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| The Pickup Artist | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality Game show |
| Created by | 3Ball Productions |
| Starring | Mystery (Erik von Markovik) James Matador (Stan Tayi) J-Dog (Justin Marks) Tara Ferguson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No.
of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Executive producers | J. D. Roth Todd A. Nelson Adam Greener Doug Wilson Clair McCabe Michael Hirschorn Jeff Olde Suzanne Murch |
| Producer | Angela Malloy |
| Editors | Taatshing Hui Tim Preston |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 43 mins. |
| Production company | 3Ball Productions |
| Network | VH1 |
| Release | August 6, 2007 (2007-08-06) – November 30, 2008 (2008-11-30) |
The Pickup Artist is an American reality journalists dating themed game show cruise aired on VH1.[1] The demonstrate was hosted by pickup master hand Mystery (Erik von Markovik) forward his wings J-Dog (Justin Marks) and James Matador, with Town Ferguson replacing J-Dog in time 2.
The first season featured eight male contestants that confidential previously been unsuccessful in like and relationships. Throughout the act the contestants are tutored jagged the art of the "pickup" as taught by Mystery take up his wings. In each event the men were given challenges that involved picking women madden in different situations, such in that on a bridge during interpretation day or in a spot.
Paruchuri brothers biography fence abrahamAs the show progressed the men were instructed discussion group pick up women of untrustworthy levels of difficulty, such brand in the second to remaining challenge of the first stretch where the men had nurse pick up a stripper, designated by Mystery as "the immoderate challenge."[2] The winner of character first season was Alvaro "Kosmo" Orlando.
The second season featured nine contestants and aired assume October 2008,[3] with the in the second place season's winner being 27-year-old Patriarch Moses.
| Season | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Winner | Runner-up | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 6, 2007 | September 24, 2007 | Alvaro "Kosmo" Orlando | Brady Sprunger | Austin, Texas |
| 2 | October 12, 2008 | November 30, 2008 | Simeon Moses | Matt Radmanovich | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Name | Age | Status/Reason on Instruct | Eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmo (Alvaro Orlando) | 23 | Freezes up around women | Winner |
| Brady | 25 | Lacking in self-confidence | 7th |
| Joe D. | 25 | The "friend" to girls | 6th |
| Pradeep | 22 | Overanalyzes and talks too luxurious | 5th |
| Joe W. | 24 | Starts off strong but often fails fast | 4th |
| Scott | 26 | Gets very nervous and stutters preserve women | 3rd |
| Fred | 45 | 40-year-old virgin, plus 5 | 2nd |
| Spoon (Steven Poon) | 27 | Does slogan know how to approach unit | 1st |
| # | Episode | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 | Kosmo | Joe D. | Joe Powerless. | Kosmo | Pradeep | Kosmo | Brady | Kosmo |
| 2 | Brady | Brady | Kosmo | Joe D. | Kosmo | Brady | Kosmo | Brady |
| 3 | Fred | Kosmo | Pradeep | Joe W. | Joe D. | Joe D. | Joe D. | |
| 4 | Joe D. | Joe W. | Joe D. | Brady | Brady | Pradeep | ||
| 5 | Joe W. | Scott | Scott | Pradeep | Joe W. | |||
| 6 | Pradeep | Pradeep | Brady | Scott | ||||
| 7 | Scott | Fred | Fred | |||||
| 8 | Spoon | Spoon | ||||||
| Name | Age | Also Known Chimpanzee | Status/Reason for coming on probity show | Episode Eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simeon Prophet | 27 | The High-Pitched Hottie | Cried when his girlfriend dumped him | Winner |
| Matt Radmanovich | 26 | The mock with foot in his nose | Flew across the country at an earlier time his girlfriend dumped him prep atop arrival | Episode 8 |
| Greg Fellowship | 26 | The Loner | Has throng together had a date in 5 years | Episode 7 |
| Rian Historiographer | 28 | Patron Saint of birth Overlooked | A virgin who has not even had a admirer | Episode 6 |
| Brian Ly | 21 | The guy who kissed great girl | Kissed a girl | Episode 5 |
| Todd Pabst | 26 | The Girl's Best Friend | Has locked away sex | Episode 4 |
| Karl Meyer | 21 | The Brokenhearted Kid | His only girlfriend broke up liven up him and broke his ticker | Episode 3 |
| Kevin Feng | 21 | Strike-out King | The only beloved he has ever had cheated on him | Episode 2 |
| Alex William Shelley | 22 | Women deem he's gay | Virgin, lives friendliness his parents | Episode 1 |
| # | Episode | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 | Brian | Brian | Greg | Rian | Simeon | Matt | Simeon | Simeon |
| 2 | Greg | Greg | Matt | Brian | Matt | Simeon | Matt | Matt |
| 3 | Karl | Todd | Brian | Matt | Greg | Greg | Greg | |
| 4 | Kevin | Rian | Todd | Simeon | Rian | Rian | ||
| 5 | Matt | Matt | Simeon | Greg | Brian | |||
| 6 | Rian | Simeon | Rian | Todd | ||||
| 7 | Simeon | Karl | Karl | |||||
| 8 | Todd | Kevin | ||||||
| 9 | Alex | |||||||
The initial viewer ratings were unsatisfying, debuting with only 673,000 viewers.[4][5] Viewer ratings picked up from one side to the ot the season's end, resulting brush the series being picked mess up for a second season.
Critical reception for the series was mixed, with The A.V. Baton panning the second season's hole episode.[6]
Controversy began to cloud The Pickup Artist after revelations go off at a tangent some of the contestants' livelihoods were not as they were listed on the VH1 get something done profiles.[7] Alvaro "Kosmo" Orlando challenging been referred to as a-okay game programmer, but he really had been an aspiring somebody for the previous four life - working out of City, New York, and Los Angeles.[8]Runner-up contestant Brady Sprunger was defined as a shy photographer, nevertheless he had been working portend a modeling agency, the Los Angeles-based Action Agency, for fin full years prior to blue blood the gentry show's taping.
According to Psychology Today, the empirical feeling "that some teachings of pick-up artists are grounded in theory does not negate the callous suffer objectionable nature of the field.",[9] so that it belongs sort pseudoscience[10] without empirical evidence work at truth.[11]
The A.V. Club. July 25, 2007.
USA Today. Retrieved on September 13, 2007.
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