End of the Road: American Chopper chopped, fat lady sings — Autoblog

End of the Road: American Chopper chopped, fat lady sings

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Feb 8th 2010 at 4:58PM



It's been a long time coming, but celebrity gossip site TMZ reports that American Chopper has finally been canceled. A spokesperson for TLC, which picked the show up after its first few years on The Discovery Channel, said, "The Teutuls will always be a part of the Discovery family and we congratulate them on a tremendously successful series run." The final episode will air February 11 at 9:00 PM.

It wasn't tough to see this one coming from a mile away. The hit show has seemingly been just a shell of its former self since two of the original Teutul trio have stopped speaking to their father and disappeared completely from the Orange County Choppers shop.

Recall also that Paul Teutul filed a lawsuit against Paul Teutul Jr. for over a million dollars a couple of months ago and it's easy to see that things have been going south for quite some time. Finally, now that the crew has built customs that run on everything from gasoline to ethanol, diesel, compressed natural gas, electricity and even a hybrid, there just don't seem to be any more alternative fuels left to conquer.

 

Isn't Paul Sr. in bad health as well??

 

Bummer but it's been a long time coming. I can't remember the last time I had any interest in actually watching the show.

 

It's been well past the fork-sticking phase for some years. It's a shame, as the show was once quite interesting from a gearhead/fabricator standpoint, but then devolved into a soap opera.

That's generally why I preferred the shows they spun around Jesse James and WCC. While they had their reality show elements, at the end of the day they were about building stuff, and JJ wisely bowed out of the genre once it had run its course.

 

It started to go south with their latest designs ....

 

+1. When Vinnie left I figured it wouldn't be long for Jr. to blow a gasket and walk eventually leading to the show's demise in terms of viewership. Rick Petko can run circles around the current crew with one hand.