DrVenkman PhD

Yeah I was going to post the Observer stuff last night but didn't. There's a lot of small tidbits about this and that though, so I might revive an "Observer Notes" thread later. Or I might not. We'll see.

Sonic's UGC was sold out when I went to buy it on Saturday. They had it for the PS3 though. Does the LatD require GTA IV to have been beaten or a large amount of story to already be known, or is it separate enough that people that just didn't have the time to play a lot last year would be good to go?

You missed nothing.

From F4Wonline.net: We don't have the exact number, but it was 5.9 million viewers. As a comparison, a few weeks ago when Randy Orton punted Vince McMahon, the show did a 3.9 rating which was 5.7 million viewers, so it is likely the best number for the show in a long time.

Missed 4 WWE Champions: was someone I didn't remember until the final 30 seconds. I actually had the same problem as Smues - I ran the entire 1984-2002 title order in my head, but the waters before and after were a bit muddy.

Planet Earth celebrated the Millennium at the end of 1999. That ends that argument.

There ain't no monorail here, and there never was! *Closes "Monorail Cafe" window*

That would also have been an incorrect statement... I think. I mean, it was the 11th Mania event, therefore it would be the 11th Annual WrestleMania, correct? Anniversary wise, it would be the 10th. You know what... this is stupid. Get over it, people.

Where were you people in 1994 or 2004?

I'm going to second this because wow, what odd and rare footage. The match is pretty bad with a bunch of slow motion arm wringers and I almost stopped watching after seeing the novelty of head of hair Chris "KKB" Canyon in the ring, but I persevered to see Tony Atlas GORILLA PRESS SLAM~! Bundy. Now that was something.

I could not stop laughing at that audio clip and had to rewind it three times, then I got to hear it again when Vader ran away. Great stuff. cabbageboy pretty much summed up exactly how I felt about Raw as it is the clear cut prototype of a Russo show. I'm shocked they even had one competitive match (Dude/Gunn) that ended clean. However, because watching this show in it's current state is all about reliving the angles I loved in high school, this was a pretty great nostalgic trip. The Outlaws are now wearing their South Park shirts (which is when I became fans of them), the Mero / Brandi thing (which got the second biggest laugh out of me after "MEEEEEEEEEEEE", Mero calling Brandi someone who's doing an awful gimmick for money followed by JR saying "He's a baaaaaaaaaad man"), Austin proclaiming his intent to go after the world title, etc. Compare this to the Nitro episode which has wrestling matches, but they're Konnan vs. Ray Traylor and Barbarian vs. McMichael. I actually decided to stop watching Nitro at that point and watch it later. Other Raw highlights: - Hawk doing the "N64 Knockout" sell where he raises his head, trembles a bit, then collapses back down to the mat. You don't see that enough! Michael Cole (in his Raw announcing debut) also seems to think Kane gave Hawk two Tombstones when it was just a regular piledriver and one Tombstone. - Taka gets a Memphis Funeral (two piledrivers and a spike piledriver is the sort of thing I assume killed a person in Memphis). - Sable's Idaho potato sack as a "2" written in front of the 50lbs marking. This amused me.

No, seriously this show is terrible now, and if you like the Simpsons nowadays, you are a bad person and deserve to be pushed off of a cliff by your youngest child. Fucking shits not funny, man. People who act like this over somebody liking a fucking tv show deserve to be pushed off a cliff first. A similar situation was MadTV's cancellation. People were celebrating this as a big victory and I couldn't figure out why. I mean, I hadn't watched the show in over a decade, but was the show's existence stopping some hidden gem of comedy from getting on the air? The sarcastic prediction I was going to make when people were discussing this last year was going to be something along the lines of, "Wow, you guys sure are looking forward to 'Talk Show with Spike Ferestein' being on an hour earlier", but apparently that's what actually happened anyway. So way to go champions of television justice.

I believe the weekday series (which existed before UPN did) was simply a 65 episode syndication order as per the standard of Monday to Friday cartoons. Even though no new episodes were made, it stuck around in reruns for a few years.

Yeah, that line-up reeks of a shuffle edit.

Not really a video game thing per say, but why not: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolink...ic-the-hedgehog

There's a story in this week's F4W about people getting the 2009 Rumble available for free on their 24/7 menu. There was a story weeks back about the same thing happening with Armageddon. At the time I thought he may have just been misinformed (and e-mailed him such), but the Rumble story apparently is from multiple subscribers. Does anyone know anything about this?

119 at 5 minutes, but for the life of me I could not get as the 2nd IC champ. The game stats indicate he is the most missed (well, "least guessed" by their stats) guy too, so no surprise there.

If Christian wins the title next week, WWE.com might actually give him a profile!

Was there anything good on parts 1 and 2 of The Rock's DVD? I forgot to watch it.

Don't worry about it; it was a suggestion, not a complaint. As for the HHH/HBK segment being a "crowd killer", someone said that to me on IRC back in 2002 as well, but I was there live and the crowd was super into chanting "DX! DX! DX!" during the segment.

Another fine TV/Movies contribution by Czech. Feel free to make fun of people who like The Dark Knight while you're in the area!

Otto eats the carbon rod thrown off Homer's back now.

They were purple in HCTP, by the by.