An episode of Antiques Roadshow is described in part in our TV on-screen directory, "Michael Aspel and the team marvel at an array of historic items."
I wonder if the powers that be who greenlighted the show see that, look at each other, and ask, "Did this always sound so bad on paper?" I mean, seriously: an hour of watching people say, "Oooh! It's a tiny silver pig, manufactured only between 1787 and 1789!" does not sound particularly riveting. But then you see an episode in which a cabinet housing a miniature Victorian parlor scene populated with anthropomorphized taxidermied squirrels is earnestly praised and valued at several thousand pounds, and you do indeed marvel along with Michael Aspel and the team.
FYI, a Google image search for "squirrels parlor scene taxidermy" yielded nothing close to the objet d'art in question to share with you. But I'm pretty sure it put me on some kind of government watch list.
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I have nothing snarky to say. I'm with you 100%. Before I started watching, my mom would rave about this show and she described it as "People bring in their antiques and different appraisers tell them what they're worth. The antiques, not the people." Which got a snicker out of me, but not a lot of interest. But it really is interesting...Oh, PBS. How I love you.
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