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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Sept 20, 2020 16:16:11 GMT -5
They ran a similar angle a few years before where HBK somehow squandered all the money from BOTH stints as a top performer for the company and JBL was the only person that could help him out. Despite the fact that his best friend is one of the heirs to the entire company. That may have been a test run for this Big Show idiocy. I read "top performer" really fast, and thought it said "tap dancer"
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Sept 20, 2020 17:29:21 GMT -5
Yep lol That's the moment I was referring with Show. It was sooo cringey. I think this segment has a bit of Mandela Effect to it in terms of “Oh, Big Show just started doing it independently from anything directly related to Daniel Bryan”. This was directly to assist Bryan in this segment. What I think it gets mixed up with is something maybe six months or a year and half later, either way Bryan’s out hurt, and they have Big Show (I think) out there like “Do a big Yes chant to show your support for Bryan in his recovery”, they film that and drop it into ads for the Network as though they’re chanting for the low, low price (“Cheaper than PPV, ya f***in’ idiots”). But on the other hand, how many times has somebody shown up to help someone and then started doing their catchphrase? This segment is really baffling and unlike any other 'face helps a face' segment I can think of. A lot of times it's the lowly goober doing their savior's poses or what have you after a save, if not their own individual bits. Or it's someone having a beer with Austin, but Austin still called for the beers. Nobody said it was anything independent from Bryan, he was feuding with The Authority at the time. But within a little while, Bryan was getting put into a garbage collector's jumpsuit and hanging out in a swamp cult, not doing the Yes chant ever, while Big Show took on the role of feuding with the Authority.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 17:46:18 GMT -5
I'll have to go back and see how it holds up, but I loved the servant HBK storyline at the time. Peak bastard JBL, with Shawn selling being an utterly broken man so well, his face just a constant picture of sorrow.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 20, 2020 20:14:37 GMT -5
It made everyone: the wrestlers, management, writers, and the audience look like morons.
Them for presenting something so stupid, the audience for even putting up with it.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Sept 21, 2020 3:08:06 GMT -5
I will say that at least the broke HBK storyline had some gems like JBL hilariously describing the embarrassing things he'd make Shawn do, up to and including making him stand out outside a restaurant and dance like a monkey. "This old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be."
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Sept 21, 2020 3:20:08 GMT -5
I think this segment has a bit of Mandela Effect to it in terms of “Oh, Big Show just started doing it independently from anything directly related to Daniel Bryan”. This was directly to assist Bryan in this segment. What I think it gets mixed up with is something maybe six months or a year and half later, either way Bryan’s out hurt, and they have Big Show (I think) out there like “Do a big Yes chant to show your support for Bryan in his recovery”, they film that and drop it into ads for the Network as though they’re chanting for the low, low price (“Cheaper than PPV, ya f***in’ idiots”). But on the other hand, how many times has somebody shown up to help someone and then started doing their catchphrase? This segment is really baffling and unlike any other 'face helps a face' segment I can think of. A lot of times it's the lowly goober doing their savior's poses or what have you after a save, if not their own individual bits. Or it's someone having a beer with Austin, but Austin still called for the beers. Nobody said it was anything independent from Bryan, he was feuding with The Authority at the time. But within a little while, Bryan was getting put into a garbage collector's jumpsuit and hanging out in a swamp cult, not doing the Yes chant ever, while Big Show took on the role of feuding with the Authority. I get that, but it just felt every time this angle gets brought up, it comes with the belief WWE were actively trying to take away the chants from Bryan and make them specifically into Big Show’s thing, specifically citing THIS segment when the feud was still Authority/Orton v Bryan. I know the Wyatt Family stuff happened not long after this and they DID take the chants from him for a bit, but I’m fairly certain Big Show doing the Yes chants stopped at the same time Bryan’s involvement in the Authority angle did to start the Wyatt angle.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 21, 2020 3:36:43 GMT -5
I'll have to go back and see how it holds up, but I loved the servant HBK storyline at the time. Peak bastard JBL, with Shawn selling being an utterly broken man so well, his face just a constant picture of sorrow. Me too. The only sad point about it is that JBL was so broken down at that point due to back issues that even Shawn could not make their blow-off match into anything decent. It was perhaps among the worse matches Shawn had in his second foray in the WWE.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 21, 2020 16:50:51 GMT -5
Kayfabe isn't dead lads, because when I saw this thread title I wondered if this shit had happened for real. The saddest part is not only would Big Show lose that title match fairly handily, but not even two months after that he was doing this: You know, I think this moment may have been the specific one where I started asking myself 'hey, maybe WWE really don't give a shit about this at all.'
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