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I don't remember Punk feuding with Hunter. I remember a skinny fat guy named Phil getting Pedigree'd by a guy named Paul.

I still liked Gonzalez's act better when FSW was doing it last year.

I took it as Bryan saying that he created his own breaks and he didn't have generational ties to get him started in the business. How is that burying Orton? Jesus...

I could watch this on a loop for hours.

Jesus, is this what it's like for the rest of you when I get into an argument in this thread? If so, then I'm really sorry.

And then he said he's a capital g great wrestler and 10 time champion. The inference being that Orton had his opportunity with his name, but is a top player because he's just...that...damn...good. You're terrible at this.

I had a stranger a few weeks ago tell me that "clearly my heart was in the right place" as far as being a Dad is concerned. Before my divorce, I was a lazy Dad: it's embarrassing but I admit it, and I've gone out of my way to change that. The night of my concussion, it's no secret that I could've died (I texted my ex at 4am asking her to tell my girls how much I loved them, as I was falling asleep...abandoned in my apartment), so I try to make every minute with them count. Thanks for the kind words, MADCAP, and keep up the good work. There are indeed a lot of shitty Dads out there (both married, divorced, or just the "baby-daddy" variety), but it's nice to know there's several solid ones inhabiting the DVDVR board.

I'd love a return to all traditional Survivor Series matches, complete with goofy team names. My card would be: The Goat-Faced Killers (Daniel Bryan [c], The Big Show, Cody Rhodes, Goldust and Dolph Ziggler) Vs The Authority (Triple H [c], Randy Orton, The Shield) The Punkers (CM Punk [c], Big E Langston, Rob van Dam, The Prime Time Players) Vs The Heyman Guys (Brock Lesnar [c], Ryback, Curtis Axel, Wade Barrett, Damien Sandow) The Chain Gang (John Cena [c], R-Truth, Los Matadores) Vs The Essence of Excellence (Alberto Del Rio [c], Fandango, The Real Americans) The Miz-Fits (The Miz [c], Kofi Kingston, The Usos) Vs The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt [c], Harper, Rowan, Kane) Throw in maybe a comedy match or a divas tag and you've got a pretty good card.

I agree with this. Zuffa has embraced a "quantity over quality" policy with their product and it is actually hurting it a lot now. You know something is wrong when I'm don't recognize 5-6 guys on a card.

BTW - The episode of COPS before Impact was a million times better. Plus it had better angles. Dean and I were freaking out. I mean it opened with a car exploding into the biggest fireball ever and the dude getting out of the car and trying to fight the cop so they tazed the fuck out of him.

You know, hire Dee Bradley Baker to reprise Olmec and hire Kirk Fogg too. Have them replace Tenay and Taz at the booth. And hell, throw in a "pendant of life" that the holder can use to re-start a title match immediately after they have lost. Boom, I just made TNA something that I would actually seek out to watch.

Tito shouldn't have been booked and should remain retired.

PPV is cancelled. The show will now be live on Spike.

Sitting, whoa buddy. If I can't lay in bed and stalk, I'm not bothering.

May I suggest that you guys start wearing polo shirts? I find when I say creepy, rapey things to women while wearing my sweet four horseman shirt bitches be crazy, but when I wear one of those cool guy salmon colored polos, I can basically say anything I want and everyone, dudes included, want to have sex with me.

Maybe you "socially awkward" guys should approach women just like you do a man. When you approach a women, and the vibe you give off is, "I'm trying to talk to you because I want to fuck you", you've lost the match already my friends. Treat them as a person...and for God's sake, don't start trying to get all of her personal info out of her within the first hour of talking to them. Comes off creepy....

Wow. They're actually trying to recreate the Punk deal beat-by-beat. I wonder if they'll bring in Red to win the thing, then have AJ beat him for it on the same night.

