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I still have some hope, since "Kevin Steen goes to Raw looking indy as ever and is booked pretty well" is something nobody in their right mind would have predicted.

I pray I never have to hear that freakin' "I bet my life on you" song again, and I've only heard it in commercials and promos for things. Another one that makes me want to jab a pen in my ear. Also, any song featured in commercials for The Biggest Loser can eat a preemptive dick.

Great first episode. Luchadores, Cousin Balki, Xanax-assisted drownings. "You are discreet and have no problem with violence."

Steph could just hate the Bellas. That's something heels and faces can do easily. And Becky Lynch was at Hogan levels of orange tonight. It was distracting. I was hoping someone would bring up Becky's spray tan because, holy shit, that was bad. Al Jolson saw it and said, "hey, that's a bit much." The conscious decision to slightly downplay the NXT women was weird. As mentioned, no belt on Sasha, which is really stupid. Also, Becky didn't get her entrance or gear. Is this a Kevin Dunn, "their guys shouldn't look like bigger stars than our guys" thing? Because it was really obvious they were being minimized.

A few cards after my first one (I was 11), we all went to a TV taping. Incidentally, it was the one where Piper comes back and destroys the Flower Shop. Which was funny, as they "broke his leg" early in the night, conducted one Flower Shop interview in the middle of the show, then he came back at the end to get his revenge. But anyway, yeah, TV tapings were fucking brutal. 1-2 minute jobber squash, 5-10 minutes of nothing, another squash, rinse repeat. It's the 9/16/86 show about halfway down the page here. I'll save your sanity, and your eyes, by not pasting it.

los perros están en la zona de la piscina cerrada

I was a little over 11 years old and my sister bought tickets for me for Christmas. Shitty card -- 7 matches with 3 fuck finishes and a cavalcade of jobbers -- but it was still awesome. WWF was firmly entrenched in the strategy of "load the 'A city' shows with shit but put Hogan on them" and the tradition of "put the main on in the middle so you can announce next month's main and sell tickets at intermission" was alive and well. I am old. WWF @ Baltimore, MD - Civic Center - January 5, 1986 (13,000) Pedro Morales defeated Moondog Spot Jose Luis Rivera defeated Rene Goulet Hercules defeated Lanny Poffo Scott McGhee fought Tiger Chung Lee to a draw WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan defeated WWF Tag Team Champion Brutus Beefcake The Junkyard Dog defeated Greg Valentine via count-out Cpl. Kirchner & King Tonga fought Nikolai Volkoff & the Iron Sheik to a no contest

Seeing the covers of those comics reminded me of a question that has always bugged me. I mean "always" as in, "this shit bugged me when I was a kid seeing it for the first time." Why did they swap the looks of Venkman (Murray) and Stantz (Akroyd) where cartoon version of Venkman looks more like Dan Akroyd and the cartoon version of Stantz looks more like Bill Murray? Was it some sort of image rights issue?

I just read about those card in the last issue of Horrorhound. Pretty cool.

Its just 26 pages of your username over and over And at the very end, just the word "bandanas." needs more "brother" in there

Any scenario that ends up with what is essentially Kevin Steen vs El Generico at Wrestlemania is amazing

Damn, JT. I forgot all about The Darkroom. The credits alone scared me. Of course, I was like 6. Masters of Horror was great. I didn't like Imprint as much as many other did; I think it was overhyped because it was initially banned.

I eagerly await a Friday the 13th TV series with a sexy Jason who wears the mask because he's disfigured on the inside. A hot actress 5-10 years older than him will play Mrs. Vorhees.

Thanks for the heads-up. That story was awesome.

I'm sick of any commercial that uses an overplayed Imagine Dragons song or that fucking "OHHH COME WITH ME NOW" track. Is every fucking musician or their team of writers and producers today writing songs with the sole intent of getting played in as many commercials and TV show promos as possible? I heard that god damn "Safe and Sound" song in so many ads that I had to look it up. Turns out the band who does the song started off as TV jingle writers and were quite successful at it for years. This at the same time makes perfect sense and is horribly cynical as fuck. Pop music and commercial jingles are just the same damn thing nowadays. I guess I'm the old man yelling at a cloud but god damn.

So Damien is a sexy sexy young man instead of a creepy kid? For fuck's sake. I blame Bates Motel for this bullshit.

Those are awesome except the new Savage figure looks like Steve Williams and the Bayley prototype has ridiculous bewbs

Good point about Elgin being better in tags. Bring in Brian Cage, reunite the Unbreakable Fucking Machines and put them against War Machine. It would either be an amazing mean guy match or a fucking trainwreck but fuck it, I'd be entertained.

You cannot say filth flarn flarn filth in your show

I have it on good authority that Jimmy Stewart had a crawlspace full of dead orphans and Tom hanks can't climax unless a puppy is being strangled.

We're a nation of starfuckers who establish these weird relationships in our heads with famous people. Say some shit about Beyonce and "The Beyhive" will flood your Twitter with threats. Why? They'll never meet and be friends IRL with Beyonce and she'd probably not piss on them if they were on fire. We've always been celeb-obsessed but I think social media has made it worse because now we can form these phony relationships and actually be "friends" with them. Anyway, we're just obsessed with famous people and think they're the infallible, best versions of us. They come into our homes by TV, radio, Internet, etc and we think they're our pals. There is no wonder at all in my mind that people still stand up for Cosby.

Those commercials are annoying but, to be fair, car insurance is some fucking bullshit. I don't pay for my doctor out of pocket because I'm afraid of my health insurance rates going up, but that's how we treat car insurance. It's more of a tax you pay to be able to drive than actual insurance. It's is a sweet racket to be in, since most people are afraid to make claims and the insurance company makes money for doing nothing. One time my car insurance rates went up and I had a pristine record and no accidents or claims. I called and asked why and they told me it was because they had a rough winter and a lot more accidents and claims than anticipated. So my car insurance went up because other people had accidents and/or their actuaries fucked up their projections.

Even as a youngster I understood the humor in a roided up guy calling himself Big Juice.

And yet all these great directives somehow make wrestling so much worse. That's a neat trick. Yes, they're actors playing sports commentators. Part of being a sports commentator is speaking to your audience in a relaxed and natural manner. Using awkward terminology while carefully stepping around common words that normal humans beings use runs counter to that idea. What is wrong with saying "the ref didn't see it?" Why can't they say "feud" or "international" or "the title is on the line?" None of these things makes sense except in a world where Vince suddenly decided he didn't like a phrase. These aren't good guidelines, they're the ever changing whims of an aging lunatic. Hell, on one page it says to not tell the fans what to think, then later it says they should call attention to things the fans might not be thinking, which means explain to the fans exactly what they should be thinking here. By the way, the latter is what should be done. The announcers are supposed to get the narrative across. Cherry pick the few good ideas if you like but come on dude.

I really enjoyed Sarah Connor Chronicles but it got cancelled, so be ready for a major, crazy-ass cliffhanger at the end of the series that will never be resolved. Fun while it lasted, though. As for recommendations, what have you seen? The latest thing we're watching is, we've almost finished the first 3 seasons of Banshee and really like it. But it depends on what kind of stuff you're into.