DrVenkman PhD

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.

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.

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.

MR RANT~!

Having now watched SmackDown and how the on-air appearance / handling of the Colon tag team went, yeah, that was incredibly weird and very lazy writing.

Sometimes I think you don't read other people's posts first, Mr. Pipes (or nothing outside of like, 3 above).

WWF Magazine did actually show the real photos with Savage and Elizabeth. They also noted that in one photo, they are watching Tuesday Night Titans, which obviously aired from 1984-1986. I mentioned this in the Shorties section (because of the Flair promo revealing the magazine) but Entertainment Tonight actually had a piece on the angle which had clear video footage of Flair and Liz posing for the photos (and I guess her standing still while Savage and Flair swapped out, but I don't recall that).

Yeah I mentioned that too. He's visible on the left when Mean Gene introduces the first dance.

The presentation of the Acclaim wrestling games is pretty good, it's quite the shame the controls suck. Warzone's PS1 videos rule. The opening to Attitude is a great video package too.

And don't forget that the 2007 debut erased his 2006 debut as a WWE guy fending off an ECW invasion!

Well, you're a 24/7 subscriber and they basically moved it to 24/7 in November, so it's all good.

Maybe Foley really did need Vince yelling at him over his headset.

Hey, the "ONE MORE MATCH" and 34 minute (give or take) ovation for Hogan in 2005 was great. It's just too bad it carried over into Bret having to explain to them in 2006 he could not possibly have one more match.

September 8, 2008.

Just to make sure I'm following along here: Minor character defying brand boundries that have been extremely loose since the Survivor Series 2005 angle = an annoyance. Russorific Impact! angles that make absolutely NO logical sense = good enjoyable fun that doesn't annoy you or iggymcfly at all. I'm not trying to start an argument, just questioning the logic. Is it because that sort of thing is the norm in TNA so TNA fans (and not people who want TNA to succeed because they remember 2005, but people who honest to God think what they do now is good) figure it's ok to exist in TNA because that's how they roll? Bryan Alvarez did a very good explanation of how he feels you need to be in a certain mood or mindset to watch Impact and how that sort of thing "wasn't for him" (but wrestlers dressed as mad scientists working in a lab is cool if it happens in Mexico, because he's in a "lucha mood" when he watches that sort of thing).