Talk:3281: Antiques Roadshow

Seems more suited to Beret Guy than Cueball? 47.248.235.170 21:30, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Pat

Agreed, this feels more like a beret guy move. However, if this were to be one of his comics, the star in question would do something really weird. Radish (talk) 22:05, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Or they would come from something weird e.g a stellar gumball machine.47.44.9.226 16:12, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Is Antiques Roadshow a thing in the USA? I thought it was just a BBC show.92.238.26.192 21:42, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I think it's shown on BBC America, or whichever streaming service shows BBC content these days; certainly, my US-ian neighbo(u)rs are familiar with it. 50.45.232.78 22:07, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

It's definitely on in the US, too, on PBS, with American locales and appraisers. Wikipedia says the US version is based on the UK version. 47.248.235.170 22:14, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Pat

I'm pretty sure the logo at the bottom of the comic is from the PBS version. Barmar (talk) 23:17, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

While not directly related or franchised, the Japanese TV program Kaiun! Nandemo Kanteidan (link on Japanese Wikipedia) is very similar in formula to Antiques Roadshow. HaruruChanDesu (talk) 00:51, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Similarly, German television has Bares für Rares; this format appears to be quite common! – Kleinesfilmröllchen (talk) 12:47, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

You can compare and contrast the UK show (some opening titles) with the US version (yet more, but maybe there are better samples out there for both).

From the "AR-on-a-chest" program-overlay (distinctly different from the cursive-ligature-AR used on the BBC show today, and similarly fancy versions in prior decades), this is thus surely Randall having viewed the PBS-derivative rather than perhaps BBC America rebroadcasts of the UK original.

So, ironically, it can be likened to an imitation of some true original valuable antique item, albeit not without gaining its own merit amongst interested collectors, over time. Just check the signature on the base. 92.23.10.248 21:03, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

It is just a nitpick, but Population III stars would be born from clouds that are only gas, with no dust in them. The dust is made up of heavier elements than Hydrogen and Helium, and there were no such heavier elements available, since those only form inside stars. And before there were stars there were no stars to produce dusty material. 2A02:A46A:ABEC:0:D0A8:AC46:794A:26F1 07:02, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

"The sun regularly appears on the Antiques Roadshow, due to being filmed outside during the day." - Now this is the kind of pedantic nitpickery I can applaud. 82.13.184.33 11:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Is the joke that his grandmother is so old that it became a Population I star by the time he got it? Fephisto (talk) 15:18, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Probably not, stars don't change population. The basis of each star population is the amount of heavy elements for it's age. Pop I stars are very light and have very little Iron content until the very end. Radish ^{[citation needed]} 18:06, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the joke is just that families tend to have heirlooms where the family lore about the item is completely made up, or it's believed to be way older than it actually is. Think something like an old plate that family lore says was brought over from the Old Country by great-great-grandparents, but in reality, was just a plate in an older style that the grandparents bought at Sears in the 40s. 67.162.123.65 19:11, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Though, of course, a (presumably-19)40s plate probably now has it's own value, as a 'genuine fake' that is now of cultural note. In fact, in the case of certain consumer-led goods, they may have been less valued (and therefore more disposed of, in the intervening time) than the copious 'originals' that might have been jealously guarded. Leaving fewer of the reproduction items surviving (and/or on-the-market) by this time than the former types. Might not be enough to make it more valuable, but that'd depend a lot upon the current market and what collectors are out there thinking that they might try to collect. (All it takes is for two people to particularly take a liking for a particular auction lot, and the final price can rise very high indeed.) 92.23.10.248 21:03, 8 August 2026 (UTC)