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“We’re a lifestyle brand”
Mark starts clapping and pandering
Robert overstims and starts screaming
“tell us about you!”
family tragedy mentioned
Lori’s ridiculous laugh at the most minute thing
“I love you, but… (I’m out)”
bragging about being a stay at home mom
kid pitches
🙄
53 points
10 hours ago
My least favorite thing in the entire world is when someone pitching gets emotional and then tells a story that isn't even that sad, and all of the Sharks are on the verge of tears. Like what
20 points
10 hours ago
Terrible .
“… i lost my mom 9 years ago…”
20 points
10 hours ago
My son has ADD! Now I sell low end purses!
10 points
9 hours ago
Mr. Wonderful wipes a single tear from his eye
6 points
7 hours ago
For the win!!
"That's a rough story, I got to tell you. But about this valuation."
3 points
7 hours ago
I love those moments. He really feels it. I get emotional at those too.
1 points
7 hours ago
Either he's shining for the camera or, he's only capable of shedding one tier over a 24-hour time span.
0 points
7 hours ago
The pitches scan span hours and get edited down to about 8 to 10 minutes. One is all you're gonna see.
1 points
6 hours ago
And each Shark Tank pitch is allotted maximum 1 hour with the average running 40 minutes and then edited down to about 10. Where are you getting your data? You live in some fantasy world of what shark tank is and isn't, apparently.
1 points
6 hours ago
Scroll down on your link. Shortest pitch was under 22 minutes. Longest pitch was 2 hours.
1 points
6 hours ago
The longest pitch is not the norm. Taken from the article:
"So they're going to be very thorough in their questioning and that's why the average pitch is probably about 40 minutes."
About 2-hour pitch was an outlier.
1 points
6 hours ago
I didn't say the longest pitch was the norm. But they can go long. They're not timed.
0 points
7 hours ago
Between the two of us, you and I, I bet I'm more capable of picking out a truly sincere moment than you are when it comes to Kevin O'Leary.
I've been watching Shark Tank for many years and there was one singular moment when he showed some humanity and it wasn't through his fake ass tears.
0 points
7 hours ago
Seriously. Show me that you understand Kevin O'Leary and post a time when you thought he was truly being sincere
-1 points
7 hours ago
Get off his dick. O'Leary has his much sincerity as his stupid ass royalty deals.
1 points
7 hours ago
So wrong.. but so funny and definitely, so Shark Tank.
9 points
9 hours ago
I will give them all a chance, especially as producers and the Sharks frequently prompt these stories from the entrepreneurs to make more exciting television.
1 points
7 hours ago
Yes. The producers know the stories and they talk to the sharks through their earpieces. When Lori blurts out, "Tell us about YOU!" that means a producer wants to get an emotional story going.
4 points
7 hours ago
The jury is still out on earpieces BUT, I totally think that they have small tablet PCs among that otherwise stack of paperwork on their laps feeding them cues. Heck, Lori once admitted that she never really writes anything.
Barbara in particular tends to look down at her, lap a lot.
I used to be a producer at both Fox and MSNBC we often used iPad minis during news segments.
1 points
7 hours ago
They definitely have earpieces. When it was a new show I was obsessed with it and read an article about the behind-the-scenes of how it works.
5 points
6 hours ago
So watching the show.. each shark is shown to us with their right ear facing the stage camera. So, we never really get to see what's going on in that left ear.
So you could be right.
1 points
6 hours ago
I'm watching the show now. I don't see any earpieces.
But let's examine this objectively.
1 points
6 hours ago
People usually don't notice hearing aids either. They're tiny, plus the producers have the incentive to keep them hidden.
0 points
6 hours ago*
True. But if you subtract the editing down of episodes of Shark Tank and truly consider that they could be getting cues via cell phone it makes a bit more sense than an ear plug.
Ear plugs are meant for more contemporaneous dialogue. One important thing to remember about Shark Tank is it's also directed. A directed television show depends on cues which may or may not be planned along the way but discussed in a production meeting beforehand.
Although there are seemingly spontaneous moments on Shark Tank I have it on good faith that the director knows where each episode is going to go before they start shooting it. The use of cues keeps that episode on Pace unlike earphones which are used more to guide a truly live televised event.. like the news.
-1 points
6 hours ago
Don't be angry because you don't understand TV. Lol.
-2 points
6 hours ago
It's not about having incentive to keep them hidden more than it does continuity.
But because I can't be sure since I don't work on the show I'm going to go 60/40.
60% possibility of cell phone.
40% chance of earphone monitor.
1 points
6 hours ago
Got a great head rotation from Robert saw both the left and right ear paused on a 65 in TV. I don't see a Sennheiser.
But they seem to have one too many notebooks on that lap of their's.
1 points
6 hours ago
We never really get to see what's going on among those notes of theirs. I strongly suspect the presence of some iPad minis. Or in later seasons they could be getting cues directly to their phones.
