[1994-11-19-WWF-Superstars] Irwin R. Schyster vignette / Heartbreak Hotel: Bret Hart & Davey Boy Smith and Bob Backlund & Owen Hart

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Kevin Ridge]

IRS makes his return to yearbook since tax season. He is enforcing penalties on dead people. Penalties stiff. Continuing infractions were dug up. He’s been doing a lot of digging lately. Someone was having fun with this. IRS reposses this poor souls grave.

 

Bret and Davey guests on the Heartbreak Hotel. Shawn asks what it was like to get the Cross Face on but pulls the mic away before Bret can answer. Here is Owen and Mr. Backlund. Mr. Backlund has no kinship to the Hart family. Owen rests a hand on his shoulder which he shrugs off. Backlund has great delivery. Bret thinks Mr. Backlund is from the Lost Generation. Bob would have been cool on that island.

[Loss]

IRS accuses the Undertaker of cheating on his taxes, which is a pretty lazy way to set up a feud with these two.

 

Bret, Bulldog, Backlund and Owen are the guests on the Heartbreak Hotel. Backlund tells Bret he has a constant tendency to relapse into barbarianism! Shawn is making fun of this whole main event program with his facial expressions and reactions to all of this, and I can't help but be amused by it.

[Exposer]

IRS trying to get the dead Undertaker to pay taxes is so absurd. Shawn is burying this feud. I hate that fucker. He's annoying as hell. Backlund was amusing and awesome.

[soup23]

IRS Segment was bizarre

 

You can feel some tension between Bret and Shawn already in the Heartbreak Hotel segment and Shawn is an awful interviewer. This was a mess overall.

[Zenjo]

IRS digging up a corpse because he hadn't paid his taxes was awesome. It used to be birth, taxes and then death as the only sure things in life. Now it's birth, taxes, death, even more taxes. We need a necromancer so the guy can work off his debt to society.

[PeteF3]

Good Lord, we're getting *recaps* of vignettes now. IRS finds out a recently deceased individual claimed his daughter's birthday party as a business expense, and has consequently dug up his grave. I can imagine Chad and his co-workers using this sort of logic on departed Georgia taxpayers ("Can't we have one meeting that *doesn't* end with us digging up a corpse?"). This has invoked the wrath of the Undertaker, naturally. Hands down THE most random feud of Undertaker's career, and that's saying something. He feuded with giant monsters non-stop from 1991 to 1997, with one exception. Who on earth could POSSIBLY have bought IRS as having a chance in hell against this guy?

 

Bret & Bulldog are out for the Heartbreak Hotel, but don't get to say anything before being interrupted by Owen & Mr. Backlund. Backlund says something about blood being thicker than water as it relates to the Hart brothers that doesn't quite make sense, and Bret's quizzical reaction is priceless. Backlund points out that he was up INSTANTLY after Bret Hart, like a craven, procured the Sharpshooter on him. When the pain macerates through Bret's body like a cancer and the towel flies in, Backlund will be champion once again. Bret reacts coolly and calmly. Much better segment than the King's Court, thanks to Bret and Backlund's involvement.