[1991-10-12-WWF-Superstars] Sgt Slaughter vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Slaughter is at the Lincoln Memorial asking for forgiveness in his darkest hour. These somehow continue to get more shameless as time goes on.

[PeteF3]

Patriotic music blares to the point where it practically drowns Slaughter out, just to beat us over the heads with this some more.

[Kevin Ridge]

Still not buying it Slaughter.

[flyonthewall2983]

Did you buy him any less as a turncoat?

[soup23]

Sgt. Slaughter is now in front of other Washington monuments asking for his country back.

[garretta]

Another reason why this is all wrong: Sarge is demanding his country back, but he hasn't pledged to do anything to earn it back. There's no real change in him, not a bit of humility or contrition; he even says that he doesn't expect to be forgiven. Well, then why bother with all of this? It's almost business-exposing if you think about it, like Vince is saying, "Please cheer this man. He's already lost to Hogan, and I have no good guys for him to fight that will make me any money."

 

This turn would have been a whole lot more effective if it had taken place as the result of an altercation between Sarge and Adnan/Sheik; that's Booking 101. Why Vince thought these little thirty-second vignettes would be enough to make the fans forget all the months that Sarge trashed this country and supported its opponent in an actual shooting war, I doubt even he knows for sure.