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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on May 24, 2022 21:22:28 GMT -5
Every one of Mauro Ranello's references made my face cave in and turn inside out with the cringe The mental image of your face contorting 5,294 times during a Takeover is horrifying...
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Post by jason1980s on May 24, 2022 22:58:44 GMT -5
Ventura: You know, Robert Goulet reminds me of Axl Rose. Gorilla: Axl Rose? I’m not familiar with Axl Rose, Jesse. Ventura: From Guns N’ Roses! Gorilla: Oh, *that* Axl!!!! Sometimes I don't know why Jesse would even try make pop culture references with Gorilla. What made the thing even goofier is the Coliseum Video edit, so we never saw Robert, we never heard the exchange between Jesse and Gorilla-they just start the event with Koko halfway down the aisle, on the cart, and Gorilla strangely saying "well who does Koko remind you of?" One similar happened with the Survivor Series 1987 edit where Gorilla had a made a reference to Jesse going to the crowd for support when he was in a hold and all you hear on the Coliseum edit is Jesse's response.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 24, 2022 23:00:51 GMT -5
Ventura: You know, Robert Goulet reminds me of Axl Rose. Gorilla: Axl Rose? I’m not familiar with Axl Rose, Jesse. Ventura: From Guns N’ Roses! Gorilla: Oh, *that* Axl!!!! Sometimes I don't know why Jesse would even try make pop culture references with Gorilla. What made the thing even goofier is the Coliseum Video edit, so we never saw Robert, we never heard the exchange between Jesse and Gorilla-they just start the event with Koko halfway down the aisle, on the cart, and Gorilla strangely saying "well who does Koko remind you of?" One similar happened with the Survivor Series 1987 edit where Gorilla had a made a reference to Jesse going to the crowd for support when he was in a hold and all you hear on the Coliseum edit is Jesse's response. Well, it's even more bizarre, because other than singing songs, Axl Rose and Robert Goulet really have nothing other in common. Guns were the biggest band in the world at the time, so I guess...an attempt to be timely?
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Post by wildojinx on May 24, 2022 23:03:21 GMT -5
Anyones from the 1993 early 1994 raws there is a bunch of them It seemed like every episode would suddenly have Vince or King discussing a news story or some event during commentary.
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Post by cjh on May 24, 2022 23:33:57 GMT -5
Anyones from the 1993 early 1994 raws there is a bunch of them It seemed like every episode would suddenly have Vince or King discussing a news story or some event during commentary. They were doing the commentary for taped episodes from the studio in Stamford, CT as the shows aired on USA Network, so they would reference things that happened that day or over the weekend to make them look live.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on May 25, 2022 3:22:43 GMT -5
Anyones from the 1993 early 1994 raws there is a bunch of them It seemed like every episode would suddenly have Vince or King discussing a news story or some event during commentary. Probably to convince people it's live
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Post by Eunös ✈ on May 25, 2022 3:34:14 GMT -5
When Rey Mysterio wore the heath ledger joker mask and JR went "At least Rey Mysterios career is alive and well"...Yeah. Yikes.
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Post by Andew9001 on May 25, 2022 4:16:20 GMT -5
Nia Jax commenting on Quibi a week after it shut down
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Post by ghost on May 25, 2022 5:58:21 GMT -5
Triple H accuses Kane of necrophilia Vince says the N word . I know it’s a tv show but it’s the damn Owner of the company saying it. The fact that this didn’t get media attention is mind boggling lol Social media back then wasn’t as big as it is today where something like that could go viral and reach the whole world through Twitter. I doubt non wrestling fans have even heard of that clip before. Vince in the 2000’s wasn’t even hiding in plain sight, he was flaunting it for the world to see. Making out with women half his age, making men kiss his ass on TV, saying the N-word. I’ve said before, this is one man who cannot be “cancelled” because he was smart (creepy) enough to hide behind the circus of wrestling (“it’s a storyline, pal!).
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Post by celtics543 on May 25, 2022 6:15:03 GMT -5
Maybe I'm going to be in the minority but I kind of thought the Shelton/Trish NFL parody was actually timely and pretty funny.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 6:15:38 GMT -5
Not a terrible one but I laughed out loud when Batista interrupted Maria's Slammy Speech with the "Ima let you finish but..."
