- AMG Rating:
- Genre: Science & Technology
- Movie Type: Vehicles & Transportation, Candid Reality Show
- Release Year: 2003
- Country: US
- Run Time: 60 minutes
American Chopper
TV Series:
American Chopper |
| Games: American Chopper |
- Release Date: November 23, 2004
- Genre: Racing
- Style: Motorcycle Racing
- Similar Games: Big Mutha Truckers (PlayStation 2), Monster Garage (IBM PC Compatible)
Game Description
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Production Credits
Company 1: Activision Value; Producer: Chris Owen; Assistant Producer: Joe Shelton; Executive Producer: Jim Eisenstein; Technology Manager: Chris Arends; Supervisor of Quality Assurance: Jason Lembcke; QA Lead: Chad Schilling; QA Team: Pat Church, Paul Ference, Dean Fingerholz, Nic Flynn, Rasheem Harris, Bob Paterson, Matt Reese, Madison Meahyen, Sean Misgen, Aaron Thompson; Information Systems Administration: Bob Viau; General Manager: Dave Oxford; Vice President of Studios: Patrick Kelly; Director of Product Development: Chip Pederson; Vice President of Sales: Tim Flaherty; Regional Sales Director: Jim Holland, Jennifer Mirabelli Johnson, Dan Matschina; Trade Marketing Manager: Robbin Livernois; Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services: Mark Meadows; Senior Graphic Artist: Trevor Harveaux; Graphic Artist: Sean James; Web and Video Production: Travis Grawey; Legal: Joe Hedges, Brynja Bjarnason; Senior Brand and Licensing Manager: Andy Koehler; Director of OEM & Alternative Channels: Brian Johnson; Vice President of Business Affairs: Chad Koehler; Director of Operations and Planning: Mike Groshens; Studio Recordings By: Steve Harley, Voiceworks Recording Studios; Sound Engineer: Frank Menges; Sound Effects: Randall Ryan, Hamster Ball Studios; Scriptwriter: Steve McInerny; Art Services: Scott Schomburg; Company 2: Giant Studios; Director and Producer: Greg Philyaw; Technical Director: Sarah Mattes; Associate Producer: Ryan Adams, Addison Bath; Motion Editor: Carol Madrigal, Maki Fukomoto; Executive Producer - Pilgrim Films: Craig Piligian; Company 3: Discovery Channel; Executive Producer: Mark Finkerpearl; General Manager: Jane Root; Senior VP, Strategic Partnerships & Licensing: Sharon M. Bennett; VP, Creative, Strategic Partnerships & Licensing: Elizabeth Bakacs; Product Development Manager: Dana Newbold; Manager, Talent Relations: David Schaefer; Company 4: Creat Studio; Project Leader: Gleb Yaltchik; Lead Programmer: Dmitry Dolgov; Executive Producer: Anton Petrov, Daniel Prousline, Mike Fedorov; Lead of Technology: Mikhail Glazyrin; Lead Physics and AI Programmer: Pavel Kuznetsov; Game Design Lead: Gleb Yaltchik; Art Director: Andrey Kalukin; 3D Production Director: Sergey Zubakov; Lead 3D Modeler: Dmitry Astahov; Lead Character Designer and Modeler: Ekaterina Fedorova-Seregina; Lead Integrator: Ilya Pshenichniy; Lead Light Artist: Olga Cheremissova; Sound Director: Alxenader Dudarev; Porting Project Lead: Evgeny Ivanov; Menu Design: Doping-Pong Dimamishenin, Lova Zombie, Foxy Zombie; Game Designer: Dmitry Voronov, Alexander Lohov, Mit Gorilowsky, Denis Abramov, Aleksey Rehlov, Andrey Boyko, Alexander Voevodskiy; Assistant Producer: Stan Bogdanov; Senior Programmer: Anatoly Ahmedov, Nikolay Dodonov; Programmer: Kerim Borchaev, Ivan Gavrenkov, Igor Goryagin, Boris Karulin, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Roman Khonichev, Andrey Korobov, Evgeny Kochenyuk, Alexander Kolomeyets, Alexey Kuznetsov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Timofey Nikityuk, Dmitry Pavlov, Gleb Puzyrev, Vladimir Sapronov, Sergey Skrobotov, Alexander Shafranov, Evgeny Zhidkov; Technology Group: Stanislav Volodarskiy, Dmitry Slepichev, Andrey Fedorov; Artist & Modeler: Akjol Abdulin, Artem Artemiev, Dmitry Astahov, Aleksey Belousov, Blagoj Borisov, Mikhail Budkin, Denis Demyanov, Yuriy Chernysh, Natalya Gracheva, Andrey Gromov, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Yuriy Ilin, Maxim Klochkov, Alexander Kushulya, Ilya Mavidi, Sergey Nikitin, Evgeny