DrVenkman PhD

Your phone should have been off. I saw Burn earlier tonight, what an odd but good movie.

I'm starting to notice a lot of green in some shades of black, and some SD channels (Spike TV being one of the worst when I watch Impact) look very dull and have all these green lines on black screens. It's not bright green or anything, but it's noticeable.

I hear that, brother. I largely expect F4W/WON notes to be dead within 3 weeks for that very reason.

There sure is a lot of "next week" advertising for a lame duck show. I almost wonder if they were advertising the 3rd and the writer forgot the date (or maybe WWE did and screwed up),

Raw Rating from F4Wonline.com:

I don't remember if it was No Mercy or Day of Reckoning, but I remember getting pissed anytime I had to wrestle HHH. No Mercy had those handicap match angles with the DX crew where X-Pac always refused to job for me.

Sometimes I assume people are being sarcastic. The internet isn't always easy to get the context right, ya dig?

Nothing terribly interesting about TNA in the new F4W outside of the PPV review, so no rush to get that thread going.

That was unnecessarily harsh towards Brody, but I stand by the Deon thing.

http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/6723/ Not to sound like an ass (because no one on TSM - or the net in general - likes sounding like a sarcastic ass) but the headline is "Scary moment at TNA houseshow" and I almost thought it was referring to the fact they had 500 people in a 4,500 seat arena. That couldn't have looked good. I was kind of wondering why TNA was running at that venue when the 2006 WWE house show there only drew a half house. Hopefully Storm is good to go though.

I especially enjoyed the "why does the British woman have a fake British accent?" comment. Due to unidentified technical difficulties, Raw in Canada started at 9:15 with the Mr. T WoW commercial and a JIP cage match. Bah. I set the DVR the first 30 minutes of the replay so hopefully that had the issue fixed. There was a lot of static feedback in the sound early on, so I wonder if that was the problem. Raw seemed kind of dull overall - the crowd was very quiet and that never helps. I ended up falling asleep before the show ended (which almost became disasterous since I was supposed to be getting ready for work, luckily it was a quick 10 minute doze off). Jim Haas was a poor idea - it was kind of funny and all, but people don't want to cheer what could be viewed as a mockery of JR, so Haas was back to getting the "Haas Pop" and it was sad.

Brody should be violently punched in the face, everytime he hits the "Add Reply" button. Deon (or should I say "Rocky" - real original, making your handle that of a several decades old movie character) should be given a swift kick in the groin everytime he points his browser to TSM.

I thought you were a subscriber? Anyway, point taken and all (because I have no way of recording something off TV to a DVD - tried a DVD Recorder once, failed miserably, it went back to the store) but I know from talking to HMTT that he records 24/7 stuff to DVD anyway so someone who isn't him should have made the complaint.

I can't help but notice none of these threads are titled "SNL Review - September 13, 2008". Get with it, baron.

Well you were what, 2 years old when it first aired? Sometimes we seem to be very alike. This is one of those times. I just never opted to take the time. Doesn't seem like it's my cup of tea. I've seen Rambo, but not First Blood, First Blood Part II: Rambo, or Rambo III (best movie numbering system ever!)

I guess I just plain forgot about the Neidhart angle because here is is, hosting Challenge during a time I was watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEGRvTWk6o Here's an on-camera break by Heenan on Prime Time I must have missed (he covered it up well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPA7nJsqkbY

I did not immediately notice they were holding their cell phones.

I only recall him laughing at it. I suppose we can expect some sort of Lawler hijinx tonight.

Hey it's Monty Burns 102nd birthday.

