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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 18:46:44 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFclvjxYWbkAlmost 20 minutes of vignettes. What an awesome, yet goofy gimmick Also, wow, the whole angle with him reposessing the dead people is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
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Post by Paco on Dec 29, 2012 20:04:57 GMT -5
Great stuff!
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Dec 29, 2012 20:07:52 GMT -5
Mike Rotunda was a fantastic and underrated wrestler. But he really went to town and sold the Irwin R. Schyster character with conviction.
It wouldn't shock me if Vince had written those promos.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 29, 2012 20:24:10 GMT -5
The sheer glee he diplays in using that giant AUDIT stamp is incredible.
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Post by nevthebassist on Dec 29, 2012 20:24:19 GMT -5
IRS was one of the few heels I truly hated back in the 90s. A truly underrated performer. I always get a kick if he has a cameo on Raw.
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Post by YiHammer on Dec 29, 2012 20:38:03 GMT -5
I think an IRS gimmick would work even better now with Occupy Wallsteeet going on
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Post by bob on Dec 29, 2012 20:47:14 GMT -5
I thought this read "IRS Porno Collection"
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Post by donbot on Dec 29, 2012 20:47:36 GMT -5
Why in the hell did R.D. Reynolds induct this is beyond me. Rotunda was dead on with those promos.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 29, 2012 20:54:10 GMT -5
"You can't spare a dollar to support the democratic process? What are you, a subversive?!"
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 29, 2012 20:55:45 GMT -5
So does the government let all their employees wrestle on the side?
Also how many vignettes does one person need ?
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Dec 29, 2012 21:08:01 GMT -5
Why in the hell did R.D. Reynolds induct this is beyond me. Rotunda was dead on with those promos. I remember that,everyone went apes***.Which reminds me,has the Undertaker been inducted yet?His gimmick was just as sill if not more. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 22:00:14 GMT -5
I always hate it when people would call IRS "Wrestlecrap."
He was a great wrestler, he lasted several rather successful years and he sold the gimmick so well that he was as hated as any great heel of the period.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 22:23:34 GMT -5
So does the government let all their employees wrestle on the side? Also how many vignettes does one person need ? They didn't all air together, so it wasn't as excessive as the video make it seem. The vignettes about the dead guy were from 1994-95 to build up the angle with Undertaker going into the 1995 Royal Rumble. Everything else was from 1991. |
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Post by johnnytightlips on Dec 30, 2012 10:53:42 GMT -5
I thought the tax man gimmick was too grownup for the young audience at the time.
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Post by Dean-o on Dec 30, 2012 11:09:02 GMT -5
Listen up folks, he gives some good tax advice.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 30, 2012 11:42:32 GMT -5
I thought the tax man gimmick was too grownup for the young audience at the time. Hey, the parents at the shows need someone to boo. Of course, they'd only be booing if they were no-good tax cheats!!! |
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Dec 30, 2012 12:06:30 GMT -5
I thought the tax man gimmick was too grownup for the young audience at the time.   Indeed!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 19:22:49 GMT -5
I thought the tax man gimmick was too grownup for the young audience at the time. Hey, the parents at the shows need someone to boo. Of course, |
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Post by The OP on Dec 30, 2012 22:24:22 GMT -5
He did well enough with this gimmick and was a good enough wrestler that I think if they had toned it down just a little and made it not so cartoony he might have been able to take it even farther. The problem is Irwin R. Scheyster is obviously a made up name. Compare it to "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, that's a flashy gimmick too but it has a real name in it. I wonder if it would have made any difference had he been called "Taxman" Mike Rotundo or something like that.
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Post by Mac on Dec 30, 2012 22:29:25 GMT -5
I remember watching Sur Series 93 with my parents. They both thought Irwin R. Shyster was hysterical
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