DrVenkman PhD

Well I was rooting for either Rain Wilson or NPH, but hey, I don't mind that Jeremy Piven won the Comedy Supporting Actor this year - it's all good. I have to make that point here since we're apparently not doing an Emmy thread this year.

If I see one more "------------" for Chris Benoit or a bumped thread that he could have responded to months prior to add his discussion to, done.

"Look, he's got on Patera's old shirt" was great.

Yeah man, I've always wanted to do the countdown.

I don't know if this has been mentioned previously (seems like something I would have picked up on), but the Rumble is in Detroit next year. That's the only major event that's never been in this market, so hooray.

I assume it's mostly tongue in cheek, but bob is going nuts to an annoying degree with his fake title in the Deon thread.

Truthiness has been fine with the exception of an odd lashing out at luke-o recently.

It's not like any answer he gives will matter, so essentially it's already been done. I don't mean to say that whatever he says (if he even becomes aware of this) won't be fairly taken into account, but what could he possibly say?

It's funny to see the "Hulk Still Rules" ad cut from SummerSlam 2002 even though Heyman references it in his promo with Brock. I also don't think I never noticed before that Rey's WCW music is used in the Angle/Austin package in 2001 (or noticed before and then forgot).

At least it's not from 8 months ago.

It looks like it was encoded for 24/7 Online and then somehow put on TV.

The Anthology / 24/7 version is the live broadcast with added Coliseum extras, is it not? That's generally how these things work.

I was waiting for that! It actually seems pretty inconsistent right now. The Legends show has "ass" bleeped but a Shortie has Flair calling Carlito a lazy son of a bitch. Raw has a lot of "ass" too. It's worth noting that the blurred middle fingers on the current Raw were actually one the aired show (hence it being a old school "mosaic" blur and not the typical "blurry blur" used today), but it's not like those won't be blurred anyway. It's nothing to get TOO upset over though.

He's nobody now! Thanks for the head's up.

Tony has a great line on Nitro at the end of "El Cliente" vs. Rey: "Eddie didn't fool anybody... except us".

"I didn't understand a damn thing you just said, but I take it you're pretty pissed off" (or some variant) is the other part of that promo with Austin I remember.

I brought that fact up about Dragon and Mustafa in a comment on SKeith's blog and some people got really antsy, providing evidence that Dragon was acknowledged as Ricky Steamboat on such and such an occasion by Vince McMahon on commentary. I think that was really the exception to the rule, though.

So, I guess Gene is now the host and JR is just a panelist now? I see this show also has the "Classics" branding but does not have the odd VQ that Survivor Series 92 has, so maybe (hopefully) that was just a fluke of some sort.

That's some list of big stars that Mean Gene points out Bret Hart has beat. "The Berzerker, The Mountie, Rick Martel, BIG Papa Shango, and recently Virgil".

Well Flair actually left before Foley, right? I don't know how far in advance they tape the Roundtables but it may actually exceed the 3 month production timetable of everything else (or is right in line with it). Funny how that works out as "Forever Flair" happens after Flair leaves and now the promos for October have some focus on Mick Foley's baseball bat.

I could be off because I only skimmed / am using memory, but the next Raw should contain the following: - The aftermath of Pillman's death - DX becoming official / Curtian Call promo. - Jim Cornette's segments begin - Faarooq cutting a promo on Austin with Austin having a reply I got a kick out of. Jarrett should be coming soon too.

F4W~! - September 9, 2008: Contracts: While the Torch version of this story made it sound like Kim all but changed her mind and came apologeticly "came home" to TNA, it still seems like they won't give her the money she wants for financial security at her age (as a women's wrestlers, 32 is 'getting up there') and will likely still go to WWE. TNA COULD match the offer, but it would set an unwanted payscale precedent. Team 3D did re-sign and it is believed they are under contract until 2010. Nash still wants a WWE deal but Bryan can't imagine WWE offering him a contract he'd want for the amount of work he won't be doing. Christian's future is seemingly up to WWE at this point - as noted last week, he'd be a good fit in the 'new' (read: drug tested) WWE but the ball is in their court on whether or not they pony up a money offer for him to take. As is well known by now, Foley is officially signed for a short-term deal with TNA. Other Notes: - Bruno Sammartino recorded a sit-down interview for an upcoming Kurt Angle DVD [didn't I mention this last week?]. Bryan finds this unusual as Bruno is very anti-steroid and Kurt Angle is very much Kurt Angle. - As expected, several people e-mail Bryan to inform him it is video game store policy to tell people to pre-order a game. So... maybe the Observer will have more interesting TNA news.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. On the MSG show currently airing, some comments about Col. Mustafa representing Tehran and being a former Olympian are mentioned - neither of which had to do with the Mustafa character.

In 2007 it was Tag Teams and in 2008 it was Big Bangs and Dazzling Debuts (a Raw 15th Anniversary celebration). A Rumble usually is one of the Big Ones and, at the very least, one of them is in the PYBO voting.