Burst
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Post by Burst on Feb 2, 2012 21:38:15 GMT -5
Seriously, has there been any non-wrestling-related phenomenon to get nearly as much screen time as South Park signs did? I just watched a clip from Superbrawl 8, Hogan vs. Sting, and there were no less than four South Park signs in a single (close-up) shot of the crowd, and easily a half dozen just as the camera panned around.
It was definitely endemic to both WCW and WWE as I definitely remember a Kenny in the crowd during Jericho's debut, and I honestly bet you could pick any random Raw or Nitro after South Park started and find at least one if not fifty South Park signs.
It's easily one of the most distinguishing features of the crowd during the Attitude Era. It's kind of surreal. Also even more when you consider that South Park's still going strong, but that's more for the Off Topic board.
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Post by Cam on Feb 2, 2012 21:40:28 GMT -5
Yeah, when South Park was at it's peak popularity wise it was all over wrestling.
Billy Gunn and Road Dogg always wore South Park t-shirts in late 1997/early 1998. Golga had the plush Cartman he'd always be carrying around. Hell, even in an AOL chat with Vince McMahon someone asked Vince who his favourite South Park characters were.
The Attitude Era and South Park truly were a match made in heaven.
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Post by moneyman20 on Feb 2, 2012 21:41:13 GMT -5
Yeah, when South Park was at it's peak popularity wise it was all over wrestling. Billy Gunn and Road Dogg always wore South Park t-shirts in late 1997/early 1998. Golga had the plush Cartman he'd always be carrying around. Hell, even in an AOL chat with Vince McMahon someone asked Vince who his favourite South Park characters were. The Attitude Era and South Park truly were a match made in heaven. Did Vince actually answer that question? |
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kidglov3s
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Post by kidglov3s on Feb 2, 2012 21:42:34 GMT -5
I really appreciate that cultural convergence, it never fails to take me back to that moment in time.
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Post by Nerdkiller the threadkiller on Feb 2, 2012 21:44:59 GMT -5
So back then, South Park back in the late 90's, was basically like MLP: FiM of today. Ahhh, but it was good times just watching out for South Park related signs.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Feb 2, 2012 21:45:15 GMT -5
Yeah, when South Park was at it's peak popularity wise it was all over wrestling. Billy Gunn and Road Dogg always wore South Park t-shirts in late 1997/early 1998. Golga had the plush Cartman he'd always be carrying around. Hell, even in an AOL chat with Vince McMahon someone asked Vince who his favourite South Park characters were. The Attitude Era and South Park truly were a match made in heaven. Did Vince actually answer that question? I believe he said Chef. But yeah, Wrestlemania 14 in particular is full of 'South Park' signs. I also recall a pretty popular website at the time had wrestlers incarnated as SP characters. |
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Post by Michael Coello on Feb 2, 2012 21:46:57 GMT -5
Didn't they say in Beyond the Mat that WWE sales were second to South Park or something?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 21:47:38 GMT -5
During that time period South Park was the single most popular thing in America with the teen/early 20 something crowd.
I was in college at the time and let me tell you, if you were in some random place and overheard a random conversation....anywhere on campus, there was about a 90% chance it was them quoting some random thing from South Park.
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kidglov3s
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Post by kidglov3s on Feb 2, 2012 21:48:26 GMT -5
So back then, South Park back in the late 90's, was basically like MLP: FiM of today. Ahhh, but it was good times just watching out for South Park related signs. If wrestling fans at large and WWE themselves embraced ponies as thoroughly as they did South Park in 1998 I would quit watching WWE at least until that stopped. NPO 4 Life. |
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Post by Kitty Shamrocks on Feb 2, 2012 21:50:24 GMT -5
And when you look back on this generation, you'll see TROLOLO PROBLEM DOT JPEG signs everywhere, and explain to younger folks that it was something that person thought was funny on a message board. It just ain't the same.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 21:51:37 GMT -5
And when you look back on this generation, you'll see TROLOLO PROBLEM DOT JPEG signs everywhere, and explain to younger folks that it was something that person thought was funny on a message board. It just ain't the same. I miss when people got in real fights honestly, rather than talked trash on the internet. Be a star my ass! |
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Feb 2, 2012 21:53:37 GMT -5
Which begs the question: why did they wait until 10 years after it was a relevant satire to do the WWE South Park episode?
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Beartato
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Post by Beartato on Feb 2, 2012 21:56:04 GMT -5
So back then, South Park back in the late 90's, was basically like MLP: FiM of today. Ahhh, but it was good times just watching out for South Park related signs. Definitely not even kind of as popular. |
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Post by PTBartman on Feb 2, 2012 22:04:12 GMT -5
And when you look back on this generation, you'll see TROLOLO PROBLEM DOT JPEG signs everywhere, and explain to younger folks that it was something that person thought was funny on a message board. It just ain't the same. Well there is the ocasional BAZINGA sign |
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on Feb 2, 2012 22:09:05 GMT -5
Ah, the good old days.
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Post by Ragnal on Feb 2, 2012 22:11:41 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I'll always remember homeroom of my junior high school, where all the kids that were even allowed to watch South Park and/or WWE (Strict household I lived in), they always brought in these printed out sheets of paper with South Park characters dressed as wrestling names. Never really got that trend or what it was about.
Also, pretty sure if it wasn't wrestling and South Park, it was either WWE and ICP or South Park and ICP. Somehow.
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Feb 2, 2012 22:11:46 GMT -5
Also...combining South Park with anything 3:16
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Feb 2, 2012 22:12:23 GMT -5
Those and the "*insert name here* 3:16" signs were so prevalent back then.
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 2, 2012 22:14:40 GMT -5
I still remember printing out something like 100 different pics of wrestlers as South Park characters once because 1) I didn't know if I'd find them again, and 2) I didn't know how to save pictures to a computer.  |
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Post by Jimmy on Feb 2, 2012 22:15:08 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I'll always remember homeroom of my junior high school, where all the kids that were even allowed to watch South Park and/or WWE (Strict household I lived in), they always brought in these printed out sheets of paper with South Park characters dressed as wrestling names. Never really got that trend or what it was about. The internet circa 1999 is filled with WWF/WCW/ECW wrestlers in South Park character format, they're still floating around on the net today. |
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