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Counting Cars

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Counting Cars	type	TVTItem
Counting Cars	label	Counting Cars
Counting Cars	page	CountingCars
Counting Cars	comment	Counting Cars is a show on The History Channel.After several appearances on Pawn Stars, Danny "The Count" Koker was given his own show focusing on his shop, Count's Kustoms, and his crew of employees as they buy, restore, customize, and sell various classic cars and motorcycles.The cast includes Danny's right hand man and best friend Kevin, the shop air-brush artist Horny Mike (so named for his obsession with putting horns on anything he makes whenever possible), the shop's detailer and local Funny Foreigner Roli, project scout Big Ryan, bookkeeper Scott, and bike-shop manager Shannon. Episodes regularly show the team's various hijinks, conflicts, and occasional screw ups, but in the end it's always obvious why Danny refers to them as his "all-star crew"; they're very good at what they do.A major part of the show is how Danny, while cruising around Vegas with Kevin, will go out of his way to chase down every classic car or bike he sees on the road with the intent of making an offer on the vehicle, sometimes following people for miles just for the chance to talk to them. He's variously met with either enthusiasm from fellow car fanatics or suspicion from those who don't like being followed. While he doesn't always make a deal, he always makes an offer, and if that fails leaves his business card, hopefully securing a new customer for the shop. Whenever possible, he'll take the car for a test drive, leaving Kevin as collateral (much to Kevin's annoyance).Other aspects of the show include Danny's temptation to keep the vehicles he buys instead of selling them for profit; it's mentioned his personal collection is comprised of over fifty automobiles which are on display in the shop. Also touched upon is Danny's relationship with various celebrities and the work he does for them.While everyone on the show clearly loves cars and knows what they're doing, it cannot be denied that much of the show is painfully staged for the camera in an attempt to show cool stuff and hijinks that will also pad out the running time. A good example is the time an extremely attractive woman was standing by their car carrier rig, ostensibly "admiring" it. She looks like she just got out of the make-up chair, shows no surprise at cameras recording her, and no reason whatsoever is given for her walking up to a car carrier parked on a street to "admire" it. Watch the sequence sometime. In a word, ouch.
Counting Cars	fetched	2023-08-08T13:00:49Z
Counting Cars	parsed	2023-08-08T13:00:49Z
Counting Cars	processingComment	Dropped link to PawnStars: Not a Feature - ITEM
Counting Cars	processingComment	Dropped link to Troll: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Counting Cars	isPartOf	DBTropes
Counting Cars / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Counting Cars / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: One episode opens with Danny greeting his crew with "Good morning, gentlemen! You too, Mike."
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Counting Cars / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Counting Cars / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Roli can't figure out how to reverse a Lamborghini Countach with a ludicrously tiny back window. Danny reveals that when you buy the car, the dealer and/or factory has to teach you a special method for doing so - leaning out the open door.
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Counting Cars / int_17d44dcc	type	Do You Want to Haggle?
Counting Cars / int_17d44dcc	comment	Do You Want to Haggle?: In terms of the family of shows stemming from Pawn Stars, Danny does more haggling than Rick Dale, but not as much as Rick Harrison. The main difference between this one and any of the other History Channel reality shows where this is involved is that Danny has a problem with knowing when to stop. If the owner is willing to sell, he'll generally buy, no matter how much it costs... he just loves cars too much to pass one up that catches his eye. He gets caught off guard when someone gets him to pull over and offers to buy his 1973 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. Because they were obvious car people, he sells it for $34,000.
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Counting Cars / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Counting Cars / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Horny Mike is a walking one: all the vehicles and helmets he owns are covered with horns which he fabricates himself.
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Counting Cars / int_1c861760	type	The Wonka
Counting Cars / int_1c861760	comment	The Wonka: Danny's obsession with cars, flagging down standards, and inability to stay on budget either frighten or enrage his employees, but he does an amazing job and his customers are always happy, so he stays in business.
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Counting Cars / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Counting Cars / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Danny and Kevin - best friends and business partners.
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Counting Cars / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Counting Cars / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: They spend one entire episode trying to customize a car for a man's wife, and the exact second they finish the car Scott comes out and tells Danny the couple just split up and the man no longer wants anything to do with the project.
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Counting Cars / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Counting Cars / int_1fc85456	comment	Hopeless with Tech: Danny is a brilliant mechanic, but absolutely lost when it comes to things like cellphones. Lampshaded in Pawn Stars when Danny is brought in to evaluate a diagnostic machine for a car. He admits to being completely lost with more modern tech and cars, but falls in love with the diagnostic machine (which is simple enough to use, even for Danny).
