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  1. I get Hulu with ads as part of my phone plan and that's how they do it, way better than Peacock who randomly inserts them.
  2. I signed up for a free month of Paramount+ and watched the first two episodes of the Real World Reunion and season one up to the lost dog episode(the big Julie-Kevin fight is next). The reunion has been interesting but they're spreading the "what's this cast member been doing the past 30 years" over multiple episodes which kind of sucks. Eric had COVID so he was FaceTiming in from a hotel, since sobering up he's gotten into a bunch of new age stuff to the point it seemed almost like a parody, really you'd think he was Hansel from Zoolander. So far nothing really shocking from Julie, Heather, Kevin, Norman or Andre in the past 30 years, now Becky that's a different story. In episode 2 she sings a song she wrote about... The re-watch of season 1 has been fun and it's been nostalgic in a good way, since it's a great time capsule of that era along with bringing back memories of people I knew who were similar to the cast members. It's also interesting to watch since they were still figuring things out, they really hit the jackpot by casting Julie, Heather and Kevin, without those three I don't think the show survives. They have most of the seasons on Paramount+ and I'm going to try and get though the LA and London seasons, not sure if I'll watch San Francisco since it's going to be a rough watch due to knowing Pedro's fate, all of Puck's bs and the rest of the cast being extremely boring.
  3. The studio better not change the title!
  4. But most of the guys Ross was bragging about being former football players(Simmons, Dr. Death, Luger) were washouts from the USFL, or had a cup of coffee on the taxi squad in the NFL(Pillman & Vader), he would even go on and on about Bagwell being a friggin High School football player. Ross is a total jock sniffer when it comes to football and he was brought up in the pro wrestling biz by Bill Watts a former football/amateur wrestler who always seemed to want to try to legitimize the pro wrestling more to sooth himself than anything else. Now announcers back in the day mentioning that Jim Neidhart was kicked off the Oakland Raiders for being a nut job works and makes total sense kayfabe wise. For Luger the talk should have been he was too much of an arrogant prick for the University of Miami Hurricanes so no other team wanted anything to do with him. Jim Ross was a great big match announcer, very good at getting hot angles over, but for a run of the mill match he was unbearable and that's why I'll always rank Moonson ahead of him.
  5. Vince not liking Vader because of the stepdad is something that’s been mentioned in a joking fashion in the past, or when people armchair analyze Vince.
  6. I doubt that since that was more of a Rocca thing with Crockett Sr. supplying some talent. I can see Vince projecting all of the slights he got growing up from the rich or powerful types in his home town on Crockett, kind of like how he disliked Vader because he reminded him of his stepdad.
  7. Starz is bringing back Party Down for a limited series! I did a rewatch last month and it's a shame more people didn't see it. https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/party-down-limited-series-starz-1234921901/
  8. Miami was when it started to go down hill, that's when most of the cast were more interested in being on "The Real World" than being a "struggle artist" or "young person finding themselves" who went on the show, but Miami did have some of the funniest moments of the series.
  9. The 7 minute 30 second idea seems like something a lot of coaches will screw up clock management wise so I'm all for it. The Ravens idea is dumb and at the next owners meeting the owner with the strongest arm should be allowed to throw stale bagels at the Ravens owner for even suggesting it.
  10. Paramount+ is doing a reunion of the OG Real World cast, just like the original show(I was 17 when it first aired) it'll most likely suck me in and have me yelling at the tv. If this gets a lot of buzz I wonder if they'll do reunions of other casts, SF might be a tricky one since I'm sure none of them want to be in the same state as Puck and same county as Rachel, but I really want a London reunion of just them laying around the house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT-P_KJ3i3o
  11. The tv shows were most likely recoded on 3/4 U-Matic SP or Betacam since they had to be broadcast quality, tv stations even rinky dink ones weren’t broadcasting SVHS. Corny went cheap on the “super shows” since they weren’t going to be broadcast, the price difference for recording the show the same as TV or scaled back on SVHS would have been significant.
