Hidden Highlights 03.05.07: Issue #79

There are very few positive things on the Internet. It’s more about everyone’s negative view of what everyone else is trying to do.
— Eric Bischoff, Controversy Creates Ca$h

Hidden Highlight (n) – a small, hardly noticeable point that makes a big, positive difference. This could be anything from a wrestler putting extra emphasis into his moves to make it believable to a person in the background reacting while not the focus to the cameraman shaking the picture to create an effect. There are just so many unsung heroes of wrestling that it is impossible to cover them all.

Every week we take the top 3 Hidden Highlights from the biggest shows on television (RAW, ECW of SciFi, iMPACT, SmackDown!, and a PPV or television special if there is one). Plus we turn to you, the readers, to let us know all the Hidden Highlights you saw this, last, or any week in history. On top of all that, we explore the other issues that prove why this is the most positive article in the IWC.

And who is this mysterious we, you ask?

Why none other than JP Prag and James “JT” Thomlison, of course!

We bring you Hidden Highlights with one goal in mind: to appreciate all those little things that make a huge difference. JT?

JT: Let’s get right to the point here. Small how dare you infringe on our sign gimmick! Isn’t it obvious what sign you should be taking to WrestleMania 23? “MY SIGN IS A HIDDEN HIGHLIGHT!”… duh…

JP: This comes up later, too. And since we’ll be there, you can sure as hell bet Hidden Highlight signs will be well represented. NOW START DRAWING (while we get on with the Hidden Highlights).

(3) We did a little redecorating:

Along with come history lessons and proper introductions, RAW also had a few more elements that were giving it a very refreshed feel. Among them, they updated the RAW set. You may not have noticed, but on the sides of the stage they have new black curtain drops with a variation neon color display. Although it is a change that affects no one and is only slightly different, it does differentiate the RAW stage a little more than what is looked like a week ago.

(2) Not such as easy escape:

This is going to come as a shock to you and JD Dunn, but the best match of the night was Melina vs. Maria for the Women’s Championship. This was actually the most physical and cohesive battle of the night, despite a few blown spots, and told the best story in the ring. On top of that, it came with a few nice Hidden Highlights, and one I particularly liked. Melina had Maria in that Boston Crab/Octopus combination in the ropes and the ref made her break the hold at five. Melina was sure enough to break the hold, but as she was walking away, hand up in the air, she took one quick backwards kick at Maria to lay in a little extra damage. I’m always catching Melina putting in these extra shots and I love them. It’s exactly what a conniving heel who knows what they are doing in the ring would actually do. I’m proud to see that she is consistent and creative in laying in these shots, always looking for a quick opening.

(1) You’re not going that way:

Believe it or not, it’s actually been a long time since I ***personally*** gave a Hidden Highlight to my boy Carlito. Sure, I’ve defended him and let readers point out stuff, but I have pretty much kept my mouth shut. Well no more! It’s back to style as Carlito pulled out a pretty easy call in my book at the end of his match with Kenny Dykstra (who didn’t even get an intro this week). After hitting the backcracker off of the ropes, Dykstra was still too close to the corner and tried to roll out a bit. But after the roll, he was still in a position to reach the ropes if wrestling were a rational universe. Carlito saw this and made sure of two things: First, he made sure to go over to the side closest to the ropes to pin Dykstra so that he would not be able to roll that way. Then, he hooked the leg on the side closest to the ropes and put his elbow on Dykstra’s arm so that he would not be able to reach over as well. Smart thinking by Carlito to make the match a little more realistic by blocking his opponent, showing his amazing ring awareness and talent for this industry. Now get off his back, management!

JT: Hmmmm… your defense of him might perhaps be a hair too dramatic (pun intended!), but I will give you it was a good call. Now, as the readers said, get him back to solo action (minus arm candy) and get a consistent foot in his ass, and our boy Caribbean Cool should be fine in the long run.

(3) Ouch… just… ouch:

Occasionally, a wrestler is informed that he will or makes the decision to take an actual chair shot. No getting the hands up, no resistance on the guy giving the shots part, nothing. Occasionally, a wrestler is even paid a little extra to do so. Well, let’s go ahead and give the special “I’ll go ahead and take one for the team” award to Bobby Lashley. Did you guys SEE that chair shot he took from Holly? Yeesh! Well, obviously you did see, but what I loved about this was after the shot, Holly unfolded the chair and set it down in the ring, and the thing was COMPLETELY bent. Sometimes when you see the after effects of an object that was used to re-arrange someone’s brain position, it helps to sell how devastating the shot really was. That chair was FUBAR’D! Kudos to Lashley for taking that shot.

