Operation Repo

[bsb13]

Does anyone watch this show? I was fooled/shocked to find out that this show wasn't even real.

[Koolie G]

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I've seen bits and pieces of it a few times and looking back on it, I can see where it is fake. The interactions are "Springer" like. If nobody had told me it was fake, then I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but in hindsight I can see where the people don't necessarily react the way a "normal" person who gets something repossessed would react.

P.S. This is the show with the heavyset hispanic woman and her family right?

[sb24]

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I dont watch the show or know anything about it. What is fake about it? Its all actors not real people losing thier car?

[Darkleaf]

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I dont watch the show or know anything about it. What is fake about it? Its all actors not real people losing thier car?

They have a disclaimer at the start of the show saying it's all re-enacted from Wiki:

Operation Repo is a faux reality show on truTV.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">[1]</sup>, where a fictional repossession team from the San Fernando Valley in California re-enact the repossession of vehicles for finance companies, due to the owners' failure to keep up their car payments.
Some of the actions shown violate the Collateral Recovery Act of the State of California and are only for dramatic purposes. Repossession agents are prohibited from breaching the peace (ie: fighting and wresting with debtors). However, some of the actors on the team were repossession agents in real life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-license_1-0">[2]</sup>
Although as a channel, truTV is described as presenting "Reality TV", Operation Repo consists of scripted reenactments where the team is often confronted by actors portraying debtors with prop weapons, prop drugs, and naked women; and with actors portraying police officers with prop weapons and prop squad cars.

And here's a video that is pretty cheese...
"aahh I gotta **** bad"
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[sb24]

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Alright good to know.

[Jukeman]

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Lol you can tell that show is fake....Nat-Geo had a special on repo man for their "night shift" eposide and it was waaaaay better than operation repo

[Brandwin]

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All you have to do is watch it to know it's fake. I remember the first time I saw it, some guys pulled out their guns and was going to shoot the repo guys, they ran and got in their cars and took off. guys still had their guns out, funny thing about it... the camera men were left behind and the "bad guys" seemed to have no problem with them.

[Jukeman]

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All you have to do is watch it to know it's fake. I remember the first time I saw it, some guys pulled out their guns and was going to shoot the repo guys, they ran and got in their cars and took off. guys still had their guns out, funny thing about it... the camera men were left behind and the "bad guys" seemed to have no problem with them.

LOL I think that's the first and only show Ive watched! Was that the one where the repos were wrestling with the gang members???

[duke776]

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All you have to do is watch it to know it's fake. I remember the first time I saw it, some guys pulled out their guns and was going to shoot the repo guys, they ran and got in their cars and took off. guys still had their guns out, funny thing about it... the camera men were left behind and the "bad guys" seemed to have no problem with them.

Yeah, I used to watch it and the little things just started to add up and then I finally realized it said they were re-enacted on the warning screen. The car flip was terrible, that's what really made me think it was fake. Although, it can seem real if you just watch every once in a while...unless you see the episodes where Matt gets knocked down by a whimpy punch.

[bsb13]

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unless you see the episodes where Matt gets knocked down by a whimpy punch.

Thats the episode that made me start to think it was fake. After that I looked it up on wikipedia. I thought everything that came on Tru TV was supposed to be "real".

[duke776]

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Thats the episode that made me start to think it was fake. After that I looked it up on wikipedia. I thought everything that came on Tru TV was supposed to be "real".

I said the same thing to my dad, their motto is(or at least was) "Not reality, actuallity". Either they scrapped that, or they think that since it's based off of real events it fits the description.

[PVarck31]

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WOW. I was just going to post something about this stupid show. I didn't realize it was fake until I read this thread. The big dude fights with everyone lol. I knew something was up with this show. What a joke lol.

[AUChase]

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I watch a little bit of tru tv.. I like watching bait car

as far as this show goes... It's not the fact that it's fake that bothers me the most.. It's the fAct that people watch it and are sold that it's legit

[Heelfan71]

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I know it's real. So is wrestling.

[VDusen04]

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Maybe some of the episodes are realistic and whatnot but the few that I saw were clearly fake from the moment they began. One featured a man suffering some sort of super not-real heart attack/convulsion and the cut to commercial featured an upcoming episode of a group of Dungeons and Dragons reenactment people getting their cars repossessed or something while they tried to cast spells on the repo people.