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Anyway, please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for February 13, 2012.
Worst: John Laurinaitis Has Pictures Of Kurt Angle Having Sex With Sharmell?
I write ten wordy-ass paragraphs about him every week, so I’ll present two options:
1. What made CM Punk great when he wasn’t great to everybody was that he always sounded like he meant what he was saying. When he ran down Raven for doing drugs and wasting opportunities, it felt real. Same thing when he made fun of Jeff Hardy for blowing his dream job. When he says “clownshoes” and says that Laurinaitis has leverage over the board of directors because of “naked pictures of bestiality” it sounds like something they came up with in creative and wrote between “bad breath” and “farts” on the dry erase board.
2. I bought into the CM Punk character and am a total rube mark. Phil Brooks came up with a cool thing that was convincing and got people like me on board, and now he’s tweaked it to get all the people who aren’t like me to cheer him and buy his t-shirts. There are a lot more people like them.
Long story short, I hate how stupid Punk makes me feel now. I don’t like him as the “guy who is funny at talking!” I don’t know. The more I write about it, the dumber I feel, and sh*t, I’m the guy about to write about who great it was when a guy said “dolph” sounded like “dolphins”. I wish I could throw that dry erase board into the sun.
Best: R-Truth Is Better Than Everyone Else Out Here Because He’s The Only One Not Taking It Seriously
…and I’m paraphrasing here:
Punk: “I am the best wrestler in the world!”
Dolph: “I’m better than you!”
Miz: “I’m better than both of you!”
Jericho: “I’m better than all of you!”
Truth: “SPIDAHS LIL JIMMY KEKEKEKEKEKEEKE”
Even Kofi Kingston, whose personality is normally “smile and wave to the nice fans”, pulled a “I’m a hungry young lion and my shirt has a lion on it now and I will defeat you all!” But here’s Truth, playing with the “what” chants, calling Jerry Lawler “your honor”, announcing that he’d trade people to Smackdown for Hornswoggle and a box of spiders “if elected” and winning a bright, shiny best for being the first person in like four years to say, “Dolph Ziggler? That’s a stupid name!” Because, seriously.
I’ve been wary of Truth’s transition from deranged psychopath to lovable, Cuckoo’s Nest-esque man of mental disease who just needs someone to take him fishing, but if he keeps lightening these forced moods with f**king dolphin noises, I’m sold.
Super Best: Dolph Ziggler’s Reaction To Being Told He’s Named After Flipper
Easily the intentionally funniest moment of the show. Secondary best for HOW DO YOU WORK HERE?
Worst: Time To Pull The Plug On The Miz
I think I speak for everyone when I say Miz needs a year or two teaming with Chavo Guerrero and the Lunch Ladies or whoever in Ring Ka King to tighten up the part of his brain that remembers how words sound and get his sh*t together. As an adoptive Clevelander I’ve got a deep, everlasting love for the Oh-Bros who’ve made it (Derrick Bateman, Dolph Ziggler, Miz, hell, even me, Michael Tarver), but yeah, Miz has either plateaued or is in desperate need of a break.
Jericho tossed him under the bus last week, and putting him in the ring with a bunch of guys who are better than him at everything (and Kofi Kingston) isn’t helping. Fantasy booking idea: have Miz get all sentimental and try to reform Extreme Expose, only to find out that Brooke eloped with Kahoneys or whatever and lives next to Shark Boy at the Impact Zone.
Worst: Chris Jericho’s New Character
In the span of two weeks, Jericho has gone from one of the most compelling reinventions of a character in wrestling history to a f**king reissue of Malibu Stacy: exactly like the old one, but with a new jacket. I don’t know how excited to get now that I know he’s the same guy he was when he left, wearing 2007 Jericho’s clothes. You’re legitimately one of the best ever, Jericho, let’s see what you were bragging about creating.
Oh, and before I forget:
Best:
He is!
Best: And So Begins The Funniest Raw Of All Time
I want to be that guy you go see on the Internet who gets hypercritical about these things, and yeah, most of the time I’m good for at least a page of WHO IS SIGNING KANE’S PAYCHECKS FOR THIS and IT WAS AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT WHEN MIZ BEAT UP JOHN CENA BY SURPRISE BY THESE KIDNAPPINGS AND FIRE RAPES ARE OKAY, but man, I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at a TV show. It’s like … golden age ‘Simpsons’, ‘Look Around You’, and then this.