Nikolaev, Anton Oparin, Roman Pereverzov, Irina Pleshak, Andrey Povarov, Tatyana Glazyrina, Ilya Popenker, Irina Shostik, Elena Tarnovskaya, Vladimir Uryashov, Oleg Zaitsev, Alla Zubakova; Lighting: Olga Cheremissova, Stanislav Volodarskiy, Blagoj Borisov, Dmitry Slepichev; Animator: Olga Trifanenkova, Oleg Zaika, Andrey Tarnovskiy, Denis Demyanov, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Yuriy Ilin, Vladimir Uryashov; Quality Assurance: Roman Klochkov, Stan Bogdanov, Stan Bogdanov, Renat Batraev, Yuliya Bortko, Natalya Valova, Oleg Mosin, Evgeniya Samochadina, Mikhail Pilyugin; Game Intro and Outro Directed By: Vladimir Alexandrov; Animations Team: Aleksey Rubel, Avenir Snyatkov, Artem Artemev, Blagoj Borisov, Mikhail Budkin, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Yuriy Ilin, Artur Harkovich, Alexander Kushulya, Ilya Mavidi, Sergei Nikitin, Anton Oparin, Andrey Povarov, Ilya Popenker, Elena Tarnovskaya, Andrey Tarnovskiy, Olga Trifanenkova, Vladimir Uryashov, Natalya Fedorova; Hardware & Software: Dmitry Makarov, Sergey Shipilov; "Space Lord" Performed By: Monster Magnet; "Space Lord" Written By: Dave Wyndorf; "Roll On Down the Highway" Performed By: Bachman-Turner Overdrive; "Survival of the Sickest" Performed By: Saliva; "Survival of the Sickest" Written By: Paul Crosby, Christopher Dabaldo, David Novotny, Josey Scott, Wayne Swinny; "Stupid Kid" Performed By: Alkaline Trio; "Stupid Kid" Written By: Alkaline Trio, Matt Skigba, Daniel Andriano, Derek Grant; "The After Dinner Payback" Performed By: From Autumn To Ashes; "The After Dinner Payback" Lyrics By: Benjamin Perri, Fran Mark, Scott Gross; "The After Dinner Payback" Music By: Scott Gross, Fran Mark; "Making Me Go" Performed By: Paul Westerberg; "Making Me Go" Songs Written By: Paul Westerberg; "Lilacs & Lolita" Performed By: From Autumn To Ashes; "Lilacs & Lolita" Lyrics By: Benjamin Perri, Fran Mark, Scott Gross; "Spillin Fire" By: Five Horse Johnson; "Spillin Fire" Written By: Eric Oblander, Steve Smith, Brad Coffin, Mike Alonso; "Sweetwater Gasoline" By: Five Horse Johnson; "Sweetwater Gasoline" Written By: Eric Oblander, Steve Smith, Brad Coffin, Mike Alonso; "Sweetwater Gasoline" Recorded By: Al Sutton, Dave Allison, Sam Vail, Robert Burrows; "Sweetwater Gasoline" Produced By: Al Sutton; "Soul Digger" By: Five Horse Johnson; "Soul Digger" Written By: Eric Oblander, Steve Smith, Brad Coffin, Mike Alonso; "Soul Digger" Recorded By: Al Sutton, Dave Allison, Sam Vail, Robert Burrows; "Soul Digger" Produced By: Al Sutton; "Cherry Red" By: Five Horse Johnson; "Cherry Red" Written By: Eric Oblander, Steve Smith, Brad Coffin, Mike Alonso; "Cherry Red" Recorded By: Al Sutton, Dave Allison, Sam Vail, Robert Burrows; "Cherry Red" Produced By: Al Sutton; "In the Flood" By: Throttlerod; "In the Flood" Written By: M. 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| American Chopper | |
 American Chopper: The Series logo |
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| Format | Reality television |
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| Starring | Paul Teutul, Sr. Paul Teutul, Jr. Michael Teutul Rick Petko Jason Pohl Mike Rowe (announcer) |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 120 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Newburgh, NY |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Pilgrim Films & Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Discovery Channel(2003-2007) TLC(2008-) |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | 2003 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
American Chopper is a reality television series on The Learning Channel (TLC) and is produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The popular series is based around the founder of the company, Paul Teutul, Sr., and his son, Paul Teutul, Jr., also known as Paulie or simply Junior, as the two run a business creating custom motorcycles in their workshop, Orange County Choppers. The workshop is located in Newburgh, New York.
