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Oh no, Bob, it was pretty terrible. Hence, almost no laughs from the crowd. Furthermore, almost no laughs from me either. It bombed with both.

Yikes, that Smigel cartoon was pretty awful.

The monologue was what it was. Celebrity Jeopardy was gold though. Kenan does an amazing Bill Cosby and the Sean Connery bits were as funny as they've always been.

If they put Jeter in center, he would need to find a completely new way to hurl himself into the stands for no reason. No dice.

I assume you're talking about Crono's board?

Could it be? I think it is! I'm leaving feedback! By the mantra of "anything is better than nothing" though.... Marked out HUGE for the opening with Steve Urkel and Carl Winslow. Possibly my favorite HD opening ever. Felt like I was watching the show. Minus the fatality, of course. I thought Hoff might have actually killed Carl off though, which would have been awful. But luckily, Carl appeared 17 times again that night. All good appearances too, mind you. Liked the altercation between Scotty Static and CWM. Great to see CWM staying involved, and helped out in keeping GPX's mean streak. Hoff/Igor vs. Crystal/Gunner set up the stage nicely for what would happen later in the night. Like I told Hoff, I personally find Igor annoying....but hey, he's retarded, so I guess this was a feel-good moment. Or something. I miss Hoff being a real dick to him. Crystal should get her own festival. Something tells me Frigid would go, at least. I was feeling the GPX/Crystal interaction afterwards too. PRL's gonna beat John Brickston!! And he's going to do it with his words!! GRRRRRRRRRR! Nice upset from The Sk8ter Boyz over The New New Midnight Express. Wonder if it's setting the stage for a new tag title feud. The brawl right after was fun too, tying together a few different storylines. I actually really liked the Otaku interview. It just seemed very intense, and different from everyone else here so far. We're lacking a genuine HARDCORE guy around here, so Otaku could fill the void. I'm interesting in seeing this match next week. That Bohemoth/Graves match was nicely written. A squash match by every sense of the word, but man, you could just feel Graves getting the hell beaten out of him. Bohemoth looked like an actual monster here, and Wright made himself even more unlikable afterwards. Nice. Interested in seeing what happens with Jay Richards too. I also liked that Josie made so many appearances tonight, after being gone for a few weeks. Hopefully, the General Manager will continue showing up. She needs to earn her paycheck somehow. Cole had a great description of why the Birmingham Bad Boyz are so cool for ending their name with a "Z". Makes perfect sense to me. Quite a night for upsets. First, the Sk8ter Boyz. Now the Conquistadors. Anything can happen on HeldDown! Taco shits? Poor Faqu. And poor Robinson for getting his head dunked in the toilet repeatedly. Liked Blonde stepping up to the Bad Boyz though. Should be a cool match next week. Very nice four-way tag match for the HIYAH Tag Titles. One of those contests with non-stop action the entire way through. I liked Pigley getting the win out of nowhere at the end as well. Even I can't believe it, but the Love Doctors are actually starting to get over as real champions. The interaction in the back between all the veterans was handled well. I would have thought there should have been a little more hostility present between them, but it made sense that they're all unified to teach those "young punks" a lesson. Definite feeling of nostalgia. Really good stuff between CWM and Scotty Static. I liked the fans actually cheering Black T's antics, then seeing all the Originals unify under a common banner to take out GPX. But of course...CWM can't be trusted. GPX actually walking out under their own power, while all the others tried to take each other out, was a nice twist. This Jackson/Static heel turn has worked out quite well so far. Now we have a set tour list? Boo. THE 70S DUDE VS. ALFDOGG?! Holy shit, gonna set the VCR for that. Excellent Main Event between Hoff/Axel and Crystal/Gunner. Great action, and very well-written. I liked that the heels had a lot of control during it, since it did help their credibility immensely. The ending with Crystal swiping the Axel Slam to get the win was good as well. I think the Axel/Crystal feud gained some much-needed momentum here heading into School's Out. And next week.....70S DUDE VS. ALFDOGG?! SO EXCITING!! Oh yeah....and Hoff/Axel too~! I do like the idea that four matches have been scheduled for next week. Good trend to keep up. All in all, very good show this week.