John Cena has got to be the worst f**king friend of all time. Zack Ryder is stupid enough to
1. Keep traveling around the country and showing up at the only place in the goddamn world the guy who keeps trying to shoot murder him is announced to be
2. Put on a headband when he’s got a severe neck injury
and I guess he doesn’t know his camera is also a telephone (although nobody in WWE knows how to properly use a phone… Otunga gets his sensitive messages via text and Shawn Michaels had to go through John Laurinaitis to schedule an appointment in the middle of a wrestling ring to talk to his best friend, who you’d assume he could’ve just called).
If you were Cena, how would you react? I’m guessing you’d contact security or the authorities and use those guys who keep people from jumping the rails to redirect their energies into keeping your friend from being MURDERED WITH FIRE, or, worst case scenario, you’d wheel his ass out the back door and put him in a cab. And sure, Kane would probably be driving that cab, but that would be out of your hands.
Cena reacts to the situation by going “yeah okay I know you want to see Eve”, then telling Ryder to stay put, because the John Cena locker room with the big JOHN CENA logo on the door is probably the last place the supernatural rapist who wants to hurt John Cena will look. And then he just f**king leaves to “get Eve” and spends an HOUR doing it, including several minutes of fraternization with Josh Mathews. Dude, can’t you talk to Josh when your friend ISN’T GOING TO BE PUT IN TRACTION BY THE TELEPORTING DEMON MAN.
And then other stuff happens, but we’ll get to that. An absolute f**king riot.
Best: What The Iron Sheik Thinks About Zack Ryder
Worst: Way To Disprove That Whole “Afterthought” Thing, Kofi
This isn’t a harsh best, as I liked the actual Kingston vs. Jericho match enough and appreciated Kofi showing some fire for the first time in … God, like two years? I didn’t enjoy Kofi being addressed as an afterthought in the Raw debate and shoved out of the way, only for him to 1) sneak attack Jericho and 2) lose to Jericho when they were face to face. Jericho’s right about being up here (/gesture) while Kofi is down here (/gesture), but you don’t have to tell us AND illustrate it.
I can’t believe I’m saying it, but I almost would’ve preferred the WAIT A MINUTE THAT’S CM PUNK’S MUSIC LOOK KOFI’S ROLLED UP JERICHO things. It wouldn’t have made Kingston look any better, but it could’ve provided a nice “maybe he’ll win by accident” talking point.
Worst: Daniel Bryan Is Missing The Little Things
Heel Daniel Bryan is the greatest, don’t get me wrong, but if he’s going to play the Ethical Vegan card, he needs to pay attention to the details. Driving a Prius, going on nature walks instead of watching the Super Bowl and having a girlfriend of indeterminate ethnic origin are great starts, but what about the announce chairs? John Laurinaitis mentioned a few weeks ago that they were top quality, so you have to assume they’re leather. Why’s he sitting in them like it’s nothing? Are his boots vegan?
Furthermore, what about the championship belt itself? That strap is made out of leather. Maybe he should get his own custom belt made out of pleather (or even better, hemp) and spend half of Smackdown pointing it out so people will have to notice it.
Best: Two-Faced Michael Cole
A lot of people seemed to be missing this point on Twitter during the show, but Michael Cole is doing an awesome job of putting Daniel Bryan over and hating his guts at the same time. When Bryan is within arm-breaking distance, Cole sings his praises. Says he has a great smile and has proven himself time-in and time-out. When Bryan is in the ring or about to leave, Cole switches right back into HE’S A COWARD AND A NERD mode, sometimes mid-sentence. Watch him try to strong-arm A.J. on Smackdown and leave in a HEARTBEAT when Bryan shows up. It’s great, purposeful work.
I don’t know how to explain it more succinctly, but it’s a deeper kind of shallow dipsh*t than they usually go for, and I appreciate it.
Best: Extra Vintage Randy Orton
Come on, Cole saying “EXTRA vintage” when Orton broke out that amazing rope-assisted DDT on The Big Show is the SUPER NO VACANCY of North American wrestling. It’s dumb, but if you’re gonna make this all look and feel like a video game anyway you might as well add sound effects and echoing announcer voices going GREAT JOB or whatever when you hit your finisher.
