Technico Support

Nobody has mentioned this week's episode as it was more table setting for the season's final three but still some great stuff. Jimmy spiraling downward: no money, no car, only 30 minutes' credit on 4 hours' community service, giving commercials away for free, just awful Kim being unable to live with what they did to Chuck and seemingly growing wary of Jimmy The return of nerdy pharmacy guy Mike and Nacho's meeting of the minds Mike is probably going to try to find out what happened to that woman's husband. No idea what that will mean in the grand scheme of things but I'm looking forward to finding out. The slow realization that Jimmy is pulling a spiteful con the raise Chuck's malpractice insurance rates because, fuck it, why not?

Whoever cons and blackmails the most married men in a 72 hour time period wins

This is a promoter who had two Puerto Ricans work a matador gimmick, originally gave Kenzo Suzuki and Kaientai the names "Hirohito" and "Club Kamikaze," respectively, dressed Tony Atlas as Saba Simba, changed Rusev from Bulgarian to Russian because 'muricans apparently don't know the difference, turned a Samoan into a Japanese sumo, took three talented Mexican workers and gave them a landscaper gimmick, the list goes on and on. Forgive me if I assume the worst.

A+ Photoshop work on that Pete Dunne pic. Glad to see they had time for it. I thought the graphics department would be working overtime on shots of Jinder's back.

WWE booking. Every program starts with the babyface winning clean.

Vince is tone-deaf to non-white issues and thinks "foreign" fans will get behind any "foreigner" he presents as their champion? Who could have ever called that? I can't wait for him to turn Hideo Itami Chinese to try to get a foothold there.

Call me old but I long for the days when studios would wait to see if the first movie, you know, makes a fucking dime before planning a sequel, let alone a trilogy or an entire "shared universe." God damn, movie studios, at least lie to me and tell me making a movie is not the same as making any other product nowadays.

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Aside from some two on one attacks against Andre, the obligatory Survivor Series team-ups, and one crappy tag title reign with Andre and Haku, did the Heenan Family ever do anything as a unit in the WWF? I never saw them as a stable like the Horsemen, who always acted as a team. To me, they were more of a monster factory vs Andre and Hogan and, later, just random guys who all happened to be managed by the same person. But really, that was just the WWF model.

Court Bauer mentioned that Delirious is like a son to Joe Koff and he pretty much has the job as long as Koff has his.

Thanks, @Ace First, a handshake deal is worthless, doubly so in wrestling. It's a race to see who screws who first. Since there are always three sides to every story, I have no idea how close Cornette's is to the truth, but in the end, King had to watch out for himself. It is delightful to see the office just get miserable over losing one. I can't cry over a carny-ass promoter losing his ability to job a guy on the way out like you knew Cornette wanted to. Second, someone who works in wrestling shitting on someone for working as a stripper is absurd and Cornette's a dick for doing it. It's like a guy with ass cancer laughing at a guy with ball cancer. I enjoy wrestling but i understand its place in society and on a good day it might be viewed on the same level as stripping. Shit, at least strippers don't work for free because they're marks for the industry, or fall on their heads for money (unless something goes really wrong on the pole). I bet KIng has made a far better living as a Chippendale's dancer than as a wrestler. But in Cornette's world it's more honorable to cut your head with a razor and drive 500 miles for a $10 payoff than it is to shake your ass for money. Fucking goof.

God damn, that's ice cold. I can't decide who's worse...Cornette or the dumb marks who fall for his act. Edit: reading through it, the guy essentially asked King a troll question, then ran and stooged it to Cornette when King reacted as expected. Twitter is a fucking cesspool. What's the issue between King and Cornette, anyway? Was Cornette in power in ROH when King abruptly left for TNA (he had a "handshake deal" with ROH, which is, seriously, fuck a handshake deal)?

Even on the belt, they had to put (TM) after his name. FFS

LOL that's awesome. In the world of wrestling, that is considered classy as fuck.

More fanservice: Krazy 8 showing up again. I like how he's always wearing his Tampico Furniture uniform in these shots. Also, quoting Howard: I really like how a key characteristic of both Chuck and Howard is their ability the lay it on thick with the self-important comparisons. No, Chuck, your psychosomatic fear of electricity is not on the same level as HIV, you're nothing like the Unabomber's brother. And Chuck is no Clarence Darrow. Damn.

Sherri showed up like, "oh shit I get to do another promo where I climb a cage? Fuck yes."

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1) it was just a stupid analogy. Fuck. 2) Are you saying there's not better wrestling out there than Randy's "20 minutes of chinlocks" style and, if there is, people shouldn't be seeking it out? Should consumers of a given product not educate themselves to find anything better? What about restaurants? If I told you there was better food out there than McDonald's, is that elitist, too? Holy shit, some people.

Oh cool, The Exorcist was renewed. Not sure where they're going to go but I really enjoyed the first season.

Wouldn't Orton actually be the Gallagher of wrestling? Walk in, do the same stale, boring act in front of fans who don't know enough to want anything more out of the show, get paid and leave, never putting forth any effort to better your game because who gives a shit?

That top rope brainbuster by Generico on Waltman is the safest looking one I've seen. Regardless, usually the recipient takes it across the shoulders. But according to the general wrestling discussion thread, today is "shit on indy wrestling to appear smart" day, so...

Siding with Orton or Rogers in this case makes you like the sad old guys who piss and moan about the young generation of baseball players celebrating too much or watching their homers and not doing things "the right way." It doesn't make you look old school or smart at all.

Jesus Christ. Just because it's the "United States" title doesn't mean you have to make it look like Trump designed it.

Just watched it this weekend. Amazing. I just read @AxB and @J.T.'s mentions of Armond White's review and had to read it for myself. I think he watched the movie but had preconceived notions and, on top of that, didn't pay attention at all. He makes threes mistakes in this one paragraph alone: 1. Chris doesn't "identify" with the wounded deer. The deer was hit and run and reminded him of what happened to his mother. 2. Rose standing up for Chris to the cop was not about platitudes or Rose fighting for Chris' rights. It was part of her ploy. If the cop doesn't get to see Chris' ID, there's no paper trail linking him to her, or that location in general, when he goes missing. 3. The party guest asked Chris about the African American experience because there was a chance he would become Chris. Likewise, none of the party goers is clueless or patronizing. They all know exactly why they're there and are questioning Chris and Rose accordingly. Questioning Chris about his experience, questioning Rose how the sex is, talking to him about how he sees art...it was the equivalent of reading a Yelp review White's review is chock full of shit like this, where he just misses the point over and over because he's too busy stroking his anti-Obama hate hard-on to notice.

There are shows you look at and know they're too quirky for big 4 broadcast TV, and you know they're going to be cancelled. That's Powerless. I didn't watch it but I knew there'd be no way it would last just seeing the commercials. Just play it safe and make another police procedural.