![]() ![]() While Paulie may have felt that it was for the better that his father declined to attend his wedding ceremony, there's still no denying just how sad a testament to their relationship that really is, considering the significance of the life event that Senior missed out on.Īttempting to crowdfund a creative project has become a popular tactic in recent years. In a follow up interview with TMZ the next day, Paul Junior commented that, "It's always sad when a father doesn't come to his own son's wedding, but I still love him, and the truth of the matter is it was an absolutely perfect day and I wouldn't have changed anything." A clash of generations was to be expected, but the series truly left nothing out, showing the ugly side of a father-son relationship for all it really was.Īs tensions between Junior and Senior flared over time, perhaps nothing was a better sign of the disarray of the relationship than when, in 2010, Paul Senior didn't attend Paulie's wedding.Īccording to TMZ at the time, Senior was invited, as to be expected for the father of the groom, but he did not show up for the ceremony. The Teutul family feud between Paul Senior and Paul Junior was always one of the central elements of the series. We didn’t initially tell Discovery about the switch. ![]() ![]() and said, 'Do you want to do this pilot for Discovery?' I changed all the tickets, changed the crew, and on Thursday we were shooting the pilot for American Chopper. It was a Tuesday night and in my last conversation with the shop that I was going to do in New Hampshire I didn’t feel that they had the right mindset."Īfter realizing this, Piligian explained, "The next morning I woke up early and I called Paul Sr. I switched the motorcycle shop the night before shooting. In a 2013 interview with Forbes, Piligian recalled, "They were not my very first choice. Hard as it may be to imagine given the legacy and impact this zany show would go on to have, as it turns out, American Chopper wasn't originally conceived with the Teutuls' Orange County Choppers as the central focus. Another motorcycle shop had long been planned to be the setting for the series.Īccording to series producer Craig Piligian, the decision to focus the series on the Teutuls was the very definition of a last minute one - Discovery Channel was not even included in the making of the decision either. Here are the 25 Crazy Secrets Behind American Chopper. No matter the drama, the Teutuls truly were the best at what they did. However, no reality show since has ever really come close to capturing what American Chopper once had: a family at war with itself who still managed to produce some of the finest crafted motorcycles the world had ever seen. In many ways, it contributed to the phenomenon of family-driven reality television as we now know it. What made American Chopper such a smash hit is still a head-scratcher all these years later, but the series routinely drew in millions of viewers, launched countless franchising and merchandising ventures, and is now returning as part of the revival craze for a brand new season on the Discovery Channel.Īt the time, the show was unique, as it followed the ups and downs and frequent fights of a larger than life New York family's every day life. However, even once the original American Chopper left the air, the Teutuls were nowhere near done amusing and shocking eager viewers everywhere, with several short-lived spinoff series airing in the subsequent few years. This loud, proud, and frequently censored family starred in the long-running shock hit Discovery Channel and TLC series American Chopper, which aired 165 episodes in its original run from 2003 to 2010. Before the Kardashian clan was the reigning champion of family dysfunction marketed as reality television, there were the Teutuls. ![]()
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