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Has there been a Japanese wrestling game since Wrestle Kingdom 2 (2007)? I'm not aware of it if there has been one.

Hopefully, this firm is hiring;

My wife is a child psychologist. Lol, the serious conversations we've had about the kids on Bob's Burgers. Wife wants to believe that Tina will normalize after she matures and her hormone levels normalize, but her professional self doesn't buy that. Oddly enough, she thinks Louise could grow up as the normal one. We once had a conversation where she argued that Tina's issues didn't meet the criteria for institutionalization and I quipped "But you'd be ok with it if we threw her in a cave with food and wireless internet and blocked off the only opening with a giant boulder, right? For the protection of the rest of us?" She didn't disagree Christian Slater needs to get onto a CSI/NCIS type franchise or something. He's not that great an actor, but he can play the charismatic smart-ass quite well. A show where he can fully utilize his eyebrows. Can he do a really terrible New Orlean accent. I kinda liked the setup and characters they introduced in this week's NCIS (backdoor pilot for the New Orleans spinoff), but the accents really got to me. Scott Bakula's was comically bad. Haven't watched Mind Games yet (still going to watch the episodes already aired via Comcast on Demand), but it at least looked better than Slater's other two series. And Believe and Lone Star both looked really promising. Unfortunately, the promos for Mind Games also made it look like the sort of show that would get canceled after... oh.... five episodes.

Yeah, I watched the last two eps back to back and didn't like much aside from older Ted's wistful end-of-episode voiceovers and the "where are they now" montage of supporting characters. Wife and I still think Ted-Robin together makes perfect sense. One of the things that frustrates me about them going to that particular well so many times is that they've never come up with a compelling reason why Ted and Robin can't work as a couple. It's feels like you're watching the characters make the same bad choices over and over. My wife jokes that Robin-Barney work as a couple until Robin goes into therapy and gets her issues under control. Then she has her "OMG! What have I done?" moment. I hope the writers pull it together for the finale. There's a lot of this season that I've hated, from shrill Lily to Marshall's neverending road trip to generally unfunny episodes. I kinda wish they had introduced the mother earlier so they could develop her as a character.

Hannibal prosecuted for tax fraud after an audit discovers he wrote non-existent groceries off as business expenses would be bleakly funny.

In general, you need to listen to the Raging Bull shoot since he covers this in detail. i'm trying to remember the deal. I think it was that Rude found out he was pulling in less than Manny or something. Crockett was probably just a case of the WWF making Rude a much better offer and promising him a singles push. Manny did say in a shoot that Rude found out he (Manny) was making more than Rude, so maybe that made it easier to listen to the WWF. There's was also a rumor that Rude showed up drunk to a few tapings and thought Crockett was going to fire him. The WWF departure was rumored to be over Rude wanting to have kids with his wife. Supposedly, he didn't wanted to get off the drugs (steroids) in order to get her pregnant and was basically told that the decision wasn't up to him. He was also feuding with the company over money, asking to be paid for some shows he didn't work since the WWF had continued to promote him for said shows (thus, using him as a draw to increase the gate).

Being a little too convincing while playing a creepy sociopath on the indys, maybe? I still can't wrap my head around the idea that Jon Moxley will probably eventually get a strong babyface push. It just seems wrong.

Not gonna lie, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be getting out of the gif (as relates to the quote about Lillian), but it made me laugh anyway.

The other member of the Lords of Kaos (the one with the WV tattoo) is Lance Erickson. The smaller guy is indeed Damian Wayne.

Clones and zombies. Vince was planning to eventually replace all the alphas with clones or zombies anyway after Punk walked out. Show goes on more or less as planned. Triple H's clone melts after it gets too close to the pyro during an entrance, so Zombie Bryan Danielson (D-Zom) carries a broom to a 4 star match. D-Zom wins the title in an overbooked mess that sees run-ins from CM Clone, the original Ultimate Warrior (the one that died), and Dolph Ziggler (Dolph wasn't on the plane. Only his career is actually dead).

So what's Soap Opera Dave's MMA? Spanish telanovelas? Musical theater? Reality tv?

I'm friends with a tv critic (major paper in a top 20 market) who swears she should have had a huge career post-Buffy based on the fact that she's smart, media savvy, and understands the business. He thought she'd have an instinct for picking projects. Instead..... It's an off business, though. Based on Buffy, I would never have picked David Boreanaz to be cast as the lead in two shows and basically work for 17 years straight (and counting, I haven't seen an official announcement, but supposedly Bones will be renewed for next season). I've heard people make fun of his career, but he's made a huge pile of money, worked steadily for close to two decades, and gotten into producing and directing via Bones. And he's probably more recognized as :"Booth" than "Angel". Personally, I'd take his career over Gellar's.

I'm really surprised the Crazy Ones seems to be on the chopping block. Are the ratings not good? I don't follow ratings at all, so all I remember is that the first week or two pulled good(-ish) ratings. SMG seems destined to have no career post-Buffy. Kinda surprised she doesn't pop up in Whedon projects.

Yeah, Rock reportedly vetoed every idea for a program with HBK. The story is that Rock hates Michaels for interfering with his push when the Kliq had power. Also, there was some sort of incident with Michaels and Rock's grandmother back when Rock was a teenager (Michaels appeared on a show promoted by Rock's family).

Judy Bagwell was calling the front office on Buff's behalf at least as far back as his stint in Global (as the Handsome Stranger). Some people never learn. Are we supposed to be pretending that Buff working as a gigolo is really that shocking of a development?

Arrow was kinda meh last week, but I dug the last five minutes. Nice soliloquy from Laurel and

It means that, much like Ron Burgundy, WWE Divas will read anything you write on a cue card. Hope the studio didn't pay much for that bit of promotion. The bit was wretched.

If anyone needs me, I'll be busy creating alt accounts for the next hour or two so I can "like" that photo about 100 more times. That's astounding.

Re: the American Wolves and the tag title switch

Dammit, wacky random matches no one ever thought they'd see (or wanted to see) are the only way this promotion is going to survive. Kea makes way too much sense. Mutoh is going to have to try harder if he wants to reach WAR levels. Or even IGF levels. If Inoki were booking, the surprise guest would have been.... um, Stephanie McMahon? Targar, Lord of the Volcano? Lash Leroux? Is Kea in business school and still making a few appearances on the side, or did nothing come of that?

That's actually a great spot and I wish more teams would use it.

I'll be surprised if we're still comparing Aaron Paul to Sarah Gellar ten years from now. Not that SMG's career has been particularly noteworthy since Buffy ended (Unless the Crazy Ones somehow goes on to be a massive hit, it looks like Boreanaz and Hannigan will enjoy much better post-Buffy careers). Paul has never struck me as a star in the making. I kinda think he'll end up a decent actor who had one breakout role, and never quite escapes the shadow of that role. There are a lot of stars like that. Sometimes it's a result of being typecast by the breakout role. Sometimes, it's a "water finds its level" sort of thing. (Also, Need for Speed looks like a really bad choice for a followup project.)

Yeah, around the time Heyman took over as OVW booker, Santino started doing a Russian shootfigter gimmick. That was his second gimmick, I think. He had a different gimmick when Cornette was there (and slapped him; the infamous Boogeyman incident that got Corny canned).

- Well, it was all part of Hogan's master plan to.... be on WCW's tv shows all the time, thereby driving up ratings and... making more money for WCW. So the nWo drove up ratings for WCW, then tried to take over the company by buying airtime on the company's shows. And, since ratings were up due to the nWo, they'd have to pay more for airtime on those shows. In retrospect, the nWo's takeover plan could have been thought out better.