F4W~! - September 9, 2008: Chris A. Jericho - World Wrestling Champion: The idea for Jericho to leave Unforgiven with the title was cooking for at least a few weeks, but he was just one of many ideas being thrown about (including Punk retaining or Edge winning the title). It is expected once the Jericho/Punk mini-feud wraps up, Michaels will be in mix again (he is at home healing his tricep injury - yeah, it's not as bad as first thought, but it's still an injury). Secret Origins: Back in 2006, Court Bauer, Alex Greenfield, and Dusty Rhodes presented the idea to Vince with the name "Six Man Scramble" (which, indeed, did originate from Court playing some Fire Pro) along with "Sudden Death Six-Way" or "Six Pack Challenge" [Note from Venkman: That seems quite dubious considering the Six Pack Challenge was introduced in 1999 at Unforgiven with sudden death rules]. It was expected to be promoted in conjunction with UPN becoming The CW. Somewhere in there Vince decided Crossdressing Vito was where the real money and ratings were at and decided to nix the Scramble and book Vito challenging King Booker for the world title (until he was convinced this was not a good idea). The Scramble concept debuted at Vengeance 2007 aka Night of Champions [or as Bryan insists on calling it, Night of THE Champions - also, this theory once again seems to disregard this match already existing 8 years prior in WWE] and was given all the zany rules this year by Pat Patterson. Other pieces of business: - Edge has "a screwed up knee" that is making his current time off necessary. - The gap between MNTV and CW is closing and it's currently expected SmackDown's jump to MNTV could be HUGE for that network. CW killing huge. - Even though last week's thread had a report about McMahon banning Foley from the Legends of WrestleMania game, the last word on their parting is that it was "amicable". - Despite some Torch shenanigans last week, it is still largely expected that Gail Kim will sign with WWE and not TNA. Nash still wants in but it is not expected WWE will give him the money he wants to do so little. Bryan figures if WWE throws a good money offer at Christian, he'll sign.

I don't know if people pay to attend these tapings. The exact line: "The Florida Championship Wrestling Thursday night tapings are dying on the vine. The 9/4 show only drew around 60 people. Most of the tapings have been good but this was dead."

I was thinking of getting RB2 on a trip to the States tomorrow but then I read it's not bundled with anything until October. I only have a PS2 GH controller so that wouldn't do me much good.

39 less than the number of people that gave Unforgiven feedback!

Really late notes from the September 10th (15th) Observer: If it was still print only, these would be quite timely... also this is a really heavy MMA-content issue due to Evan Tanner's death and the UFC PPV, so I wasn't in a big rush for this. Last week's classic issue is really good though... too good for me to even attempt to sumamrize! Unforgiven 2008: Thumbs Up: 38 Thumbs Down: 18 Thumbs in the Middle: 43 So yes, Dave received feedback from exactly 99 people on this show. Traditionally, that bodes terribly for the buyrate. ECW Scramble: **1/4 Priceless vs. Cryme Tyme: **1/4 Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho: ****1/4 SmackDown Scramble: ***1/4 McCool vs. Maryse: *1/4 Raw Scramble: **3/4 Buyrates: The Great American Bash is currently estimated as doing 195,000 worldwide buys, barely edging out One Night Stand (194,000 buys) and currently stands as the 2nd lowest drawing PPV of 2008. The domestic buyrate is currently estimated as only 122,000 buys. The show was the first after the draft, had CM Punk going in for his first title defense, had another saga of the Jericho/Michaels feud (though it as this show and beyond that picked up the pace of that feud), and had the first PPV singles match between HHH and Edge. On paper, it should have done some buys but current estimates seem to say it did not. The number is also down 22% from last year's show (250,000 worldwide buys) headlined by Cena vs. Lashley. This year's GAB PPV took place just 3 weeks after Night of Champions, which itself was only a few weeks after One Night Stand, and some of you may recall that whole weekend was a big nightmare for Dave and Bryan due to the amount of MMA (Affliction PPV debut, I think some UFC special on TV) going on as well. Raw Ratings: While most are blaming the 2.95 rating for the 9/1 show on Labor Day, the Labor Day 07 show did a 3.64 rating. But maybe it was nicer family BBQ weather all over America this year. I'm not going to go quarter by quarter, but noteworthy ratinga gains were the Marella/D`Lo segment gaining 341,000 viewers (paired in the same quarter as Six-Diva tag match) and Jericho/Michaels having the best ratings gain in several weeks with a pick-up of 929,000 viewers. Other Notes: * DVDs: WWE shipped 276,000 DVD order [What does this mean? This week? Month? Quarter?], the majority of them being The Rock's DVD. WrestleMania XXIV has sold 303,000 copies to date, but this is considered a let down due to the 4 hour plus HOF ceremony included with the set. Internally, it was expected to be the best selling DVD in company history, but it does not seem it will surpass Mania XXII's sales (426,000). Dave notes that "Floyd Mayweather appears to have meant nothing for DVD sales". Other top sellers are HHH's most recent DVD (236,000), Austin's DVD (225,000), and Rock's DVD (191,000). No info on Flair's DVD sales yet. * FCW: The last No-TV taping drew a whopping 60 people (and here I thought TNA drawing 500 people to a 4,500 seat arena was bad). Joe Hennig sounds like he's coming along and he uses the Perfectplex as a finisher.

MR RANT~!