[1999-02-08-WCW-Nitro] Bret Hart on MadTV

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Clips of Bret Hart on MadTV, which was just about my least favorite television show ever. Bret Hart attacks Will Sasso with a chair and does a sharpshooter while the audience laughs and cheers, and we're supposed to buy this as a premise to set up a "real" match on Nitro. What the fuck is up with WCW suddenly having absolutely no concept of basic kayfabe and point of view? They've been slipping for a year, but this is something on an entirely different level.

[tim]

Yeah this was too dumb. We're supposed to think that the MadTV skit is setting up a real angle? WCW is trying to impose kayfabe on MadTV. Too much.

[soup23]

This Nitro is the fucking pits. MadTV wasn't even as funny as All That and while its good to see Bret in a mainstream arena, it setting up a wrestling angle in this fashion is beyond stupid. Malone and Rodman had real life on court issues which is why that worked.

[PeteF3]

MadTV had some good on-air talent but aside from the occasional movie parody or Madden sketch, was usually sunk by horrible lowest-common-denominator writing. In other words, a perfect synergistic match-up for WCW. Sasso ain't no Frank Caliendo as an impressionist, either. He "breaks character" when Bret gets too rough with the other cast members, then he destroys Sasso with a chair to the amusement/whooping of the audience. Sasso ain't no Caliendo and this ain't no Lawler/Kaufman.