I think we're close enough for this...just close enough: LOST HALLOWEEN EPISODES OF THE 70s and 80s (and maybe before, but definitely not after). NothingNOTHING is better than a Halloween episode of an old t.v. show...older the better. I hereby declare the following non-binding rules that mean nothing: 1) No Roseanne's (too easy) 2) No pretty Little Liars, Waverly Wizard, Spongebob bullshit. Too recent. THE MUPPET SHOW (w/Vincent Price, natch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ00WDK-rk8 KATE AND ALLIE: THE COSBY SHOW: (The Kingly 1st season one where Vanessa wants to make out with that kid in the Dracula costume) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkj28a8EHXE THE FACTS OF LIFE (weird "The Girls and Mrs. Garrett live together in a bakery" season) with IAN MOTHERFUCING WOLFE and let's see if there's anything elsHOLYSHITIT'sTHEPaulLYNDEHALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!!!! Guys...I'm not kidding. Paul Lynde did a Halloween special...in 1976...there could not be a more perfect harmonic convergence of awesome than that. Here is the cast list: Paul Lynde Margaret Hamilton (Yes, the one from THE WIZARD OF OZ. According to WIki-poo, this is the first time she reprised the role) Billie Hayes Billy Barty Tim Conway Roz "Pinky Tuscadero" Kelly (She is actually billed with the name of her character from HAPPY DAYS as part of her name...and she's smoking) Florence Henderson (Fuck Yeah!!! Mrs. Brady!) Betty White (Of course, just like, you know today THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER!) KISS (fast forward to 25:40 for this, you raving metalheaded freaks) Donny Osmond Marie Osmond KISS + The Osmonds + Tim Conway + Pinky Tuscadero + Billy Barty were all in the same green room all sharing the same bag full of quaaludes and they all then went to Paul Lynde's bungalow for a boundary-and-orientation-shattering key party. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR FOOL, WATCH THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? FLORENCE HENDERSON SINGS A DISCO VERSION OF "THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC" IN A BODY-HUGGING SEQUENED GOWN ON TOP OF A GIANT ORANGE BAT PETER CRISS SINGS A SOLO VERSION OF "BETH" AT THE PIANO!!!!! They had all of KISS there, and they said, "You know what?...let's have Peter take this one!" Since this aired on Oct. 29, 1976, I'm pretty sure I was literally 36-40 hours away from putting on Gene Simmons makeup myself...either that or Batman, I can't remember which year was which. At one point in this, Paul Lynde is playing "a trucker" which means he is dressed in a white studded-leather jumpsuit...shirtless. Paul Lynde doing Butch. The other truckers dancing around him in the exact same outfit (to hoe-down music???) are all women. Tim Conway is there and he is into it. I can't process this. Paul Lynde makes a joke about "being bigger than Billie Jack." It ends with the entire cast dancing to "Disco Lady." Why are you still reading and not watching?????? On the far left? That is Tim Conway doing The Hustle. Why can't we go back to this world??????

Helping the girls carve pumpkins at my place tonight; Tegan was up first. Zoe took the pic for me. Yes, I know, wearing a shirt this orange during Pumpkin Carving Season is hazardous to one's health...

I'm Team Rowan.

Haas and Benjamin should have never been broken up. Neither one were singles star material, but man, what a great team.

I will apologize for two things. One, if this has been posted. Two, if this is too much... but I will say it had me dyin

King of heels/men "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert sets up "Cowboy" Bill Watts and buries him under the Russian Flag I can't find any of the Lawler invades ECW stuff with a quick view. I really could spend the rest of my Friday night watching Lawler cane Tommy Dreamer in the nutsack over and over and over.

Friday evening whiskey fuelled thought What do we reckon the total length of time that Davey Boy Smith and the Warlord performed stalling suplexes on in the early 90s was? As a 12 year old I would have guessed about 43 hours.

Nope.

Oh lawd, Bellator.

Just don't look, just don't look, doodoodoodoodoodoodoo. Can't be bothered to actually find the clip.

Put it this way: If Test had actually married Stephanie, I doubt he'd be the (co-)heir to the empire. But Triple H probably wouldn't be, either.

I always liked her. Where is she working?

That's probably why he adopted him.

He can be in every Marvel film as far as I'm concerned.

Everything is too easy now, including stalking. You used to have to get out there in the world and stalk for real. You'd have to adjust your posture and everything. A little hunch in the back is the proper stalking posture. Now you just sit at a computer.