(2) Shoulders have to be down!:

After Sabu managed to throw himself through a table, Kennedy was quick to capitalize. He immediately grabbed Sabu and proceeded to DDT him onto the broken table. What I loved was what he did next. He took a quick second to pull Sabu off of the table! This is not a “pins count anywhere” match! Yes, it is under extreme rules, but in those rules the shoulders still have to be flat on the ring mat or on the floor, stage, etc. Point is both shoulders have to be flat on a surface. Technically, by laying on the table, Sabu was not eligible to be pinned. You could even go so far as to say that since one of his shoulders was on the table flat, and the other hanging off the side but not touching the mat (thus creating room for the ref to stick his hand), there is no way the ref would have counted. Nice job of Kennedy recognizing this and making sure the pin was guaranteed. After all, a trip to WrestleMania was on the line!

(1) Tactical weight distribution:

And now it’s time to read a little bit from the “Things We Take For Granted!” book. After CM Punk connected with the Go2Sleep, he went for the pin. What I noticed about this was that he grabbed the leg farthest from him as opposed to the closer one. Now, you may be thinking that this occurs fairly regularly and you’d probably be right. But the point here is to notice the what’s and the why’s. Even your boy JT is probably a little guilty of disregard your everyday, run-of-the-mill leg hook. But thinking about it, hooking the far leg is far more of an efficient pin because it requires you to put your entire weight on the other leg to do so, thus making the kick out that much harder. Not saying that it’s anything that’s amazing spectacular, but Punk reminded me of all the unnecessary little things wrestlers throw into their repertoire to help a match flow – and more importantly – make sense. When you are dealing with a scripted sport, the *appearance* of strategy is a very necessary thing.

We’re actually going to dive into the readers a bit early because we received an email from Ian C., who saw something different from the exact same incident::

Also, I think I found a HH from ECW this week, from everyone’s favorite, CM Punk. After Punk hits the Go2Sleep to put away Stevie Richards, he goes for the pin, and if you look closely, you can see as Punk hooks the leg with his left arm, he reaches his right arm over Stevie and sort of grabs his head and pulls it in towards the rest of his body. Just a little extra something to make sure he picks up the win.

See? Further proof that Punk definitely went the extra mile with the little things on this pin. I mean, he already knew he was WINNING no less. Could have been your run of the mill pin, and he did several things to *ensure* the win.

JP: Ok, we both picked a pinning style for our top Hidden Highlights. This is getting kind of freaky. Folks at home, we write these sections independently, so that is pretty crazy that we basically talked about the exact same thing.

Randle: That’s because you are so ga—

JP: DON’T EVEN START WITH THAT!!

(3) Was that for me?:

In the most “that’s not a Hidden Highlight” Hidden Highlight of the night, this one is going to me. When Bob Backlund came out during the six-man X-division contest, there was fan just to his right holding up a license plate just to his left. It looked to me like the license plate said “Jay Pee”. Could it have been a message for me? And if it was, why didn’t it say, “My License Plate is a Hidden Highlight”? Bad form, audience member, bad form.

(2) I’ll make it up with this Backlund one:

Ok, so maybe that last Hidden Highlight was a little too personal for you, and I teased that it had something to do with Bob Backlund (who I have met, by the way). Fine, I’ll give you this one: when Backlund joined the broadcast position, Mike Tenay was quick to give him a compliment. “Nice bow-tie, Mr. Backlund.” Of course Tenay would like Backlund’s bow-tie, since Tenay has been wearing one for the past fifteen years. I know that Tenay has patented himself after an old-school ring announcer, but part of him must have been thinking of Bob Backlund when he came up with that gimmick, and I’m sure it gave him a special thrill to be able to bring it up live on the air.

(1) Copyright Infringement:

All right kids, I’m going to get TNA in trouble, so they better get ready with their lawyers. As we all know, the WWE through ECW’s assets has convinced the world that they own the trademarks to the terms “Dudley Boyz”, “Buh-Buh Ray” and “D-von”. Because of this, we got Team 3D starring Brother Ray and Brother Devon, as they are listed on TNA’s roster page on their website. Well, sure enough during Paparazzi Production’s Massacre in New York, Brother Devon’s trainer was listed in the intro as “D-Von’s Trainer”. Oh shoot, what the heck happened there? Who in production dropped the ball on that one? It stood right out to me, and I definitely got a good chuckle out of it, but man that could cause trouble.

