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Post by Dynamite Kid on Dec 21, 2007 21:01:57 GMT -5
Well it's not so much the effort than the catchphrase that's clumsy, but for the last what, 15 years? Rick Steiner has been pushing 'if you want some, come get some, you don't like me, bite me.' AWFUL. It's like making your catchphrase 'as the current world heavyweight champion I feel I must put across the fact that I am probably a better wrestler than you are, and as such will lose in our next controntation.'
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Dec 21, 2007 21:08:45 GMT -5
"This is for the women who want to be me, and for the men who come to see me" - it doesn't get any worse than that. Yes it does. "Your women love me, and your men FEAR ME!" What exactly is there to fear about a goofy guy with a doorag and a fedora? That I'll die laughing from looking at him?
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Post by W?Y on Dec 21, 2007 22:23:54 GMT -5
John Morrison tops the list. He sounds like a high school drama student. Which feeds into my theory that the entire gimmick of him and the Miz teaming together (or feuding) was two high schoolers from different social circles. This makes three different kinds of sense. Awesome.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Dec 21, 2007 23:44:24 GMT -5
not so much a catch phrase, more of a moniker, but man do i hate hearing about the rainbow haired warrior Someone had a "rainbow haired warrior" sign at the last RAW, which made me sad. They should just have "Jeff Hardy" signs so that moniker doesn't catch on. Speaking of nicknames, I might not mind it so much if they didn't say it so much, but I hate how they're shoving the "Glamazon" name down our throat. That match where Candice got hurt had a Glamazon count of 19, including this sequence: Not a catchphrase either, but does anyone else remember a period in 2003 (I think) when Val Venis had his name officially changed to "The Big Valbowski"? God, that was irritating. Take one of those "Glamazon" commentaries, and put "Big Valbowski" in place of "Glamazon". That's pretty much what it was like. It just sounded rough on the ears and I hated it with a passion.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 22, 2007 0:25:51 GMT -5
Anything The Rock tried to get over after his face turn in late '99.
It was like they noticed that all of his witticisms got over with the audience, so they made a self-conscious effort to write material for that purpose. It never worked so well and bordered on cringe-worthy at times (How's Your Lips? already mentioned as being the all-time low).
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 22, 2007 0:27:40 GMT -5
I always thought Konnan's speech when he was in the Wolfpac was so weak. Yes, he got people to chant it, but it was clearly a "Hey guys, I wanna be cool like Hall and Nash too please let me do something like that pleasepleasepleasePLEASE? Hooray! Let me speak on DISSS!" cry for attention. Poor Konnan. YOYOYOYOYOYO! LET ME SPEAK ON DIS! ODELAY! ARRIBA LA RAZA! WHERE MY DAWGS AT?! WHERE THEY AT?! The fact that he was even using those phrases in TNA speaks volumes about Konnan, I think. Well you know those strawberries in the nWo say they're fo' life, well K-Dawg and Rey Rey be FO-EVER. Ugh.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Dec 22, 2007 11:53:14 GMT -5
Yes, "how's your lips?" was bad, but I hated "have a nice tall glass of shut-up juice" even more. Not everything The Rock said was a winner, especially during that period in 1999 when he was introducing a catch phrase at a rate of nearly every other week.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 22, 2007 15:30:26 GMT -5
Oh, and Sid's "Momma say it be that way sometimes". WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? [/Jimmy Fallon]
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Post by mysterydriver on Dec 22, 2007 16:35:19 GMT -5
Yes, "how's your lips?" was bad, but I hated "have a nice tall glass of shut-up juice" even more. Not everything The Rock said was a winner, especially during that period in 1999 when he was introducing a catch phrase at a rate of nearly every other week. It seemed like he would say something on Raw and be wearing a T-Shirt with the saying on Smackdown.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Dec 22, 2007 16:45:16 GMT -5
Yes, "how's your lips?" was bad, but I hated "have a nice tall glass of shut-up juice" even more. Not everything The Rock said was a winner, especially during that period in 1999 when he was introducing a catch phrase at a rate of nearly every other week. It seemed like he would say something on Raw and be wearing a T-Shirt with the saying on Smackdown. A perfect example of Creative writing someone's stuff for them. Don't get me wrong: I marked for the Rock like none other, but I'll call a spade a spade and admit that I'm sure a lot of the stuff he gets credit for should actually be credited to the writing staff.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 22, 2007 17:19:08 GMT -5
Or blame as the case may be. Actually MOST of the stuff Rock said, if done by a less charismatic guy woulda been terrible.
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Post by kitsunestar on Dec 22, 2007 22:15:27 GMT -5
I've got to go with Kid Romeo's catchphrase in WCW.
"Women want me, Men want to be me, I MUST BE THE MAN!"
I loved Kid Romeo, and he delivered the line well, but there was no way in hell that line was getting over.
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Dec 23, 2007 21:13:34 GMT -5
Well it's not so much the effort than the catchphrase that's clumsy, but for the last what, 15 years? Rick Steiner has been pushing 'if you want some, come get some, you don't like me, bite me.' AWFUL. It's like making your catchphrase 'as the current world heavyweight champion I feel I must put across the fact that I am probably a better wrestler than you are, and as such will lose in our next controntation.' hey man, quit stealing bobby lashley's material
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Post by SassovsHart on Dec 23, 2007 22:01:36 GMT -5
It seemed like he would say something on Raw and be wearing a T-Shirt with the saying on Smackdown. A perfect example of Creative writing someone's stuff for them. Don't get me wrong: I marked for the Rock like none other, but I'll call a spade a spade and admit that I'm sure a lot of the stuff he gets credit for should actually be credited to the writing staff. On that point I'll listen to a lot of jokes during promos now, and they'll reek of something that Gerwitz had written up for The Rock and that just never got used on air. Of course most of them are pretty lame lines which sound horrible without Rocky to deliver them.
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Post by kitsunestar on Dec 23, 2007 22:19:01 GMT -5
So, what exactly are we posting? The "Worst Catchphrase", or the "Most Forced Attempts to get a catchphrase over"?
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Post by FCVDave on Dec 23, 2007 22:48:56 GMT -5
ITS ALL ABOUT THE MO-NAY! I wish this would catch on. I think it's hysterical the way he says it. I concur!
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