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  • Accidental Innuendo: Barry wins a locker with a bid of $1,525, and it has a wooden sculpture of a head. He takes the head to get it appraised while he consigns the rest of the locker to Dave for sale. The appraiser tells Barry the head's worth $6,000 in a gallery, but sees that Barry's not going to sell it. Later, getting his share of the consigned stuff from Dave, Barry tells Dave, "$1,500 is a lot to pay for some head." Dave can't stop giggling.
  • Awesome Music: "Money Owns This Town", the theme song.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Dave Hester. The other bidders (as well as Dan and Laura) despise him, and many viewers agree — he's a smug Jerkass who bids on lockers he has no interest in just to make the other bidders pay more for them and feels proud of himself when he does it. Some others also don't like how he loudly announces bids (a loud, drawn-out "YUUUP!"). However, there are still some people who like Dave for providing competition.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Barry Weiss. Unlike most of the other bidders, who buy the storage lockers looking for merchandise to sell in their own stores, Barry is in it for the fun of finding antiques and curiosities. While this means he usually doesn't make a profit, he tends to bid on junk lockers that no one else has interest in and likes going through them just to see what he'll find. And on the occasion he does find something valuable, it's often very valuable.
    • Mary Padian, enough to be promoted to this version of Storage Wars, up from its Texas spin-off.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: One of the new episodes ended with Dave posing then the screen fading to a 'Game Over' screen. The same day that episode aired (technically before it aired even) the news broke that Dave was fired and plans to sue A&E for fraud (on the grounds that the show's rigged).
    • In the same vein, Dave's endless comments about how he is the best businessman of the buyers, boasting of his profits, and claiming he can risk bidding them up because if it backfires he can afford it, after he got fired and rumors go he went bankrupt. Though depending on on how one views Dave this may be Hilarious in Hindsight.
    • Watching Darrell bait Mark Balelo at the mega-vault auction in Chatsworth (Nobody's Vault But Mine) is this in light of the latter's suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning six weeks before the episode aired, as is The Stinger at the end of Part 1.
    • Hearing Mark comment that everyone'd be hearing about Darrell's big score "for the next twenty years" at the end of "Auctioning for Dummies", for the same reason as above.
  • At one point, it's mentioned that Darrell has become a minor celebrity among the bidders because the locker he bought ended up containing a dead body.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: An ever-so off version of the Imperial March plays as Dave Hester rolls into an auction with his new large truck and new very large trailer, complete with "YUUUP!" emblazoned on the front.
    • "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner" features a not-quite-The Godfather theme.
    • "The Drone Wars" has a knockoff of the Mission: Impossible theme.
    • "Third Eye Of The Tiger" shows Barry doing warm-up exercises to something sounding close to the Rocky theme.
  • Tear Jerker: As much of a jerk as he could be on the show, you'd have to be an even bigger one not to feel something for Mark Balelo's suicide on February 2013 (although he was busted two days prior to his suicide for meth possession (a felony in California) and was to appear in court on the charges about a week later).
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: During Dave's and Dan's fight in "Palm Springs Throwdown", three suspects come to light: Dan, Laura and Rene.
    • Dan attacks Dave after breaking under the pressure from Dave when he tells him to restart the bid and to learn how to catch a bid (Dan accidentally skipped Mary as she was bidding); even if the way Dave chided him was typical of him, he isn't wrong. On the other hand, Dan did apologize to Mary afterwards.
    • Laura attacks Dave as he's duking it with Dan, causing him to push her back. Considering Dan hit Dave first and that Laura double teamed on the latter and that she attacked Dave from behind, there's not much sympathy to be given to her.
    • Rene. As the brawl ensued, he separated Laura from the fight. However, before the brawl ensued, Dan accidentally didn't catch Mary bidding, while Rene gloats about getting the storage unit, and has the nerve to call Mary a rookie. Even after they all go, Rene still boasts about how he got the unit.
  • The Woobie: Surprisingly, Dave Jr. in "Live and Let Bid", after he used his life savings to buy a locker. Every interview cut with him had him look like he was about to start crying at any moment.
    • He got better in "Unclaimed Baggage". When he loses a locker to Barry, he still has enough smarts to offer Barry a chance to consign with him and Dave Sr. Barry accepts as it would save him headaches and backaches, and leads to the CMOF for the episode's Stinger, where Barry admits "$1500 is a lot to pay for some head."
    • Barry took on shades of this in "There's Something About Barry", especially in his dejected walk away from the money-losing locker full of crap that he just couldn't stop himself from bidding on.

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