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Counting Cars / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Counting Cars / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Danny and the crew are firmly in the Patriotism is Good camp; they love doing projects for veterans or other military causes. They are a mild example, though, as they never get into political issues. There's a good reason for this; Danny's father was a Green Beret, and he has nothing but respect and gratitude for the men and women who serve.
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Counting Cars / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Counting Cars / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Scott often plays this role to the overall reigning madness of everyone else.
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Counting Cars / int_2583f1a0	type	Super Wheelchair
Counting Cars / int_2583f1a0	comment	Super Wheelchair: Danny once built an absolutely rocking wheelchair for a man who suffered a terrible accident that confined him to a wheelchair. Another one is a Meta Mecha-style example that doesn't involve customizing the wheelchair: a custom motorcycle with an oversized sidecar that not only allows a wheelchair to dock in it, but the man in the wheelchair can drive the bike.
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Counting Cars / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Counting Cars / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Danny The Count has a two-fold one. He has a tendency to call everyone either "Brother" or "Man", and, most memorably and most frequently, the unholy combination: "Brother-man".
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Counting Cars / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Counting Cars / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Danny, the crazy car guy, is also an ordained minister. Roli was both a police officer and a soldier back in his native Hungary.
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Counting Cars / int_33a71ee9	type	This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!
Counting Cars / int_33a71ee9	comment	This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: Danny being driven in Mike's bus (apparently Mike forgot to clean the toilet).
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Counting Cars / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Counting Cars / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: The Count gets crazy with his cars. His teammates effectively think of him as such.
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Counting Cars / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
Counting Cars / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: Scott challenges Horny Mike to a race where Horny Mike is on his customized moped and Scott is on a bicycle. Scott wins. Justified in that Scott commutes between home and work by bicycle, and Mike's moped is really heavy.
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Counting Cars / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Counting Cars / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: It's fairly rare for Danny to get truly angry, but when he does he maintains his composure well; still, it's easy to see how much it's simmering beneath the surface. A stellar example of this was actually on Pawn Stars, when he was called a lousy mechanic for saying a Porsche Boxster engine (stored outside unprotected for a long time) was likely seized and definitely in need of a total rebuild, and thus not worth the asking price. It's cropped up on his own show a few times, such as when Horny Mike took it upon himself to paint a big apple on the side of a recently-painted classic truck (Danny walked off without leaving him any way to get down from his perch), or when Kevin decided to buy a bike without consulting him (Danny made him do the sale all by himself). In one episode, Roli and Horny Mike accidentally break the brand new windshield for a Winnebago Danny had spent months restoring. Danny very calmly tells them they have exactly twenty-four hours to replace it.
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Counting Cars / int_46b3ec7c	type	Fun Personified
Counting Cars / int_46b3ec7c	comment	Fun Personified: "The Count" is a very jolly and electric fellow.
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Counting Cars / int_48f7d7a3	type	Sleeves Are for Wimps
Counting Cars / int_48f7d7a3	comment	Sleeves Are for Wimps: Kevin in particular likes showing off his guns.
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Counting Cars / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Counting Cars / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: A more mundane form of the trope. Danny and his comrades dress and paint the shop with some very threatening and fearsome imagery, and Danny even naps in a coffin in his office, but they're actually really nice guys.
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Counting Cars / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Counting Cars / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The guys at the shop are quirky to say the least, but they are all damn good at what they do. Danny specifically lampshades this with Scott, who is, in his words, "an asshole", but he's very good at his job.
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Counting Cars / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Counting Cars / int_6220c00d	comment	Pædo Hunt: This is why Danny painted his windowless van bright red. When it was satin black, he was pulled over by the police a lot, because "it looks like you're hiding something".
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Counting Cars / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Counting Cars / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Sometimes customers get choked up at seeing their restored cars. Danny also does this from time to time when he remembers his father or mother.
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Counting Cars / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Counting Cars / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: At the beginning of the third season, the Count's narration explained that Scott had moved to Tennessee.
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Counting Cars / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Counting Cars / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Kevin owns two small lapdogs and will baby-talk with them. Danny himself has a soft spot for small animals as seen both on this show and once on Pawn Stars. Horny Mike claims to own four cats that he will walk on a leash.
