Pizon wrote:I generally throw on Countdown when I'm bored with the other content. It's pretty much all middle of the road to me.
The oddest jobs or whatever episode was cool, but I was shocked Undertaker not only didn't make #1, but was left off the list entirely. Marked out for Repo Man.
It was "odd jobs," not "odd careers."
Unrelated to the countdown now but with my last 48 hours of the trial (I'm going on vacation Tuesday) I'm binge watching the WWF pay-per-views I could never find on video as a kid. (if you're curious, '92 Survivor Series, '93 Royal Rumble, '93 King of the Ring, '95 King of the Ring and '95 Survivor Series).
Survivor Series '92 was a lot of fun, the star power and overall vibe was like watching a live Coliseum Video, which was exactly what I wanted. I'd never seen a Nailz promo in my life and, I don't know if it's the optimist in me, but did we ever find out exactly what Nailz did to be in prison over 2,000 days? For someone to maintain his innocence that long, and for Boss Man to always be like "I've seen your file, it says you're guilty" I can't help but think perhaps that Nailz' case should be reopened. I think we have a second season for "Serial" here.
Royal Rumble '93, like most '93 WWF material, just smelled/tasted funny. As much as I love '92 and '94 WWF, it became such a different roster that most of the stuff from this year I just find extremely uncomfortable. The Rumble I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed and wondered why it wasn't considered among the best Rumbles...until the Giant Gonzalez just comes to the ring to take-out the Undertaker. From there, and I know it's easy to pick on Gonzalez, but his timing is just so off that the whole bit just completely derails the timing of the Rumble that it never gets quite back to. Everyone just seems kind of lost afterwards. Despite this, Bob Backlund's story of the 43-year-old who'd been gone for a decade and then returned to enter at #2 and last to the final three, including eliminating and outlasting the previous Rumble record holders near the end, was a really cool performance. It's telling that for someone who the audience was largely alien to (Backlund left right before Hulkamania came to the WWF) he winds up winning over the crowd something serious just based on his Rumble performance alone.
I'm on the second match of King of the Ring '93 here. Great little moment with Bret before the opening match. He goes out to give his glasses and comes near this one little boy who looks like he wants it more than anything in the world. Bret reaches his arms passed the kid, and the kid looks super disappointed. The kid looks back and sees Bret's putting it on an infant, and the kid's face suddenly goes to "Oh, in that case, I totally understand." Bret puts the glasses on the baby, then sees the kid and gives him a long extended dap, and the kid's face explodes in sheer glee. If you want to see a child runs through their entire range of emotions in under 10 seconds, this is it.
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