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reality_groove posted:Ah, I remember back in the days when you could show a grown man assaulting a child in front of his parents to sell a soft drink. Holy poo poo, how did they get away with that?
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TL posted:Holy poo poo, how did they get away with that? Boobs hadn't slipped out in super bowls and I guess its "cartoon" violence.
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Feb 20, 2010 18:09
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Commercials were just plain better in the 90's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0n0Dq_AqgI
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Pneub posted:Commercials were just plain better in the 90's. This reminds of when Super Bowl commercials were still funny.
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Feb 20, 2010 19:43
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:This reminds of when Super Bowl commercials were still funny. Like this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qEMOi-zr8o
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Carlton Banks posted:I don't know if I'd say he was very over. People would laugh at the Big Wiggle and sometimes when he screamed, but didnt care about his wrestling or interviews He was as popular as a guy WCW booked as a complete comedy jobber could be. The loving guy became a side show to Ralphus and never got to show off that he has a lot of charisma and was a good worker once he got over. Instead they ran the joke further and further into the ground.
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I couldn't sleep tonight and I was up flipping throught the channels and I ended up watching about an hour and a half of AAA from Mexico. Most of what I saw was pretty good with the exception of an eight-man garbage match. Even Judas Mesias, who I hated in TNA, was pretty cool. I think they may have actually killed a couple of wrestlers though. Question: Is there anywhere I can watch that with englich commentary so I can figure out what's going on?
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89 posted:When's the last time Scott Hall has had a good match? Despite a decade being a drunk that's always getting fired, he still managed to get a WWC world title reign in Puerto Rico in 2007. In a match featuring Carlito! Then he no-showed and forfeited the title.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I couldn't sleep tonight and I was up flipping throught the channels and I ended up watching about an hour and a half of AAA from Mexico. Most of what I saw was pretty good with the exception of an eight-man garbage match. Even Judas Mesias, who I hated in TNA, was pretty cool. I think they may have actually killed a couple of wrestlers though. We had a thread a while back, and I believe the consensus was that there was no commentary or subtitles, and they wouldn't help if they existed.
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How common is it for a WWE PPV to go head-to-head with a UFC PPV?
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DannoMack posted:How common is it for a WWE PPV to go head-to-head with a UFC PPV? I think never. WWE is always on Sunday, and UFC is usually on Saturday. If you mean head-to-head on the same weekend, then fairly common. UFCs 104, 107, 110 were all on the same weekend as WWE events recently.
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What is Paul Heyman doing these days?
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BigRed0427 posted:What is Paul Heyman doing these days? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2857429/Hulk-Hogan-has-announced-he-will-wrestle-for-TNA.html Holy poo poo, look at Hulk.
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ultimateforce posted:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2857429/Hulk-Hogan-has-announced-he-will-wrestle-for-TNA.html Looks loving terrible.
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ABOUT DRUGS posted:Hogan's belly looks like someone got a hotdog pregnant You think that's bad look at fat Ric Flair laying on the mat.
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ABOUT DRUGS posted:Hogan's belly looks like someone got a hotdog pregnant This is so on the money.
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I've been re-reading the Observer Quotes from the FAQ because it's the funniest poo poo ever. I didn't watch much WCW at the time, so a lot of the moments I read about I'm trying to find online. However it seems like the dates don't match up. For example, according to the quotes, the december 15, 1997 Nitro featured a dummy dropping down, only to be revealed as actually Sting who then fights the NWO while ridiculously hampered by the hooks that dropped him down. A youtube search shows the show from that date featuring a Sting dummy dropping from the rafters only to be beaten by Hogan after they fake shoot that it was the real Sting and he's hurt. While equally stupid, I really want to see the moment described but can't find it. Equally so the alleged moment later that month where Sting is supposed to do a run-in and beat up the NWO, but so many fans are trying to get in the ring that they run out of time, and Bischoff, unaware that he's still miced, swears loudly as he realizes the segment is badly hosed and buries his head in his hands. And one more thing to sway people to re-read that thread: "Nick Patrick still acted like a heel even though he kissed Gene Okerlund" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 02, 1998
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A lot of those quotes are just flat-out wrong. Still funny as poo poo, though.
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inconsequential posted:For example, according to the quotes, the december 15, 1997 Nitro featured a dummy dropping down, only to be revealed as actually Sting who then fights the NWO while ridiculously hampered by the hooks that dropped him down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wfaszgQlO0 I think the story was that the nWo "fooled everyone" with the dummy one week, then Sting pulled this the next week, but I can't be sure.
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Captain Strange posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wfaszgQlO0 Ok, this answered all my questions. Meltzer was embellishing poo poo, but as LL said, still funny as poo poo. Thanks for the clip though.
