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  1. PeteF3
    Al and Mankind are watching Rock give Al the People's Elbow on Raw. Mankind is marking out, but Snow is livid. Mankind bails to try to find The Rock.
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    This crowd isn't too impressed with Stephanie, even though she's accepting full responsibility for what happened. I know it's a cliche but I wonder if that "what goes around, comes around" line was a direct reference to Wrestling With Shadows.
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    You know, those mudbath segments from Nitro (and Smackdown earlier this year) have me thinking that PG ain't so bad.
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    Larry Walker is in the crowd. I love his "what the hell did I just see?" reaction to the final Mamalukes segment. Liz gets a mudbath, which Heenan justifies because of her $19.95 K-mart dress as opposed to the Package's three-thousand-dollar suit. The Package follows her in courtesy of Sting, a spot that the Package sells and stooges for admirably.
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    So apparently Mike Tenay got nailed by a guitar and Okerlund is doing something with the Mamalukes, so Chavo is the new interviewer. Chavo sells Amway with a 555 number and no area code--come ON, guys, can't we be a little more professional and less obvious than that? A real sports-entertainment company would give us a Turner office number or one of the boys' cell phone numbers as a rib. Doc and Oklahoma hype up a cage match against Jerry Only. Oklahoma has ceased even trying to be funny and is now only about the face. JR even in his grouchy vile hateful human being stage today is worth more to the business and more talented than you are, you stupid fuck Ferrara. Okay, I'm not going to recap all of this again since Loss already did it, but yes, these 3-hour Nitros with Russo in charge were just death. I laugh at Mean Gene dancing in the club in spite of myself. I never thought I'd see Juventud Guerrera try to give the Heimlich maneuver to Leilani Kai--then or now. Talk about weird collisions of worlds. Please, please stop making the Nitro Girls try to fight.
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    We can't have any focus on those little foreign midgets, we've got Buzzkill and he's got a SIGN! Buzzkill rambles about InfoWars or some such and Schiavone doesn't even attempt to dignify the gimmick, referring to him as "Brad." Buzzkill is Russo's wet dream, a guy who's actively against the idea of wrestling. He says "cat" and "dig" a lot. Tony actually sounds pretty excited to see Liger again and works hard to put him over, but of course none of that matters. Johnny Boone is confused by the idea of Buzzkill merely standing at ringside not doing anything and doesn't see a bunch of glass or tequila on the mat. Five seconds after the bell we're with Chavo Guerrero, Jr. backstage. I may be overreacting but this is a real low in WCW history to this point.
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    Jushin Liger's still working regularly and making good money on both sides of the Atlantic, unlike you Russo, you stupid bigot fuck. That might be the worst shit of the first TPTB regime...segueing quickly into some of the best, which is goofball heel Lex Luger. Piper is in a much chippier mood than last week, since he's getting paid. Leilani Kai and Rhonda Singh talk fishnets. Why am I taken aback by Leilani speaking in such a thick southern accent?
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    I wonder who was responsible for this, because we damn sure know that Russo wasn't.
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    Test coming out to his entrance music in the middle of the authentic-looking ceremony and organ music is still funny. Stephanie's smile was creepy even back in '99. Interesting idea not to have the interruption come right at the "speak now or forever hold your peace" line, even though the crowd is clearly expecting it. Vince had earlier decreed that interruption by any non-family member would result in a firing, but HHH reveals how he nicely gets around that rule. HHH amusingly takes Stephanie to the very same chapel where Col. Robert Parker attempted to marry Sister Sherri. The rest has all been recapped, but yes, this is a "Where were you when...?" moment. HHH plays the cocky-asshole-who's-also-a-little-nervous-to-get-this-over-with role perfectly. The drink server is revealed as the cameraman and the guy who worked to get Stephanie in this position. Such a good payoff that the crowd pops in spite of themselves.