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Counting Cars / int_7ae75216	type	Franken-vehicle
Counting Cars / int_7ae75216	comment	Franken-vehicle: A lot of the Count's Kustoms projects involve putting parts intended for one car into another car. In one episode the team is commissioned to upgrade an elderly customer's old Cadillac convertible, but Danny is hesitant because the car is in such perfect working order as it is. Another team member compares the serial numbers and realizes the motor has already been replaced once with an engine from a different model of Cadillac, allaying Danny's concerns about ruining a seemingly all-original car, and they install a new engine and safety systems from a modern Caddy.
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Counting Cars / int_7b6e6602	type	Badasses Wear Bandanas
Counting Cars / int_7b6e6602	comment	Badasses Wear Bandanas: The Count is never seen without his bandanna (except on the rare occasions that he's dressed up in pimp gear).
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Counting Cars / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
Counting Cars / int_80d55f20	comment	Kevin owns two small lapdogs and will baby-talk with them.
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Counting Cars / int_83b464fb	type	Straight Man
Counting Cars / int_83b464fb	comment	Straight Man: Roli is one of these. Despite being a Funny Foreigner, just the fact that he's the closest thing to the Straight Man in a group of nonstop goofballs is enough to single him out.
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Counting Cars / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Counting Cars / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Danny is significantly more overexcited and emotional than Kevin, who tries to be more logical and calm.
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Counting Cars / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Counting Cars / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car/Cool Bike: Many, if not all the cars, bikes, and trucks seen on the show. If they are not cool when they arrive, Danny and his crew will make them cool. Special mention goes to the custom built, 1927 Model T hot rod with two engines, pulling over 1000 horsepower. Much to Danny's extreme disappointment, this beauty simply was not for sale. In fact, one of the problems the shop has is that Danny often refuses to let a project go out the door until he considers it sufficiently cool. He's such a perfectionist with his love of vehicles that between making something look better and keeping a good profit margin, the profit margin is such a distant second it doesn't even see coolness finish the race.
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Counting Cars / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Counting Cars / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Roli, being from Europe, isn't well versed in American automotive history, so will occasionally serve this role for Danny's exposition.
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Counting Cars / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Counting Cars / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The crew is composed of a truly bizarre collection of fellows.
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Counting Cars / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Counting Cars / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: They're nice fellows and absolutely harmless, but their tendency to randomly approach people (sometimes relentlessly) without warning and try to pull them over to buy their cars does terrify a bunch of people.
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Counting Cars / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Counting Cars / int_8d612fe6	comment	Swapped Roles: Danny is always flagging down cool cars and bikes that he sees on the road and offering to buy them off the owner. In one episode, a guy flagged down Danny and tried to buy his car, insisting that he loved it and had to have it. Danny was caught off-balance and admitted that it felt very weird being in the role of the owner rather than the buyer, but much to his own amazement he ended up selling his car to the guy for $34,000.
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Counting Cars / int_90d60f4a	type	And Some Other Stuff
Counting Cars / int_90d60f4a	comment	And Some Other Stuff: Danny installs an anti-theft device on a customer's car which was stolen - twice - and turns off the cameras while showing her. In all likelihood, it's a switch hidden under the dashboard in series with the ignition coil, published by Popular Mechanics every decade or so, all the way back in February 1925.
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Counting Cars / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Counting Cars / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: In some occasions Danny does this with the customized car to display to his client just how great it looks.
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Counting Cars / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Counting Cars / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Danny and Kevin stop by a parked Cadillac and are looking it over when the owner shows up. The owner agrees to Danny taking a test drive. The owner comes along for the drive... and so does Kevin.
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Counting Cars / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
Counting Cars / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Scott is often exasperated with Danny because he knows exactly how much Danny's car habits cost the the shop and how risky it all is.
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Counting Cars / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Counting Cars / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Danny "The Count" Koker.
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Counting Cars / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Counting Cars / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: Sometimes, the first example being Danny and Kevin having a bet on whether Danny can make profit on the Ranchero he bought. Danny wins, by giving up on the car and turning the rear half of the body into a billiard table.
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Counting Cars / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Counting Cars / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Danny.
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Counting Cars / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Counting Cars / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Whenever Danny decides to keep cars for himself, Scott loses his shit. He usually can't truly lash out like most examples of this trope because Danny is his boss, so he can only complain strongly.
