King Kamala

I think I'd be frightened as hell if I saw that driving down the road. The Dark Night will come close but won't break the record because the competition is much better than Spiderman 3's was. I'll guess somewhere in the $140 million range.

Christ, that's like the entire menu! I can't comprehend how much Taco Bell you can buy with $72

I'll say that this was the point in WCW history where my feelings towards WCW loyalists changed from confusion to pity. It's really kind of sad to read DDTDigest recaps and the writers trying to find some good in shows that are absolutely horrible. I think what makes this period all the more worse is the fact that WWF was so incredibly awesome during this period. WCW was almost as shitty during the Summer of '99 but WWF wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire either so choosing WCW over them wasn't completely absurd. But choosing to watch Nitro over RAW in February '00----that's downright dumb loyalty. I almost admire it. Whatever happened to those WCW loyalists anyways? Where did they go when it got bought out?

Ludvig and Giant Gonzalez on the same roster? Good lord...no comment.

I usually go for seafood salad with lettuce, jalapenos, and tomatoes. No cheese or condiments.

I think Season Seven is my favorite. Not a bad episode in the bunch and at least five or six legitmate classic episodes. After this season, the show began its very slow descent into mehness for me. Here's my list (also in chronological order) 1. "A Streetcar Named Marge": As a fan of The Simpsons and A Streetcar Named Desire. This episode truly is the best of both world. The pretentious community theater director, Llewelyn Sinclair is probably my favorite of Jon Lovitz's numerous Simpsons guest star roles. Llewelyn: I'm not an easy man to work with. While directing Hats Off to Chanukkah, I reduced more than one cast member to tears. Did I expect too much from fourth graders? The review 'Play Enjoyed By Alll' (holds up elementary school newspaper) speaks for itself. 2. "Treehouse of Horror III": Got to have some Treehouse of Horror on here and this is my all time favorite. Probably one of my personal most watched Simpsons episodes. All three stories are classic and work well all year round. Shop owner: Take this object, but beware, it carries a terrible curse Homer: Oooh, that's bad. Shop Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt! Homer: That's good! Shop Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed. Homer: That's bad. Shop Owner: But you get your choice of topping! Homer: That's good! Shop Owner: The topping contains Potassium Benzoate (Homer stares blankly) Shop Owner: That's bad. Homer: Can I go now? 3. "Homer Goes To College": Classic. 4. "Deep Space Homer": Most of the later Simpson gimmick episodes fell flat on their face but this one worked way better than it should have. Kent Brockman:Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over - 'conquered,' if you will - by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. 5. 22 Short Films About Springfield": Another gimmick episode that worked incredibly well. It's astonishing to have a thirty minute show with so many interwining stories that all work. Hospital Chairman: Dr. Nick, this malpractice committee has received a few complaints against you. Of the 160 gravest charges, the most troubling are performing major operations with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant. Dr. Nick: But I cleaned them with my napkin! 6. "Homerpalooza": This episode is kind of outdated but for any child of the 90s, this has to be up there with the all time best episodes. Homer: Die? Well you don't scare me, doc. Cause dying would be a stone groove. Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix? Doctor: Yes. Pick up your puppy. (points to old hound dog named Rover Hendrix) 7: "A Millhouse Divivded": Showcases a more serious side to The Simpsons and one of the better secondary characters, Millhouse Van Housen. Band Leader: Who here likes The Doobie Brothers? Because we got one of 'em!

Somewhat off topic but a wikipedia search on the Dagwood sandwich reveals that there's now a chain of Blondie themed restaurants called Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes. That's all.

Vampiro wasn't very good in retrospect- workrate wise. Even as a mark- his series with Kidman was disappointing as hell. I remember WCW hyped it as a meeting between two of the greatest up and comers in the world. I don't even want to talk about his series with Sting... Even if Vampiro, was average at best in the ring, he was very over at the time. Vampiro got the 2nd biggest pop of the night behind Sid on that shitty Nitro we were watching the other week. Besides, was Vampiro any worse workrate wise than Sid? Maybe he is just as bad as The Master and Ruler of Squirrels but it's a different kind of bad. Vampiro is sneaky bad. I never really thought he was all that terrible till Jingus mentioned it in the aforementioned Nitro chart and then I realized I couldn't remember a match of his that was better than **1/2. But at the same time, I remember any matches of his being memorably terrible. I can't remember very many of his matches that were memorable period. As a semi-mark, I think I liked Vampiro's potential more than I liked Vampiro himself. He was something different for the fans of WCW and at that time, that was sorely needed.

Did you really think Meet Dave would be a big hit, Barron? I can count on one hand how many times I've seen it advertised and all of those occassions were in the past week.

Well I was wrong. All week, I was crowing to my friends how Hellboy II would be way better off as a Fall release and would be lucky to match the opening weekend box office gross of the first one. I'm the same dumbass that predicted The Matrix would be Johnny Mneumonic redux.

Yeah, I'd been considering them for the past six or seven rounds but decided against them because I already have a couple wrestlers with similar characters and I couldn't really fit them in. I've put them as the top tag team left on the board for the past three or four rounds and it is a shame it took three hundred ninety something picks for them to get drafted but sadly, it's not too much of a surprise. Most of the draftees are just unfamiliar with wrestlers from the pre Hogan era. I actually thought there was a good shot that Jimmy would get picked as "The Boogie Woogie Man" before he got picked as part of The Valiants. I'm glad that didn't happen.

