DrVenkman PhD

My favourite part of that episode (besides Michael McKean's cheesy Joker): The kids have a friend name Joel who prances around a store called "Shoemaker's" talking about the Batmobile scaling walls. The kids then call him an idiot. Apparently CBright already mentioned this and I missed it. I re-watched TDK on DVD last night - not sure what the complaints I heard about the standard transfer was, it looked fine to me. I also forgot about the "should do ok against cats" line.

Yeah, it was definitely SmackDown in September '99 that caused Raw to be live every week, though they may have had more frequent live shows, I don't know. Hard to believe it was that far into the MNW but one of their biggest hits was Tony giving away the Foley title win for the first Raw of 1999. I remember reading spoilers all the time in high school - I wanted to avoid them but they were so tempting.

It's always funny with heels that you're never quite sure how kayfabe their gimmicked job is supposed to be. Big Bossman, Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly, Duke The Dumpster... these were men that, in universe, you were supposed to accept had two jobs (which though it was something of a running joke in the 90s, the new Shawn Michaels angle has shown wrestlers do need second jobs). But with heels, are they REALLY working a second job, or are they just demented assholes? It was pretty clear The Mountie was just insane and not really with the RCMP, but was it ever explained if Irwin was just a heel who accused people of being tax cheats to be an ass, or did he "really" have a second job as a tax man? Anyhow, I like how by 1994/1995 his gimmick had been merged with Repo Man - he not only called people tax cheats, he stole their stuff too.

With Xavier "Ortonsault" Cromartie, it's worth noting that his TSM League winning ways in the WWE.com Fantasy game led to him being interviewed on a WWE.com webshow about his picking prowess. Who else can say that?

I edit everyone's Fantasy roster to change the results. I also made "theone" seem like a Too Cool for TSM Fool by making him claim he had a in the biz uncle.

I'd go with "means nothing", because plans always change, but I still believe Orton is winning and it will be something like HHH vs. Kozlov vs. 4 Other Guys at No Way Out. Taker, Big Show, and let's say Mark Henry and Finlay from ECW.

Nevermind, that was already implied.

Kozlov? Edit: Of course it is, it says so right at the top. The facial hair just looks odd.

Cubby: How can Kofi last the longest if Orton wins from #1?

I'm not quite sure why, but I'm reading corporate bios on http://corporate.wwe.com Rey Mysterio's Rap n Wrestling?!

It's a shame they had to overdub the Rumble theme for the DVD collection and replace Vince with the guy that does Gary Capetta impersonations on 24/7. Even worse is the fact they seemed to have regained the rights to that music since then, so it was basically an unneeded loss. The Rumble always makes for some good predictin' games, so as we get closer to the show and have a bigger list, let's make prognostications on the following: Winner Final Four #1 and #2 Iron Man In and Out Man Edit: I won't stop you from listing these things here, but Hawk 34 did up a big ol predictions game like we had last year, so check that one out for predictions of the above nature.

I just flipped over to The Fight Network and there was ol Kizarny fighting D`Lo Brown in Border City Wrestling. To show how outdated these "Superstars of Wrestling: Past, Present, and Future" shows are, Scott D'amore and Jeffrey Scott keep promoting NWA: TNA shows on Wednesday nights that will feature Sinn and his valet Tracy.

It started with the Goldust skit on Monday - it was Vickie's present to Edge. Then, like other said, it was brought up on SmackDown.

Cotton candy? Cabbage.

I know I recently saw the "I'm not an athlete?!" deal where Faarooq talks about college football and Shamrock the UFC. I think it was with the Christmas 97 Raw.

Is this about Taiga Star?

A February that ISN'T Valentine's Day themed! Nothing else announced yet.

Probably just the fact that the wings protrude so prominently. I can't remember too many other title belts with that feature. Plus the "Spread Eagle" title just sounds wrong.

You know, it's one thing for me to SAY that, to actually have no content by this time Friday night... a bit of a piss off. It's giving me extra time to marathon Royal Rumbles on DVD, I guess.

A reminder to Canadian SmackDown fans (if any) that it's delayed until 9pm tonight.

Watching the 88 Rumble this morning, the Women's Tag Titles caught my eye as a classy looking 80s title. I wouldn't suggest that look today, but for the 80s, good stuff. I've always been a big fan of the pre-Attitude IC title belt. The ECW tag titles that used that design were great too. The classic world tag title design is also very nice, I'm glad the current WWE Tag Titles use that design. I re-read an old column I wrote from 2002 or early 2003 that referred to the current World tag titles as "refurbished European titles", and I still think that could be true. I've never really been a big fan of the pre-Mania IV ("Winged Eagle") WWE title - to me, it kind of looks like the WCW TV title. Speaking of WCW, I thought their last US title belt looked pretty good. Funny enough, searching for a picture of it brought this link: http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=86365 Please don't tell me only me and Jericholic82 love the Million Dollar Title...

I'm still not sure if today's Kane is the 1997 Kane, or if the 2006 Fake Kane was supposed to be the real Kane that was actually burned, thus explaining why he still wore a bodysuit and mask. Taker seems pretty sure that current Kane is his brother, so let's pretend that 2006 angle never happened. Maybe they can retcon it to say Festus was dressing up as Kane because he's unstable.

Main Event Tag Match: The Hardys vs. Big Show and Edge.

Last Raw show of 2008! JBL vs. HBK vs. Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton for a shot at the World Heavyweight Title at the Royal Rumble.

May sounds like SMW.