Although, it may have just been Vince Russo trying to send a convoluted coded message. Since Brother Devon was trained to be “D-Von”. But that would not be historically correct as he did not get that name until 1996. Since debuting in 1991, he wrestled as “A-Train” until coming to ECW. I kid you not about that one.

JT: And by the time this column runs up, TNA will have officially been served their lawsuit papers from the E! Somebody’s fired!

(3) Helms: Pesky Heel extraordinaire:

During the three on three cruiserweight match, there came a point where Daivari had Scotty 2 Hotty forced into the corner where his partners, Helms and Chavo were. Helms (without getting a tag) began to step into the ring to take over. As he did this, the ref came over to remind him that he was NOT the legal man, and as Helms is *claiming* there’s a tag, you could see him pick up his right leg and kind of take a jab at Scotty 2 Hotty! Classic heel stuff by Helms of sneaking in the little bit of offense as he’s being forced back out of the ring by the ref.

(2) Where am I!?:

During the (first ever, which I was reminded of nineteen times!) Triple Threat Money In The Bank Qualifying match, Finlay found himself laid out on the floor around the ring, thus leaving Chris Benoit and MVP in solo action. At one point, Benoit had begun to give MVP a trifecta of suplexes, and every time he got MVP up, MVP would be grasping the air, attempting to reach a rope. The difference here is A. He wasn’t anywhere near the ropes, and B. While you could tell he was clearly grasping specifically for the ropes, he did allow his arms to flail a little bit. I thought this was a great way to do it as it sold that receiving a suplex from Benoit (let alone multiple ones) will knock you a bit loopy and your coordination will be jarred loose. I hope this makes sense as I know sometimes I have difficulty putting it into exactly the words I’d like, but I compare it to someone being drunk, attempting to grab onto something, and basically *hoping* their hand grabs onto anything. To me, MVP sold this effect perfectly.

(1) It’s too hot for jackets:

About thirty seconds into the Matt Hardy vs. Joey Mercury match, for a split second WAY in the background, I saw a man walk past holding something. I had to watch it a couple of times, but as it turns out he was carrying Mercury’s jacket! I’ve never really noticed it but I don’t think I’ve ever seen MNM (group or individual) with their jackets after a match. After all, who wants to spend ten minutes getting hot and working on a sweat… and then putting a big fur jacket on? Not only that, those jackets are probably a bit pricier than most props wrestlers use, and so someone in the back probably doesn’t want them out at ringside running the risk of getting ruined. If I had to guess, unless they’re needed for promos or pictures, etc., the man I saw probably takes them immediately back to the wardrobe department. Man, there really are so MANY people we never account for that make the company run like a machine.

JP: That’s one of the best parts about being their live; seeing how the show is put together. Of course, we’ll be doing that in just a few short weeks at WRESTLEMANIA!!!!

This week JT gets to pick our Reader Write-in Hidden Highlights of the week.

JT: JT is back in the saddle! So, *GENERAL WARNING*:: some parts of the following Reader Write-in Hidden Highlights may be edited for grammar, spelling, and English translation…

Kicking us off this week to the surprise of no one is Catherine S. who has a scolding for Carlito:

Hey, guys, Catherine again.

JP: Hello there, my swe—

JT: M-Y W-E-E-K! Go play in the corner or something. My apologies Catherine, please continue.

I know about the man-crush on Carlito.

JT: That would be JP and what a man-crush it is!

I know this column is all about positivity in motion…. or something. But I must make a negative HH about Carlito. It’s often been commented that HHs do a wrestling relationship make, but Carlito has demonstrated none of these during his on screen relationship with Torrie. Heck, he walks ahead of her even when they’re coming down to the ring and basically ignores her from there; even during the promo with Flair, he had his arm around her, but he only looked at her once, when Flair mentioned her name. It seems that if you have a beautiful woman on your arm, you’d make a point to at least, oh, I don’t know… look at her?

JT: That is an excellent point! We have been a little tough on Carlito lately, but that’s only because we know he can bring the goodness and has just seemed flat lately. He definitely should be stepping up his interaction level with Torrie, and at this point to be honest their “relationship” has been somewhat bland. I suppose we’ll chalk this up to a LACK of HH!