On behalf of crandamaniac... Sho Funaki!

I've decided to add a little comedy to my roster with my next pick. This guy is the quintessential lower mid-card heel. He can work a hell of a comedy match and with the right opponent, can work a good straight match. And he can get over with the crowd as a fun loving, goofy babyface or a chickenshit, goofy heel. I'll be using him as the latter. He's a two time former WCW World Television champion, a former WCW Cruiserweight Champion, and a former WCW Tag Team Champion With my twenty third selection and 394th overall in the All Time Wrestling Roster, I'm proud to select... Disco Inferno!

I'm not a Russo apologist and I wasn't entertained by his runs in WCW but let me play devil's advocate. I think it's because Russo's WCW was so batshit insane while WWE (for the most part) is relatively straightforward by modern standards. I don't know, maybe a Russo fan could explain it better but that's how I think someone could make that argument. To answer Richard's question, Jimmy Hart had pretty much stopped managing by the time Hogan returned in February '00. I know Hugh Morrus, Brian Knobbs, and Meng were all flying solo. I'm not sure about The Barbarian. He probably wasn't even on the roster at that point. And IIRC, he turned face when Luger "broke" his arm in the buildup to Super Brawl 2000 (or was it Uncensored 2000? These shitty shows run together). Then when Russo and Bischoff showed up, Jimmy Hart showed up inexplicably as a weasley heel again.

How could I forget The Dink? He's way up there in the pantheon of great midgets there's no denying that. I don't know if he beats Warwick or Billy Barty but it's close. Speaking of Billy Barty, Have we talked about UHF here lately? That movie still kills me. I grew out of Weird Al's music years and years ago but there are a good half dozen scenes in that movie that make me lose it. I think what Dirty Work is to Barron, UHF is to me. Yeah, the acting is generally terrible and some of the gags are lame brained but I'll always love it.

I smell another draft! (joking! joking! Please no one take this idea seriously). Billy Barty and Bridget The Midget are high up there for me as well. But I think my favorite is Warwick Davis. I love Return of The Jedi, The Leprechaun series from #3 on is a huge guilty pleasure for me (I can't be the only one on here who likes that series, can I?), and the scene where he was smoking weed with Jamie Foxx in Ray was probably the highlight of that movie for me. Verne Troyer would probably be towards the end of that list for me as well.

I don't know if I would call either of Russo's runs with the book in WCW fun but they were certainly interesting. Sullivan's was anything but. Zack hit it right on the head- a lot of his ideas just seemed boring and played out. Any tiny, tiny sliver of potential the nWo 2000 had went right out the window once Bret retired and very few people wanted to see Hogan Vs Flair again and even less wanted to see Hogan settle the score from WrestleMania VIII with Sid. The original ideas Sullivan did have outright sucked. The only wide spread defense of Sullivan's run I've heard is "Well, he was given an unsalvagable situation." Yes, I think we can all agree that he was dealt a terrible, terrible hand. But people dealt with worse hands have done much better jobs. An example; Smackdown in the Spring/Early Summer of '06 when Batista was out, Undertaker was on hiatus, JBL had just retired, and a burned out Kurt Angle was tusseling with Mark Henry. That roster was weaker on paper and way less star studded than that era of WCW and yet managed to put on consistantly solid (if a little bit unspectacular) shows and some good PPVs. Even at its weakest point in early '00, WCW still had some of the biggest names in professional wrestling (Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting, and to a lesser extent, Nash, Sid, and Luge), some solid dependable veterans (Finlay, Bam Bam Bigelow, Curt Hennig), and a plethora of extremely talented younger guys....and they couldn't put on a show that would qualify as more than mediocre.

Can't forget Bruno Sammartino! And The Powers of Pain and Captain Lou Albano as the bad guys. Everybody's favorite little person Billy Barty also shows up. Why oh why isn't this movie on DVD?

Megabucks: The Early Years (WWWF MSG Promo April '79) Curt Hennig Vs "Wild Cat" Chris Harris (from an episode of Worldwide circa May '00) Vince Torrelli (a pre UFC Ken Shamrock) Vs Johnny Z (some guy)

Goldberg was gone in the spring/early Summer of '99 because he was filming his part in whatever Universal Soldier sequel he was in.

Aw man! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES! AMERICAN MALES!

I hate to toot my own horn but I feel like I'm getting another huge steal here. Perhaps the biggest steal of the draft. This team simply doesn't deserve to be left on the board at this stage. They left an indelible mark on tag team wrestling in the 90s. They were one of the hottest tag teams to ever come out of the Land of Extreme and they even managed to capture brief success in WCW (which is about as far as you can get from the Land of Extreme). They're another team that would work just as well as babyfaces as they would heels. I'll be using them as the former. I think they're a natural fit against The Nasty Boys or The Headshrinkers. Both matches would result in wildly entertaining brawls. In fact, I think they'd put on entertaining matches against any team on my roster. These men are four time former ECW Tag Team Champions, former NWA World Tag Team Champions, and former WCW Tag Team Champions... With my 22nd pick and the 390th pick overall in the All Time Wrestling Roster Draft, I'm proud to select... "Flyboy" Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge....Public Enemy!

I can't believe I forgot to mention Body Slam when I mentioned wrestling movies. That was one of my favorites as a kid. Roddy Piper! Faceman! Captain Lou Albano! Charles Nelson Reilly! How could I forget? How could I forget?