Boner Kawanger

I thought I read somewhere that sweeps was in March or April this year.

So Batman 3 can beat Titanic if Ra's al Guhl returns and asks Batman to help him track down his daughter, Talia, who has been kidnapped by sex traffickers.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is ruining my vocabulary.

A show hole

Television? Hey, fellas, the television. Well, ooh la dee da, Mr. Frenchman.

No it's not. Wrestling is storytelling. Nobody will question the in-ring talent available to TNA, but it's the creative team that sucks - you know the people who script out the shows, the writers. And what are they supposed to do when they sign Paul Heyman? Press release? Sure. Run commercials about their new writer? I hope not. Put him on TV in an angle to prove that he works there? Look...I'm not saying Heyman is a bad writer or anything. He's overrated, especially by people like you. Sure, he's better than what they have. The point is, writers do not matter to television audiences. Do you remember when WCW touted their signing of Russo? How he came in and specifically said he had booked the WWF? When was that? About a year before WCW died? And how is signing Heyman going to double ratings? Word of mouth? The only people watching TNA, outside of people who watch it knowing how bad it is, are incredibly loyal, but whatever they're telling their friends isn't working. "Hey, pal! Sting and Kurt Angle and the Dudleys are main eventing the PPV. You should buy it!! Oh, you still think everything about TNA sucks? Well what if I was to say that Paul Heyman is booking it?!"

If everyone was on mushrooms, Lord Alfred would have balled up into the fetal position about a minute into the show, due to their being an entire studio audience looking at him and someone would have been enlightened and denounced television as an evil medium. Um...if I had to guess what doing mushrooms was like.

I remember watching this show and how they loaded up on it because Nitro was being cut short due to the NBA playoffs. And seeing that date + Owen Hart on the listing is a bit depressing considering he'd be dead in under two weeks. Didn't this show do some crazy rating (8.1?)? I remember thtem getting a cover story from some sports magazine for crushing the basketball that had replaced Nitro that night.

I'd hate to live your life. I took one economics course in college, thinking it'd be like high school economics, and it was not. Just a brutal semester. You took a college economics course, and expected it to be like high school ? Jesus Christ you're stupid, bob. I took macroeconomics, and given I did so well in 12th grade economics, I thought I'd do well. I did not. I have a learning disability, so things like that are not uncommon. My favourite moment of that class was when I sat next to some smart person, hoping I'd be able to crib some of their answers since I did not understand a word in that class. She turned to me and goes: You're not going to cheat off of me right? I didn't do very well on the test. Hard to say. I've never done thing anything too awful that I can think of. bob_barron raped_and_killed a girl in 2000.

I want to see those guys take on Prince and the Revolution in a game of shirts versus skins

I went to the third ever Thunder taping in Huntsville, the infamous episode where The Giant TORE THE RING DOWN~! (by pulling a cord hidden under it that caused the posts to collapse inward). My dad, who did not want to be there, was pretty worried he was going to tip the ring over on us. We had sixth row seats at ringside (Raven walked right past us) and couldn't see the whole lever thing until we watched the tape at home. Here's the card. WCW Thunder: January 22, 1998 Scott Steiner vs. Konnan, nWo/Rick Steiner/Ray Traylor come out, INT- Kevin Nash, Chavo Guerrero Jr./Super Calo vs. Silver King/La Parka, Saturn attacks Rick Martel backstage, Dean Malenko vs. Marty Jannetty, Bill Goldberg vs. Kendall Windham, INT- Scott Hall/Louie Spicolli/Larry Zbyszko, Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho/Dean Malenko/Chris Benoit come out, Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit, INT- Hollywood Hogan/Eric Bischoff, Saturn vs. Rick Martel, Giant vs. Scott Hall, Hollywood Hogan/Randy Savage/Lex Luger/Kevin Nash come out.

Tetris Attack or Panel de Pon if you're some anime otaku or something.

Well, he tried with "See No Evil"... I'm aware of See No Evil. I meant B movies, not WWE movies.

This is season two. They just pluralized it

King did a pretty good heel run when they brought back ECW.

If Kane doesn't parlay his wrestling career into playing slasher monsters, it will be a travesty.

That's honestly tempting. I loved the ride when I went to Universal nearly twenty years ago (holy shit) so much that I got the badass RC Delorean with the awesome detail of putting a removable Mr. Fusion on top of the place where the charger plugged into it. And of course, the remote control was made to look like Doc's from Part I. What a toy.

Mr. Fuji hell yes.

Boys, I've got two worlds for Topanga to meet, and they're my balls.

I've been told that it was Topanga.

TNA signing Paul Heyman to a giant contract would have about the same effect as when WCW did it with Russo: zero. They've dug out their foxhole. It won't get any bigger, and signing a writer to a wrestling company to double the ratings is a pretty asinine thought.

He's not a review. He's a MAN!

Think about it this way. In any universe, The Soup should be an abomination. It's clips from every show you hate. But Joel McHale is so effective at selling his disgust at the facts that these clips are popular programs and that he is forced to discuss them (on E, no less), that it drags The Soup to a really subversive level. It's like being clever enough to make fun of someone to their face: intensely rewarding.

What other Manias have you been to besides those three, poch?