Worst: Sorry You Made A Mistake, Randy
One of the greatest things about Randy Orton is that his “intermediate explosive disorder” isn’t part of his character, it’s an actual thing he has. Watch any time he (or someone he’s wrestling) messes up a move. He either starts flipping out and yelling STUPID, YOU’RE STUPID like a baby or he collapses into world-crushing disappointment like he did last night.
So, Big Show went down too early. So what? The announcers could’ve sold it as Show being too woozy to stand up or “trying to avoid” it instead of yelling RKO! RKO! like it was awesome. Now we’re guaranteed a Botchamania 201 moment where Orton’s covering his face while the Chubby Cherub music plays.
Best: Jennifer Hudson’s Whitney Houston Tribute At The Grammy Awards
This was great, right? But you know what was even better? The fact that Jennifer Hudson being at the Grammys means David Otunga is at the Grammys. And you know what’s even better than that?
Best: David Otunga’s Travel Thermos At The Grammy Awards
I don’t think I can best this enough. I wish they were my parents. I’d be born with a great voice and fastidiousness. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Worst: Anyway, Stop Having Fun And Let’s Talk About THIS BUSINESS
I have to give this a worst before I get into it, because at no point do I want two guys from the Attitude Era (who “grew up” in wrestling together according to the announcers, despite Michaels retiring what, four months into the original D-Generation X? What, did Triple H grow up with Rick Rude, too?) spending 20 minutes repeatedly reiterating how much better things were back then, and how wrestlers today are just broomstick pussies who don’t “leave it all in the ring”, as if that’s their choice and not a mandate from a publicly traded company.
I also didn’t like Undertaker being referred to as a “brand”, because he’s more or less the only wrestler left who exists outside of WWE’s “this part is fake but THIS PART IS REAL” nonsense and just possesses and embalms people. If he’s the last of a dying breed of anything it’s kayfabe, and you’re kinda f**king that up for him here by calling him a marketable character.
Anyway
Best: LOOK INTO MY EYES AND TELL ME ABOUT THIS BUSINESS
Regardless of the problems I had with the content, Shawn Michaels is better at WWE’s interpretation of drama than anyone in the f**king Earth and dragged the best promo in ten years out of Triple H.
Like always, it took them 25 minutes to say what they could’ve in 10, but I liked it. I like the idea that Triple H is scared to death of being the first guy to go up against the Undertaker three times at Wrestlemania and fail and has convinced himself, probably over the course of the entire year, that his excuses are real. That’s cool. I like that Michaels managed to call him a sellout who does Stephanie McMahon’s busy work without resorting to Punks Balls In Purse insults, and I like that Michaels, the guy who spends his free time dropping Showstopper elbows on cave bears at the Crossed Eyes Ranch, can be H’s friend and still have a legit beef with how he’s living his life.
Sometimes WWE gets the melodrama right. The Road To Wrestlemania could benefit more from explaining who these people are and why they’re doing what they’re doing, inside and out, than it could from one-or-more Elimination Chamber match. This is the stuff we’ll remember when we talk about it next year.
Worst: The Undertaker Is 17 Years Old And Totally Pissed
The Undertaker reacts to rejection by scrapbooking and rebelliously cutting his hair. If he locked his door and turned the Corporate Ministry theme up too loud he’d be every 17 year old girl I’ve ever known.
I am prepared to best this so f**king hard if he shows up as Booger Red next week. BOOGER RED OR WE RIOT.
Whoops: I Forgot This Match Existed
R-Truth vs. Dolph Ziggler wasn’t bad (and I loved the sit-ups into a small package finish), but I completely forgot about it when I wrote this report and had to find somewhere to tack it on when I was done. That’s not a good sign.
A lot of (pyro and) ballyhoo is made of “50/50 Booking”, wherein people who are feuding trade wins and losses and nobody really gets better or worse and everyone is the same when they’re done. Many critics say it’s a terrible idea and that nothing comes of it.
just uh, throwin’ that out there
Worst: Can You Believe How BAD our BREATH Is
I thought D-X in Little People’s Court was the low point of WWE comedy, but people seem to remember that fondly. Santino showing up to offer garlic flavored breath mints to Zack Ryder after penetrating John Cena’s Friend Protector Force Field that Kane could not simply wander through may be the new low point, as signaled by Santino going GARLICS~ like he’s a f**king Disney Channel character and the crowd going ehhhhhhh and the production team going ABORT ABORT and cutting to commercial.