JP: I completely disagree with you both, and management, on this one. Much like RVD, you don’t get the gimmick. Carlito acts like he doesn’t care about Torrie because he is too cool for her. Acting emotional and showing he cares is not cool. To be cool, at least in Carlito’s mind, you must show indifference. To me, it IS the Hidden Highlight.

JT: Denial is a dark, dark addiction. You’ll make it through yet JP. For now though, we continue with Catherine:

Since I hate ending on a negative note, I was wondering if you guys were ever planning a type of awards column. Granted, it seems like most columnists use this at one point or another, but it would be cool to recognize who’s been a consistent performer in terms of hidden highlights. I can’t remember if you’ve done this already, I can be a bit dim sometimes, but it’s a thought regardless.

JT: No, I’d say about the closest we’ve gotten was our one inductee into the Hidden Highlights Hall of Fame (we still miss you Y2J!). We’ve never discussed an awards type column, but who knows. Our brains are always trying to cook up new things to keep the column fresh. So, you never know! We also have some sign love from the aforementioned Ian C, who is possibly attending a show …well… six weeks from now!:

Alright guys, so I’m trying to plan a trip to attend the Smackdown and ECW tapings on 4/10 in Providence, RI. If, hopefully, I do manage to go, be sure to watch for the “My Sign is a Hidden Highlight!” on ECW on the 10th and Smackdown on the 13th of April.

JT: We will DEFINITELY be watching. It’ll be our first week back from WM and RAW, so we plan to observe all of the backlash! Thanks again Ian, hopefully we get yet another screenshot for HH.

JP: By the way, I live in Providence but will be in North Carolina and therefore cannot attend the show myself. I expect you to represent me well. And make sure to do the Dunkin’ Donuts clap. You know what I’m talking about…

JT: I have no idea what you are talking about. Thankfully, Logan S. chimes in to officially take us to RAW with some love for Cena:

On this week’s RAW during the main event between Rated RKO & HBK/Cena I noticed Cena personalized the Five Knuckle Shuffke just a bit by doing Orton’s pose before hitting it. Adding insult before the injury I suppose.

JT: Taunting 101: If you want to get under your opponents skin, mock them in some way, shape, or form! “Anything you can do, I can do better” if you will. Good catch Logan, rarely do we get to give Cena credit because his character is so in-your-face that it’s rare to miss something he does or says. J.S.T. continues on RAW:

How ironic is it that Kenny Dysktra would make a disparaging comment about Ric Flair… while his ring attire consisted of wearing knee pads over his shins? (something that’s been a Flair staple for many years)

JT: I’d say very ironic!

JP: And I’d say you better check a dictionary to find out what irony means.

JT: Why are you so talkative this week? MY SECTION! Get out!

As I was saying, it also makes you wonder just how much of the Nature Boy he is soaking up. They are feuding (or were) which means that typically they are around each other on the road (at least at the actual events). He signed right out of high school so chances are he was a fan growing up watching the very man he’s now working with. Speaking of working with, Pedro R. has something regarding Kane, Khali, and Chris Masters.

Big fan of the article and thought I should send this in because out of all the review of RAW I read, none of them caught this HH. During the Kane/Khali segment, Masters is standing in front of Khali as Kane comes out. Here’s the Highlight: As Kane enters the ring, you can see Khali actually push Masters into Kane, allowing him to be chokeslam, while Khali folded up the chair. I believe this was a smart move by Khali because it didn’t make Masters look like an idiot, but more of a distraction.

JT: ……are you actually given Khali some credit? ….. just kidding, as you are in fact right. It keeps Masters from looking weak because he didn’t directly attack Kane, he was pushed into him. Avoiding the Big Red Machine is not weak, it’s smart, so getting Chokeslammed through no action of your own is fine. Plus as you mentioned, it allows Khali time to prepare the weapon he was getting ready to use. Thanks for the love, by the way. Our only submission from ECW and also heading us into TNA is Jay P.:

On the February 20th ECW show, you noted your appreciation for the brief remembrance of the late Mike Awesome. I also thought the memorial was a HH in itself, because although news of Mike Awesome’s death had spread by the time RAW hit the air on Monday, February 19th, the WWE chose to honor him on the following day on ECW. Although production certainly had time to create the R.I.P. title card by showtime on Monday, and Mike Awesome was briefly a WWE Superstar, it made more sense to remember him on ECW, the promotion where Awesome first became well-known to U.S. audiences.

