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Probably not been mentioned because two years is not a fast binning.

Gangrela Effect is sensational. I demand a change to the thread title!

Bomber, I think you've mistaken the Mandela Effect for something other than an amusing internet nostalgia phenomenon. You've got yourself far more wound up about it in one post there, than it has ever warranted.

That's not what the Mandela Effect is though, in fairness. It's not the Mandela Effect if I wrongly remember a random fact. It's the large number of people sharing the same false memory that makes it interesting. There are very few good examples, to be fair. The Mandela one in particular, doesn't work for me at all, as he lived over twenty years after his release from prison and he was a very prominent figure during those years. I don't know how people got confused with that one.

Glad to hear you have dug deeper into the details here!

I'm interested to see how the yawn task plays out, because the way they filmed that last episode, it looked a lot like Ross suddenly became highly suspicious of Maya. Both her and James appeared to be really over-egging the yawning.

Please don't, none intended! I've genuinely never heard anyone use "Gen Zed"

This is such performative pedantry. Literally everyone uses '"Gen Zee". I would think someone was mental if I heard them use "Gen Zed" in normal conversation, unless they were trying (and failing) to be funny.

I've felt the same way about him forever. His AEW debut was one of the first major factors in turning me off their product.

Bring back the feet on yoghurt pots

Hannah had to go (😭) just so that everyone could move on from discussing her every roundtable. As some of the other contestants actually said at the table, they just needed to know one way or another and move on. Kenny's reaction to the other Traitors was hilarious. It'll be interesting to see if his demeanor changes now, because as a Faithful he had absolutely zero heat on him.

It's not. Plenty of dark storylines, but they always manage to keep a little light relief in there. Eastenders is just all out doom and gloom.

Want to feel really old? Muffy is now 61 years old!

The example I gave in the TNA thread was Buff Bagwell. He was a pretty huge name at the time and made his WWE debut in the main event of Raw's WCW branded show, but his match stank the place out, he annoyed too many people backstage and never worked in the WWE again.

Given how brutal the business used to be, I'm certain there are tonnes of great examples of wrestlers being fired after just one appearance (Buff Bagwell springs to mind), but to be sacked for something you've said within the first ten seconds of your debut is really quite the feat. I like the guy. He clearly understands he's fucked up a big opportunity here, despite the somewhat botched apology. I hope he does well on the indies, it'll probably be a while before he gets another shot at a major promotion.

I don't think they bottled it. While it would have been an amazing moment, it wasn't the right time to put the belt on him. The briefcase feels like the logical step to level him up to a position where he would feel like a credible world champion. I hate MitB ambush cash-ins and always have done, so what I would like to see them do with Penta is return to Mexico within the year and have him declare his rematch with Roman in advance. I think this way you build monster anticipation for the title change. Nobody really thought they were going to switch the title last month.

Senor Dinero en el Banco!! I am buzzing for Penta, he's been my favourite wrestler since the Lucha Underground days. I didn't think WWE would ever present him as a big deal.

What a legend

Had never heard the name Dave Burkhead before in my life. So I Googled him and it turns out... I'd never seen him before in my life either. I did, however, learn that he worked elsewhere under the name Knuckles Zandwich, which is an absolutely incredible wrestler name.

I was so happy that Hannah was spared but I do feel that she's not long for this game. As a Faithful she was always going to be a prime candidate for murder, on account of her being far too smart for her own good. She ought to be safer as a Traitor, but she looks uneasy and Miranda is right onto her. Her not being murdered will only make the Faithful suspicious of her. I think she'll be gone soon.

Green as goose shit and called up to the main roster way too quickly, ahead of other women that were far further along in their development, such as Jaida Parker, who has just got the call up now. The upsides to Sol Ruca are obvious to the point that it's not difficult to understand why they fast-tracked her, but realistically she needed at least another year or two in NXT.

Oldbigot-by-the-sea

I'm not buying into that theory, as it makes no sense that he'd have absolutely no clue how the show worked. At the very least he must have understood that it was a game and not an acting gig. I think he was just being a big eccentric fool and figured everyone would laugh it off, as an apparently obvious joke, but nobody did. I was kind of surprised everyone thought he was being serious. In any case, he's surely fucked himself and that's a shame for the show.

That Premier League statement is so strong and yet I'm still not at all convinced that they will end up with a punishment. I will believe it when I see it, but I can totally see an outcome whereby underhanded political pressures influence an appeal process. Abu Dhabi have used their power and influence in this way in the past.

Boardwalk Empire is strange in that it felt like the biggest, most talked about show in the world while it was still running, but finished with a bit of a whimper and almost immediately nobody ever spoke about it again and now it rarely gets mentioned in these sort of lists.