I still say if WWE is planning to move forward and put Edge and Lita together on TV, it is going to be completely useless if Matt's not involved. No one cares about seeing those two together -- it's the angle itself that would have people talking. And simply making vague references to it on Raw is not going to help a single thing.

Oh, you LIE!!

WHAT A BADASS

That sucks. He left the federation four years ago, and people still thought he would be able to turn the company around if he ever made his return.

Oh man, Zack's trying to muscle his way into some free feedback....

I can't believe they actually got me to find Viscera entertaining.

He was banned already

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No, the plan was to do HHH/Undertaker at Backlash for a while. But WWE saw the support Hogan was getting and wanted to capitalize on it quickly. On the same token, the fans were rather flat for the HHH/Taker feud throughout April as they were building it up. As a result, Hogan/HHH got the Backlash slot in order to pop a nice buyrate quickly. Then, two months later, they decided to run the HHH/Taker match anyway. Despite the fact they knew the crowd wasn't into it two months earlier, they still tried to stick with the plan -- coming up with one of the worst PPV Main Events in a long time. The Flair/McMahon storyline wasn't planned until they decided to change the Backlash Main Event a few weeks before the show.

MIKE GOT BANNED?! SINCE WHEN?!

I love how every time the Yankees win a game now, they're back on track. It hasn't worked out so far. "Hey guys, A-Rod hit 3 homeruns today. WE'RE BACK ON TRACK!" *freefall*

This gets filed under "tough shit". Slapnuts, that is only ONE example of Mike's arrogance having a detrimental effect on the board. I don't think there's ever been a more confrontational poster than him. Yes, he sparked conversation....and yes, he was intelligent....but you can't act like the Fahrenheit 9/11 thread was an isolated situation. The banning was a long time coming. For more reasons than one.

Andrew, did you even bother to read that thread? First of all, there were enough threads dedicated to Fahrenheit 9/11 in the Current Events folder at that time. More than enough. They dealt with the factual issues behind it, the politics behind it -- why, we even got the chance to view countless jokes about Michael Moore's weight. Great. And if you look through enough of these threads, you will see Mike made his opinion known on Fahrenheit 9/11 umpteenth times. There was not a person that ventured into the Current Events folder that did not know how Mike felt about the movie. He made it crystal clear in the threads dedicated to Fahrenheit. He made it crystal clear in the threads that had nothing to do with the movie. That's all fine and good. But then his insanity started spilling over into other folders. The thread created in the Movies/Television folder for Fahrenheit 9/11 did NOT need to be infested with Mike. As I said, the thread was there to discuss other issues. The cinematography of the film. The editing. The pacing. The humor. The facts behind it, sure. But people should have had the ability to discuss the documentary itself without necessarily limiting the entire discussion to its politics. Along comes Adolf Mike. There will be no peaceful discussion on the merits of Fahrenheit 9/11 while he's in town. Forget the idea that he regurgitated his opinion COUNTLESS times in the Current Events folder. He's here now to spread the gospel. Now, first off Andrew, if you want to tell me that Mike should not have been punished for "discussing it's dubious 'facts' and version of reality", let me disprove that right off the bat. Betty posted Ebert's review of Fahrenheit 9/11, hoping to spur some conversation. And what was Mike's response to the whole article? "The Reagans" was MILDLY critical? Ebert is a fucking moron. -=Mike Oh, there we go. Intelligent. As you can see, he didn't even TOUCH upon the topic of Fahrenheit in that post. He chose to extract a portion of a sentence from Ebert's review and make that his post. But not before topping it off by calling the reviewer a "fucking moron" and eloquently signing off with his name. Desperately off-topic and disagreeable, just in an attempt to take the thread off-track immediately. His second post in the thread, and Mike was already turning into a monster. But let's continue. Hey Mike, have you seen the movie? Don't have to see it. The things I mentioned are mentioned by EVERYBODY who saw the film, so it's safe to say that they're in there. -=Mike Oh, nice. We're going to call a movie complete garbage, although we never even took the time to see it. And here's the kicker here: If Mike never actually saw the movie, then how would he know what's factual and what's not in it? Why, he goes onto other websites to view the information. To view what Moore said and how others dispelled it. And then what does he do with that information? He comes here to reiterate what he just read. They weren't even his thoughts! He decided to hijack the thread with ideas that weren't even his thoughts! How could he dispel the movie with his own thoughts if he never took the time to watch it?! I wouldn't be surprised if he copy and pasted all his rebuttals to the film. NoCalMike tries to tell Mike that they're just trying to discuss the movie itself, without necessarily discussing its politics. Its politics has been discussed countless times already, so now it's time for those who want to to just discuss the movie. Mike's lovely response? The ever famous.... This gets filed under "tough shit". "Sure, he's a lying sack of shit --- but he's OUR lying sack of shit" -=Mike He knows he's disobeying the rules here, but.....meh, tough shit. Intelligent response, it is. I could sit here and dissect every comment Mike made in that thread if you want, Andrew. It was my opinion at that time that he should have been banned on the spot for being so frustratingly immature. Keeping others from having a conversation, desperately trying to insult everyone that dared to ask him to stop posting so others could discuss the movie. I don't know if I agree with his banning now, since I don't think he was being necessarily awful. But the more I look through this thread, the more I realize that he had it coming anyway.

