Those BOD commercials really fulfill my homoerotic fantasies. Man, buying such a product would SURELY make me a better person.
Sign of the night: whatever yours is, baby. (wink)
...and a Fashion Report, too. I've got as many comebacks a Terry Funk!
Someone screwed someone. The Dawn/Torrie storyline WILL NOT DIE! Quick, get some garlic.
Angle, in "Submit" shirt, gold medals, flag singlet/kneepads, wearing the belt, talks. Hey, he didn't mention the Euro belt! Brocky, in "Here Comes the Pain" shirt, shares the love. I like where this is going.
(and Paul) beats up a chair while Paul hides. Paul has a plan. I like where this is going.
Eddie, with Chavo, both in red trunks and wearing the belt, vs. BillyK, in black full-cuts with gold splats, wearing the belt. Eddie's finisher is a whole lotta hurt. Nice match.
Steph's hair is straight as she mothers Matt. Damn you, Spyro!
Chuck, in "Pulambo" black undies, already in the ring, vs. Cena, in "LUGZ!" (say it like they do in the commerical!) shirt and chain, rapping, with Bull, in wifebeater, yamaka, and chain. Um, word (?) EvilAss, in red, breaks up the love.
FU, Lawler. Rygar-HATE-milk.
No appologies. Al deserves a bullet in the head. Man, this guy DESERVES what he has coming, but there's NO excuse for the crap his daughter is going through. Idunno, let's say this was 15 precious minutes of my life.
Brocky, in black bull-skull undies, vs. Matt, who has wrestled in 44 states, in V1 shirt and burple/gold pants, with Shannon (the little MF'er), ijn V1 shirt and silver pants. Oh Lord, Shannon SO looks like a little kid. Um, squish-squash.
Kurt, and Steph chat. Hey, remember the whole "relationship" those two used to have? Man, that would be a great storyline to, like, actually wrap-up. Hey, it's URBAN pizza - apparently that's an important difference.
Kurt, in the same thing as before, revisits his 3-I's. Um, wow. Paul, in suit and NY hat, with ponytail, comes on down. Wow. Paul explains it, which is good, 'cuz I can't, for the life of me, understand it, myself, without the little verbal diagram. I hope (and Paul) and Albert aren't a bit miffed about Paul's new addition to his, dare I say, stable. Paul must like BOD, 'cuz he always brings up screwing Brocky. Oh, (and Paul) IS angry. Owie, head spinning.
Nunzio, in Italian undies, and Noble, in cutoffs, with Nidia, in Daisy Dukes, vs. Crash, in yellow cutoff-T, and Hugh...um...Bill, in black singlet, with green splats. Sorry, wan't paying attention.
Cat nods his head while Edge, in THAT DAMN STOCKING HAT, says somethings about Cat's momma and Albert. But in different sentances, so it's okay.
Edge, in white and silver "EDGE" trenchcoat and pants, vs. Albert, in undies. Sorry, wasn't watching (again).
Ben-wa limbers up. Some kid, in Smackdown! polo, interviews Brocky's door.
Kurt, in same as before, sans the "Submit" shirt, with Paul, in same as before, vs. adbreak, vs. Ben-wa, in blue/silver trunks. Paul caresses the belt like it's a lover. (and Paul) does the run-in. Then Brocky does a run-in. Solid outing, as expected.
Overall: Eh, the Torrie/Dawn thing killed the momentum and the show never got my full attention back. Entertaining, but nothing memorable. THe Kurt/Paul thing just weirded me out.
Hey, ScreamingHeadGuy, isn't that Takuya's sister from X-Change?
Imagine Dingbat doing babytalk: philosphosize upon your inner warrriorness...(baby)waahh....(Dingbat)destructivity and iglooitis seem to be deterrring the inner warrior from enveloping you....(baby) waahh....(Dingbat)magnodestructivation will be your salvation...(wife) the baby wants its bottle....(Dingbat) that was the message I was conveying to the greatness of warriorness in it magnanimous omnipotent hemotoma.
-The Warrior and his new daughter, according to redsoxnation.
True, oh Great Thomas. I can't slip anything related to X-Change past you, I see. I'd tell you what her name is, but I don't want to play that far into the game just for the trivia points.
I see that Thhhor now graces your Avatar pic location. No love for the Benoit pic, huh?
And, once more, the both of us posting Smackdown! threads within seconds of each other continues. Tell you what - I'll wait 'til 5 after the hour befor I post from now on.
Originally posted by ScreamingHeadGuyTrue, oh Great Thomas. I can't slip anything related to X-Change past you, I see. I'd tell you what her name is, but I don't want to play that far into the game just for the trivia points.
I see that Thhhor now graces your Avatar pic location. No love for the Benoit pic, huh?
And, once more, the both of us posting Smackdown! threads within seconds of each other continues. Tell you what - I'll wait 'til 5 after the hour befor I post from now on.
Number One: It's Natsumi.
Number Two: I tried to start a Please Support Benoit campaign, but no one joined in except myself, and maybe DEAN, so I chose The Most Hated Man in Wienerville.
