RavishingRickRudo

The flashback spot with Wes and Connors return to bitterness is fucking awesome. I loved this episode before, but I fucking LOOOOOVE it now. I can't wait for tomorrow. Shit, I've been waiting for this for months. FUCK YEAH!

I hate the "I am PROUD of posing in Playboy". It's like, why? I mean, if she said "I get lots of money for wearing nothing" or "it's really liberating", then it'd make sense (and even then it wouldn't, since she gets paid for wearing barely nothing in the WWE).

I don't think its the same type of excitement. There is a bit more of a rush from watching a good MMA fight. It's primal.

Holy Shit. I just realized the impact of Wes finding out that reality changed in the Connor episode in season 5. That if Connor didn't exist, then his relationship with Fred surely would have changed and that's maybe why she loved him... that the love wasn't real. Like I said. HOLY SHIT.

Yeah, but the benefit of watching real fights is having real emotions invested in it. If it was worked, we know that Leben would win because that's the way it's booked. So when he does win, there is no real surprised. The "real" puts the outcome in doubt, so there is a heightened sense of "oh shit". Each exchange is a possibility for the fight to be over. A work doesn't have that, the ending is structured.

It was.

Chris Leben - anti hero. You hate him cause he's an asshole. He follows his own path, he raises hell. He loves to fight, and that's why you can't totally hate him. He'll throw down with anyone at any time. Josh and Bobby are two sides of Bret Hart. Josh is the clean-cut babyface. He did the right thing with Bobby in the weight cutting episode. He's a good guy... for the most part. Tonight we saw the other side. He's not 100% "good", as he'd like to portray. Leben challenged him and he turned it down. He's a bit of a coward in that regard. Bobby is the whiner. He complains about everything. He'll talk trash, lie to your face, and try to smooth talk afterwards. This is something that Leben does, but Leben is upfront about it. He said the first night he'd try to stir shit up. Bobby (and Josh to an extent) is more insidious about it. This brings us to WM 13 and the I Quit match. Which was the equivalent of tonights episode. Before this, Bobby and Josh were good guys. We saw hints of the "bad" side in the last episode, but I for one didn't dislike either guy. They didn't do anything to push it over the edge. Leben we've (or at least I) grew a lil more fond of for his willingness to lose the challenge so he can fight cause he's a strong fighter. He's still a cocky bastard and is abrasive, but there's something to admire about him. Tonight with the "Fatherless Bastard" from Bobby, that's the sharpshooter. He got Leben good. Leben got what he arguably deserved. He got told. The water was Bret leaving the hold on after the match was over. Completely unnecessary, it was only for their own personal pleasure. Leben going outside and leaving it be rather than giving into the taunts was akin to Austin not tapping out. He showed vunerability, but he also showed he was a man there. Josh and Bobby were cowards by pushing it. Double turn.

What made Bobby and Josh wrong was that they didn't let go. You guys want to talk about wrestling, cool, then make the connection to this... Cause it's pretty fucking awesome how this relates.

He'd still have the grin. He just would also shoot laser beams from his eyes.

So if Leben doesn't win, the show is over, right? I mean, he HAS to win. Leben kills Josh, it's the only way.

Somehow, someway, Forrests bedroom window will be broken and his bed will break while he's asleep and he'll just snap and take out the whole house. Count on it.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHIT!

HAVE EM FIGHT?! FUCK YEAH!!!

Fuck, Leben is going to have to choke a bitch.

Well, 8 months - a year.

BUT, if Shawn is on Smackdown, then HHH can bring him over to RAW after a year and have a """""fresh""""" feud.

"Put over cleanly" I don't get it. If someone was "put over", does it matter if it was clean? I'd rather someone "go over" with interferance than "win" cleanly and end up nowhere. I think the better question is "has Taker ever given up his spot to another wrestler?"

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I thought Clarkson was good in the rap one, it just sucks to see someone try really hard with shitty material. She does the Avril schtick much better than her...well... whatever it was she did before. How could they not parody Teen Wolf, AD, or shitty 80's family shows? Was it beneath them to do such obvious skits and instead went for the overdone gay skits? I mean shit, a lil Will Arnet and a lil Michael Cera, and they could have done something special. Bateman and his endless attempts to get the band to follow his lead was the highlight of the show IMO. Of course, I only saw like 3 skits, but whatever.

That was a better review than 90% of the stuff out there. Good stuff. The rating was too high. I'd say ***, ***1/2's tops.

BATEMAN!

Riggle is god. The man gives 110% in every skit. "I TOLDYA I WAS GONNA SUCK!"

Loved it. They clearly knew they had time because they paced it really well and limited their high spots. They had a lot of fun spots: the top wristlock spot, the cross-armed choke spot, the stair-spot, the rope scissors spot, the chop spot. Building towards the high flying was fun, but to be honest, I would have liked to have seen more insane stunts.

They have XFL-ish team names.

Dude, it doesn't matter if the WWE hypes them up, cruiserweights will never be over.