[1999-05-03-WCW-Nitro] Ric Flair in a limousine

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Ric Flair is out of the mental institution. He's excited and the inmates are in a bus next to him as well. Gag me. We get various skits with Flair's friends going in the production truck and harassing Kevin Nash. Ric and David seem to mend fences, but Torrie Wilson seems unimpressed. The logic Ric comes up with for forgiving David is hilariously awful. As a "reward" to David, he'll have a match tonight and Charles Robinson will be their referee. This makes sense after David leaves, as Ric tells Charles to book him with Meng and to tell Meng David was trash talking him. Awesome!

 

Later, we see Piper arriving looking for Ric right away and attacking him in his office while all the inmates are looking on, which totally kills any serious effect this segment was supposed to have. WCW has fallen off the deep end. Amazing that this is the same company that produced Sting vs DDP the week before.

 

Later, a wet Ric Flair wants Scott Steiner to go after Nash. He ends up finding Bagwell along the way and beating him up to hype their match at Slamboree.

 

This is all terrible, but hey, at least they're getting to embarrass Flair.

[tim]

How in the hell did Flair go from where he was in the beginning of the year to this? Flair is still makes this some of this amusing (Arn: He'll kill him!, Ric: Well, he'll hurt him) but when Piper is beating down Flair while the mental patients go nuts around the room, it's just surreal that what Flair was doing and the control of WCW angle ends up ... there.

[Tim Evans]

This was awful. How did Flair get out after a week? How was he able to get the other people out? Best part was when Piper was walking backstage, he walked past a laughing David Flair and Torrie trying to get out of camera view. Poor Flair.

[soup23]

Yeah, this was dreadful stuff with the inmate s looking even more tasteless in this setting. Bagwell and steiner are feuding now? I don't remember that happening at all. It looks like after two weeks of a lot of good along with the bad, WCW is back to the shitter pehaps this time for good.

[PeteF3]

I don't know why or how, but Asya actually looks kind of attractive in this particular setting. And that's all I've got to say about that.

 

Triple-A rambles at Kevin Nash while a Norman the Lunatic lookalike annoys the production truck.

 

Torrie Wilson's back, after it had been reported that Nash had gotten her shitcanned. Now *she's* caring about *David's* well-being. Storytelling! Oh goody, it's the start of the David Flair "George Gulas by design" push. He gets to wrestle tonight with Charles Robinson as the referee. David displays his boundless energy and charisma here as he monosylabically responds to Ric's encouragement. Ric waits for David to leave before telling Arn and Charles that he's wrestling Meng.

 

Roddy Piper makes a thoroughly unwelcome return and is justly ignored in his constant asking of where the President's room is. He finds it and levels Flair with a trash can. Piper beating up a cop is so fucking ridiculous.

 

Ric wants Scott Steiner to beat up Nash, and Steiner's eager to oblige. Uh, did we miss something? Steiner settles for beating up Buff. They actually *did* split up a few weeks ago in a segment the Yearbook (justifiably) skipped.

 

Boy, have we taken a wrong turn since last week. It's pretty easy to see now how much worse this was for WCW's ratings than the Fingerpoke. The Fingerpoke was one failed attempt at an "epic" angle--this is jus a repeated embarrassment of one of their only remaining certifiable ratings draws, week after week after week.