The contrasting attitudes of the men and their propensity for sulking often lead to fiery but humorous verbal exchanges as they meet unusually short schedule deadlines for building distinct custom choppers.
Originally a show on the Discovery Channel, the series moved to Discovery's sister channel, TLC, on December 28, 2007, starting off with an 18-hour marathon. Its first season on TLC premiered on January 18, 2008. Season 6 began airing on April 9, 2009 on TLC.
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Featured staff
The OCC fabricators and mechanics such as Paul Teutul, Jr., Rick Petko, Nick Hansford, Christian Welter, and former employees Vincent DiMartino, (who left OCC to start V-Force Customs in 2007) and Cody Connelly (a BOCES student intern who has since joined DiMartino's business), to create dozens of custom motorbikes. Paul Sr. supervises the builds and has built motorcycles himself. Michael Teutul, commonly referred to as Mikey, serves as the shop's custodian and webmaster, and provides comic relief to the show. He has been seen doing metal work occasionally, as one of his early jobs was working at Orange County Ironworks. Also featured occasionally is Danny Teutul, the eldest child, who succeeded Paul Sr. as owner of Orange County Ironworks. Danny drops by to do contracted jobs for the OCC facilities. The show also documents their personal and promotional activities ranging from magazine photo shoots to family holidays and custom bike shows.
Firing of Paul Jr.
In the Season 6 premiere, Paul Sr. and Paul Jr. had an explosive disagreement over Paul Jr.'s contract and Paul Jr. was subsequently terminated. In a later episode, they appeared to work out their differences but Jr.'s return to work at OCC caused more problems between the two. Later, Paul Jr. decided that returning back to OCC was a mistake and has left to pursue his own ideas, however he and his father have both expressed interest in Paul Jr. remaining involved with OCC into the future. In recent episodes, he has been working for OCC as a consultant, who comes in when Paul Sr. is out of the shop, and when a build needs extra manpower.[citation needed]
In addition, Paul is currently helping his girlfriend open and establish a boutique in Montgomery, New York, and has started his own design firm, Paul Jr. Designs.[citation needed]
Video games
Due to its popularity during its first seasons, American Chopper inspired two video games, developed by Activision Value and developed by Creat Studios. The first was 'American Chopper' released for the Sony PS2, and the Xbox. The second, American Chopper 2: Full Throttle was released for the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PS2, and the Xbox.
FANtasy Bike Contest
During 2005, Discovery Channel sponsored a contest[1] in which four finalists won OCC motorcycles. Bike features were specified by the winning fans, who sent in videos expressing their reasons for wanting a bike. The contest winners were (in episode order): Jeff Clegg (Corporal Punishment), Susan Morisset (Female Snake Bike), Joseph McClendon (Custom Hog), Bryan King (Vertebrate Trike). Each winner's bike appeared in a single episode, since each build took only 2 days.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD Vol. | DVD release date (R1) | |
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| 1 | 14 | 2003 | 1 | May 10, 2005 | |
| 2 | 23 | 2004 | 2 | May 10, 2005 | |
| 3 | November 1, 2005 | ||||
| 3 | 20 | 2005 | 4 | September 13, 2007 | |
| 5 | July 19, 2007 | ||||
| 4 | 37 | 2006 | 6 | July 19, 2007 | |
| 7 | July 19, 2007 | ||||
| 5 | 19 | 2008 | ? | ||
| 6 | ? | 2009 | ?? | ||
| Pilots, Specials & Other |
14 | 2003–2007 | |||
Parodies
American Body Shop, an improvisational comedy shown on Comedy Central, is a parody of American Chopper, as well as other similar shows, such as Monster Garage and American Hot Rod.[2][3]
References
External links
American Chopper at the Open Directory Project
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