Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 22, 2018 19:24:39 GMT -5
I’d always take a look for “Ain’t I Great?” when I went to the record store. Sure, I knew it was sold out everywhere but you never know when you could find it.
I’m not a country music fan. You never know when they might actually do something.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Feb 22, 2018 19:44:06 GMT -5
Relatives of mine never realized that certain shows were taped in advance, like Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, Saturday Night, Main Event, etc. It made sense, especially for Saturday/Sunday morning shows, or even shows that had late night time-slots like Saturday Night's Main Event. I thought that some shows were live, but then when I saw WCW Saturday Night and they did their "Still to come" bits and showed a wrestler coming out, it made a lot of sense that it was taped.
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Post by nickcave on Feb 22, 2018 22:09:46 GMT -5
I thought Sunday Night Heat was live and was confused why people bought tickets to see losers like Hardcore Holly main event. It was live every other week before Smackdown started. Every two weeks, the WWF would do TV tapings on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I started watching in 2003 so I wasn’t aware of that.
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Post by bitteroldman on Feb 22, 2018 23:36:46 GMT -5
Thanks to a childhood friend, I knew at a fairly young age that wrestling was not exactly legit but I still thought you could do a standing vertical suplex without your "opponent" cooperating with you.
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 23, 2018 0:10:51 GMT -5
I’d always take a look for “Ain’t I Great?” when I went to the record store. Sure, I knew it was sold out everywhere but you never know when you could find it. I’m not a country music fan. You never know when they might actually do something. On a similar note, I thought that the WWF theme songs like Real American and Demolition were real songs, and I wondered why they werent played on the radio.
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Post by No One on Feb 23, 2018 5:09:42 GMT -5
Very early in my fandom I misheard names and in most cases I still refer to them using the incorrect name like Roddy Roddy Piper or Jimmy “Super Guy” Snuka. Yeah, I thought Giant Gonzales was ‘Giant Gonzallus’ kind of like they were playing off of the Godzilla name.
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Post by carter 15 on Feb 23, 2018 7:02:44 GMT -5
I thought it was Roddy Roddy Piper for severalllll years. Then it took me a couple to get a hang around actually saying Rowdy afterwards.
I remember during Jerichos WCW run, him completely running down the crowd. He was a champ at the time, can't recall if Cruiser or TV and he was challenging anyone in the arena to a defense. I remember being perplexed as to why the entire crowd just stood behind the barrier and took the insults, there's only 1 of him and like 10,000 of them.
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MiLB Fan
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by MiLB Fan on Feb 23, 2018 9:18:43 GMT -5
Just thought of two more.
*I didn’t get the whole “raise a wrestler’s arm and see if it drops” thing when someone is in a submission hold. I thought the referee was somehow giving the affected wrestler an energy boost of some kind, because he would always rise up and fight back when the ref raised his arm for the third time.
*Chalk this up to not understanding how TV production works. SummerSlam ‘95 was the first PPV I saw in person, and back then WWE aired the countdown show live from the venue much like it does today. We arrived early enough to see it and Todd Pettingill entered the ring, but no one in the arena could hear him. I didn’t realize that he was talking directly to the home viewers, so it was really confusing when he tipped over a ladder with no context.
This was also the first PPV I saw without commentary. I don’t know if I expected them to broadcast it through the arena or what, but it was definitely different.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 23, 2018 20:24:07 GMT -5
When I first heard about Dark Matches I thought they were matches in which the competitors wrestlers in literal darkness...
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Post by Main Eventer on Feb 23, 2018 21:21:05 GMT -5
My cousin was an ECW fan and one day he was talking to me about it, he talked about how great Taz was, but I thought he said Test. So I thought Test was the most over guy in ECW history for a long time.
When Ric Flair returned to the WWE in 2001, when he said Shane and Stephanie sold their stock to a consortium, I thought he said custodian. So I thought they sold their stock to some janitor.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Feb 24, 2018 2:43:01 GMT -5
I’d always take a look for “Ain’t I Great?” when I went to the record store. Sure, I knew it was sold out everywhere but you never know when you could find it. I’m not a country music fan. You never know when they might actually do something. -I legit asked my mom to ask the guy in the Target music department if they had the Ain't I Great CD. He looked and couldn't find it for us. -I used to think that any time a wrestler appeared in a movie, that other wrestlers would also appear in the movie. I guess because Thunder in Paradise always had a bunch of other wrestlers appear with Hogan. I read the cast list of They Live with Roddy Piper and saw the name of actor Raymond St.Jacques and thought that that meant Raymond & Jacques Rougeau were in the movie somewhere. -I thought that if you didn't have a nickname you were a jobber, once you won a match, you were given a nickname. The first show I ever watched was the last Main Event on Fox and Shawn Michaels (who wasn't called Heartbreak Kid, yet) beat Bulldog for the IC title. I thought going into the match he must be jobber that everyone knew was going to lose, but then won in a big upset. I thought he was a jobber because he didn't have a nickname, and would now get to have one now since he finally won a match. I mean, I didn't even understand that he had won a championship, I thought every match on the show was part of a big tournament and I'd see the winners face each other the next week like American Gladiators.
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Mozenrath
FANatic
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 25, 2018 2:29:52 GMT -5
I am genuinely curious whether or not WWE and Jarrett wish they had actually made the Ain't I Great album. (Granted, Road Dogg would be doing the singing, but I imagine Jarrett would still be seeing some of the action, his face and name were on it)
On one hand, it could have bit them in the ass if they spent too much on it, but given how many people were curious about it, a limited run might have actually sold decently. Jimmy Valiant sold some music, himself, to capitalize on his huge regional popularity, so it was far from unheard of in wrestling by the 90s.
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msc
Dennis Stamp
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Post by msc on Feb 25, 2018 3:00:22 GMT -5
So, I was introduced to wrestling by a friend who got a copy of WWF Warzone, which we played all one weekend. Great game. He told me it was based on a show, and mentioned all sorts that had happened on the previous episode.
Now I thought Royal Rumbles happened all the time, but that would have been cool anyhow.
But as I tuned into my first episode of RAW, 100% of my wrestling knowledge is based on the 16 wrestlers in WWF Warzone and knowing a few obvious pop culture names like Hogan and Savage.
Rock does a promo, interrupted by Mankind and Austin. All 3 in Warzone, so far so safe. Big Show showed up, but I'd been told he was this "big new guy" so obviously he wasn't in the game.
First match ever? Owen Hart (in Warzone) vs dlo Brown (not), but I'm enjoying it, and the end of the match, Owen's tag partner comes down with a guitar only D'lo grabs it and wins. Now, remember that my sole reference here was WWF Warzone the game, which is why I assumed the man coming out to help Owen HAD to be.... Bret Hart with short dyed hair.
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