JT: Couldn’t agree more. When talking about Mike Awesome, most would consider him a member of the ECW family, and therefore that was the more appropriate venue to send their condolences.

Secondly, during the Jeremy Borash’s interview with Abyss on the February 22nd edition of TNA Impact, the HH for me was how the “Monster Abyss” didn’t just lash out at Borash, he spun around and pie-faced the cameraman in his frustration. Although the audience may often take the presence of a camera for granted, it makes sense that a violent, unstable man like Abyss would vent his rage on anyone, and anything that happened to be in his way, including the poor camera guy.

JT: Very true. Although wrestlers tend to be looking directly into the camera, the actual cameramen do not make it onto TV very often and we can sometimes forget that there are people behind them. Nice job of Abyss to remind us that they’re there, and also a great sell of his mindset at the time. JP gave due to a cameraman last week, something he’ll touch on a bit later. Steven M. gets all nostalgic on us for TNA:

Anyways..Don Harris sighting~! Security comes into Cornette’s office and who else but former Black Shirt Security member Don Harris with the horde? All we need now is a couple red shirts thrown in to reignite that old can of gas. Hell, we got Russo too…we could go RetroTNA and bring back S.E.X. as well. Wait, I know….MISTAAAAAAAAAAR EEEEEECKS~!

JT: Don’t forget Styles, Daniels, Sabin, Raven, BG, and of course the most important member in S.E.X. history, David Flair!!! Ah, that was a fun little trip down memory lane. Moving us into SmackDown! this week is John B. who pays attention to not only the action in the ring, but the action out of it as well!

During the FCA match between King Bookah and Kane. if you noticed Nick Patrick when he had finished counting, when they were on the side of the ring that’s to the right of the Entrance Ramp and Left of the Announcer’s table. you saw him shake and wiggle his arm, selling that there was indeed no give and that slapping the mat to make the 3 count was beginning to make his elbow & hand sore.

JT: We talk all the time about paying attention to the ref, because they really do throw in those little things that we often take for granted. Nick Patrick selling that the outside is a tougher surface than the ring is just old fashioned attention to detail. Nice catch. Regular Manu B. has a question regarding my HH from last week regarding Matt Hardy’s Twist of Fate:

Where’s the hidden highlight? That’s how he always does the twist of fate (unless he added something this time that I’m overlooking in your description of it). Did he take extra effort to make sure Mercury didn’t (in character) spin around to save his face?

JT: Manu you could be correct here, but my impression was that he always spun the other person around, dropping them on the back of their head. Perhaps I have seen it wrong for the last five years, but that’s how I thought he did it; whereas this time, he did not spin Mercury, thus ensuring it was his face and not the back of his head hitting the mat. Finally this week we have Patrick M., who was amused with JP’s playful jest last week:

” Do you know what else people usually do? USE CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!!!!!! “

sorry about that.. i didn’t know you’d edit to such extent. next hilight, it’ll be perfect.

JT: Somebody call the IRONY POLICE! Thanks Patrick, we look forward to it as always.

JP: The irony of this section is how many times you’ve misused the word irony.

JT: I did not misuse the word! He used a ton of misspelled words to tell us that he was writing perfectly. Irony.

JP: No, irony is if someone who won the Spelling and Grammar B wrote that letter. Since it came from a known bad speller/grammar-er, then it is expected and not ironic.

JT: NO… the fact is that the bad speller/grammar-er told us all about how he was going to be perfect. It’s ironic. It’s like someone telling us they hate ham… while EATING HAM! ….its ironic, period. You of all people should know this…

JP: …not really. He never displayed good spelling or grammar, so it doesn’t really count.

JT: BUT HE SAID IT’D BE PERFECT! THAT WAS THE IRONI-

JP: Just aren’t going to let this one go are you?

JT: FINE. Don’t like it? Then someone call the CONTRADICTION police instead, as that is also applicable… You know what, you want to talk so much, you can finish it up. We have Captain Chris, who apparently feels we are suffering from a slight case of un-motivation! JP will be addressing him as it was his highlight in question, so I’m done here kids!:

I think you run a pretty creative column, but are you running out of stuff or just… somehow… not used to how WWE programming works? This week marks the second time I’ve seen you mention the placement of the Wrestlemania 23 sign as a “hidden highlight.” That’s like saying the camera man’s decision to get a post-pin reaction shot is a hidden highlight. The Wrestlemania sign, for as long as I can remember them putting up a huge logo sign in the months leading to the event, has always been displayed at “key moments” (i.e. predetermined, directorially dictated spots). It’s not hidden at all that this large graphic is hung in every WWE television arena to be prominently displayed in a promotional effort, often popping up on screen for the hard sell. It could be swerved that a particularly creative instance of the sign is a “highlight,” but, even then, is shilling ever really much of a highlight in wrestling programming?

