In May 2011, Taffer and crew taped a makeover of Downey's - which turned out to be less than two months after the city shut down the bar for two days after a disastrous health inspection. The episode premiered in July. All this unpleasantry followed a bankruptcy filing in 2010 and a threatened sheriff's sale in 2011 to satisfy nearly $2.4 million owed to Wells Fargo and the city.