists.
Didn't expect to see one of the shows I grew up with be featured in Weird "History". But I'm here for it! Thank you for always bringing light to facts.
Can confirm, my Dad used to do work for them under Buckwild, the painter for West Coast Customs. The amount of labor laws that were broken were unbelievable, proving for our family off that “salary” was tough. But that aside the paint jobs and graphics painted were horrible, they looked “okay” on camera at the time but in person the work was atrocious and the jobs were always rushed.
And it still took months lol
@@ravishingelite Facts!! it was always money first, work later. Smh
I knew your dad. Great painter
I knew your dad too, he was a great lay
@@FvckYourOpinion 😂
Me as a kid: WOW THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD!
As an adult: Wow this show was a prequel to the Fyre festival
3:00 my family was bullied by a funeral director during the process of funeral arrangements. We were talked to quite sternly about how much work the funeral director had put into fixing my niece in her death and how it would be unacceptable if my sister had a closed casket. People can be quite vile and egotistical
please do more off pivot episodes like this, it was so cool to hear info behind the show
love the diversity of topics on this channel 🙌🙌🙌 didn’t know I needed this weird history. Big up the person in weird history who suggested this topic and had the balls to see it through!
I honestly want to see more of these types of weird history stories. I like getting to know history and everything but it’s nice to get more WEIRD stories from weird history.
Now I wanna see an episode on shows like Next, Made, and Room Raiders. MTV in the 2000s was a bizarre yet fun time period.
Omg those shows 😂 I used to love watching those.
Dooooode, I just commented that he should do an episode about room raiders! Yes that show was so crazy, funny, bizarre and oh so very staged hahaha, I was in my mid 20s when that show was on, I thought it was so ridiculous but funny.
I so very recently was watching Room Raiders episodes on here, lol. I ended up laughing sooooo much harder than I expected. Such an awful yet great show.
@@Sicbay138 yeesss !!! dude, i was in my mid 20s when that came out but i still found it hilarious, it was such a silly and definitely unique show, i hope weird history can do a video on it
well I suppose it's all one big staged setup, just like most reality tv shows.
Idc how fake this was, it's still part of my happy childhood memories. 😂
I would love to see a take on Extreme Home Makeover and the transformation of the home owners electricity bills. 😂
I love ancient history, but its nice to see modern history for a change.
modern?
@@fanaticjay3825 bit more recent than pimp my chariot tho
@@chrissmith3587 *LOL That Made Me Laugh Out Loud*
I remember that show. I thought it was dumb since most of the over-the-top gimmicks they stuck on the vehicles were not only totally useless, but illegal in many cases. I heard some bad stories about the show shortly after but I had no idea it was that bad. No surprise, though. It's "reality" tv...where tv is anything but real.
I didn't work on this show but worked for MTV in the mid 2000s It was definitely an experience
All I remember is looking at those things and the modifications, and thinking “There’s no damn way most of that is legal in any state…” 😂
West Coast Customs was in Inglewood, Ca when Pimp My Ride started. Later, they moved to a location near LAX airport. It moved to Corona many years after they stopped the show.
Two friends of mine, who are brothers, worked at the WCC corona location. I ran into the owner, Ryan, many times at the local grocery stores and gas stations. He was a cool dude
Speaking as an adult who watched this as a kid, these were what made me want to be an automotive engineer. Looking back, the show is just a IRL cartoon.
My dad and I used to watch this, and guess which features were only for the camera. The champagne bar was def one where we unanimously said “that’s gone!” Lol
Pimp my ride is the true gem of modern history. This was where humanity changed forever… along with their cars.
Pimp my ride is what killed mtv well all reality tv
Good one, m8.
I can’t fully remember lady but one person was a mother who had a van deck out with some kinda fabric stuff I think? Any ways there’s videos on CZcams of people finding the van abandoned and fixed it up and sold again to a guy who appraised it and gave it to a museum until the daughter of the owner is old enough to drive it.