OK some first impressions. I like the game. Story-wise it's really cool and well done. I love the Bat-cave and mixing the challenge maps into your actual gameplay. I also like the rewards system for pulling off certain in-game challenges, like you can get extra XP if you pull off the right objective. These are nice little tweaks and differences from the Rocksteady game. I love seeing old Gotham and same locations from Arkham City kind of at their height. In terms of gameplay, and I kind of got this impression a tad from the demo at E3, it's still a little rough. The combat is not quite as smooth as the Rocksteady games. The game is a little slower and buggier than Arkham City. The previous Arkham games had a layer of polish that this one is kinda lacking. Now granted, some of these issues could be patched in the coming months. At the same time, sometimes I think games need a delay or two if it means just getting all that solid extra polish to really put the game over the top. Star Trek I don't think would've been as big of the disaster it was if it didn't have all the bugs and flaws in the final product. If you want to have a little fun time waster tune into Anarky's radio station as he goes on an anti-capitalist monologue for about 20 minutes. Felt that long at least.

Happy Thor: The Dark World marks the third Tom Hiddleston performance as Loki.

I read the WON covering that recently and Meltzer hated the performance. I thought Sarge worked his ass off.

51) EYES WIDE SHUT 1999 - 627 Points - 10 Votes (Highest Vote: #1 Death From Above) DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick STARRING: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field Placement On Original List: #131 (4 Votes) IMDB ROTTEN TOMATOES (77%) WIKI NOTE FROM RIPPA - Searching for "Nicole Kidman nipples" might have been more work safe that trying to find a good movie poster for this one.

My favorite team ever is the 1990 The Warriors team, just for the in-joke in the team name. I find the booking of the 1990 show fascinating, now looking back on it. You had the Ultimate Survivors match at the end, which made the booking have to do interesting things. It was obvious Hogan and Warrior were going to said match, and were almost certainly going to be the final survivors. You had the WWF starting to build up Slaughter to be Warrior's Rumble opponent, which makes for one tough spot. Clearly, they didn't want Slaughter to go into the final match and lose to Warrior (or Hogan) but they also needed him to come out of the show looking strong. Having his three teammates each go down until it was 4 on 1, and then going on a rally to get rid of 3 of them before losing to Tito kept him looking at least relatively strong. Then you had a Hogan/Warrior/Santana team, and how the hell do you make a heel group credible against that? You have Dibiase, who is somewhat credible still, not that far removed from his 1989 main event run. But nobody else who could make it to the match would be all that strong on their own. So, the best way to get around that? Have The Visionaries run the table against Jake's team. Jake gets a pass because of the whole "wrestling half blind" angle, Snuka existed only to get a legends pop and put people over by that point, and so it was really only sacrificing The Rockers, who worked quite well as scrappy underdogs anyway. It's a weird case of booking themselves into a corner, and then working their way out of it. I think that's probably why the Grand Finale match of Survivors never returned.

#teamcryingbigshow

Didn't stop Grown Ups 2 doing huge numbers.

I lol'ed

It was still pretty damn funny.

Completely agree that the Dana story was better before they introduced "did the hunky teen kill his brother?" bit. So far I'm okay with the Saul twist. I mean, Carrie did try to run out on the meeting with Iran, so it's not like Saul's plan went without a hitch. And I liked the creepiness of Saul being all fatherly to Carrie in the scene where we learn that he's using her and putting her through hell to get back at Iran.

Obviously everyone here gets the big ones out of the way quick, but one I haven't seen yet that should absolutely be in the discussion is Mick Foley. Outside of his famous death matches in Japan, he did most of his work in the US for the entire decade, and contributed to each of the 3 major promotions of the 90s. He was never the top guy, but he was key to WCW's depth, ECW's extreme image, and defining both the physical and comedic qualities of the attitude era. I don't know if anyone in the history of wrestling could put an opponent over as strong as Foley, and he put over some great ones in the 90s. My top 5 based on US Work (no order):Mick Foley Eddie Guerrero Rey Mysterio Jr. Steve Austin Vader Michaels, Hart, Dustin, and he who shall not be named are also strong contenders.

I don't see how caring about her comes down to likability, though. Being wrong in some ways, and making bad choices, and having huge flaws...that's kind of what makes a lot of the best lead characters work in shows nowadays. I mean, how many ways were Vick Macky or Walter White or Tony Soprano wrong, impetuous, selfish or flawed? I think we care about her because we've seen her have flashese of absolute brilliance and because she's taken huge risks with her own life and mind in order to do her job better, so she believes. If she has turned into a worse person because of this or lost control or reason or revealed flaws through it...I don't see how that is less dramatically valid than any other anti-hero.