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I read the spoilers and will not be tuning in. I'll check out Firefly Fun House later.

You might have a point. Teddy Hart too. While the jury is still out on Austin Aries, maybe Court Bauer has a magic touch with this type of personality?

Austin Aries is MLW bound. Whether this is a good signing for them, I'll leave for others to debate. Speaking for myself, I personally don't bother getting excited for anything he or Low Ki do anymore, because they never last anywhere.

Absolutely coincidental. The benevolent Mistah MACMahon would never step on anyone's toes.

So much for this being any kind of "draw" for Starrcast...

There may be something to this, as I thought the Gino episode was superb, BUT I didn't know much about his story going in. The only drawback, for me, was that it went into conspiracy theories a little too much for my liking. I don't even mean the murder theory, but the crazier speculation that he may have faked his own death, etc. The murder theory is not new to this, BTW - Michael Hayes brought it up a few years ago on WWE Network's Legends With JBL show, and I doubt the idea originated with him. Hayes's reasoning for believing an alternate theory - "Gino could handle his coke" - was absurd. In case anyone is wondering why Jeanie Clarke (AKA Lady Blossom, AKA the ex-Mrs. Austin) was featured so heavily, she, Gino, and a bunch of other wrestlers actually lived in the same apartment complex and were all very close. In her book, she goes into detail about Gino's paranoia toward the end. (She also paints a very dark picture of Steve Austin.) My heart broke for Gino's poor, grieving, paranoid mother who thought someone was out to get her too for 30 years. Not being all that familiar with Gino, it really struck me what a tremendous Horseman he would've made. Had he lived, I think that's where he would've ended up.

The Revival is selling the hell out of this, embracing it, and turning a negative into as much of a positive as possible. Meanwhile, the Usos look like creepy, perverted jock-asses. Nothing much they can do to redeem their role in this storyline, because all WWE babyfaces have to be as obnoxious and unlikable as possible, I guess.

The right team won. The Usos are DOA as an act. Bad look, bad catchphrases, you name it. I'd rather listen to a Seth Rollins promo. (In-ring, The Usos are still fine.) Remember the rumor that The Usos wanted their release too? Wonder if there's something to that, because as bad as The Revival looks in this storyline, The Usos look worse.

They were overselling the hell out of it last night. Is it horrible to admit that I'm enjoying seeing them make the most of awful booking and make themselves look better in the process? Usos look awful through all of this (and I feel for them too, because this is a no-win situation all around). I hope Dash and Dawson come out and blind them with ass cream tonight.

Watching the last few minutes of SVU before Smackdown starts, and man, I forgot what a depressing, fucked up show this is. WWE would kill to have this level of writing and character quality though. I haven't watched SVU in years, only caught the tail-end, and I already care more about everyone and everything on this show than years of bad WWE programming.

Yes, it was amazing for completely the wrong reasons. But as a viewer, I knew something was up because it felt so much more memorable and hard-hitting than most APA matches (or matches in general). As it turns out, that's because APA was really potatoing the hell out of Public Enemy. Want to hear something even more fucked up? When The Dudleys came in, their first matches were with APA. Of course, APA had to "test" the new ECW guys to make sure they weren't Public Enemy 2.0. They beat the hell out of The Dudleys every night. Bubba Ray and D-Von's response: "Thank you very much." "Respect" in the wrestling business is such a weird and fucked up thing. What was Uncle Brucie's explanation for the Public Enemy match? And yeah, we already know Bradshaw isn't as tough as he thinks. The Brawl for All was proof of that. So was the alleged Joey Styles incident (if it actually happened).

Has there ever been a more unselfish top guy than Bryan? He takes a clean loss in a RAW rematch and isn't even on the PPV (as of yet).

Wouldn't surprise me if Bryan switches to RAW by the end of the night... ...naaaah! I'm giving WWE too much credit. Edit: Elias was also on the show tonight, and he's a Smackdown guy, so the "rule" is already out the window.

Give The Revival credit though for doing this red icy hot garbage with gusto. You can't say they aren't team players. They're embracing this shit 110%.

*Groan* Icy Hot doesn't work the way they think it does.

Perverted creeps...

Did I miss another humiliation segment? I only saw The Usos creeping around.

Here come those creepers, the Usos. Worst "babyfaces" ever.

Dominic looked huge next to Rey but tiny next to Joe.

Forget about Dietrich, Crawford, and Davis - they have nothing on the acting chops of Nattie, Naomi, and Dana Brooke.

Amazing how a well-placed "enhancement" match made Lucha House Party look better than a year of bad overbooking.

God, that was dumb.

Sami Zayn has come out to save this show.

This match is still going on? For all the bad RAW matches in the Attitude Era, at least none of them lasted long and the show moved at a quick pace. Plus, everyone was over. A far cry from today. Even massive flops like Beaver Cleavage had more heat than most of the current roster.