Snapchat really wants you to watch this through their app playing a commercial every 20 seconds lol
I'm bummed it was fake. I want to believe there were a bunch of lucky, happy people having a blast with their ridiculous cars. I'm not surprised though.
Anyway, this is a great episode!
Me too. Appearently everything that seemed enjoyable, when I was young, turns out to be terrible.
There is, you are just not watching the right channel. I got my wife on the show and we still have her car. I'm working on a where are they now follow up series on the cars. Currently me and my friend have found 3 other contestants who still have their cars as well. I've covered a few of the cars what happened already.
@@Brainshatterer Awesome! I'm happy there's actual winners from the show. I'll keep an eye out for the follow up, thanks!
Oh, is there a right channel and what should I search for?
@@0therun1t21 My user name will bring them up.
I felt the same way when I learned about Cribs.
I remember a truck that was "pimped out" where they put a pinball-like machine in the back, that took up THE ENTIRE BED and could be thrusted up with hydraulics. I was like 14 and I knew that was insanely stupid, flashing lights and all. My mom said someone would see all that flash and try and steal it. I thought 'yeah and also they made the truck bed useless because you can't put anything in it.' Some of the stuff they did was just baffling. I remember seeing screens on the side of the vehicle, on the outside! What is the point of that? They used a camera and a small screen to act as a mirror. Why not just put an actual mirror? There IS some potential with this show. They could've just fixed up the car and not put ridiculous lights and machinery all over it, and it would've been a cool show.
@Tyler Braden They had to keep upping the wow factor to keep interest, they didn't have drama like Boyds or OOC.
What part of Pimp My Ride made you think this would be a practical car show? Besides, it was on MTV ...
I honestly would have been interested in a down to earth practical version of this show where they just show necessary repairs made to struggling car owner's worn out cars. But I'm also getting old and I like boring TV.
Lol reading all of what you said is funny. You wanted to watch a fixer upper show and instead watched flashy upper show and don’t understand why the flashy show didn’t fix anything. It’s like you’re watching a gay porno for an hour and wondering where the girls are after spending 60 minutes watching guys plow each other
@@nefariousyawn they’ve had that for years on sports channels on Saturday and Sunday mornings where they fix old engines and such. Why you think a normal show would be on MTV is beyond me but clearly most of you are dumb and don’t know how to find what you’re looking for
If pimp my ride is history then I must be very fucking old 😂😂
Yup. Same here 😂.
How old does something have to be before it is considered history?
@@DrumWild A car is 25 years. This info is history as this is the 50th or more time it's been repeated. I'm working on a where are they now follow up series on the cars. Fresh info there.
I'm new to this channel and I'm awestruck by the excellence. Did NOT beat around the bush, blazed right into the content. The dry-humor tone of voice is on-point. *Liked, *Subscribed
I watched this earlier and came back just to say how much I enjoyed the video. Great work 👍
I think you hit the nail on the head with the "intentionally absurd show", but also, they took real people's real cars and made them undrivable or worse, so yeah, not the best produced show.
I always thought this show was ridiculous! I really enjoyed this look behind the scenes tho. It confirmed what I've always known.
This episode was amazing. I'd love to see more like it.
You can watch it over and over if you like… job done 🤣🤣
As “light hearted” and intentionally absurd as it was, and surely entertaining, they definitely screwed and scammed the shit out of those kids they put on the show.
Weird how hospitals ARE allowed to classify doctors as independent contractors. So the patient has to pay both the hospital AND the MD separately for the same service.
As a kid I knew some of this couldn't have been real. My dad, in typical dad fashion, once remarked, "That doesn't look safe at ALL!" to one of their cars, and I asked him what he meant, and he said, "Imagine that thing going down a really bumpy road, or having to stop at the bottom of a hill quickly." Now, I can't remember *which* vehicle he was talking about at the time, but it did start making me think, yeah, speed bumps would annihilate some of these "cool groovy things".