JP: Uhhh… yeah… Captain, you totally missed the point of that Hidden Highlight. The Hidden Highlight had nothing to do with the sign, it was about the camera man and the director perfectly timing the shot with Vince’s words. The sign was just a prop in the Hidden Highlight that was all about the amazing ability of production to time things perfect to make the most impact. It was a compliment to them, not the advertising. Also, JT’s one about the sign wasn’t about the sign either. It was about one of the wrestler’s was looking longingly at the sign as a motivational factor. Sure, we all know the sign is there, but the difference is how it is used in storylines and character development. That’s what we’ve been trying to push with these Hidden Highlights. I once again would like to stress that much like Hidden Highlights themselves, our descriptions are often more than the words that describe the scenery. If you were to take you train of thought, you would look at my second TNA one and say, “Oh, we all now Mike Tenay and Bob Backlund wear bow-ties, what are you blind? That’s not hidden!” But the Hidden Highlight was about Mike Tenay and his understanding of wrestling history and his own connection to Backlund. The bow-tie is just the prop to the bigger story, which is what we would like to focus on here.

Well, since JT checked out early, I guess I’ll wrap up!

Do you have a Hidden Highlight from this or any week in history that you would like to share? Please e-mail JP..erT…er…us at [email protected] with your thoughts! Send them by Saturday afternoon to be considered! And remember, they can be from any show, live or taped, or any house show, or anything you saw… we just like to know!

JP: It had to come to an end with the season finale of…

Hidden Highlights for Hogan Knows Best: Sunday, February 25, 2007

JP: It was like Pet Cemetery, except the animals stayed alive! Well, except for that yellow frog thing. Where did that guy come from? Introducing new characters in a season finale is a risky move, unless it is a cliffhanger ending—like Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. Yeah, Yellow Frog = Jeri Ryan. HOT!

(3) Goose and the gander:

At the beginning of this week’s episode, Linda and Brooke were riding along in their limo when a neighbor squirted water in because he found them pretentious or something. When the police came over to check out why a limo was parked in the middle of the street, Brooke told the police that the hose-guy called her a bitch. Of course, she neglected to tell the police that she started off the conversation calling him an ass! Guess swearing is only a crime when it is done at a “lady”.

(2) Massage?:

As one of the measures to calm the animals down, Linda brought in a massage therapist just for the dogs. The massage therapist was demonstrating techniques to keep the animals quiet, and sure enough they were working. But did you catch where she was stroking the animal right when Hulk walked in? Uh… yeah, I’m not going to describe that because I’m pretty sure it’s illegal in most states and countries. That said, of course an animal would be calm if you were working them over like that!

(1) More massage:

Speaking of massage, a little earlier in the episode Linda was getting one of her own. But something was quite out of place when she was getting her massage—Linda kept her bra on! I’ve never known an at-home personal massage to be so clothed. My guess is that with… ahem… large assets like Linda’s she feared them popping out on camera. Can’t say I can blame her for that one! Still, it was an odd sight, and an odd Hidden Highlight to end Season 3 of Hogan Knows Best!

JT: The look on Hulk Hogan’s face as he was standing in his kitchen, listening to the masseuse explain the connection she had developed with the dogs and how her interaction with them was soothing, relaxing, and beneficial may be the greatest look I’ve ever seen on anyone’s face EVER.

JP: I think Hogan had that look on his face all episode. I did love at the end he goes, “Oh, yeah, that worked great. She did a good job.” Linda totally missed out on the sarcasm.

All right, moving on to other things that may end, this may or may not be the last episode of…

THE Hidden Highlight for Wrestling Society X: Tuesday, February 27, 2007

JP: Except my satellite dish was knocked out and I haven’t been able to find a backup copy since the show was cancelled… so… JT?

JT: Didn’t see it. Hate to be a negative Nancy, but it clearly hasn’t impressed me to the point of even remembering it’s on Tuesday nights. Perhaps I should set my TiVo right now as I type this!

JP: See, was it so hard to come with an ending that did not involve 13 different strewn together adjectives?

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