Scott’s Blog of Doom

The SmarK 24/7 Rant for WWF Philly Show - October 13 1984

- Taped from the Spectrum

- Your hosts are Dick Graham & Gorilla Monsoon.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRQjCG8tn4

“They also call you the Merchant of Death.”

“That’s better, actually.”

Fucking IRON MAN, baby.  Downey looks like he’s gonna ROCK it as Tony Stark.  I’m so there.

I have been DYING to see this movie all weekend, which should surprise no one who knows what a Simpsons fanatic I am, and I am happy to report that it lived up to the hype and then some.  Most importantly:  It was FUNNY.  Like, Simpsons of 7 or 8 years ago funny, a huge relief after a couple of seasons of crap.  They nailed all the jokes, had a GREAT Ralph Wiggum line, and even the plot was pretty good. 

Minor gripes:

- Not enough Burns and Smithers, although the tag during the credits brought the house down. 

- The middle portion drags a bit.

Other than that, no point in even giving away any of the great lines, because it’s all there to discover for yourself.  Spider-Pig, Bart’s naked skateboard adventure, Tom Hanks in an awesome cameo (”Ruffle my hair, Mr. Hanks!”), swearing, nudity, it’s got it all.  I shall see this one until I have it memorized, I’m sure.

And apparently lots of others shall, too, because it did $71 million over the weekend and nearly set a record for July.  I think this show might have a bit of a cult following, I dunno.  I hear they might spin off a TV version of the movie! 

Best. Movie.  Ever.

Frankly, I haven’t had time this week to sit down and watch all three hours of this show without fast-forwarding, but the 2/17 edition is very interesting and well worth watching.

- RAW is of course the focal point again, as Bret Hart and Sid just can’t have that darn title match without Steve Austin mucking it up, until finally Bret gets to do the j-o-b and lose his belt 24 hours after winning it.  They totally made the wrong call there.  They should have put the belt on Austin and had Bret win it at Wrestlemania rather than trying for the Sid-UT match, but hindsight is 20/20 and Vince was desperate in 97 anyway. 

- The Hardy Boyz do an ignominious job to the Headbangers, still dressed in their 80s pretty boy gear with “MATT” and “JEFF” in big letters on their tights in case they forgot which belonged to who.  The Stage Dive (powerbomb into a flying legdrop) remains a pretty sweet double-team finisher from the Bangers, who sadly get no love from history while the Hardyz went on to become one of the biggest tag teams ever. 

- Rocky v. Leif Cassidy was pretty friggin’ boring, once again reinforcing that Rock didn’t get anywhere in the orbit of good until 99. 

- Over on Nitro, Sasktel has jumped on the Orwellian bandwagon and all mentions and appearances of Lord Voldemort have been excised.  So I hope you kept your original tapes. 

- This was also the week when Prince Iaukea won the TV title from Stephen Regal in a match barely above a squash, kicking off a rather pathetic title reign that was to end with a mercy killing.  Having never seen the original match, I didn’t realize what a joke they treated Iaukea as. 

- Roddy Piper in Alcatraz.  Gimme a fucking break.

- Tony explaining to the fans at home what a VHS-C tape is — PRICELESS.  File that one under “things you never thought you’d hear on a wrestling show”. 

- The Randy Anderson-Nick Patrick “match” was pretty annoying, what with Eric overturning the decision and never having a foil to overrule him on this stuff.  They just never gave the fans anything to cheer, and it makes it hard to watch the shows sometimes. 

- Kind of sad to watch former cruiserweight stars Doc Dean and Robbie Brookside getting totally destroyed (especially Dean being totally manhandled by Jacqueline) but not surprising somehow.  They had a good look and Dean in particular had some good matches in Japan and could have been something. 

Hopefully next time I’ll have more time to recap the whole thing.

Official trailer from WB…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhThaawA4_Q

Doesn’t really say much, although Heath sounds like the Joker at least.  And now the wait begins…

The SmarK 24/7 Rant for World Championship Wrestling - November 9 1985

- Hosted by Tony & David.

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The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Saturday Night’s Main Event #2 (October 1985)

- Well, this works out well, because this was one of the SNME shows that I got from a reader which was unwatchable in the form sent, which basically means that with this one I’ll have almost the entire run of SNME finished with. Most of this show was already covered in the “Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event” Coliseum video that I reviewed many moons ago, but we’ll do the show for the heck of it.

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http://www.thewrestlingfan.com/gimmicktable12.html

Gotta love the offical WWE Death List.  More awesome stuff from Derek Burgan, as usual.

The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Hulkamania Forever!

- This is a Coliseum video from 1990, as evidenced by the wrestling figure ad at the beginning, complete with “WWF” getting bleeped even in commercial form. This goes away on Tuesday, so I figured I should get it done since it’s 100 degrees F here in Saskatoon and I’m not getting to sleep any time soon anyway.

- Your host is Sean Mooney.

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“Scott,
I have decided that to help pay for college I’ve got to sell some things to make sure ends meet.  This includes my small collection of wrestling VHS. I’ve got some pretty rare tapes here. There are 15 videos in all and all have been tested to run great. I added a little bonus that if the bid goes over the $100 mark I will throw in the rest of my video collection that would otherwise cause copyright issues on eBay: such as my PPV copy of Wrestlemania 6(when it aired-VHS), and Bootleg DVD’s of Wrestlemania 9, Wrestlemania 11 and Survivor Series ‘97 (last three are on DVD). I just figured that perhaps that this would be the best audience to display the goods. Here is the link :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=019&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=290142218292&rd=1&rd=1
Any questions can also be emailed to me at ryubu_one@hotmail.com if anyone would like to deal outside of eBay for my goods. Thank you so much.”

Good luck not getting it taken down by Ebay or sued by WWE.