Reason behind the Seth Rollins vibrator joke on Raw

[Heartbreaker]

Or maybe Vince discovered Fight Club.

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Oct 1, 2014 22:48:15 GMT -5 Heartbreaker said:

Or maybe Vince discovered Fight Club.

Bunch of Superstars lined up backstage: "His name is Brodus Clay."

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Nattie: Somehow that bitch Summer Rae is behind this.

[Deleted]

Emma steal that too?

[Vice honcho room temperature]

So its like that episode of the Drew Carrey Show.

[gr1990]

If true, it certainly brings a new meaning to the phrase 'ribbed for her pleasure.'

[Doctor Of Style]

Did somebody say ribs?

[Hit Girl]

I wonder what percentage of WWE's booking is done as a rib by people we don't care about, to mock other people we don't care about, for reasons we don't care about?

[Just call me D.j.m.]

[Urethra Franklin]

I know the jokes that I find most hilarious are inside ones, where I'm not in on them and couldn't possibly understand their context.

Nothing more clever than those!

[Mozenrath]

I don't really get the complaints on the origin of the joke.

Before we knew it was an inside joke, were people confused about what it meant? Nope. The vibrator joke was still there, and juvenile on its own merits. People got it, it was dopey, and life kept going without any real hiccups.

[Crappler El 0 M]

So we wouldn't have had to endure that if Mark Carrano had just remembered to take the batteries out!?

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I don't get the hate this joke is getting. I found it hilarious. I'd have laughed at it on any TV programme. I don't get the hate that it's an insider joke either. So what, even if I didn't get the reference to Stephanie having a vibrator in her handbag at an airport, it was Seth having a vibrator in his money in the bank briefcase. That was funny and made me laugh

[Urethra Franklin]

Oct 1, 2014 23:50:24 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I don't really get the complaints on the origin of the joke.

Before we knew it was an inside joke, were people confused about what it meant? Nope. The vibrator joke was still there, and juvenile on its own merits. People got it, it was dopey, and life kept going without any real hiccups.

Because, in this instance, the joke could make sense without any background.

The fact that inside jokes that nobody in the audience is privy to is making it into the RAW script is the issue.

[Mozenrath]

Oct 2, 2014 0:03:07 GMT -5 Urethra Franklin said:

Oct 1, 2014 23:50:24 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I don't really get the complaints on the origin of the joke.

Before we knew it was an inside joke, were people confused about what it meant? Nope. The vibrator joke was still there, and juvenile on its own merits. People got it, it was dopey, and life kept going without any real hiccups.

Because, in this instance, the joke could make sense without any background.

The fact that inside jokes that nobody in the audience is privy to is making it into the RAW script is the issue.

Virgil's entire existence was an inside joke. Though in that case, maybe it wasn't for the best.

[Urethra Franklin]

Oct 2, 2014 0:07:40 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Oct 2, 2014 0:03:07 GMT -5 Urethra Franklin said:

Because, in this instance, the joke could make sense without any background.

The fact that inside jokes that nobody in the audience is privy to is making it into the RAW script is the issue.

Virgil's entire existence was an inside joke. Though in that case, maybe it wasn't for the best.

I think you're very much right.

[Hit Girl]

Oct 1, 2014 23:56:34 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

I don't get the hate this joke is getting. I found it hilarious. I'd have laughed at it on any TV programme. I don't get the hate that it's an insider joke either. So what, even if I didn't get the reference to Stephanie having a vibrator in her handbag at an airport, it was Seth having a vibrator in his money in the bank briefcase. That was funny and made me laugh

It was funny, but it didn't need to be attached to the Rollins/Ambrose feud. If they really wanted to use that kind of comedy on their show, they could have done something with Miz and Sandow, who are already treated as jokes, and have already been the subject of homoerotic humour (Miz's hacked phone pictures).

[Dukect]

Oct 1, 2014 23:09:26 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

I wonder what percentage of WWE's booking is done as a rib by people we don't care about, to mock other people we don't care about, for reasons we don't care about?

as long as this guy is running things



100%

[Starshine]

Wouldn't it more likely be Ambrose's vibrator though, since he had the case last?

Plus the case was all gunked up, why would Rollins put anything in it before cleaning it?

[Banjo Is Broken]

I still have no idea why Rollins would use his MITB briefcase as a piece of luggage in the first place. Could'nt he afford an actual toiletry carrying case to haul that shit in?