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Give it time. Remember, Hassan & Daivari's original gimmick was, "we're Americans born and raised and we're sick of how we've been treated since 9/11" to "FUCK IT WE'RE TERRORISTS ALLAHU AKBAR LALALALA SUICIDE BOMBINGS ALL DAY." This is not a company that does nuance. Vince left the trailer park but the trailer park never left Vince.

LOL @ Mahal's new thing. Vince never met a race-based gimmick he didn't like. It's why I'm really torn on New Day. They're great at what they do and are entertaining but once I heard "New Day is on TV so much because Vince loves New Day," all I could see was this old white guy guffawing at the wacky antics of his pet minstrel troupe.

"We're don't want you making money anywhere else on the name you made here" is the most petty bullshit. It's one thing to create a whole new character and want to protect that IP, like Razor Ramon and that's the only situation where this is defensible. But changing just a guy's name when he joins the company just so he's not as recognizable when he goes back to his original name in a few years on the indies is head-shakingly scummy.

Meat Loaf on Jericho's podcast: "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that." "What's that?" "It" "What's it" "That!' "What's that?" "It" Repeat

Hacksaw Duggan going MacGuyver on a food processor and a dildo is the craziest shit imaginable for many, many reasons. I wish I still had the Dildo Blender jpg. That was some fine work. I could try to reproduce it but that would be like Da Vinci trying to redo the Mona Lisa.

Absolutely. I stuck with Homeland but the Brody shit strained credulity. It's gotten much better since they killed him off at least a season too late.

So the love affair with the great white hope Kirk Cousins is over? You mean to tell me that "winning record" where the wins all came over losing teams was a bit of a phony stat? I'm shocked, I tell you. Man, being a non-Skins fan living in the DC area is delicious.

Seriously believing Joe has any chance of being booked to beat Brock is the most inside the smark bubble shit ever. Unless Joe gets gastric bypass, a TRT exemption and some jheri curl,OR Vince's torn quad has complications causing his timely demise, it's not happening.

Oh yeah, man. I thought he was great. My only point is that WWE has a very narrow focus and are very unimaginative, and it's likely they can only pay attention to one masked luchador at a time. They'll choose Metalik over Dorado. So you're saying he's better when he's in the ring with best-in-class dudes. So was Lex Luger.

Now THIS belongs in the "random stuff nobody remembers" thread (really, "random stuff I totally forgot about"). I absolutely forgot the SST used the Halloween theme. So awesome.

Dorado was nothing special and they already have Metallik, who they'll be putting more emphasis on. Dar is just garbage. No Gallagher or Tozawa is really disappointing.

I just saw that at Target today! It comes with a pretty horrid-looking Dusty, though. Yes he has the splotch, but I think it's in the wrong place. Also, his face sculpt makes him look drunk or like Sloth. They also had the Heenan Family AND Horsemen sets, so the Horsemen one is definitely in stores. If you're in MD, it's the Target in Gaithersburg. You can probably order online and do in store pickup.

LOL this fucking show. Whiterose cares so greatly about time that she spends her allotted 28 minutes with Angela leisurely smoking and speaking in a circuitous, meaningless and manufactured mysterious way that would make the David Lynch say, "man, that's just too much." You'd think someone so obsessed about not wasting time would have just gotten to the point but hey, painfully manufactured mystery is Mr. Robot's stock in trade. I was legitimately angered by the contrivance that was Angela's kidnapping and interrogation. Yeah, someone really concerned with not wasting time sure would have had no problem whipping up that masturbatory clusterfuck. What was the point to all that? It was only done to have something weirdly interesting and different on screen. It was just weirdness for weirdness' sake, in the greater service of nothing at all. And I just remembered this scene had no onscreen payoff. It seems Whiterose and Angela are at an impasse: Whiterose wants belief but Angela only has fear. The they just cut to Angela at the lawyer's house, seemingly all-in on Whiterose's goals. How did that happen? The writers have no answer either, they just needed a way to put their cute little setpiece on screen. I'd like to be in that writer's room where someone whips up a random, weird scene and they all ask, "well how do we get there?" Then there's a pause and they just laugh. Who cares how we get there? Just write the scene! Aside from the need of the creators to prove their cleverness at the expense of everything else, a big issue with Mr. Robot is that writing and plot are so paper thin that it needs to fill time with bizarre contrivances like this. Strip out all the foot dragging and this episode would have been 10 minutes long. Why did Tyrell need to use a coded message to talk to Mr. Robot? Just call him and tell him where the fucking cab is. It was just another "oh look at our cool and mysterious intrigue!" segment. It's so maddening to watch a show creator just jerk off all over the place and waste everyone's time. OH maybe that's the meta point! Esmail is wasting all our time so we feel like Whitetrose? This show is so heavy on style and so unbelievably light on substance. It's like Lost in that I have zero faith the finale will wrap up all the shit they've left hanging. It feels like they're afraid to pay off anything; just keep piling up the mysteries and hope the audience gets lost in a fog and never sees how threadbare this shit is.

I'm pretty sure Vince feels a manager with an actual stable is too old time rasslin' for his modern entertainment product.

I don't trust anybody who lies about how "rustic" his cabin is.

Hey, maybe he thought Watt was faking it and would get up and sack the QB as soon as Fisher backed off?

I definitely remember Randy cutting a promo in the ring in his Big Suit and Vince referring to his "stack of dimes" neck. Was it as shitty as Vince telling Rude that he was "looking a little small" when Rick had gotten off the gas to try to have a kid? No but still, god damn. EDIT: @Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 be me to it! That video is even worse than I remembered. It's no wonder Vince still lifts heavy. He has body image issues that would make teen girls say, "dude, what the fuck?"

Randy tried to hide his smallness by wearing a larger suit, only to end up looking like David Byrne.

Their co-starring role in Tougher Than Leather wasn't enough?

Jesus Christ when was that photo on the right taken? He looks like Chris Hero.

5. Evil Hooters waitress gimmick, complete with wing sauce "poison mist" 6. Feud with Asuka after Asuka mistakes her for a J-Horror ghost

That's the one, thanks! @Michael Sweetser was almost right, except this was apparently after Williams returned from his BFA injury. No idea why they needed a dumb gimmick like the "heritage" thing or him being managed by JR. I guess just letting a guy go kick some ass was too "rasslin."

Does anybody remember Steve Williams showing up in a robe and Kabuki mask on Raw and attacking someone?

LOL I thought of that, too. Here it is in video form: