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Yeah, but they still had at least another season of stuff planned. They were told rather abruptly that they weren't coming back next year, when they'd already shot like 3/4ths of the season, so they had to scramble in order to try and finish up as much as possible in the last few episodes. That's why the ending was so weird, it was a Fuck You to the network for yanking them without enough notice.

WWF: Halftime Heat 1999 WWF Title: The Rock IC: Ken Shamrock European: X-Pac Hardcore: Road Dogg Tag Team: Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett Women's: Sable Light Heavyweight: Gillberg WCW: some Thunder around June of 99 WCW World Champion: Kevin Nash WCW US Champion: Scott Steiner WCW TV Champion: Rick Steiner WCW Tag Team Champions: the Jersey Triad WCW Cruiserweight Champion: Rey Mysterio Jr. ECW: first episode on TNN ECW World Champion: Taz ECW TV Champion: Rob Van Dam ECW Tag Team Champions: Balls Mahoney & Spike Dudley Ironically, I'm older than most of you. I just never saw wrestling as a kid, and didn't discover it til I was in college.

. . . ...godDAMNit, they found the ONE way to GUARANTEE that I'll actually watch their stupid show EVERY fucking week. Nope, hold on, they found a way to fuck it up. From a different set of spoilers: Daffney as a fan plant?

It still doesn't make sense. At my high school, if you even tried to hit a teacher, you'd probably get expelled for a year and maybe put in jail. Autistic or not, they wouldn't give a fuck, you'd be out the door. And this was at a public school... in a rich neighborhood full of folks with moolah... in Tennessee, Teh Edyacashun Stait. Your school seriously just let a kid swing punches at the teachers with no real punishment?

How the hell do you get away with doing that without getting expelled or arrested?

. . . ...godDAMNit, they found the ONE way to GUARANTEE that I'll actually watch their stupid show EVERY fucking week.

Exactly, calm down with the quickly thrown insults. If the angle confounds my expectations and actually gets over, well, hooray for them I guess. But I doubt they can do anything to change my opinion that the whole shaving angle was just awful, period.

Since quoting this post and agreeing with it seems to be the new trend.

Alright, I'll handle this one. Because Whedon's created three television shows, and all three ruled hard. Because two of those three television shows were cancelled prematurely. Angel really needed at least one more season, and Firefly was interfered with so badly that it was the equivalent of getting yanked into an alley, gang-raped, castrated, then left to bleed to death in the gutter. And despite Joss's protests that it will be a whole different deal this time, he's once again going back to Fox, the network which did the aforementioned cornholing. That's a two-parter. First of all, why watch them in anything else? Pure obsession. Like someone who's a huge fan of The Shield wanting to see everything else Michael Chiklis has ever done, despite the fact that he hasn't done much else worth watching. But the more complex part: Whedon is kinda like Paul Heyman in that he can take a mediocre performer and somehow stick them in an absolutely perfect role which plays to their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. I've never seen a single movie Sarah Michelle Gellar which I thought was any good, but she's wonderful on Buffy. Same thing with most of the cast members, Whedon's show is almost always where they've done all their best work. There are exceptions, Seth Green comes to mind, but few of the main cast members have ever done much else worth watching.

Mostly agree, except I'd switch Land and Day. I've never quite understood why Land gets so much hatred, I thought it was great. Never understood why Day gets so much love, I thought it was meh.

So, the World Heavyweight Champion wasn't on the show at all? WHY IZN'T SAMMY JOE GETTING OVUR Again? Unless Roxxi tosses Angelina into a scorpion pit, what can she possibly do at this point to get revenge which is equal to the amount of shit that's been done to her? That sounds a little conspiracy theoryish, but I wouldn't be surprised. Cornette has been made out to be an overall foolish and easily manipulated authority figure who the wrestlers constant push around. TNA: what glass ceiling? Which one? I counted at least two.

So nobody else noticed or cared that the WWE made an onscreen joke about the fact that the FBI is investigating one of their employees on charges of prostitution?

Am I the only one who heard Bradshaw babbling about the divas running an escort service?! That's the best post I've seen all day. Let's all hope that Master P doesn't show up on our TV screens. Well, they are doing a feud between a wrestler and a talk-show host. Oh, wait, between a wrestler and a talk-show host's cousin. Star power, baby.

On the rare occasions that someone seems to be following me, I was always like, okay, we're going for a ride. No high-speed stuff, since that just leads to further aggression and recklessness. I mean I just don't stop. I drive around in circles, go unnecessarily slow, pull into a parking lot and then right back out again for no apparent reason, always signalling way ahead of time just to really drive 'em crazy. In fact... people who don't signal anger me. I totally agree with Clive Owen's rant about it in Shoot 'Em Up, there's just NO fucking reason not to signal. The presence of signalling causes no harm, and the absence of it can net you a ticket. Use the signal, fuckers.

They never nominate the same guy for VP candidate twice either.