I would love to know the behind the scenes on the show "Catfished." That always seemed to amaze me how these people didn't know. I think some were real, but all of them??
Agreed, I'd like to see that.
At least one is fake, I know people who faked a 16 month relationship and got paid like 6k apiece to be on the show.
Wow this was absolutely amazing. Used to get high after school with my friends and watch marathons of this. We often talked about how horrible or illegal some of these would be in real life
In Poland in the 1st decade of 2000's we were watchin shows like this one and F&F. And we LOVED tuning. Nobody cared if it was some old Fiat 125p, 126p, Trabant, Opel Kadett, Polonez or Lada. It had to be in that F&F style. And some people were "pimping their rides" to the level of #%#@%%&%$&$ :-) Engine was burning oil, kilograms of bondo on rust, zip ties, grey tape, muffler hanging on some wires but hey, at least I got my spoilers, blue leds and tinted windows. That way of customizing your car was called "agro tuning" :-D Don't know how to accurately translate it to English. Agro - like a farm tractor, people from a village but not farmers, more like them trailer people from the US.
Get high lol what a loser
What you got high on?
@@johandupreez3560what do you think, if he was a highschool kid chilling with friends after school 😂
It's hard to believe, that almost 20 years have passed since then.
This show was my teenage years man. Good times
I’ll be honest when my ex boyfriend burst my bubble about this show being faked it broke my heart cuz I loved this series and I loved all the vehicle updates they did. It felt like losing an innocent piece of my childhood/teenager life. 💔🤷🏼♀️😔
As a kid I used to watch this all the time…
Looking at it now it just looks so silly 😂😂😂
Back in the days, producers of reality tv still thought they had to 'embellish' reality. Nowadays, they all know all they gotta do is film actual reality. 😅
even current "reality" shows do the same. Hell even Pawn Stars is a fake pawn shop, they don't even film it in the real store.
@@spencers4121 because it's illegal to film in a real one in Vegas/Nevada.
Nothing is ever REALITY in reality tv. The only show that might be able to be said for is the first season of The Real World on MTV. After that the producers saw they could manipulate the actions of the people for more drama and more ratings. Then the people on reality shows became more of characters and exaggerations and stereotypes to fill roles and create said drama.
@@spencers4121 really????
A good friend of mine was on this show- they did a crap ton of random things to his POS car (cotton candy machine for example) but did ZERO work on the engine. Also he couldn’t drive it legally without taking out most of the random stuff they added to it. In the end he was without his car for 3 months and when he got it back it was in worse shape (function wise) than he gave it to them. He ended up selling it pretty quickly afterwards so he could get around
Which car was it? Still in contact with the friend. I got my wife on the show and we still have her car. I'm working on a where are they now follow up series on the cars of Pimp my Ride. I'd love to hear from them. I'm assuming your friend isn't Seth as he had his car for a bit, it got hit and sat in a friend's garage a long time then ended up getting towed away.
Lol. He's my brother
@@andrewgarcia8664 Seth? I reached out to him on Facebook before. But he was busy and I was prepping to move. Need to reach out, would love to interview him.
I went to school with Seth. West Covina high school. He was a cool dude.
I just remember watching this show with my dad after High School. Quite the Evenings.
It was fun.
As a car tuner at the time, I laughed at most of these mods. The worst thing that could happen to me if someone put my car on that show to be pimped.