Number 3: Thanks, man. I'm already struggling to compete with DEAN anyways.
Imagine Dingbat doing babytalk: philosphosize upon your inner warrriorness...(baby)waahh....(Dingbat)destructivity and iglooitis seem to be deterrring the inner warrior from enveloping you....(baby) waahh....(Dingbat)magnodestructivation will be your salvation...(wife) the baby wants its bottle....(Dingbat) that was the message I was conveying to the greatness of warriorness in it magnanimous omnipotent hemotoma.
-The Warrior and his new daughter, according to redsoxnation.
The dream is over. The magic is gone. Raw was technically better than SmackDown.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned my theory that Rey Misterio Jr. was the true heart of SmackDown and the catalyst for its incredible turn around into the show not to be missed. I'm so smart! I believe I read last week that SmackDown's ratings were the lowest since August. And what happened in August? Misterio debuted! And last week was the first show without him since his debut! It all comes together. He turned the show around before Benoit and Eddie came over when he debuted and formed the short-lived team with Edge and John Cena when they drove off those evil, evil Canadians and they never looked back. Come back, Misterio!
Anyway, let me hit the things that were good. Chavo Guerrero Jr. is good. He's better than good. He really does have a slightly better character than Eddie at the moment as the heir to Eddie's evil throne. "Cheater, cheater, cheater!" And since he couldn't get the cruiser belt before, he went and got his uncle to beat up Billy. What a jerk. Also a jerk is Matt Hardy. Again, in a great, entertaining way. He's practically blind, man! Too bad that they don't really seem to know what to do with either Chavo's Cheating to Win or Mattitude.
Also cool was The Cat's bad-ass 70s coat and the mock turtleneck. It was like an open challenge to The Big Show to try to out-John Shaft him next week. Get rid of the rap competitions and have a Cat vs. Show fashion feud with Larry Graham and the superfunky Graham Central Station reuniting to provide live music. Or at least let someone say "Cool it, man!" to Cat and have him flip out and say "No, YOU COOL IT, son!"
The Angle/Brock ring meeting at the beginning actually was good, but in the end, all for naught. Unstoppable Heel Monster Brock vs. World's Greatest Wrestler and Last Hope Kurt Angle was the way to maximize their first match. They blew that. So what they seemed to have as a replacement, Superman NCAA Champion Brock Lesnar vs. World's Greatest Wrestler Olympic Champ Kurt Angle in a spirited battle to determine the Greatest Fighter In The History of All Ever, was actually a good replacement and the only other really solid option. They blew that, too.
Why, when Angle (against all odds) manages to win the crowd over by sheer force of will and his in-ring greatness, do they always feel the need to step in and have him make a sudden heel turn? They were doing a fantastic job by sending him out there with a character and forcing us, the fans, to decide on how to receive Angle and he was right there as the jerk who everyone loves anyway because he's so great (like Austin and Rock, but different). Putting Angle with Heyman is pointless because Angle's the total package and having him take away Angle's time to do anything is as dumb as letting HHH be the one to do the talking instead of new sociopath Steve Austin in the Two Man Power Trip or putting HBK out to yak for accomplished talker Kevin Nash. It's redundant. And now your sure-fire Angle vs. Lesnar feud is Heyman and two guys vs. Lesnar.
Why? Angle and Lesnar showed that they had more than enough chemistry to work together in that segment last week and the first segment last night. If Brock has to be a face, use the Rumble to let him get final revenge against Big Show and Heyman to clear the way for his ultimate battle against the one guy who can take him. Why did Angle, already aligned with Heyman, go to the trouble of getting Brock's suspension lifted? They had Brock out of competition but with the ability to taunt him on TV every week already. Gah. Too much Heyman.
At the very least, they cut out the bit they taped where Brock manhandled Angle, so maybe they realized the mistake they're making. That would have been brutal and would have driven a stake through this feud once and for all. You can't have the face be superhumanly strong and able to tear the heel in half while the heel's only chance is superior technical wrestling. I can't see the match going that way where Kurt's evil tactics would be to just outwrestle the Juggernaut. It should have been the other way, with Kurt's only hope of surviving the greatest force of evil to be to use the skills that won the crowd over to his side in the first place.
Ah well. Get well, Misterio. Get well, Kurt. Save your show. Make them get rid of the bad angles and find a way to get the right other guys pushed. At the very least, couldn't they have combined the Albert and DeMott pushes so just one guy was beating the crap out of the cruisers (Albert crippling Misterio, DeMott the rest of the division)? I wouldn't have wanted to see DeMott be the guy to take Misterio out any more than Albert or Albert be the guy crushing cruisers three at a time any more than DeMott, but if it was just one guy doing both it would take up less time on the show and Misterio could then come back and jump off of things onto him for sweet, sweet revenge.
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First of all, the notion that WCW would have folded and not found a viable owner/TV deal had it not spectacularly tanked itself is stunning in its lack of logic.