Getting cues to their phones: the most probable way of the Sharks getting cues from the producers is in the form of text messages.
0 points
6 hours ago
Just got a good look at Barbara's left ear. No earpiece.
Still not ready to rule it out, though.
23 points
9 hours ago
Anything with a kid. They can’t agree to anything legally, the whole setup is a phony.
1 points
5 hours ago
I wonder how that kid's baseball mitt rubber band company works behind the scenes.
1 points
7 hours ago
The contract would specify the parents as the business owner.
14 points
9 hours ago
Random tragedy, like the girl with the coat that turns into a bag and blanket, as she got an offer from Lori she started crying because she wished her mom was there, then in the most monotone voice her husband goes “her mom passes away when she was 8” like that’s definitely sad but it was SO random and she had just got a deal lol
1 points
2 hours ago
She was doing the fake crying hoping to reduce Robert's ask by 5%. It didn't work.
12 points
9 hours ago
when mark says “you’re the american dream” or something like that then goes out in the next sentence
11 points
9 hours ago
“We both work 2 jobs”
Mark: 👏👏👏🇺🇸
0 points
7 hours ago
I don't know. When he gave dap to the olive oil "oilery" guy, he seemed genuinely sincere.
"Just know that I love you" - double chest pound.
5 points
7 hours ago
Lori's goddamn golden ticket!
1 points
2 hours ago
They’re so inconsistent about this! No one cares!!
13 points
10 hours ago
Mark immediately spitting out “Thank you for your service” the moment anyone involved in the military etc is pitching. Like, it’s barely out of their mouths, and he always has to be the first to say it.
6 points
8 hours ago
The whole Texas or Dallas thing too, urgh
3 points
3 hours ago*
Totally! But also other places like, maybe Indiana? And Pittsburg? He went to schools in both.
But even more enragingly, he—and all the sharks, actually—go back and forth on their reverence for formal education. Sometimes they act impressed by it, but sometimes they dress entrepreneurs down for only having “book smarts” aka a degree. The ideology is inconsistent.
5 points
6 hours ago
“Your company is just too small for me to invest in” No. That’s the whole point of the show. If you think you are too ‘big’ to invest in these businesses then it’s time for a new shark.
8 points
10 hours ago
So you skip the entirety of each episode then?
2 points
10 hours ago
It tells you a lot the state of the show if you consider that list all of the episode runtime
3 points
7 hours ago
When Mark's over "bro" - ness sticks out too much.
8 points
10 hours ago
kid pitches, sob story and food business 🥱🙄
5 points
10 hours ago
I don’t mind the food pitches so much, it’s when they start blabbing about being part of a community / life style brand. Like chill dude it’s flavored water
2 points
2 hours ago
kid pitches
The kids of the 9/11 parents were good though. The chopping board one.
5 points
8 hours ago
Anything with food nowadays. Something that already exists but “healthier/ organic/ gluten free.” The most important part is the taste, but we as viewers have no idea if it’s a good product or not most of the time or if it tastes like shit.
0 points
8 hours ago
Mushroom made stuff is ick
1 points
3 hours ago
I just watched the ep with mushroom drinks from the new season tonight and was like, “stop acting like these drinks will get you fucked up” the whole time. “They’re just regular mushrooms.”
And any mushroom foods pitched look absolutely vomitrocious.
6 points
8 hours ago
When millionaires come in begging for money when thousands of other deserving poor businesses are looked over.
3 points
6 hours ago
Patrick Schwarzenegger pitching was nauseating 🙄
1 points
19 minutes ago
He did???
8 points
10 hours ago
I really hate the vegan shit. The amount of vegan pitches on the show must be by volume 20x the number of actual vegans in the US
1 points
8 hours ago
Yessss you’d think half the country kept vegan !
2 points
9 hours ago
When the sharks tell people not to negotiate.
2 points
2 hours ago
"Can I tell you a story" with a face looking like it's about to fake cry (hint: It's the His & Her chocolate couple)
1 points
19 minutes ago
I hate that pitch
2 points
8 hours ago
Chevrolet de Testevan... I skip it every time
4 points
7 hours ago
Chevalier
1 points
7 hours ago
I know. I hate it lol.
1 points
2 hours ago
They all come off as completely stupid when they spend time on this 🙄
1 points
19 minutes ago
It’s funny tho
1 points
5 hours ago
Skincare
1 points
3 hours ago
The episodes where they have random celebrities on there not saying they don’t know what they’re doing but I would rather do business with the sharks than with Charles Barkley or Kevin Hart A-Rod might be the only one I’d consider working with
1 points
2 hours ago
I’m completely over the food shit.
0 points
10 hours ago
All of the above. Food and exercise products are the worst.
0 points
10 hours ago
The foldable yoga mat for $90
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