Some Guy, you better read the Fahrenheit 9/11 thread over again. There has NEVER been such a blatant derailing of a thread before. People were simply not allowed to discuss Moore's film without Mike screaming about how untrue the facts were. This was not a thread in the Current Events folder. This was a thread in the Movies/Television folder. People should be allowed to discuss the movie based on its documentary style, entertainment value, cinematography, and yes, on the facts it presented. Mike did not allow any of that. I really felt he should have been banned right at that point, but others didn't agree. Oddly, his banning has happened now, when he hasn't been nearly as much of a nuisance. If one makes the case that Mike's banning has been a long time waiting, that Fahrenheit 9/11 thread is proof enough.

I've gotten into my fair share of arguments with Mike in the CE Folder over politics, but I always had the idea that he at least knew what he was talking about. Sure, he was unbelievably biased to the right and unwilling to ever admit he might be wrong, but he was still an intelligent poster. Someone who was able to initiate conversation in a thread and defend his stance most of the time. This is as opposed to Salacious Crumb, who never seems to have an independent thought in his posts. In the CE Folder, it's either spewing out the same stuff a conservative has already said earlier in the thread or adding some tremendously lame joke. I would have rather seen him go than Mike. At least with Mike, I could respect the fact that he often knew what he was talking about. I have never gotten that feeling from Crumb.

I think the difference is that in the SWF, you at least get the chance to be acknowledged and rewarded for your stuff. If you write a better match than your opponent, you get credit for it when your match is posted on the show instead of the other one. There is a sense of competition, with a winner and a loser, and that system is enough to give people the idea that their work is really being noticed. Here, we don't have that. There are no winners or losers. If people don't leave feedback, there is no acknowledgement of whether your work was good or bad. For all you know, absolutely no one might have read it. In the SWF, at least you know the judge read through them and decided which one was better. Here, we don't even the luxury of knowing at least one person read our stuff unless they leave their thoughts on it. This is why a feedback thread is needed more here than it might be in the SWF. .....There. Now dont be bringin your SWF gar-bage here nomore, boyyyyyyyyy.

I used to have enough time to give every show detailed feedback. When I comment on people's stuff, I don't like to do a half-assed job. I'm either going to give them full thoughts on my opinion, or not bother at all. Unfortunately, this past semester has wreaked havoc on how much free time I have had. Between classes, homework, tests, papers, and trying to incorporate a social life into it all, I just haven't had nearly enough time. Once in a while, I could put aside some free time -- like I did with posting the PPV or leaving feedback in the threads once in a while. But most of the time, I just don't have the chance. Believe me, I know how frustrating it could be to not get feedback on your stuff. I've been frustrated several times with people not leaving their thoughts, and I made sure to make that clear in the feedback threads. But sometimes....people just don't have the time. And now I realize I'm guilty of doing the same stuff I criticized other people for a year ago. In the next few weeks, I should have a little more time, so I'm gonna try to leave feedback. I can't guarantee it will be as in-depth as it was before, but I figure a little something is better than nothing. I would recommend everybody else here do the same. Skimming through the show and writing at least one or two sentences a piece on people's stuff should be doable. And to call out the people.....Tony, Eski, Frigid.....believe me, I appreciate the feedback you all leave every week. Everyone else here should strive to do the same. Myself included.

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