American Chopper

Motorcycle's and hard working dudes, custom built choppers. American Chopper a reality television series on The Learning Channel (TLC). The popular series is based around the founder of the company, Paul Teutul, Sr, and his son, Paul Teutul, Jr, also known as Paulie or simply Junior, as the two run a business creating custom motorcycles in their workshop, Orange County Choppers. Michael Teutul, commonly referred to as Mikey, serves as the shop's custodian and webmaster, and provides comic relief to the show. He has been seen doing metal work occasionally, as one of his early jobs was working at Orange County Ironworks. Also featured occasionally is Danny Teutul, the second oldest child, who succeeded Paul Sr. as owner of Orange County Ironworks. Danny drops by to do contracted jobs for the OCC facilities. The show also documents their personal and promotional activities ranging from magazine photo shoots to family holidays and custom bike shows. The workshop is located in Newburgh, New York. Due to its popularity during its first seasons, American Chopper inspired two video games, developed by Activision Value and developed by Creat Studios. The first was 'American Chopper' released for the Sony PS2, and the Xbox. The second, American Chopper 2: Full Throttle was released for the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PS2, and the Xbox. There is also a video pinball arcade game made by Incredible Technologies, Inc That was never released but did make it to on site play testing.