Once again I have to ask: WWE writing team, can’t one of you take your balls out of your wife’s purse (speaking your language here) and tell Vince McMahon that people having bad breath is not outrageously funny, and have the decency to introduce him to a newer form of comedy, such as Vaudeville and/or slipping on a f**king banana peel?
At least give me a segment where everybody lines up against a wall and Vince gets up in their face to inspect their breath, promising that an unpleasant odor might “cross the boss” and result in termination. So all day nobody eats and John Cena’s in the background somewhere pounding Life Savers. Get creative with it. Have Paul London smiling too much because he’s been snorting mouthwash all day. Announce that Binaca is part of the wellness policy. I don’t know, something that works harder than “our breath is so bad you would not believe how bad our breath is”.
Best In Show: Beth Phoenix Channeling Ox Baker
One of my favorite memories of pre-Crisis Pro Wrestling Illustrated (and my current favorite part of Dave Shoemaker’s awesome CLUBBERIN’ Tumblr) is pre-Rock n’ Wrestling fashion, when not everybody had merch to sell and sometimes it was okay to show up in a t-shirt with an iron-on message across the front. I BROKE WAHOO’S LEG is a classic. So is Ox Baker‘s YOU WILL HATE ME.
Beth Phoenix dared to bring that back last night with her iron-on DING GLAMSLAM DING shirt, and it made me happy in basically every way a wrestling shirt can, including concept, execution and great boobs. Beth is wise to establish herself as more of a Blood Circus type and less “the farting one’s friend”.
Does it bother anyone else that they keep bragging about Beth’s dominance when she spent the entirety of last year losing to Kelly Kelly?
Best: Tamina’s Name Change
Tamina is now “Tamina Snuka”, which is great because it
1. Gives her instant credibility
2. Helps destroy that weird WWE idea that women can’t have last names
3. Allows WWE that rare opportunity to embrace their history without having to think too hard about it
4. Sets up that great moment when Beth bashes her in the face with a coconut, which is going to happen, don’t kid yourself, that’s the entire reason Tamina is suddenly a Snuka again
It is not especially great because
Worst: Tamina F**king Blows At The Superfly Splash
There, I said it. I should’ve said it last week.
I’m not sure what the problem is. It could be that she doesn’t weigh enough to make the splash convincing. Eve’s moonsault has the same problem. How does it hurt that you’re gently lying your body across mine? The most effective top rope attacks in Joshi have always been strike based or performed by heavier performers. It could be that she has Chavo Guerrero Frog Splash-itis and has to do the move because of her name but can’t commit to it when she jumps. Maybe John Cena’s Ghostbuster Dog-jumping ass taught her how to leap, I don’t know.
Whatever it is, it doesn’t look good, and I’m going to pretend the Samoan drop is your actual finisher. Sorta like how Scotty 2 Hotty’s Worm was harmless, but his one-handed bulldog near the ropes would Critical your ass nine times out of ten.
Fine, I Guess: I’M THE MIZ, AND I’M probably not going to live down that R-Truth bump, am I
Much like the Dolph Ziggler/R-Truth match, last night’s wrestling seemed fine-at-best and inconsequential-at-worst. Everyone seemed like they were wrestling these matches because the Elimination Chamber is coming up and that’s what happens. I’m not asking for a Beat The Clock challenge or anything, but giving these guys something nominal to fight over (pod numbers, choice of weapons, SOMETHING) would’ve really helped the gravity of the one-on-one deals.
Miz was fine here and didn’t hurt anybody for real, so good for him. Hopefully he taps out to Anacondas Vice a few more times as punishment or Kangaroo Bail or whatever it is wrestlers do with justice and we can move forward with our lives. Also, I’m glad more people are noticing Punk’s thing where he gets a debilitating injury where he’s like, clutching a gimp arm to his side for 20 minutes and then when he wins it’s fine and is never mentioned again. That’s 2012’s “Mr. Perfect is holding the ropes because somebody’s gonna kick his legs out from under him”.
So Many Bests: The John Cena/Eve Torres/Zack Ryder/Kane Love Rectangle
I feel like I’ve got a screencap and five paragraphs about everything that happened from the Josh Mathews interview with Cena on, so I’m gonna try to get through this without pissing myself with laughter.
