Post by LuciCypher on Nov 21, 2017 21:00:22 GMT -5
Bruce Prichard had the following to say about the infamous Katie Vick angle on his podcast:
The background for this whole angle was that WWE was trying to add more "soap opera" to their show and to add backstory for characters. Bruce says that no particular person was to blame for the initial concept of the idea, as Michael Hayes, Vince, Brian Gewirtz, and himself were all involved in the creative meeting that spawned the angle.
Multiple crew people quit after it because of how offensive it was
It was done at a real funeral home while a wake was going on on the other side of a thin wall
The original plan was for the angle to be some kind of "over-the-top" comedy angle that was more lighthearted, but the day of the shoot Vince got extremely serious and said the "real comedy" was in Triple H being serious about having sex with Katie Vick. Basically the real humor was in simulating actual necrophilia.
After Vince and Bruce had a fight about this, a compromise was made where they shot it both ways, with the straight forward "tongue in cheek" thing and the darker more serious version. Triple H went into it and was extremely serious about it, since they decided to shoot that version first, and at the end of that shoot Vince said "god dammit! I love it!". Triple H and Bruce wanted to shoot the original concept, but Vince said they didn't have time.
Triple H did not want it to air, but Vince told the crew to wrap it up.
Bruce went to Kevin Dunn saying "I think we crossed the line", Triple H comes to Dunn and says the same thing. Kevin Dunn goes to Vince and says "look man, we cannot air this thing". Vince gets extremely mad about this, and then it aired.
Bruce says that both he and Hunter felt betrayed by Vince basically tricking them, or at the very least saying they could do something and then going back on it. He says that Hunter was extremely embarrassed by it. Following the segment, there was an interview part that Bruce was producing and they both had to watch the playback of it again and were completely hit with how awful it was again.
The rest of the writers were surprised to see the end result of it
Bruce alludes that the "screw your brains out" part where the "brains" are thrown at the camera was a Vince idea. It was Vince's idea to come back the next week and continue this with enemas and more mannequins.
The network, TNN at the time, was fine with it.
The background for this whole angle was that WWE was trying to add more "soap opera" to their show and to add backstory for characters. Bruce says that no particular person was to blame for the initial concept of the idea, as Michael Hayes, Vince, Brian Gewirtz, and himself were all involved in the creative meeting that spawned the angle.
Multiple crew people quit after it because of how offensive it was
It was done at a real funeral home while a wake was going on on the other side of a thin wall
The original plan was for the angle to be some kind of "over-the-top" comedy angle that was more lighthearted, but the day of the shoot Vince got extremely serious and said the "real comedy" was in Triple H being serious about having sex with Katie Vick. Basically the real humor was in simulating actual necrophilia.
After Vince and Bruce had a fight about this, a compromise was made where they shot it both ways, with the straight forward "tongue in cheek" thing and the darker more serious version. Triple H went into it and was extremely serious about it, since they decided to shoot that version first, and at the end of that shoot Vince said "god dammit! I love it!". Triple H and Bruce wanted to shoot the original concept, but Vince said they didn't have time.
Triple H did not want it to air, but Vince told the crew to wrap it up.
Bruce went to Kevin Dunn saying "I think we crossed the line", Triple H comes to Dunn and says the same thing. Kevin Dunn goes to Vince and says "look man, we cannot air this thing". Vince gets extremely mad about this, and then it aired.
Bruce says that both he and Hunter felt betrayed by Vince basically tricking them, or at the very least saying they could do something and then going back on it. He says that Hunter was extremely embarrassed by it. Following the segment, there was an interview part that Bruce was producing and they both had to watch the playback of it again and were completely hit with how awful it was again.
The rest of the writers were surprised to see the end result of it
Bruce alludes that the "screw your brains out" part where the "brains" are thrown at the camera was a Vince idea. It was Vince's idea to come back the next week and continue this with enemas and more mannequins.
The network, TNN at the time, was fine with it.