This channel was my favorite for just the history. Now I see they are legends 💪
You know you're old when weird history makes a video about your favorite TV show
Legendary episode. 😂 How else can y’all ruin my childhood? I’m here for it.
this is one of my fav show back then and helped me to learn english when i was a kid
rats infested car eps is my fav
I never thought I would hear this title 😂 on here 😃
It's so weird to think that this show is 20 years old now. I'm 42 now and when I was 22/23 years old I totally wanted ride pimped
It’s actually 18 years Reena, came out in 2004 and I’m the same age as you. I was working in a workshop at the time and our Head Mechanic used to rip the show to shreds. We thought he was a hater but he knew what he was talking about all that time. 🤣. Us younger fellas thought it was the best thing ever and wanted a pimped ride too. 👍
@@OkinInc the things we thought we knew and wanted in our late teens and early 20s. I have a 20 year old son and I always tell him "Kiddo I was really really really stupid until I was about 29 or 30 so don't think you have it all figured out".. He thinks he wants his car pimped. He has a Corolla 🤣🤣🤣
@@reenakemp9132 🤣 oh my! Can totally relate. 4 kids and one grandkid later and I’m saying the same to these kids. However, took me a lot longer than by the time I was 28 to figure it out. Add 10 years easy to that easy so well done you! 👍 Stay well Reena.
Yes i love the nostalgia in this video definitely some weird history. The facts, the editing looks great. Thank you
Mindblowing documentary! I watched this show, when it orignially ran on MTV. While it was fun, it often seemed a bit to good to be true. Makes sense that this was more show than actual improvement. Also makes sense that not everybody was happy with their car's makeover.
They really had a piano 🎹 in the van 😂😂 ain’t no way
This show brought me down from the most intense shroom trip ever about 15 years ago. Thanks X to tha Z!
I’ll keep that in mind
thats it?? a statement like that we deserve more details Mason
This truly lived up to the title of weird history
12 years for murder and a petty fine for exploiting workers. What a pathetic “justice” system.
Of which he served 7
When "Pimp My Ride" is talked about on Weird History, it's starting to get more interesting in what's really talked about on here.
Exactly what makes this different than almost any other show
"Working unscheduled overtime and whatever we tell them to do." Sounds liked most managers I have ever had.
You guys really do cover EVERYTHING in history!! 😅🤣🤣
I always thought it was screwed up they didn't actually improve the running and basic functions of the car. I always knew they didn't, because they would never mention anything under the hood, or any kinds of improvements like that.
“The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others”.
Yes !
That’s just your subjective opinion there is not a universal law
several years ago, at the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo BBQ cookoff, i met Big Dane...He was very nice and polite. I ran across him several days later (and beers) and he remembered my name....i thought that was cool.
Man this is hilarious asffff!!!!!!!! I have real tears on my face right now y'all and to think this is real life, complications they never really considered making this even more humorous 💀💀😭
YES! This is the history we've been craving.
I loved the fact you could always see xhibit cracking up when he saw these "pimped" cars 😂😂
Lmao cause hes a millionaire who went and laughed all the wAy to the bank in his rolls Royce 😂
5:55 The definition of "pimping" a car means every cent goes into the way that it looks and ignoring the mechanical aspects, so they hit the mark in that respect.
I watched this as a kid and wanted to get into car restoration because of it! I did my first internship at 14 years old at a mechanic shop in Denmark working Fromm 7am to 3pm polishing car parts all day!!! not what I expected !!!!!!!
This just popped up in my fyp. Where the hell has it been all this time. This channel is great.
Would love to see something similar done on how ‘fake’ or at least exaggerated MasterChef and Hell’s Kitchen are.
An episode on the US government 😂
I actually worked on master chef. It’s not fake BUT they do a lot of takes and the food is definitively cold by the time it’s presented to the judges. That’s why you see them tasting in their walk-bys mid episode.
I remember seeing one girl on tv with her pimped ride after the episode, and she took off the wheels of her car and kept it in the garage on bricks, being too afraid someone would steal the car if she actually used it.
What a fun episode! Please mix in more of this style!
Watching these cars with like 3 Playstations and 17 TVs was like the coolest thing ever when i was a kid
I remember they had a West Coast Customs store here in Berlin, which closed shortly after opening.
Wow this episode was about a fun show, but then suddenly took a dark turn with that producer?!😯
This was a really good episode, great job weird history!!👏🏽👏🏽