Paid Members Egg Shen Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Just watched the first ever Raw, for a laugh...whilst it as i remembered look-wise there were several things i just didn't get...  Why was Rob Bartlett on commentary? he clearly had no love for wrestling and basically took the piss throughout the whole show. Vince McMahaon was trying to laugh it off on commentary he had to be annoyed.  What the hell was the 'Mike Tyson' commentating via satellite about?  Why the hell did they advertise a Woody Allen vs. Mia Farrow Cage Match for the following week   Max fucking Moon!!!!   haha, i love wrestling nostalgia and all but what the hell was it all about? was the it the WWF's attempt at doing some cutting edge comedy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Was this not around the time Woody Allen started screwing around with his step-daughter or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted July 30, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 it might have been, why the hell was the WWF taking advantage of that though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Rob Bartlett was a cunt. Â That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted July 30, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 how long did he stick around before they canned his tubby ass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted July 31, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I hated when Vince would drop the pop-culture references into the early Raws, such as the Woody Allen divorce there. Always seemed desperate. Â "Did you see <name of popular 90s show> ? ... WOW!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SinN6 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 That Max Moon costume was very expensive from what I heard. Was on a roundtable i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted July 31, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 it's some tacky shit. Â I'm pretty sure Moon almost melted some kids on this show as well. When he does his 'fireworks out of the hands' deal, he raises his one arm and fires, then when he raises his other arm nothing happens, he lowered his arm the firework goes off and fires straight into the floor next to the fans...nothing was said and it happened during a wide-shot but it could have been a bad situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted July 31, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I thought 1993 WWF was great. Â You had stars like Mr Perfect still hanging around, and Bret Hart lighting the main event scene with some solid matches. The tiny arena thing was a new concept, but became commonplace for all the tv tapings around a year later when even WWF Superstars were taped in glorified leisure centres. Â I'll tell you one thing, nothing on there was as weird as Little Jimmy and stuff of that ilk that we get on Raw these days. Â Rob Bartlett was an annoying cunt though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted July 31, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I hated when Vince would drop the pop-culture references into the early Raws, such as the Woody Allen divorce there. Always seemed desperate. "Did you see <name of popular 90s show> ? ... WOW!"  On Droz's debut Michael Cole says "Droz can vomit at will, he reminds me of Stan from South Park" in the most confused, disjointed, reading-it-off-a-piece-of-paper voice I've ever head. I'm pretty sure Cole had no idea what South Park was at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted July 31, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 WWF has never really made any good pop culture references since about 1987 though. Vince used to be fucking awful for his random celebrity comments on early Raw episodes. I remember he did one about Jimmy Carter's daughters dog or something else obscure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevi Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 The best one is Cornette on commentary in 1998 referring to Dustin Runnels new Christianity gimmick, stating that Dustin Runnels has a direct line to Charlton Heston, referring to Charlton Heston in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) a film that so many of the 18-25 demographic that the Attitude era was aimed at would clearly be unfamiliar with in 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Am I right in thinking much of the pop culture references were done as a late, late insert in order to make taped shows feel more "live"? For example, if a particular celebrity was in the news for something like a bit of prossie-shagging or drugs, they would mention the celebrity rather than the story. This kept them out of hot water concerning the story, but looked as though fingers were on pulses because of who they were talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanoTheGame Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Didn't TNA try a similar thing a few months ago for about three weeks? I remember halfway through a match Tenay suddenly starting talking about Lindsay Lohan's appearance on SNL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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