Gunhaver
Bubba Ho-Tep
"Gunhaver! You actually have a gun!"
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Post by Gunhaver on Mar 29, 2024 11:10:34 GMT -5
I still have no idea if Sexy Star canonically got power from constellations in Lucha Underground, or if it was just Matt Striker making up shit like usual. They never really returned to that thought, most of the time spent trying to put over Sexy Star seemed to be him and Vampiro alluding to her having a hard life that made her strong while never really explaining what they were talking about, or how that made her special considering how messed up Mil Muertes' supposed childhood was, yet he was often a heel. That was definetly striker adding something on his own. Her story practically from the start was about how her mask saved her life and to escape the trauma in her life it is pivotal to her biggest arc in the show during her feud with Marty the Moth...,nothing about constellations is ever brought up in canon on the show (that I can remember) and if it was it was so early on that they swiftly pivoted to something better so again definetly just one of those moments of Striker hearing a name and going off of that. This sounds like the setup for a Sexy Star cartoon or comic. "In the light of Orion's Belt, she gains the power to shoot herself out of bookings." |
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 29, 2024 20:18:34 GMT -5
Gorilla's abuse of "literally" made for some insane statements. Guys were being knocked "literally into the middle of next week." They time-traveled, they were hit so hard! That caused me to cringe almost as much as when he'd say someone was "reeking in pain." The funniest part is that he would sometimes correctly say "reeling in pain," but other times would go with "reeking." Unrelated, one of the biggest WTF exchanges in commentary history, from WrestleMania 3: JESSE: "Tell me, Bob, is your mom and dad doin' the laundry after all this is over?" BOB UECKER: "Not anymore, but they, uh ... that's how I got interested in wrestling ..." JESSE: "I just wondered if maybe they [inaudible] ..." UECKER: "Yes, sir!" And then Gorilla cuts them off to tee up a backstage interview. Uecker once mentioned in a promo with Gene Okerlund that his parents were friends with some pro wrestlers when he was growing up, and they would stay at the Ueckers' home sometimes when on the road. Wow, I had no idea that promo happened. And even if I had, the WM3 exchange is not exactly an obvious callback. Thanks for solving this 37-year-old mystery for me. |
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 29, 2024 21:28:23 GMT -5
This probably won't count because it was part of a promo, but Jerry Lawler (commentator) telling Bad News Barrett "I have some bad news for you. Maybe next week, YOU won't be here!" Followed with a proud nod. Next week came by and Bad News Barrett was still around with no mention of Jerry’s promo. I think Barrett actually wasn't on the next week's show, but it's still random as hell. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 29, 2024 22:27:15 GMT -5
Next week came by and Bad News Barrett was still around with no mention of Jerry’s promo. I think Barrett actually wasn't on the next week's show, but it's still random as hell. Yeah he wasn't |
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 29, 2024 22:48:54 GMT -5
Not exactly commentary, but it was a line that made no sense Jim Cornette, relayed a saying that Chief Jay Strongbow would make about a bad match: "They could have had that match in an Iron Lung" Bruce Pritchard repeated it once in a meeting and Vince turned around and said "WTF is that even supposed to mean?" I am guessing that it was either Strongbow saying that you could contain the action in one, it was such a nothing match, or trying to compare the wrestlers to people who'd need an iron lung. Either way, it's a bit of a mess. |
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 29, 2024 22:53:01 GMT -5
I seem to remember one time Jerry Lawler just blurted out "FRANCISCO" in a fake Latin accent, despite the fact that there was no one named Francisco on the show at the time.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 30, 2024 13:55:12 GMT -5
I seem to remember one time Jerry Lawler just blurted out "FRANCISCO" in a fake Latin accent, despite the fact that there was no one named Francisco on the show at the time. Fransisco. That's fun to say! |
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King Koopa
He's just a Sexy Kurt
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Post by 67 more on Mar 31, 2024 14:34:06 GMT -5
Didn't Booker once randomly blurt out "Michael Cole I had a dream last night you DIED"? This made me laugh hard as hell just for how out of nowhere and odd it was. That and Booker claiming he just had to go to the Bathroom the week after the entire roster walked out on Triple H I remember it making Cole corpse and just say "Thanks, Book." |
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Post by jean0987654321 on Mar 31, 2024 14:40:57 GMT -5
Anal Bleeding?
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Post by James Fabiano on Mar 31, 2024 14:41:25 GMT -5
I'll die on this hill...
Motormouth Mike Morgan on GLOW burying Ninotchka with fat jokes. Never mind she turned FACE.
