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* MoodWhiplash: One of the show's standards: highlight a customer coming in very cheerful and upbeat about selling something, show Les or Ashley considering it and either telling them a low offer or that it's not the quality that they think it is, then watch as the customer goes ballistic because they overestimated the quality and expected the amount to be ten times as high as Les told them.
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** One episode has Les dealing with a customer who wants to sell some bowling balls. They get promptly kicked out of the store because they tried to demonstrate the balls on Les' counter, which Les notes could have damaged it if she were any more reckless than she already was.
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Les's only son, Seth, a graduate of the UsefulNotes/UniversityOfMichigan who initially pursued a career in medicine before joining the family business, is the general manager, Les's business partner, and handles the shop's marketing. Seth claims that if it wasn't for him, the shop's only marketing would be "an ad in the Yellow Pages". The co-manager is Les's daughter, Ashley (a college graduate from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a graduate diamond certification from the Gemological Institute of America), who, as the series debuted, returned to the shop after taking some time off for maternity leave. The sibling rivalry between her and Seth is a common element of many episodes.
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Les's only son, Seth, a graduate of the UsefulNotes/UniversityOfMichigan University of Michigan who initially pursued a career in medicine before joining the family business, is the general manager, Les's business partner, and handles the shop's marketing. Seth claims that if it wasn't for him, the shop's only marketing would be "an ad in the Yellow Pages". The co-manager is Les's daughter, Ashley (a college graduate from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a graduate diamond certification from the Gemological Institute of America), who, as the series debuted, returned to the shop after taking some time off for maternity leave. The sibling rivalry between her and Seth is a common element of many episodes.
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* {{Kayfabe}}: The show shares this perception in common with many other shows on the [=TruTV=] network. Elements such as (almost always) black customers going ballistic about something they've bought or are trying to pawn or sell, and the bickering between Ashley and Seth, as well as someone bringing in something unusual to sell and Les (or occasionally Seth) getting all excited about it, turn up in literally every episode to the point that it's easy to conclude that those things are deliberately hyped up, if not outright scripted, to make the show more exciting.
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** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that a very large percentage of all customers who get screen time are angry and Detroit is over 85% black.
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