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Yeah, talk about Armageddon here.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

If I had to watch another Randy Orton vs. Undertaker match, I'd probably knock myself off too.

And again, isn't great to see WWE show so much class?

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 19 December 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

the issue is not so much about class as it is about being a groan-inducing slab of unfunny material.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

He said "bowel" though! And then shot himself! Fantastic.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see the show, but I heard clips of this scene. Brutal.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

On the bright side, revisiting Tim White's awesome cage bump in 2002 is always a good thing. Foley excepted, that was probably one of the top three or four HIAC bumps ever.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Supposedly they seek out writers who are tv people and who aren't really wrestling fans in order to get the attention of mainstream public that they once had in the late 90s. This seems to explain why a lot of the recent vignettes like this one, in which the brutality of the HIAC match is such that a referee's life takes many tragic turns after merely officiating one, and the trial of Bischoff, in which the wrestling personalites arrive in a courtroom to their own entrance themes, play out like parodies on the absurdity of pro wrestling itself.

This is the approach you'd probably feel most comfortable taking if you were a comedy writer forced to script wrestling television when you were never a mark yourself.

― theodore (herbert hebert), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't considered the possibility that the writers (who are in fact alumni of serial drama and comedy shows) are too ignorant about wrestling to know that it looks ridiculous to play someone's theme as they walk into a fake courtroom. You'd think the McMahons or someone would step in and tell them to remove something like that from the script -- it's not like any rewriting is required. But by all accounts, Vince doesn't bother doing that because he thinks it's genuinely entertaining.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

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