  12. The Saudi’s were just F’ing with them, there’s no way in hell they’d hold anyone from the WWE hostage. The Saudi’s do TONS of business with western companies and they’re not going to jeopardize that by holding employees of a western company hostage. Sure they’ll do dickish things to make a point and scare low level people but it’s not going to escalate to an international incident
  13. “Jumping” Johnny DeFazio vs. The Beast with Mark Curtis, check out the spot Curtis pulls off at 12:18.
  14. DeFazio still worked Civic Arena shows after the WWF took over the Pittsburgh region, he even tagged with Tony Garea against Piper & David Schultz in February 1984. The Studio Wrestling era was before my time but Yinzers love nostalgia so I heard a lot about it, with only four channels guys like DeFazio, “The Carnegie Cop” Frankie Holtz and “Cannonball” Chuck Martioni(who lived on the same street as my grandparents) were household names.
  15. The NFL was silly to think Disney would be down for a 100% increase when no one else was bidding.
  16. I went into that movie totally cold after only watching 10ish seconds of the Netflix preview, I really liked it but I also didn't like where it went at times.
  17. Unless the NFL is willing to put MNF on a streaming service there's no one else out there that's going to pay $3.5 billion or even $2.5 billion, I can't see WarnerMedia(TBS/TNT), NewsCorp(FS1), or Comcast(NBCSN/USA) shelling out that kind of money.
  18. Just looked it up, Arnold was still shooting T2 so there's no way they could have gotten him. I think either Stallone or Bo Jackson would have been Vince's next choice, Stallone was on the downswing(WM7 was between Rocky V and Oscar) so maybe he takes a big payday to work WM, big guys like Earthquake and Typhoon just doing fat guy spots to him is safe and his rep as a "tough guy" wouldn't get that tarnished since The Natural Disasters are comic book style monsters. Vince would have sold his kids to get Bo Jackson at the height of "Bo Knows" in the ring, but I doubt the Royals would have allowed it and even if they did it would have had to be scrapped since the hip injury happened that January.
  19. Remember they booked the LA Coliseum for WM7 before WM6 took place, I'm sure they pencilled in Hogan-Warrior 2, but by the end of spring 1990 I can see Vince wanting to go another way. WM6 didn't do as well PPV wise as they thought it would so Vince might have been leery at bringing that match back a year later, plus both make to much money merch wise to turn one of them heel, so having that twist to the rematch is a no go. At the start of the summer it seemed like Hogan's track was the feud with Earthquake, then his new best buddy Tugboat turning on him sometime in later in the year, would Hogan-Tugboat be a WM co-main? I'm not sure, maybe the plan even without the war was Hogan-Slaughter and Warrior-Savage, Sarge was a mainstream name and Vince needed to fill a 100,000 seat stadium. If they did Hogan-Warrior at WM7, I can see Bossman getting the match with Savage, he was the third most over face in the company and could work his ass off. Also maybe they do face Jake vs. heel Savage, both are such established longtime stars that the consequences of a retirement match are just as big as Warrior-Savage. I always thought that without the war Vince would have ponied up the money to have a big name celeb team with Hogan, who that would be I have no idea, but if the plan for Tugboat was for him to turn heel in late 1990 then a Natural Disasters vs. Hogan & celebrity as the WM7 main event makes sense.
  20. While they didn’t go overboard with the “that group of wrestlers were never in that location at the same time”, a lot of people need to remember the “repeat to yourself it’s just a show” line from the MST3K theme.
  21. Did anyone else slog through For All Mankind on Apple TV+? Did anyone just find out that season two starts today? The show was borderline ok and I stayed with it due to seeing where they went with the alt history(some of it was believable & some wasn't), none of the characters were all that likable and it got way to melodramatic at times. I was really surprised that it got renewed since it seems like an expensive show that no one watched or even cared about.
  22. They should throw everyone a curve ball and have it be how the cop(can't remember which one it was) and his family dealt with the psychological implications of that whole ordeal. No action at all, not even in flashback form!
  23. I think it's less name value and more him knowing the right people in power who have a "you don't know the real Mel" attitude.
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