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Thauros posted:Watched the December 22 1997 Raw since it was the first of the Attitude Era episodes they just uploaded and I had no interest in tonight's Raw. Goddamn that was almost uniformly awful from start to finish. The show's only redeeming moments were the times when Austin or Rock had the mic (they still hold up wonderfully). The only matches that didn't end in a gently caress finish were Marc Mero squashing a pre Too Cool/Too Much Scott Taylor and Kurrgan vs. one of the Harris Bros. Oddly, I remember this night as being the night I switched from WCW to WWF. What WCW was doing was so much worse around this time. This was the night where NWO took over Nitro. They devoted about 40 straight minutes just to the NWO taking down the Nitro set. It was one of the worst Nitros ever. At least Raw had Stone Cold stunnering Santa Claus, the Undertaker vs Kane storyline which was so bizarre and over the top it was captivating, and DX which felt like a younger, cooler, more exciting, more unpredictable NWO. Rock was also becoming really awesome. There was Mankind, New Age Outlaws, Owen Hart in the best character of his career. The Mr McMahon character was starting.
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The thing that got me to switch from WCW to WWF was watching Austin be the CEO after the IT WAS ME AUSTIN reveal. Him running wild around Titan Towers was amazing. I only had 5 channels and none of them showed WWF, so I was kind of in the dark at this point. Had to get a buddy to tape Raw for me every week and give me the VHS at school the next day.
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Super Ninja Fish posted:Oddly, I remember this night as being the night I switched from WCW to WWF. What WCW was doing was so much worse around this time. This was the night where NWO took over Nitro. They devoted about 40 straight minutes just to the NWO taking down the Nitro set. It was one of the worst Nitros ever. At least Raw had Stone Cold stunnering Santa Claus, the Undertaker vs Kane storyline which was so bizarre and over the top it was captivating, and DX which felt like a younger, cooler, more exciting, more unpredictable NWO. Rock was also becoming really awesome. There was Mankind, New Age Outlaws, Owen Hart in the best character of his career. The Mr McMahon character was starting. That was a very bad Nitro, but we've been watching Nitros consecutively from the beginning Tuesday nights in psp.tv (currently up to May '98) and I've unironically really enjoyed the nWo period for the most part. The Fingerpoke vs. Foley's title win on January 4th 99 was what got me to switch, but WCW really started going to hell at that point.
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triplexpac posted:The thing that got me to switch from WCW to WWF was watching Austin be the CEO after the IT WAS ME AUSTIN reveal. Him running wild around Titan Towers was amazing. I will contend till the day I die that JR's "AW SON OF A BITCH" after the reveal is the best commentary moment in WWE history, it never stops being hilarious no matter how many times I hear it.
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Thauros posted:That was a very bad Nitro, but we've been watching Nitros consecutively from the beginning Tuesday nights in psp.tv (currently up to May '98) and I've unironically really enjoyed the nWo period for the most part. The absolute worst of the nWo is saved by below average nWo segments being lightyears ahead of the best Piper and Hart segments.
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"I'm not embarrassed to be with younger women, except when I drop them off at school." --a real thing Jerry Lawler said on the January 12 Raw
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OldTennisCourt posted:I will contend till the day I die that JR's "AW SON OF A BITCH" after the reveal is the best commentary moment in WWE history, it never stops being hilarious no matter how many times I hear it.
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AlbertRayon posted:Brawl for All holds up! It was monumentally stupid and ruined careers, but the payoff is Butterbean knocking out Bart Gunn. Also Dan Severn wrestlefucking his way to a points-victory.
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OldTennisCourt posted:I will contend till the day I die that JR's "AW SON OF A BITCH" after the reveal is the best commentary moment in WWE history, it never stops being hilarious no matter how many times I hear it. This and "CLIMB THE LADDER KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS!" are two of my favorite JR calls ever.
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sticklefifer posted:This and "CLIMB THE LADDER KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS!" are two of my favorite JR calls ever. I liked his call during the Hurricane vs Rock match, when referring to Hurricane's heart for refusing to back down in the face of Rock's offense: "That's gotta count for something! THIS IS AMERICA DAMNIT! WE DON'T QUIT FOR NOTHIN'!" He threw in a Make Yourself Famous in that one also.
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JR during TLC II at Wrestlemania X7: "LITA IS JERKING EDGE OFF!!" "...THAT LADDER!!"
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Benne posted:"I'm not embarrassed to be with younger women, except when I drop them off at school." I'm lolling
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My favorite JR line ever was some PPV I was watching, I forgot which one, and Pat Patterson comes out during a match and he goes: "The parade must be over because here comes Pat Patterson." I rewound it twice. He had another one that killed me, maybe the same match, where the stooges were leaving happy after the match and he goes "There goes the corporation, skipping gayly away" I wonder how many subtle gay jokes about Pat Patterson I missed back then.