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Counting Cars / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Counting Cars / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Some of Danny's punishments for the crew's mistakes, such as taking away the ladder when Horny Mike paints an unauthorised apple on a just painted truck still on the hoist, leaving Mike with no way down, or making Kevin complete an unauthorised sale of a bike by himself.
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Counting Cars / int_c0db3d41	type	Pimp Duds
Counting Cars / int_c0db3d41	comment	Pimp Duds: When the shop restores a Dunham Coach-built Cadillac El Dorado in the style of Superfly, Danny, Kevin, Mike, and Roli go cruising in it, appropriately attired.
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Counting Cars / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Counting Cars / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Danny is incredibly affable with all customers and potential customers. He also shows a special graciousness toward individuals with physical handicaps, such as the woman with MS whose husband needed his chopper tricked out so she could ride safely with her prosthetic leg.
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Counting Cars / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Counting Cars / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Danny. Whenever he and Kevin are rolling around Las Vegas to look for cars to buy or flip, he often tries to get drivers to pull over or to talk to the drivers. Even if he doesn't get a deal, he'll leave his business card. More than once, he has gotten customers to come to his shop to either buy his cars or to request a job from his shop. All thanks to simple, albeit weird, networking.
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Counting Cars / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Counting Cars / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Kevin and Danny do some good-hearted bickering. Horny Mike and Roli argue good-naturedly at times.
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Counting Cars / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Counting Cars / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Not technically, but it's very clear that this show is a result of Danny's association with the stars of Pawn Stars (and his frequent appearances on that show).
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Counting Cars / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
Counting Cars / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: A real life example. The Count's slang, cultural references, and manner of dressing seem stuck somewhere between the '70s and '80s, and he gleefully admits it.
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Counting Cars / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Counting Cars / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Danny's nickname, "The Count," gets changed in foreign dubs because the pun in "Counting Cars" usually does not translate to many foreign languages. For instance, in the Portuguese dub he's called Danny "The Crazy" and the series name is switched to "Crazy For Cars."
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Counting Cars / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Counting Cars / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Danny sometimes does stuff at complete random (often for the art), such as buying a car for too high a price or spending too much on the remodel of a car and having to adjust his plans to make a profit off that.
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Counting Cars / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Counting Cars / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: When Danny wants to look at a car, it's extremely, extremely rare for him to stop before he's convinced its owner to pull over and talk with him about it, which frustrates (and occasionally frightens) Kevin to no end.
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Counting Cars / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Counting Cars / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: One episode featured the shop's sprinkler system water main rupturing beneath the shop. They not only lost their parking lot, they came very close to losing the shop floor.
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Counting Cars / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Counting Cars / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: With Pawn Stars, especially when Rick Harrison requests to make a car into the car from Bullitt. Since Danny is still the main car consultant on Pawn Stars and Rick will still bring cars to Danny on Counting Cars, the Crossover aspect happens quite frequently.
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Counting Cars / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
Counting Cars / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: None of them are private detectives, but the basic logic still applies: Kevin's brother, Steve, is an attorney and judge in L.A., and he helps them with any legal issues which might occur.
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Counting Cars / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Counting Cars / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Scott has a recurring tendency to talk very loudly.
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Counting Cars / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Counting Cars / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Horny Mike's bus is "the alleged bus". One episode is entirely focused on Danny effectively giving him an ultimatum to fix it up or take it out of shop, such is the state of the vehicle. Danny later goes back on his ultimatum out of charity and upgrades Mike's van for free to let him keep it there.
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Counting Cars / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Counting Cars / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: In the episode "Ghost Rider", Kevin was reluctant to take on a couple's 1992 ambulance to be worked on, knowing Danny would be reluctant to take on a project like this. Horny Mike, however, makes a good point to Kevin that he should at least consider asking about the budget since the clients did mention earlier that they won $2 million in the lottery and that they would likely have a lot to spend on the project. Turns out Mike was right, as the clients reveal they have a $100,000 budget and Kevin immediately agrees to the project.
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Counting Cars / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Counting Cars / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Roli and Horny Mike go to a Napa Store in order to buy a part about which they have very scant info. The Count's Kustoms crew continues to carry on the classic Pawn Stars tradition of eating so much Subway that they probably crap sun yellow and forest green.
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Counting Cars / int_f792ffe4	type	Beleaguered Assistant
Counting Cars / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: Scott is regularly driven up the wall by Danny's inability to stay on budget and his habit of keeping cars for himself.
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Counting Cars / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Counting Cars / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: Ryan and Horny Mike sometimes have disputes over which is the better painter.
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