DrVenkman PhD

Well, the recapper said it was good. Is her word not good enough? Plus I like old angle references and what not. Oh, sorry, forgot this was TSM... "Foley is a piece of garbage and always has been. This should be quite the awful TV segment".

Plus Brian Gewirtz played a waiter in a skit once. And of course there's thankfully not PG friendly Big Dick Johnson.

Yes, it happened in both Forever and BTAS (except he obviously didn't fall to his death in BTAS).

Ok. I just didn't know if you knew/remembered that he had and won a match last week. I probably couldn't have told you what he did last week if I hadn't checked first. I actually didn't remember But yeah, still a joke all the same. I like how the two biggest angles of the week involve announcers, but to be fair this involves Mick Foley and sounds really good.

It was tongue in cheek. I don't want to turn this into another "boo hoo this guy is a jobber let's analyse his win loss record" deals.

Dave, A rather dull edition of Smackdown, saved only by the closing angle.. Jeff Hardy vs The Great Khali is the feature match. The Cutting Edge was to feature a mystery guest. They kept teasing the mystery guest throughout the show. 1. M.V.P. defeated Jimmy Wang Yang - Following up his angle from last week, Jeff Hardy was at ringside during the match. M.V.P. hit the Yakuza kick for the win. Jeff Hardy came in after the match and told M.V.P. never to talk about his house, the fire, or his dog again. M.V.P. went after Jeff. Jeff left him laying with a Twist of Fate. 2. Kennedy defeated Shelton Benjamin in a non-title match - Could have been better. Kennedy won with the Mic Check to clearly set up a match at Summerslam. 3. Brian Kendrick, with Ezekiel, defeated Stevie Richards 4. The Great Khali defeated Jeff Hardy - Hardy was mega-over with the crowd. A plodding match with Khali dominating 90% of the match. There was a mega pop for Jeff when he hit the Whisper in the Wind and then followed up with a Swanton Bomb. M.V.P came out to distract Jeff. Khali took advantage wand used the Vice Grip for the win. M.V.P. posed over the fallen Hardy. 5. Maria defeated Victoria - Your typical divas match. 6. Big Show defeated Domino - A total squash. Umaga came out and had a stare down with Show. The Cutting Edge was next. They had a table, ladder, and chair in the ring as Edge came out for his segment. Edge explained that for the past week he had been searching for inner peace. He said that T.L.C. represented that inner peace and was the key to defeating the Undertaker at One Night Stand. He said that he has not had a moment of peace since Vicki's announcement last week. He claimed that now he needed help in defeating the Undertaker in the Hell in the Cell at Summerslam. He said that his mystery guest was the one person who understood the Undertaker and Hell in the Cell better than anyone. He then rolled to the outside and pointed at Mick Foley. He said Foley was the man who could help him at Summerslam and called him to the ring. Mick reluctantly climbed into the ring.Inside, Edge showed Foley a clip of his unforgettable HITC match with Taker a decade ago. Edge told Foley that since the match he was a different person. He told Mick that he was still feeling the effects of the match and was never the same because of it. But now was Foley's chance to gain revenge against the Taker by helping Edge to defeat him. Foley was tremendous in his response and showed why he is still one of the best promo guys around. Mick said the only person that could help Edge was Edge himself. Foley said that the old ruthless Edge could defeat Taker, not the current white tuxedo Edge. Just watch the promo. It's amazing. Foley asked if he made himself clear to Edge. Edge said he had and attacked Foley. He speared him into the ringside steps and then set up the ladder and table. Foley got the Mandible Claw on Edge but got a low blow for his trouble. Edge placed Mick on the table. He climbed the ladder with the chair and splashed Foley with it. The show closed with Edge standing over a fallen Foley. Dark Match - Big Show defeated Edge by count out. Dave - Edge appeared to hurt his knee on the ladder splash. He was favoring his right knee after the Foley angle and during the dark match. It looked to be nothing serious but might be worth checking on. Thanks, Annette M. Boyer Observer subscriber ---- That Hardy / Khali match sounds pretty much like the one they had on Raw some time ago. I have an odd interest in the Umaga / Big Show feud. And even as a champion, Shelton can't win a match! Poor guy.

I like "Mandy" better. "Manda" sounds like the name I would call her as the "thing your friend calls you to be an ass that ONLY your friend can call you" deal.

I know I joke about this, but I seriously thought bps made Arnett comment so I was confused as to why he was replying to himself. Here's something I was thinking about the other day - did Two-Face die in Batman Forever? It certainly seemed like he did, but why would they keep a dead man's jacket in Arkham (as seen in Batman & Robin)? I've been going through Volume 1 of 2 of BTAS, waiting for 3 and 4 to arrive (probably Wednesday afternoon) and I really do like The Riddler episodes (John Glover is very good). I think a Nolan Riddler could work.

I thought you called it "Heat" (which never made any sense since it's taped before SmackDown).

Someone was just telling me he was playing GB at Comicon and it was really good.

The host of Live Event News in Canada, of course! He also does work for 24/7.

I don't recall that line from The Odyssey.

Raw is Adamle scored a 3.6 rating.

I'm not aware of many father and son love stories, but I'm not exactly Mr. Cinema.

I liked the Summer Blockbusters themed SummerSlam commcerical (someone can feel free to tell me this aired during the Bash or last week's Raw, both of which I missed) but I wasn't quite sure why Hornswoggle and Finlay were dancing around on the Full House picnic hill while it said something about romance.

He's still around.

Not one, not two, but FOUR people are celebrating their 29th birthday today. Seems a bit suspicious but they say it's a small world after all. Happy 29th birthday to the following: DMan2000 DMan2003 Longdong Pete WhenDanSaysJump

I know who Kofi Kingston is, but thanks all the same. ashamed wrestling fan: "Intents and purposes". I'll never forget the e-mail thrashing I got from a reader when I said "intensive purposes" back in 2002 so I now have the wonderful habit of correcting it for others.

Savage's line about DDP on the August 25th Nitro got a laugh out of me even if the announcers didn't seem to get it. "I was against DDP joining the nWo... but the nWo didn't have a weak link, so I'm okay with it". I hope that was in character and not a shoot. I also thought it was a bit odd that they jumped right from that segment to DDP's denial - I figured there was either a cut Benoit match there or because Nitro was unopposed, they saw no harm in running so many non-wrestling segments in a row.

I enjoyed Raw. The busted Jeritron, the short but good Coffee (Paul Coffy?) vs Noble match, Punk vs. Regal, and Mike Adamle. It was obvious the new GM had to be a heel and since they didn't do their dumb act where they go "Oh well Regal is wrestling Punk so HE can't possibly be the new GM" but instead said it was possible he could be, that pretty much seemed to be code for "it's someone else". I figured it was either Vince, Bischoff, or Shane... and no one coming out when Shane motioned for the GM gave me a bit of a scare, but the cut to Adamle standing between Cena and Batista was pretty good.

This also isn't a real show. It's a contract commitment using the goodwill of the Jenny McCarthy autism charity to justify why it's ok it will do a horrible rating.

I also just watched it a few days ago, hence me catching it.

An island that should have killed him dead because it was made from freakin kryptonite. THAT was the climax I spent 2 and a half dreadfully boring hours to see? Sorry, I'm just not a big fan of that film but I can understand why someone would be. Kamala: Isn't that baseball analogy exactly how Roeper or Ebert reviewed the film?

Oh I get it, Walter Parks is Matt Young. Happy Birthday LOTC.

I've never seen that special but have been hearing about it for years. Should be good times, indeed.