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Post by rrm15 on Dec 16, 2008 12:46:27 GMT -5
Natural weird also gave us Snitsky's poem, Tomko's No, and "I just kicked Stan." And included very little spontaneous dancing. We are not children. ACTUALLY, what with the WWE Kids website and magazine, a big portion of the WWE's target audience is now actually kids..so yeah. That reminds me of this one time the APA had their little bar room in the back, and it ended up getting totally destroyed. A week later, in a whole different arena, there was the bar room exactly as it had been the week before. Huh?
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 16, 2008 12:53:34 GMT -5
My humor is pretty subjective. I don't find dance skits and such funny at all. Kung Fu Naki, Hornswaggle, the Boogeyman and the Great Khali have no reason to be together on screen in my mind.
Yet I was floored by Jillian singing "My Heart will go on" and that entire Slammy segment.
So in short, more Jillian, less eclectic dancing.
But that fits with her gimmick, where as teh dancing was just forced. So that may be more it than anything.
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Post by The Peoples Elbow on Dec 16, 2008 12:55:51 GMT -5
What an anti-smark. I think they are fun, as long as they aren't on every show. That said, I like them better without Sarge, as I shall never forgive him for taking the title from the Ultimate Warrior back in 1990. I cannot see him for a funloving guy because of that. Or, I just don't like Sarge. One of those. ::Robert Remus shows up on your doorstep and lays you out with a big boot to the face::
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Post by Cap'n Crud on Dec 16, 2008 15:36:02 GMT -5
It's the very example of a forced meme. Even if it was funny the first couple times it gets annoying when you've seen it the 3,456,789,021st time. Sadly that's a common theme in wrestling, run it long after the audience has already gotten sick of it.
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Post by Snowman on Dec 16, 2008 15:46:08 GMT -5
Natural weird also gave us Snitsky's poem, Tomko's No, and "I just kicked Stan." You have a point, however Surely there is room for different kinds of funny on the show, that's what makes wrestling so great, the variety. Sure I love the natural genuinly funny stuff such as the things you listed, but I also love the "WTS" moments, that leave you scratching your head, sometimes these moments are bafflingly funny, sometimes they fall into the "so bad they are are good" funny. Basically there is always going to be stuff that some people like and some people don't like, personally it's the variety of stuff that happens and the feeling that there are no boundries to what can happen that keeps me tuning in.
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Post by kitsunestar on Dec 16, 2008 18:19:46 GMT -5
Honestly, I want MORE weird, I just want the weird to be isolated. I hate when every "weird" character gravitates together like a giant contrived black hole, just so Farrooq can say "DAMN" and be on his way.
To review: more weirdness, just not all in one segment.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 16, 2008 19:52:26 GMT -5
What an anti-smark. I think they are fun, as long as they aren't on every show. That said, I like them better without Sarge, as I shall never forgive him for taking the title from the Ultimate Warrior back in 1990. I cannot see him for a funloving guy because of that. Or, I just don't like Sarge. One of those. ::Robert Remus shows up on your doorstep and lays you out with a big boot to the face:: At his age, I doubt his boot would reach my face. Funny though.
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Post by Aaron E. Dangerously on Dec 16, 2008 19:55:51 GMT -5
I like them. But then again, I'm BIZARRE.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2008 20:05:19 GMT -5
I don't care how they do the funny, as long as it's funny.
Trying to force the issue is rarely funny. "Look! Zany characters! They're dancing for no reason! That's something normal people don't do! Watch out for that banana peel Zany characters!"
I know family guy was one of (maybe the main) originators of the "random = funny" idea. They're trying to use that idea, and that is fine. It only works though, when the randomness is actually random.
There's nothing random about people appearing to dance for the hell of it, it's been done and done and done. There's nothing random about people doing zany antics so Simmons can appear and say Damn, we know its coming about 5 seconds into the skit.
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Post by wwerules60 on Dec 16, 2008 20:19:00 GMT -5
WWE are the kings of running jokes into the ground.
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Post by Mantaurded on Dec 16, 2008 22:44:55 GMT -5
It depends. I find Goldust enjoyable, and it's a shame that newer fans don't recognize him since WWE is becoming "kid-orientated". They probably thought he made his debut last year or something so they don't cheer him as much.
Nothing's more awkward than going with a parent and having a (can't believe I'm saying this) "dirty" segment. I went to Smackdown in Boston with my Dad and they had the Edge and Vickie sex session with the strawberries.
That was just awkward.
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Post by Robbymac on Dec 16, 2008 22:49:46 GMT -5
Three words.
Worlds. Strongest. Santa.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 16, 2008 22:54:04 GMT -5
I don't care how they do the funny, as long as it's funny. Trying to force the issue is rarely funny. "Look! Zany characters! They're dancing for no reason! That's something normal people don't do! Watch out for that banana peel Zany characters!" I know family guy was one of (maybe the main) originators of the "random = funny" idea. They're trying to use that idea, and that is fine. It only works though, when the randomness is actually random. I agree with the first bit. For the second, Family Guy may have made it more modern, but the random style of comedy was around before then.
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