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bob
Salacious Crumb
The "other" Bob. FOC COURSE!
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Post by bob on Mar 31, 2024 15:21:29 GMT -5
“ Shucky duck quack quack”
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FHgrad99
Vegeta
Never mind that s***, here comes Mongo!
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Post by FHgrad99 on Mar 31, 2024 22:18:59 GMT -5
During WCW's dying days:
Rick Steiner is doing a run in.
Larry Zbyszko: "IT'S A GREMLIN!"
Scott Hudson: "What now?"
Larry Zbyszko: "I DON'T KNOW!"
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Apr 1, 2024 10:58:52 GMT -5
During WCW's dying days: Rick Steiner is doing a run in. Larry Zbyszko: "IT'S A GREMLIN!" Scott Hudson: "What now?" Larry Zbyszko: "I DON'T KNOW!" Rick was called, "The Dog Face Gremlin", sounds like Scott didn't get it and Larry just fed up with it all didn't feel like explaining |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 2, 2024 15:59:31 GMT -5
Jesse's Axl Rose comments from Wrestlemania VI. I think he said Robert Goulet reminded him of Axl. They are two total opposites. Plus Gorilla had no idea who Axl was. And it seemed to make Gorilla look foolish he didn't know so he tried very badly to pretend he did. There was only like a 10-12 age year difference between the two but it felt like 20-30 years. Coliseum cut out most of what Jesse said (because they cut out Goulet) so it seemed even more awkward on the VHS. I liked Jesse and Gorilla better but if there was a pop culture reference, Gorilla did better with Bobby. I'm pretty sure Jesse just said that to mess with Gorilla and either Gorilla didn't or likely being a Frank Sinatra kind of guy and not being into modern Rock, Gorilla probably refused to acknowledge Axl. Granted Gorilla had his fair share of irrational comments. I remember watching an Owen Hart match where he talks about extraneous circumstances that allowed Owen to win. Ted DiBiase on commentary likely actually puzzled asks him, "Like what?" and Gorilla just goes, "You know what I mean". Gorilla likely forgot Owen won clean and realized it during the match. As a broadcaster myself, I can tell you sometimes you say something that makes sense in your head but to no one else. I loved Gorilla as a kid. But watching that stuff back now, I see why he won all of those Worst Commentator awards from the WON back then. During my 1986 Prime Time Wrestling rewatch last year Gorilla made a ton of insider references to Terry Garvin, Pat Patterson and Steve Lombardi being gay. This was well before the internet so anyone watching at home at the time had to be completely clueless as to what Gorilla was going on about. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 2, 2024 16:08:11 GMT -5
This was the first thing I thought of too. JR has explained that Booger Red was a football player back in the day. Can't remember his name. Since Taker was rocking his natural red hair at the time JR ran with the nickname. He eventually dropped it because Vince hated it. As I'm assuming all the fans did too. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 2, 2024 16:24:26 GMT -5
Booker T: Alicia Fox is like cracked, black, pepper, dawwwggg!
Cole: Did you just compare Alicia Fox to cracked black pepper?!
Booker T: *silence*
When Kalisto was getting a big push in 2016 Lawler would repeatedly bury Kalisto every week with his usual 1950's short jokes. Did I mention they were both babyface's at the time?
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 2, 2024 16:48:50 GMT -5
“ Shucky duck quack quack” Booker stole that line from a comedian named Shucky Ducky. He was a regular on BET Comic View and Def Comedy Jam in the early 90's. Can't remember which event it happened at but Cole called Booker out for the use of the line on commentary saying something like "admit you stole that line from an old time comedian". |
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Apr 2, 2024 18:42:41 GMT -5
Regal was on the mic during some show in Florida not long after the 2000 election. He was winding the crowd up about the issue with Florida’s vote. JR said something like “what would he know about elections?”. He’s from the UK JR. They’ve been having elections for three centuries. I find any commentary whenever any American wrestling promotion is overseas, from WWE up to AEW, to be fairly cringeworthy. There's always some cloying leaning into stereotypes or a little comment that belies worldliness that makes me want to fold up inside myself. |
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J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on Apr 2, 2024 20:51:11 GMT -5
Dusty Rhodes during Oz's debut entrance: "I ain't seen nothing like this and I've been to two goat ropings and an all-night fair." Sounds like a TV-friendly version of, “I’ve been to two goat f***ings and the World’s Fair and I’ve never seen anything like this.” I am so working in the non TV-friendly version of this quote into conversation this weekend. |
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