Worst: Uh, Now?
Josh Mathews pulled Cena away from his stringent Eve Finding mission to chat about Twitter, the Rock, embracing hate, you know, whatever, but it was interrupted by SCREAMING~ from offscreen. The camera cuts over to Chekov’s Ambulance, where Eve Torres is calmly walking in and taking a seat and Kane is just kinda chillin’, going over some sh*t Ron Paul said about Hate and someone behind the camera in a headset and a rolled-up piece of paper with FIRE RAPE written across it goes PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTT and starts waving his arms and Kane goes “oh, sorry, maniacal laugh maniacal laugh” and Eve starts screaming again.
At no point did Eve consider
1. Standing up and leaving calmly
2. Exiting through the driver or passenger door, where Kane was not standing
3. Standing up for herself, even once (smart, sexy, powerful)
4. Getting in the driver’s seat and driving away in the ambulance, because what, you think Kane is carrying around a set of keys in his flame pants?
Best: John Cena Is Rising Above Not Saving You
Cena runs up and battles the evil Kane (who was just kinda moseying around) by shoving him into the side of the ambulance and then throwing him through some things. “Throwing you through some things” is how Cena deals with anger, btw.
Anyway, Cena can’t figure out how to open ambulance doors and Kane is able to recover, briefly incapacitating Cena so he can F**KING WADDLE OVER TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT and drive the ambulance to either a hospital or some vertical wall of fire. He’s unsuccessful, however, because:
Best: The Eve Torres Leap Of Faith
Eve, who cannot normally open doors or navigate holes between ring ropes, summons Freaky Retard Strength and bursts through the doors to dive from the completely still ambulance. I guess stepping down calmly would’ve hurt the moment. Kane (who obviously did not check his rear view mirror before driving) drives away in the ambulance.
I like to imagine one of two things here
1. Kane drove out to the parking lot area, turned around and was all WHERE TO, EVE and Eve was gone, so he spent a few minutes with his head down on the steering wheel before backing it back in.
2. Kane drove all the way to the hospital without looking in the back, doing those big exaggerated “driving” motions bad actors do to show that they’re “driving”, and he gets to the hospital (in Hell, I guess?) and Eve is nowhere to be found. So Kane quickly kidnaps a hospital receptionist, tosses her into the back of the ambulance and drives all the way back.
Worst: OM NOM NOM
Be careful, John, you don’t know where that mouth has been. Make sure you don’t take any wellness tests in the next few days.
Best: Annnnnd Slow Pan To The Cripple…
It was the obvious thing to do and Ryder really had no reason to be there (“hey broskis I heard someone screaming and driving an ambulance outside the door so I wheeled over and WHA WHA WHAAAAAAT”), but that slow-ass pan over to reveal Ryder with that look on his face is easily the best WWE production direction since Vince McMahon Rose From His Gwave at Wrestlemania 19.
The only Worst comes from the missed opportunity for the greatest, most melodramatic ARE YOU SERIOUS, BRO of all time. The one time Ryder’s catchphrase means something and he doesn’t say a word.
Best: Oh This Is Nowhere Near The End
oh god, wait until you see what happens on the next page
Worst: John Cena Assures Us That Everything Is Fine
So in the last month or so, John Cena has watched Zack Ryder get his back broken, watched Eve get physically (?) and sexually (?) assaulted by Kane, been forced to save Eve from a kidnapping attempt, been forced to save Ryder from a literal descent into Christianity’s interpretation of Hell and just made out with his crippled friend’s dream girl in front of him. So what does he do?
He comes to the ring and talks about The Rock and Twitter in his best Southern accent. What the what?
This almost plays out like a parody of John Cena. I compared him to The Truman Show a lot over the Summer, but now he seems more like Truman’s wife, right on the cusp of having the audience find out what he’s really about all he can do is advertise Mococoa, all natural cocoa beans from the slopes of Mt. Nicaragua, no artificial sweeteners.
Best: Poor Little Zack Ryder And His Baby Crutches
I’ve often wondered if WWE writers know how pregnancy works (for example, if you are ever touched during pregnancy it causes a miscarriage) (spoiler: they have no f**king idea how it works), but now I’ve got to wonder if they know how ANYBODY’s body works.