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LividLiquid posted:A lot of those quotes are just flat-out wrong. Still funny as poo poo, though. You post this a lot but never post any evidence. Most of the best Observer quotes are from his TV recaps. Was Dave just making up what happened on Nitro and hoping no one called him out? You recently said he made up a story about an ad in the USA Today. Did Dave just decide "Ok time to make up a story and hope no one reads the USA Today!" inconsequential posted:Ok, this answered all my questions. Meltzer was embellishing poo poo, but as LL said, still funny as poo poo. Thanks for the clip though. How is he embellishing? It is insanely obvious it isn't a dummy after the wig falls off, but Hogan still has to pretend it is, and then Sting takes forever trying to get the gear off while the nWo just stands around, and then fights them all off while hooked up to it and it looks really hokey. Here's the quote from the thread: "A Sting mannequin sped down from the ceiling. When they went to beat the doll up, it was a real life human they dragged to the ropes that pretended to be the doll. As Hogan made fun of the dummy, the dummy unmasked, revealing real Sting, and unable to unhook himself while beating up the NWO (he) looked ridiculous" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 15, That is what happens. Sometimes the guy who transcribes this stuff doesn't transcribe the whole quote and takes it a bit out of context, but that is exactly what happens. MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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MassRayPer posted:You post this a lot but never post any evidence. Most of the best Observer quotes are from his TV recaps. I'm not saying they're all horseshit or anything, just that a lot of them are supposed to be jokes and more than a few of them are just slightly off and a couple of them are just wholly inaccurate.
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quote:How is he embellishing? It is insanely obvious it isn't a dummy after the wig falls off, but Hogan still has to pretend it is, and then Sting takes forever trying to get the gear off while the nWo just stands around, and then fights them all off while hooked up to it and it looks really hokey. I think the real problem with the segment is Hogan's awful acting.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I think the real problem with the segment is Hogan's awful acting. I think Hogan is perfect up until his reaction. He was AWFUL at reactions, especially in the month leading up to Starrcade 97. But the way he delivers his puns is tremendous, exactly how a tremendous self important douchebag would deliver them.
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MassRayPer posted:I think Hogan is perfect up until his reaction. He was AWFUL at reactions, especially in the month leading up to Starrcade 97. But the way he delivers his puns is tremendous, exactly how a tremendous self important douchebag would deliver them. I don't think that you can say that Hogan behaving like a tremendous self important douchebag is acting in really any definition of the term. Kind of like how Zach Gowen didn't have to act like he only had one leg.
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MassRayPer posted:You post this a lot but never post any evidence. Most of the best Observer quotes are from his TV recaps. Was Dave just making up what happened on Nitro and hoping no one called him out? You recently said he made up a story about an ad in the USA Today. Did Dave just decide "Ok time to make up a story and hope no one reads the USA Today!" Okay, factually it's correct, but I don't think he looked ridiculous still hooked in. He was perfectly mobile and only struggled for like a second to get it off before ignoring it and laying waste to everyone. Kind of embellished in it's alleged "ridiculousness". You're right about reactions, I watched the episode where Hogan gets the Hogan head in wrapped up in a present and he has the most stupid look of horror I've ever seen. (That quote was a little embellished too as he made it out like Hart was laughing and it made the segment kind of weird when really Hart just stood there doing nothing.)
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After RAW went live, it's been taped a few times. Why was it ever taped? Especially want to know why the episode where Foley won the belt was taped.
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GOP posted:After RAW went live, it's been taped a few times. Why was it ever taped? I believe they tape the Tribe to the Troops one just because of scheduling issues. And there was also one from London that was taped. I guess its just out of the country RAWs that must be taped due to time and/or schedule restrictions. As for the Foley one, they still taped every other week, so it just happened on a taped episode.
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GOP posted:After RAW went live, it's been taped a few times. Why was it ever taped? When it is taped these days it is because the WWE is going on an overseas tour and doesn't want the expense of bringing their TV gear with them. It was taped to cut down on expenses. It is much more expensive to run live TV than taped. It also didn't have a huge impact on ratings during the Monday Night Wars, taped shows didn't do that much worse than live shows. Raw is also taped on UK tours but that is due to the time difference. In the case of when Foley won the belt, that was more a case where WWE used to take more time off during the holiday season than they do now so they did a taped Raw. MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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If I remember correctly, they did a live Raw on Monday, then taped the following week's RAW on Tuesday. In late '99 they started using the Tuesday taping slot for Smackdown instead, and switched to doing all the Raws live.
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I don't think I ever saw this but what's the story behind CM Punk making the Undertaker tap out?
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Gatts posted:I don't think I ever saw this but what's the story behind CM Punk making the Undertaker tap out? Punk put him in the Anaconda Vise, he instantly tapped out, before he even fully had it applied! In no way was it a screwjob ending.
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Burrito posted:Punk put him in the Anaconda Vise, he instantly tapped out, before he even fully had it applied! I don't even know to believe you but to make Taker tap out is kind of like having a long title reign. It's meaningful. drat if it was clean.
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Gatts posted:I don't even know to believe you but to make Taker tap out is kind of like having a long title reign. It's meaningful. drat if it was clean. Basically Punk put Taker into the Vice and Teddy made Armstrong call for the bell, with Vince the shadowy figure causing all of this to happen but putting all the blame on Teddy who was on Super Quadruple Secret Probation at the time.
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Gatts posted:I don't even know to believe you but to make Taker tap out is kind of like having a long title reign. It's meaningful. drat if it was clean. It was a rehash of the Montreal Screwjob at breaking point, all organized by Vince McMahon through a reluctant Teddy Long. It was the start of the build up to bring Bret Hart back.
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KungFu Grip posted:It was a rehash of the Montreal Screwjob at breaking point, all organized by Vince McMahon through a reluctant Teddy Long. It was the start of the build up to bring Bret Hart back. I don't think it had anything to do with the Bret build. It seemed to be a storyline that was leading somewhere important and then just petered out. Doing such a weak rehash of Montreal 3 months before you are going to bring up the real thing is really really dumb, for their sakes I hope they didn't think Bret was likely to come in at the time.
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