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Post by wildojinx on Jan 9, 2019 22:12:01 GMT -5
What did you think of them at the time? When they first aired, I found them funny (me and one of my friends used to quote the "dont call me brother, brother" line a lot) and just treated them like an SNL sketch. It's not like I had any hatred for WCW either. However, looking back, they're needlessly petty and ridiculous. Yeah, Bischoff giving away RAW results was bad as well, but two wrongs dont make a right.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Jan 9, 2019 22:15:53 GMT -5
I felt insulted as a fan. Not only were they stupid and mean, they took a shit on the guys that I grew up watching, that this same company had been telling me that was the best thing since sliced bread for 10 years.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 9, 2019 22:18:13 GMT -5
At the time I found the Nacho and Huckster impressions pretty funny.
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Post by hassanchop on Jan 9, 2019 22:23:57 GMT -5
Didn't Bobby Heenan mention the one good thing about those skits is that they reminded the audience that their two former biggest stars were in another company?
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 9, 2019 22:34:46 GMT -5
Honestly? 8-year-old me was incredibly confused because, with the WWF having a stranglehold on the Canadian market at the time, I'd never even heard of WCW up until that point. So the joke was totally lost on me.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 9, 2019 22:37:22 GMT -5
Now in retrospect.... The sketches that pointed out that WCW was papering crowds (though they did it too) and that they were paying fans to wear Hogan gear in the front rows (which I believe was true) were pretty funny. But the stuff about putting in ad in Variety and trying to get wrestling fans to care about the Turner/Time-Warner merger was completely misguided. Even watching them on Retro Raw I still can't figure out why they thought anyone would care about the corporate BS.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 9, 2019 22:50:58 GMT -5
Not to mention that there were probably guys in WWF who were still friends with WCW guys (heck, Goldust's own father worked for WCW), so i'm sure there were a lot of people (not just the wrestlers) who felt uncomfortable with them.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 9, 2019 22:52:47 GMT -5
Meh.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jan 9, 2019 22:55:58 GMT -5
Now in retrospect.... The sketches that pointed out that WCW was papering crowds (though they did it too) and that they were paying fans to wear Hogan gear in the front rows (which I believe was true) were pretty funny. But the stuff about putting in ad in Variety and trying to get wrestling fans to care about the Turner/Time-Warner merger was completely misguided. Even watching them on Retro Raw I still can't figure out why they thought anyone would care about the corporate BS. There was one skit that ended with them mentioning a full-page ad they ran on USA Today talking about how the TimeWarner suits should've rejected the merger with Turner due to his apparent anti-WWF bias which seemed kinda weird.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 9, 2019 23:02:43 GMT -5
Now in retrospect.... The sketches that pointed out that WCW was papering crowds (though they did it too) and that they were paying fans to wear Hogan gear in the front rows (which I believe was true) were pretty funny. But the stuff about putting in ad in Variety and trying to get wrestling fans to care about the Turner/Time-Warner merger was completely misguided. Even watching them on Retro Raw I still can't figure out why they thought anyone would care about the corporate BS. There was one skit that ended with them mentioning a full-page ad they ran on USA Today talking about how the TimeWarner suits should've rejected the merger with Turner due to his apparent anti-WWF bias which seemed kinda weird. And there was a segment on Raw where they had Michael Hayes Doc Hendrix explain that a "WCW executive" had sent a letter to them but they were not gonna be deterred from telling us about... how mergers are bad?
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Post by blissified on Jan 9, 2019 23:11:26 GMT -5
I was 9 at the time and remember finding them dumb.
If all goes well then we might see a Billionaire Tony skit in 5yrs.
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Post by Paul on Jan 9, 2019 23:49:13 GMT -5
At the time I found the Nacho and Huckster impressions pretty funny. Yeah, but then they quickly got really mean-spirited against Ted and became unfunny, IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 0:06:08 GMT -5
I was 9 at the time and remember finding them dumb. If all goes well then we might see a Billionaire Tony skit in 5yrs. And interviews about how the mean ol Khans are taking food away from the McMahon family.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jan 10, 2019 0:41:36 GMT -5
They should have just quit after the first skit and that would be that, but like with most things McMahon he kept running with it and it went from a harmless satire of the competition to personal attacks and the like.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jan 10, 2019 0:43:04 GMT -5
I was 9 at the time and remember finding them dumb. If all goes well then we might see a Billionaire Tony skit in 5yrs. With the American Snore Cody Stardust (in polka dots) and his sidekicks, the Buck-Toothed Youths, who are incapable of speech beyond shouting "Shawn Michaels" between randomly superkicking themselves and anyone else around them.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 10, 2019 0:58:19 GMT -5
I could maybe see them doing ONE as a 'har har these guys are old' sorta thing. They beat that horse into paste.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 10, 2019 1:13:16 GMT -5
I was 9 at the time and remember finding them dumb. If all goes well then we might see a Billionaire Tony skit in 5yrs. With the American Snore Cody Stardust (in polka dots) and his sidekicks, the Buck-Toothed Youths, who are incapable of speech beyond shouting "Shawn Michaels" between randomly superkicking themselves and anyone else around them. And a Jericho knockoff riding around in a toy boat. (Vince doesnt read this forum, right?)
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 10, 2019 2:41:03 GMT -5
That was Vince gasping at straws and admitting that Ted Turner was his daddy. He complained about the same thing he did to the old promoters.
It’s a rule that if you’re number one, you never acknowledge or mock the competition, but if you’re number two you call them out because you’re desperate.
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Post by realist on Jan 10, 2019 4:33:57 GMT -5
At the time, I loved them. I was about 7 or 8, so my sense of humor was not the most mature. Now, I think it was stupid as hell.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jan 10, 2019 4:35:06 GMT -5
I recall one of them making fun of Savage and Elizabeth's divorce, just even seemed a shitty thing to me at the time
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