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Aside from maybe Don Owen and Dave Brown, I find it hard to believe that none of the non-wrestlers are not only not in, but aren't even remotely close to getting in.

If they're playing XBOX and having THAT good of a time, they clearly aren't playing any WWE games...

Bryan Alvarez.

These Homeland villains leave a lot to be desired. You've got Abu Nazir whose master plan involved flying into the US and hiding in an abandoned warehouse and apparently just hoping for the best at that point, and now you have Dar Adal who went from badass to pussy in about ten seconds as soon as Carrie fought back. Makes the U.S. look like a bunch of incompetent jerks if they're so incapable of capturing these Level 1 bosses. I can also only assume Dar's ex wife was deaf since she was completely oblivious to her daughter-in-law being SHOT IN THE HEAD (contrary to popular belief, a silencer doesn't literally silence a bullet, it barely muffles it) and then didn't seem to mind when her ex-husband's voice was loudly talking to her grandson. On the bright side, at least Quinn was in the room with a child and didn't immediately murder it.

I love both guys but I like Jesse just a little bit better: 1) His commentary was more honest and biting. There are things he would say to Vince's face on commentary in the 80s that there is zero chance would be allowed to be said in today's world without getting a reprimand. He just sounded so much more unscripted than Bobby. 2) There's a lot less Jesse out there than Heenan, so I tend to be more appreciative of his appearances. Between Prime Time, Challenge, RAW, then Nitro and Thunder, Bobby was on at least three hours a week most weeks from about 1986 to 2000. Jesse in his heyday only had Superstars and the monthly SNME in a four year span.

With all the ridicule we've been giving Dave and company lately, this really has been one of the best weeks audiowise the site has ever had. Between the 80 minute mailbag Saturday, the additional 30 min mailbag Sunday, the awesome 90 minute History of MidSouth show, and the Chris Jericho and Kevin Kelly interviews, they've been on a serious roll. Bryan even made a joke on Sunday's show that was actually funny.

I think there was a thread once for greatest haircuts. It degenerated into fabulously bad by about page 2.

Yes, because that's exactly how it went down. Shawn was some 75 year old man asking politely for a handshake, and not some fortysomething guy who can still go acting like a total dickhead after screwing Bryan over the night before.

Quick question for PS3 users: So I've been waiting for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus to be free on PS+, now they are, I've started to play them, and I don't get either one of them. They start out fine, but I get lost immediately. I've figured both of the first levels out initially, but it's been frustrating and not in a fun way. Meanwhile my drive is full, but I can use that space on GTAV, My question is: Keep up on ICO/Shadow or buy GTAV?

Doink was never wildly popular ever, unless you want to count this board fifteen years after the fact. Doink was popular in that Vince McMahon "Ha Ha HAAAAA!!" mode where the more he laughed, the more desperate he sounded. If fans reacted the way Vince wanted to, who knows how far he could have gone. Heel Doink was awesome, but what made him awesome was so ahead of its time that Vince would never have gotten it. And when fans started to take to him, Vince took the completely opposite reasons why, and made him the waste of space that he became. He was a psycho in clown makeup who could wrestle you and destroy you while he looked stupid. Then he turned into a legit comedy wrestler who pandered to everybody because he was a clown. And the whole point was lost.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. I became a Klay Thompson fan last season, so it cushions the blow a little to get obliterated by a guy who should get more credit than he's been getting.

#1. Every TV/Movie/Podcast/Form of Entertainment is copied in some form from somewhere else. #2. Literally 100 people on this planet are probably aware that both Holmes & Yoyo and Almost Human both existed and exist as TV shows. You and I are one of the lucky few. Of all the legit carbon copies of the hundreds of shows (with shows copying each other airing simultaneously), you throw a fit because a drama about a robot and a human is similar to a sitcom about a robot and a human that aired 35 years ago? #3 Did you lose your shit too because American Idol was so similar to Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour from the 1940s?

And if we're discussing overused moves from any period, it seemed like every third guy had a powerbomb between 1989-1992. Which coincidentally was roughly the same time the DDT was ruined forever.

Anybody over 350 lbs using the splash or the avalanche and that not being the end of the match. That was part of the charm of big men. If they wore you down enough to squash you, that was the end. Now even running avalanches are just transition moves.

Has there ever been a feud based on a premise like this? If not, then why not? Does Edge & Booker T. feuding over shampoo count? Chris Jericho accidentally spilled coffee on Kane once. That was the basis of a 2-3 month series.

I'm starting to believe the only reason Chris Brody still exists on the show is so that Quinn will have another child he can accidentally kill.

What the hell? Shannon Brown is available? Yes, please.

Absolute agreement. It was just infectious.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck DOC! Fuck the Clippers!!! That fourth quarter was one of the most ridiculously awesome thirty minutes I've seen as a Lakers fan. I can't tell if the Lakers played that well or the Clippers were just that shitty, but goddamn did I enjoy that. .....and now I'll prepare to return to the planet Earth in about 24 hours.......

It also didn't help that he had spent most of the past five years either as an AWA mid-carder or in obscurity on the independents. It was hard to take him seriously as a sudden world beater. As far as favorite Survivor Series matches, I've always loved both tag matches from the first two. And I have a soft spot for the 93 opener (Savage/Ramon/Kid/Jannetty vs. Diesel/IRS/Martel/Bomb.)

I think Berzerker was originally the captain, but once Slaughter joined the face side, Mustafa was promoted to captain. Busick left and was replaced by Hercules. They faced Slaughter, Duggan, Kerry Von Erich, and Tito Santana (replacing Ricky Steamboat.) EDIT: Dammit.

Two Survivor Series teams I think of immediately:

You inspired me to watch that episode, and that was a pretty fascinating hour of television: even in the 70s fans were ruining technical matches by hollering and catcalling whenever Mil Mascaras and Ted Adams got in a compromising position, that WWE would still air a match that was brutally screwed up in the transfer (with Ken Patera's handicap match randomly FFWDing the entire time), that there would be for the first time ever a match involving Baron Mikel Scicluna and SD Jones that I literally had no idea who would win (so of course neither would), and that the WWWF was pulling the "OH NO, we're OUT of TIME!" card a decade before Jim Crockett and company was.

They cut the Rey match out of the show. I know they showed the Rey match on Sin because it was that stupid "Penalty Box" match with Jim Duggan as ref. At the very least they had to have shown that match as a shortie because I just remember how stupid the entire thing was.

They've at least shown WCW Sin and SuperBrawl Revenge in full on Classics in the past year and Rey was unmasked on those shows. WWE just seems to treat it like there happened to be some guy also named Rey Mysterio Jr who didn't wear a mask who may or may not be the same one as our guy.