BEST I CAN DO IS Meme Template

Pawn Stars is a History reality series about the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. Rick Harrison’s recurring negotiation line, “Best I can do is…,” is the source of the catchphrase and image-macro format. Early macros often put an ambitious item or asking price in the top caption and a comically low offer in the bottom caption; later versions use the same setup/payoff structure for any request followed by a disappointing compromise. This exact source image shows Rick with a second shop cast member; visual inspection suggests Corey Harrison rather than Chumlee, but the exact episode is not established here. The joke is the gap between what was hoped for and Rick’s inadequate counteroffer, not a generic two-person disagreement.

A color still from inside a pawn shop shows Rick Harrison on the left, leaning on the counter and gesturing with his left hand. A second man in a black shop polo stands on the right looking down at the counter; he appears to be Corey Harrison, though the exact episode and this individual frame’s cast identification were not independently verified. No words are printed in the image. The current app provides a caption field above and below the still.

Slot 1 (top) presents what the customer wants, the item’s claimed value, or the ambitious request. Slot 2 (bottom) gives Rick’s deliberately low offer or underwhelming compromise, often phrased “Best I can do is…”. Make the second line a response to the first and let the downgrade create the joke. Keep the amount or substitute clearly worse than the request. Do not reverse the order or turn the format into an unrelated positive review.

1. Top caption: state the customer’s ambitious request, desired value, or item being negotiated.
2. Bottom caption: deliver Rick’s connected, comically low counteroffer or inadequate compromise.

• A lowball offer in a purchase or salary negotiation
• A large feature request receiving a tiny concession
• A generous budget request answered with a token amount
• Asking for a substantial deadline extension and receiving only a few minutes
• Requesting a full solution and getting a partial workaround

• Do not reverse the sequence: slot-1 is the desired item/request; slot-2 is the disappointing counteroffer.
• Do not make slot-2 a generous or equal offer unless the mismatch itself is clearly ironic.
• Do not make the captions unrelated; the bottom offer must answer the top request.
• Do not describe the two men as separate offer-versus-evaluation panels; this is one pawn-shop negotiation image with top and bottom captions.
• Do not assert the exact Pawn Stars episode or call the second man Chumlee without evidence for this specific frame.