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Post by Zombie Mod on May 25, 2022 6:22:20 GMT -5
pretty much every uk show features are groan worthy attempt at referencing pop culture here
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 6:25:19 GMT -5
I know it’s a tv show but it’s the damn Owner of the company saying it. The fact that this didn’t get media attention is mind boggling lol Social media back then wasn’t as big as it is today where something like that could go viral and reach the whole world through Twitter. I doubt non wrestling fans have even heard of that clip before. Vince in the 2000’s wasn’t even hiding in plain sight, he was flaunting it for the world to see. Making out with women half his age, making men kiss his ass on TV, saying the N-word. I’ve said before, this is one man who cannot be “cancelled” because he was smart (creepy) enough to hide behind the circus of wrestling (“it’s a storyline, pal!). To be honest, the N word thing was in poor taste but back then, it wasn't this big "Oh my god you can't say that!" kinda deal. Back then, it was just a word... Hell, Booker even agreed to it and probably thought it was funny himself. Nowadays he would be seen as an "Uncle Tom" by the Black Community if he allowed it to happen or something. People give that word way too much power these days. At the end of the day, Vince WAS playing a character and his character of being a power hungry rich billionaire who thinks he can say and get away with anything probably would say the N Word. Is it any different to a character in a TV show being a racist, for example?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on May 25, 2022 6:43:01 GMT -5
Maybe I'm going to be in the minority but I kind of thought the Shelton/Trish NFL parody was actually timely and pretty funny. Yeah, I thought it was funny and it was completely timely. The MNF skit happened the week before, and some were still made about it. It was a time when the WWE spoofed something when it was relevant.
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Post by Rhody Codes on May 25, 2022 6:55:01 GMT -5
Maybe I'm going to be in the minority but I kind of thought the Shelton/Trish NFL parody was actually timely and pretty funny. Yeah, I thought it was funny and it was completely timely. The MNF skit happened the week before, and some were still made about it. It was a time when the WWE spoofed something when it was relevant. The rare instance of WWE doing a timely pop culture bit and being funny.
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Post by Heartbreaker on May 25, 2022 7:45:41 GMT -5
Remember when Jerry Springer hosted Raw… in 2010?
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 25, 2022 8:46:49 GMT -5
Using the Miller Lite Catfight girls:
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Post by bob on May 25, 2022 8:47:40 GMT -5
I have 0 recollection of this
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Post by bob on May 25, 2022 8:49:03 GMT -5
OJ Simpson Bronco car chase footage in Wrestlemania 12 match between Piper & Goldust
i remember fake Bill Clinton was around a lot
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Post by ghost on May 25, 2022 11:00:14 GMT -5
Social media back then wasn’t as big as it is today where something like that could go viral and reach the whole world through Twitter. I doubt non wrestling fans have even heard of that clip before. Vince in the 2000’s wasn’t even hiding in plain sight, he was flaunting it for the world to see. Making out with women half his age, making men kiss his ass on TV, saying the N-word. I’ve said before, this is one man who cannot be “cancelled” because he was smart (creepy) enough to hide behind the circus of wrestling (“it’s a storyline, pal!). To be honest, the N word thing was in poor taste but back then, it wasn't this big "Oh my god you can't say that!" kinda deal. Back then, it was just a word... Hell, Booker even agreed to it and probably thought it was funny himself. Nowadays he would be seen as an "Uncle Tom" by the Black Community if he allowed it to happen or something. People give that word way too much power these days. At the end of the day, Vince WAS playing a character and his character of being a power hungry rich billionaire who thinks he can say and get away with anything probably would say the N Word. Is it any different to a character in a TV show being a racist, for example? It was still "you can't say that" in 2006 (or whenever the Vince thing happened), but there weren't as many outlets to get it trending across the country/world for people to really give the company grief for it. Wrestling was well past the boom period of the MNW by then so it was back to being a niche that no one other than wrestling fans were really paying attention to. If today's social media was around in the mid-2000's, then there is no chance Vince even thinks about doing something like that on TV. Vince knew exactly what he was doing, right down to Booker T being the first face the camera panned to. That wasn't a coincidence. The platform simply wasn't there in the 2000s to hold people accountable for shady shit. Obviously there is a heightened sensitivity in the world today as well, but the platform is the bigger reason for it. As far as playing a character on TV, did the Vince N-word segment even lead to anything? Even HHH who spent like 20 minutes in a promo using every racially insensitive stereotype imaginable against Booker T wasn't going to use that word, and that's really the only type of storyline where something like that would have even "fit" from a story standpoint (using fit in quotations because I don't think that word should be used in a wrestling angle to begin with). Vince said what he said because he knew he could get away with it and there would be no ramifications for doing it. Same reason he stuck his tongue down the throat of every blonde female employee he used on television. Would he try anything like that again today, even if he were 15-20 years younger? No chance.
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