Yeah, I just saw those numbers a minute ago. The ones I was talking about were from the episode where they had Daizee Haze vs. Cheerleader Melissa. So that may prove your theory right, maybe people didn't give a fuck about the bangbussers before but they do now since the shaving. I hate to think that bullshit actually got over, but hopefully it'll maybe help Roxxi's career in the longterm. In the same summary (from Meltz): We keep telling Truthiness that he's the only one who cares that much for Black Machismo...

Not aimed at you, but that makes me think of another thing that pisses me off: dumbass cunts who get angry at the minimum wage employees for something in a retail or service establishment which they have utterly no control over. Like if someone seriously bitched at the Subway crew for only having the shredded cheese, or when some tightwad refuses to accept the fact that the sale ended yesterday and are screaming at the cashier about it, or anything like that. Have you ever worked at any job ever where the corporate management, who decide the fundamental policies which run the company, actually listened to the street-level employees? About anything at all? I sure as hell haven't. So why do these pricks go nuts on the stockboy because Walmart stopped carrying their favorite shit?

Road Wild 98 wasn't all bad. They had a couple of decent lucha matches, and I'd argue that the Leno match wasn't even as bad as the celebrity match from the previous ppv (the truly terrible Malone/Rodman debacle). KOTR 95 was bad, but aside from the dumb decisions in booking the tournament I've never understood the Worst Show Ever hatred. But if you want to talk about an absolutely worthless fucking dogshit show, look no further than Bash at the Beach 99. Every single match sucked in some way. Some just sucked by being boring, some sucked in that "I can't believe they expected people to pay to watch THESE two guys wrestle" manner, and some were so disgraceful in actively insulting your intelligence that it makes me hate WCW all over again just thinking about it.

They also all seem to talk endlessly about "stamina" but never explain what they actually mean. Are you saying your pill will desensitize a hair-trigger penis and prevent premature ejaculation? Are you saying that it will somehow vastly improve a man's cardio so that he doesn't get tired in sex? Any time they say "it improves stamina" I take that to mean "this bullshit has not and will not ever be approved as an actual drug by the FDA".

Oh no you di-n't. Zombie Strippers was fuckin' awesome.

There were plenty of bad parts in high school, but truthfully it was the first time I was ever happy, in a social sense. I finally got some friends, a girlfriend, some hobbies which didn't involve sitting alone in my room, etcetera. There were parts which made me briefly contemplate suicide, but overall it was a hell of a lot better than any other school experience up to that point. Ironically, I've got my ten-year reunion coming up in a couple months, I'm mostly looking forward to it.

If anyone actually gave him a whole bunch of millions of dollars to make a serious zombie epic, with top-of-the-line production values and a really great cast and maybe a script from someone else, that could be something cool. Imagine a World of the Dead with a thousand zombie extras onscreen at once. Of course, Hollywood seems much more content to churn out crap like the Resident Evil sequels instead of actually funding the original artist who invented the whole genre.

I agree that on a macro level, the story makes sense. Which, by TNA's standards, means the bookers deserve a cookie. But the details, oy vey. Remember the wedding renewal ceremony? Or the general way that everyone in the storyline has been made out to look selfish and stupid, especially our theoretical hero AJ? And the simple way TNA structures its show hurts this stuff too, imho. For this kind of soap opera stuff, the WWE would just do one or two long segments per week dedicated to it. TNA hits us with a couple of dozen short segments involving the same people instead, always just itching to cut away To The Back and get the cameras off that pesky wrestling ring. Also, TNA seems like it's usually in a hurry to burn through their storylines as fast as possible... with a few exceptions which it's strangely content to drag out forever and ever. Like the saga of Roode & Traci, for example. And the Kurt/Karen/AJ thing is definitely being dragged out; didn't they start the whole "Kurt & Karen don't get along" thing a year ago now? I wish I could believe that all this complicated plot is actually going somewhere, but how many of TNA's complicated plots actually went anywhere? (I'm still waiting for an explanation of what exactly happened with the whole Jarrett/Zybyzco/Hebner "conspiracy" from a couple years ago.)

Oh, it had some neato moments, sure. Also the swimming pool, and the acid, and the last shot. I just thought it didn't have nearly as much cool shit as the previous Dead films, and even recycled some of it, like the "zombie sits up, guts fall out" thing which Romero stole from himself. I dunno. DofD2: Contagium was a bad movie, but at least it was trying to do something different from the usual clones and not just be Another Zombie Movie. Meanwhile the remake was just another zombie movie, and a spectacularly shitty one at that. Mena Suvari as a soldier, Vegetarian Zombie, come the fuck on. See, I thought they just used the buzzwords for the internet and viral videos and such and never really had anything to say about it all. Well, aside from the narration, which was verbal Valium and godawful. And I'd disagree on the acting, I thought Cloverfield had several realistic characters who were just like people I'd known in real life. Meanwhile, Diary had film students, actors, and Texans who were nothing like the film students, actors, and Texans I've personally known. Plus, that World-Weary Drunken Professor guy, arrgh he was bad.

Wait. What? That doesn't make sense at all. It was Tomko who lost them the tag belts, they were stripped of the championships after he got hurt in Japan. And he was still hurt during Deuces Wild, so AJ couldn't have picked him for partner. And didn't Tomko himself do the "I'm my own man" angle like just a few months ago?