Zack Ryder had a “broken back” that was downgraded to a herniated disc. So he comes to the ring in a wheelchair wearing a back and neck brace, but he’s also on CRUTCHES and can’t seem to straighten or properly use his legs (or decide which leg is the one he can’t bend like he’s Cindy Brady trying to get out of being the Fairy Princess). Also, his crutches aren’t tall enough so he has to hunch over to use them, which I’m pretty sure is the opposite of what you’re supposed to do when you break your back.
Oh, and he grimaces when he slaps Cena, but when Cena shoves him down hard ONTO HIS SPINE Ryder is all GET AWAY FROM ME and scoots backwards on his butt. And then he rolls out of the ring and hobbles away on his sad children’s crutches.
This is either some f**ked up secret message to the Make-A-Wish people or Zack Ryder thinks you have discs in your knee.
Best: Zack Ryder Gets Gowan’d
Up until last night, this was the most hilarious wheelchair disaster in WWE history:
And while Brock breaking a one-legged kid’s one leg in front of the kid’s mother, then shoving a handicapped one-legged kid down a flight of stairs might never be topped for pure dickhead ultraviolence, Zack Ryder suddenly getting wheeled off the stage to his f**king doom by Kane has got to be up there. Look at this:
They got some impromptu art direction out of Ryder’s headband flying off, too. Yeah, if at this point you’re still taking any aspect of the Kane/Cena/Ryder/Eve/Dwayne “Popular Movie Star Who Is Lucky He Never Shows Up And Has To Sell This Because Flying On Giant Bees Is More Realistic Than Kane’s Flambulance” Johnson love/hate pentagon you are … I don’t know what you are. I hope you’re five.
And speaking of people who are five
Best: Your Reaction To Raw, In a Nutshell
Best: John Cena Checking Out Eve’s Funeral Buttcrack
I don’t know if it was intentional, but if John Cena was noticing Eve’s butt cleavage and thinking “wow, actually I should probably try to stick Eve Torres” he is the greatest heel of all time. OF ALL TIME. The fact that Cena’s wife was blatantly mentioned on TV during his feud with CM Punk makes this even better. If he’s cheating on his wife AND ruining his best friend’s life AND doing it under the pretense of being the only guy cool enough to save a damsel in distress he is absof**kinglutely Captain Hammer and I love it.
Hopefully next week Ryder dies and returns to the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view with a sheet over his head. The “boo boo boo” jokes write themselves.
Because that last page went a little long, here are the week’s top 10 comments. As a bit of a programming note, you’ll see that MY comments mostly drop out when the show starts. That’s because if I read what you guys write as the show goes on I will seriously have NO JOKES because you are collectively the funniest thing in f**king history.
If you aren’t stopping by on Monday nights to participate in our open discussion threads, you’re out of your mind.
Starting us off with one of my favorite comments/responses of all time, from JoelYeomans and RumHam:
Is it just me, or do you think Chuck Palumbo would have had a much lengthier career if his gimmick was an everyman who solves mysteries?
Can we bring him back and have him play Bateman’s eccentric uncle? They could go on double dates with the Bella Twins and just talk to each other the whole time.
IrishCream:
How many times can I be fooled by Shawn’s eyes before I realize there isn’t a fly on his nose that he’s staring at?
M4G3RK, speaking the truth:
Asparagus should win Best In Show.
Lester and The Next Steve Blackman, because I love me some NXT jokes:
Thing I learned on Twitter this week: AJ was 20 years old when she had her first kiss.
Aww!
Was it that time she kissed Primo?
Who are you to doubt TheDandy?
Ummm I’m pretty sure the Funkasaurus is the last of a dying breed
Tobogganing Bear:
Triple H and Shawn Michaels are throwing up the X because the goodwill in the arena is severely injured.
Space Monkey Mafia:
When Ryder rolled up and caught Cena kissing Eve, why didn’t Cena just wave his hand in front of his face so that Zack couldn’t see him?
pizzaplant:
I’m starting to think Ryder is Moleman rather than Frank Grimes. I’m surprised he didn’t burst into flames there.
That’s it for this week, everybody. See you later this week for the Best And Worst Of WWE No Way Out 2007 (seriously, check back on Friday), Sunday for the Elimination Chamber open thread, on Monday for the Elimination Chamber wrap-up and Raw open thread and again on Tuesday for the Raw Best And Worst. I am going to kill myself.
