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I was didn't watch all of The Sopranos before i first saw AD, so when I finally went through all episodes of The Sopranos last year, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Will Arnett as the FBI chick's husband. AD really set certain people in stone for me as their AD characters. I doubt I'll ever be able to see Will Arnett as anyone other than Gob, David Cross as Tobias Fünke, Tony Hale as Buster, and so on. I don't think it'll hurt how I see them in future roles, but I'll always think of AD every time I ever see any of these guys in anything else. The same goes for other aspects of the show - Christmas Time is Here, The Final Countdown, etc.

When was the last time that a major top guy went downhill this quickly? I'm not talking about just his injuries, just all of this other stuff. Once upon a time, a time not too damn long ago, he seemed like a perfectly put together guy and no one really had a single bad thing to say about him other than maybe he pushed himself very hard, and that's not even always a bad thing, although in Kurt Angle's case, here lately, it sure is.

From PWInsider: Are they any good?

Yeah, that was great.

I can't help but wonder who had a part in putting this match together.

Oh my God!

Did they have the real Kane beat the fake Kane after he jobbed on the PPV, or did they just have him beat him up backstage?

Not only have they already done Flair/Umaga, but Umaga totally squashed Flair in the PPV match.

Holy shit, that was a total shocker there.

Count me in for more Hardy/Nitro matches. I really enjoyed that little match.

Damn Nitro, that was pretty awesome.

I'm right there with ya. Go all the way with it I say.

Surely someone hacked into WWE.com to post that. Right? Right???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/people...tralia_irwin_dc

Since he was in his very own movie, I wonder if he'll actually get a mention at the next Oscars when they do the "deaths in the last year" thing. It's on CNN and MSNBC now, so there ya go.

This really sucks to hear, I loved his shows and all of his appearances. I must be honest though, I always thought he'd die by falling down stairs or something, so at least a little bugger got him instead.

You better damn well believe that I bought the set. I've had it since release day, and of course it's a great set. AD remains my favorite TV show of all time, I don't see how anything can ever top it. That said, The Office is now my "new AD". I've heard a lot of other people say the same thing as well. Bring on an AD movie!

I uploaded that to YouTube a few weeks ago, to use as an example of just how important the music is to the show: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aq6EFq_38 I don't have the show on VHS or bootleg DVDs, but I do have every single episode on my computer.

And I haven't tried the online mode yet.

Maybe we'll get a Kurt Angle DVD sooner rather than later, except it will be the sort we don't want to see.

From PWInsider, a guy reporting on the CM Punk/Shannon Moore match at the ECW show in Spartanburg, SC:

Am I just buying into bullshit, or did I not hear that Vince Russo actually wanted to eliminate the ring at one point in WCW? They did release that horrible wrestling game for the PS1 and N64 that didn't have a ring, (WCW Backstage Assault, 2000).

FWIW, after playing this for a number of hours I must say that I do believe that I like it better than the GTA games. Yes, this game flat out stole the basic idea of GTA, only with enough additions to actually top the previous GTA games. Yes, buy this game. It's a 360 "must own".

I wish Lawler was a heel and was doing the same thing towards Cena as he did with Bret Hart. I'd love to see him talk bad about Cena and his movie right now like that.