Most Random WWE Mentions in the Media

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Was reading the Telegraph website today and came upon this on a story involving the California missile situation.

I mean, come on. Are Californians so unused to seeing jet contrails that when one happens to be coming straight towards them, they think it’s vertical? Are they unfamiliar with the concept of perspective, as mathematically defined by al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham in 1021 AD? So, you know what, let’s give Science the day off, and let Art explain this one. It’s the Two Cultures, in WWE-style tag team action. Damn right.

Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100048711/california-missile-is-it-a-bird-no-is-it-a-plane-yes-obviously/

[Soultastic]

Not sure if it counts, but years ago (the year 2000, I think) in a manga and anime magazine there was an article about Rurouni Kenshin that described Aoshi's desire to fight Kenshin to prove his strenght as "a challenge for a steel cage match with the WWF Intercontinental Championship on the line".

[BigJerichool222]

You probably get more WWF mentions than WWE these days.

[Perpetual Nirvana]

I seem to remember one of the FIFA games had the commentators describe a particularly bad tackle as "something out of the WWF" or something like that.

[zing]

Stone Cold Steve Austin was involved in an answer on the quiz show Pointless yesterday. I marked out cos I love that show.

[Nikki Heyman]

Nov 10, 2010 12:09:56 GMT -5 zing said:

Stone Cold Steve Austin was involved in an answer on the quiz show Pointless yesterday. I marked out cos I love that show.

In a similar vein, there was the "Smackdown" edition of Hollywood squares... which actually had two WWE questions in the neverending game that night.

[Hawk Hart]

Daniel Tosh references old school WWF/NWA wrestlers in his act and on Tosh.0.

[ToyfareMark]

Sportscenter, just too many to mention.

[N E O G E O B O Y S]

Nov 10, 2010 12:07:24 GMT -5 Perpetual Nirvana said:

I seem to remember one of the FIFA games had the commentators describe a particularly bad tackle as "something out of the WWF" or something like that.

And chilean commentators say the same exact line with the same situation in a football match

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Paul O'Grady has a photo of Chris Jericho on his desk during the Paul O'Grady show, I remember been delighted when I spotted it.

[Mayonnaise]

They got a mention in one of the $2000 questions on today's College Jeopardy here in Dallas. The answer was: "The name of this WWE show is slang for a decisive victory."

[Johawn]

WWE, specifically Linda, was mentioned on Have I Got News For You over here last week. It was really odd.

[Manute Bol]

Two of my favorite obscure wrestling references from songs:

Bloodhound Gang "No Rest for the Wicked":
"Bodyslam ya to the ground like I was Captain Lou Albano"

Weezer "El Scorcho":
"Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table"

[Perpetual Nirvana]

Nov 10, 2010 15:50:29 GMT -5 Johawn said:

WWE, specifically Linda, was mentioned on Have I Got News For You over here last week. It was really odd.

Well they were covering the US elections so it wasn't entirely out of left field.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

The Weatherman on the local News that I watch is a WWE fan and has made numerous references.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

I think that one Arby's commercial was a random mention because it wasn't Hogan himself in it and had nothing to do with wrestling unlike say the Cocoa Pebbles commercial.

[Porky's Butthole]

Nov 10, 2010 19:30:28 GMT -5 Pervy Stone Cold said:

I think that one Arby's commercial was a random mention because it wasn't Hogan himself in it and had nothing to do with wrestling unlike say the Cocoa Pebbles commercial.

It *was* Hogan. Only in voice over.

[Deleted]

The wrestling related mentions in "Liar, Lair" always made me mark out

[thegame415]

Right now on Howard Stern on Demand, there's an old episode from around 2000 where Gary Dell Abate (Baba Booey) played in a charity hockey game. One of his team mates: Chris Jericho.

[Urethra Franklin]

Nov 10, 2010 18:35:58 GMT -5 Manute Bol said:

Two of my favorite obscure wrestling references from songs:

Bloodhound Gang "No Rest for the Wicked":
"Bodyslam ya to the ground like I was Captain Lou Albano"

Weezer "El Scorcho":
"Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table"

On "The Soup", from Wale's More About Nothing mixtape, he raps "I don't know no HHH, but this is all about the game".