The guest host era

[BRV]

Feb 17, 2024 14:21:10 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

Bradley Cooper's "Crap, these rubes saw me" split after the A-Team's intro was priceless...

I just rewatched the episode to remember how visibly Bradley Cooper wanted to be anywhere else on earth except for in that arena. You see it in his face the moment he walks out on stage. He says like three sentences and is gone in literally 35 seconds.

But, to his credit, he swallowed the pill and showed up. Remember when Jonah Hill was advertised as the guest star on Raw and then he just never appeared on screen?

[karl100589]

I remember Kyle Busch being a pretty effective heel (and loving it)

[Mayonnaise]

I remember the Muppets and Bob Barker being fun. Kyle Busch and Joey Logano from NASCAR would have been better if they'd let them be the natural dickheads they are instead of trying to fit them into Babyface celebrities.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Going for it as a weekly, recurring thing and then using the bookings mostly in a late night talk show way where publicists wanted their clients on there to plug new projects, really sank the whole idea. Disinterested celebs showing up on TV will almost never be good, but interested celebs having fun being there usually shine and have people remain fond of them for years after. Having it be every single week meant the audience was burned out fast on it, and most of the guests were so bad that it didn't really salvage the idea. Just a terrible ocncept all the way around, and the gems that were found in the era were more just the sheer force of numbers rather than proof the idea was a good one.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

One of the worst things ever. Just corny-corny.

[Rave]

Feb 17, 2024 18:33:48 GMT -5 BRV said:

Feb 17, 2024 14:21:10 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

Bradley Cooper's "Crap, these rubes saw me" split after the A-Team's intro was priceless...

I just rewatched the episode to remember how visibly Bradley Cooper wanted to be anywhere else on earth except for in that arena. You see it in his face the moment he walks out on stage. He says like three sentences and is gone in literally 35 seconds.

But, to his credit, he swallowed the pill and showed up. Remember when Jonah Hill was advertised as the guest star on Raw and then he just never appeared on screen?

Considering what his co-stars ended up doing later in the show, I still say Cooper was right to bail when he did.

Re: Jonah Hill, I remember it mentioned after the show that he was only s'posed to appear in pretaped stuff and those ended up getting kiboshed.

Also surprised nobody's mentioned this yet, as it's one of the worst segments WWE's ever put on TV. Poor Adam Rose looked like he wanted to be put out of his misery.

[jm]

The only good thing about the guest host era was that it drove people to exclusively watch Smackdown and them killing it week after week with a guaranteed 4* match every week. I should know because it did that to me.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Hey Jonah remember when you-

[J. Hova]

I remember on one of those Legends of Wrestling episodes and Michael Hayes just buried the shit out of Al Sharpton.

[Vampiro138]

Feb 17, 2024 15:00:18 GMT -5 fg said:

Feb 17, 2024 13:09:09 GMT -5 Hulkshi Tanahashi said:

We did get SummerFest out of it!

Also Jeremy jumping off the top rope and his friend getting military pressed from John Cena to people outside. Not many celebrities were willing to jump off the top rope.

Another bad one was that rapper Hildenbrand the rapper who hosted the last Raw of the 2000s and said that the main event (John Cena vs Sheamus was the match of the CENTURY. (Completely not knowing of say Rock Vs Hogan from WM18 amongst others)). I think he was either drunk and/or high.

Another bad obe was Dennis Miller (and he made inside jokes about how bad Raw was during the show.) Even though on screen, he said he watched Raw, you can tell he didn’t due to him calling the Great Khali, the Big Great Khali and HHH the SHOW (which caused HHH to call him Dennis MILLBURN or something.) Dennis made jokes that were horrible and he asked the crowd to give the wrestlers an ovation (okay that was nice.)

Legit crazy to think that in Kayfabe the only reason Bret Hart came back was because Dennis Miller told Vince he needs to bring Bret back to the company.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Should once again note for posterity that the A-Team episode of RAW actually ends with the debut of The Nexus, to fully illustrate how f***ed up this timeline is.

[ANuclearError]

Feb 18, 2024 2:53:16 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Should once again note for posterity that the A-Team episode of RAW actually ends with the debut of The Nexus, to fully illustrate how f***ed up this timeline is.

Was also the night of the "People's Choice" Mason Ryan right?

EDIT: Disregard, that was a year later, the one where you heard a John Lennon song over and over again.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Feb 18, 2024 5:22:31 GMT -5 ANuclearError said:

Feb 18, 2024 2:53:16 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Should once again note for posterity that the A-Team episode of RAW actually ends with the debut of The Nexus, to fully illustrate how f***ed up this timeline is.

Was also the night of the "People's Choice" Mason Ryan right?

No, that was like a year later.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Genuinely some of the worst wrestling TV ever seen. I think even New Gen Raw was often more watchable

[DragonMasterP]

That whole period was probably the absolute nadir of Vince’s obsession with being seen as an entertainment mogul instead of just a wrestling promoter.

[saneiac]

This period was when Vince realized the Bella twins couldn't wrestle (yet), so he turned them into on-screen escorts for the celebrities.

[4real]

Ricky Hatton as a guest host for a Raw in London I think I remember being dreadful. He had all the charisma of a wooden board.

I could count on one hand the episodes I enjoyed. Bob Barker, Muppets, William Shatner, Hugh Jackman. That might be it.

[Totorob101]

The Muppets were delightful as they always are and Hugh Jackman was superb and I'm still surprised they got him to be there given he is a proper A list star.

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Didn't MacGruber blow up R-Truth?

[Ben Wyatt]

Jackman was awesome because he understood the assignment and seemed like he was having a blast