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Apr 15, 2015 16:43
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"He's single fellas" I believe while Patterson was doing a Hulk Hogan pose shirtless.
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Ribsauce posted:I wonder how many subtle gay jokes about Pat Patterson I missed back then. I'm going to guess it's somewhere in the hundreds.
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Apr 15, 2015 22:52
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If you never caught the references to Patterson doing rear end work at the Brisco Bros Body Shop, you were missing out. I wonder how many of those came straight from Vince through JR.
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Dunbar posted:If you never caught the references to Patterson doing rear end work at the Brisco Bros Body Shop, you were missing out. I will bet all of them came straight through JR probably
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Apr 15, 2015 23:15
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Still have this annoying problem with the Roku app where on-demand stuff won't load, and I have to restart the whole thing to get stuff playing. Anyone else have that issue? The Network is otherwise flawless on Roku and Mania 31 went off without a hitch.
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Benne posted:Still have this annoying problem with the Roku app where on-demand stuff won't load, and I have to restart the whole thing to get stuff playing. Anyone else have that issue? The Network is otherwise flawless on Roku and Mania 31 went off without a hitch. Yeah I have that issue as well occasionally. Edit: Stone Cold, "He called you a wiener." Good stuff. spinst fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Dunbar posted:If you never caught the references to Patterson doing rear end work at the Brisco Bros Body Shop, you were missing out. Patterson wrestles on one of those "Old School" MSG shows. He's billed as being from San Francisco, CA. Yep. There's also a bit on some RAW where McMahon and the stooges are kicking Sable out of the ring and as she's leaving Patterson grabs her rear end. JR says something like "Patterson in unfamiliar territory here, folks!" Static Rook fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Apr 16, 2015 05:34
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Static Rook posted:Patterson wrestles on one of those "Old School" MSG shows. He's billed as being from San Francisco, CA. Yep. He was one of the biggest stars in the history of San Francisco wrestling.
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Static Rook posted:There's also a bit on some RAW where McMahon and the stooges are kicking Sable out of the ring and as she's leaving Patterson grabs her rear end. JR says something like "Patterson in unfamiliar territory here, folks!" hahahahahahahaha goddamn that is great.
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Static Rook posted:There's also a bit on some RAW where McMahon and the stooges are kicking Sable out of the ring and as she's leaving Patterson grabs her rear end. JR says something like "Patterson in unfamiliar territory here, folks!" lol
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Just realized that when Closed Captioning is on, all the references to "WWF" are changed to "WWE". Heh.
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Aardvark Barber posted:Just realized that when Closed Captioning is on, all the references to "WWF" are changed to "WWE". Heh. They probably legally need to do that.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:They probably legally need to do that. Either that or they did a Find & Replace on the CC files once upon a time
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I bought a new edition of Have A Nice Day and it refers to things like '[childhood Mick] wearing a tinfoil-covered weight-lifting belt with "WWE" written on the front' or 'The Dude who finally entered World Wrestling Entertainment in 1997'. It's jarring as hell.
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Apr 16, 2015 18:56
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I think they can't legally produce new content with WWF in it which would include captions since they are new? It's weird that they could rerelease a book and have to change the letters, but not a TV show
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Apr 16, 2015 18:58
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There was also that territories map that said WWE existed alongside Mid-South and AWA.
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Apr 16, 2015 19:10
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They should rebrand themselves back to the WWWF.
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RZApublican posted:They should rebrand themselves back to the WWWF. Trip Dub F
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St Evan Echoes posted:I bought a new edition of Have A Nice Day and it refers to things like '[childhood Mick] wearing a tinfoil-covered weight-lifting belt with "WWE" written on the front' or 'The Dude who finally entered World Wrestling Entertainment in 1997'. It's jarring as hell. WWF was always at War with WCW WWE has always been WWE
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coconono posted:WWF was always at War with WCW War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength
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sticklefifer posted:War is Peace But what if Mr. McMahon would prefer 2 + 2 to not equal 4? What if he'd prefer it to equal $9.99?
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:But what if Mr. McMahon would prefer 2 + 2 to not equal 4? What if he'd prefer it to equal $9.99? BIG HOSS GOOD. INDY GEEK BAAAAD.
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BOOING REIGNS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD
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I thought they were allowed to say "World Wrestling Federation" all they wanted, it was specifically "WWF" that was no go.
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Sub Rosa posted:I thought they were allowed to say "World Wrestling Federation" all they wanted, it was specifically "WWF" that was no go. This is correct.
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WWF, WWE, and World Wrestling Federation are all the same number of syllables so I don't see why they don't just keep saying "World Wrestling Federation" in regards to the past.
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Mercury Crusader posted:WWF, WWE, and World Wrestling Federation are all the same number of syllables so I don't see why they don't just keep saying "World Wrestling Federation" in regards to the past. Depends on whether you pronounce "wrestling" as two syllables or three.
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