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    Stephanie welches on a truth-or-dare and gets saved by a toast. Mae flirts with the server and treats him much better than she did Corey Macklin. Carlos the Electrician shows up to do what he does, as Moolah vainly attempts to hold Mae back, but she makes off with him! Then the server comes back with "one more for the road"...insert dramatic trumpet soundbite here.
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    This ends about the only way that it can, after Bubba attempts to play six aces in a five-card game.
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    This is what it is but becomes fairly interminable once New Jack climbs the balcony and Balls and Axl play feng-shui with the tables trying to get everyone in position. In the end, Jack's dive doesn't even look all that death-defying.
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    These on-location vignettes never seem to go well for New Jack in ECW. He promises to make Angel his personal ho and send him to jail where he can the property of some [slur] named LeShaun, but he gets attacked instead.
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    Yeah, that stip doesn't make sense--shouldn't the guy who finishes in last place (or gets beaten in the first round the quickest or whatever) be the one who's tarred and feathered? I'm not sure if the tradeoff would be worth it to fight my way to the finals. Cornette is having too much fun making fun of Bolin--it's not a big crowd, but this gets over and should be good material for Cornette and OVW fans going forward.
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    Inside Edition refers to the WWF's storylines as "carefully orchestrated"--ha. Speculation that Austin may have to become an announcer or sideline character...a sheriff, perhaps.
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    Same with Tim and the other tim here. This was fun, as the Cibernetico formula seems almost foolproof, but that's it--it's a popcorn match. And some of the officiating even by lucha standards was terrible--that extended sequence with Tarzan Boy trying to put Bestia Salvaje away and continually failing was cringeworthy. Still, outside of that the action never stops and you're never more than about 20 seconds away from a new guy coming in to freshen the match up. Good closing sequence with a little more substance to it than the rest of the match. And Negro Casas is still incredible--he might have the best move execution of any wrestler in history.
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    A Thanksgiving Smackdown with a table of food at ringside goes off the air the only way it possibly could--with a food fight involving DX and every mid-carder on the roster.
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    HHH serves a restraining order to Vince forcing him to stay 50 feet away from him. Then from there we get a weird non-sequitur back into 1998 DX mode that goes absolutely nowhere. Again, it's an easygoing show, and I know that ratings were going to tank so there's no point in dropping a major angle or even a major match on us, but I feel like they could have come up with something better than this. They bring a bunch of the bums back to Thanksgiving catering where X-Pac yammers about pumpkin pie. Okay, so DX are bad people because they bring a bunch of homeless people to catering and don't let them eat. We get it, guys.
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    Definitely seems to be an easygoing show for Thanksgiving.
  20. PeteF3
    Love is the common bond between Stephanie McMahon and Andrew J. Martin. What could go wrong?
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    Okay match where HHH mercifully doesn't singlehandedly beat the Acolytes as he probably would a few years later--the only advantage he ever gets is when Bradshaw accidentally lariats Faarooq. But the Acolytes aren't really that over yet.
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    A better match than you'll expect with some of these guys really pounding the shit out of each other. A low-level indy match but with fire and hate and some pretty good fundamentals to go with the flying and the big bombs.
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    Michaels is pretty over with this audience, I'll give him that. He arguably overshadows the match too much early on, but him Sweet Chin Music'ing Gannosuke gets over as does his arguing with him over the counts out of the ring. ("FIVE!" "NO COUNT!" ... "SIX!" Pop.) This was okay but still descended into just a rote list of finishers rather than much of a story being told or elevating intensity. H almost kills Gannosuke at the end with a pretty misaligned Stardust Press.
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    I'm with Tim here--they did great build to the spots with the cage, but don't really sell them long-term after hitting them despite teasing how deadly the explosions would be early on...until the end, as Fuyuki goes down not because he's been rendered comatose by accumulated damage but because it's go-home time.
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    Crowd doesn't care about this, at least until the American flag gets involved. Trying to burn the Canadian flag *may* have gotten more heat in Toronto the previous night. Bret's run-in gets a very, very tepid reaction.
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