On the October 6, 1990 edition of WWF Superstars, a giant egg was shown sitting in the arena, accompanied by an announcement that it would hatch at Survivor Series.



For weeks, Mean Gene Okerlund would interview ringside fans about what they thought might be in the egg. It was hyped as a big deal. Supposedly the original plan was for the egg to hatch and reveal a new wrestler under an "Egg Man" gimmick. That wrestler still got to debut on this night, but apparently plans changed and he got a slightly different gimmick assigned to him.



If true, that's quite the inverse of Terry Taylor's experience, "We considered you for Mr. Perfect, but we've decided instead to make you The Red Rooster."

On the verge of the main event of Survivor Series, Gorilla Monsoon excitedly proclaims, "Right now we're going to go to Mean Gene Okerlund at the egg!" Pan to Gene, who knows what he's about to do and doubtlessly harbors all of the excitement of someone taping a hostage video.



He kicks the segment off right by saying, "Alright ladies and gentlemen, it is the SHANK of the evening!" He continues, "And I gotta tell you, these great fans in Hartford, Connecticut are red hot too!" The crowd pops, but not for long. Gene cues the egg, says it's ready to hatch, and steps aside to let this monstrosity unfold.



The egg hatches and reveals a dude in a turkey costume. The crowd, who did seem to hold some anticipation for what was going to be in this egg, starts booing pretty loudly as a well-lubricated Roddy Piper cackles and says, "I love it!" Gorilla just responds incredulously and says that he doesn't know what it is. Mean Gene walks up, touches the turkey's leg, and says, "Got a pair of legs like my mother-in-law, pal." The turkey disembarks from the platform that he was just birthed on, and he heads toward Gene, making gobbling noises all the while.

He doesn't seem to have been blessed with a human speaking voice, so he's just making noises and Gene is forced into carrying both sides of the conversation, like he's trying to unreasonably understand what Lassie is telling him. Gene says, "What's with the gobbledy? … The gobbledy ****. Ha! Don't tell me you're the Gobbledy Gooker! You've gotta be kidding me. Is that all you do is gobble?" The Gooker continues just making noises, and Gene says, "You want me to what? Oh no no no. I wouldn't do that, not in front of an audience like this." The Gobbledy Gooker is undeterred; he grabs Gene's arm and starts dragging him down the aisle.



This was Hector Guerrero (Eddie Guerrero's brother) inside the turkey costume. He pulls Gene along, at least to the steel steps, then enters and ends up convincing Gene to join him as an up-tempo remix of "Turkey in the Straw" plays throughout the arena. Roddy Piper, bless his heart, tries hard to put this over, saying, "The kids are going nuts. They love him! San Diego Chicken, eat your heart out!" Okerlund also soldiers through this and actually does as well as you can ask of him, dancing around, running the ropes like Kelly Kelly, and failing at attempted cartwheels. The poor bastard was really committed to getting this thing over.



The hard camera shows a crowd mostly sitting on its hands, though they're able to pan around and get some tight shots of fans clapping along with the routine. Piper says, "They didn't know what to make of him at first, but he's won the heart of Hartford!" All in all, this awkward segment ran a little over seven minutes, doing its best to kill the crowd in advance of the main event and serving as a big letdown after 6-7 weeks of heavy hype as to what this big surprise was going to be.

Here's an excerpt from an article about this event:

I select The Reveal of the Gobbledy Gooker

Velvet Sky and Angelina Love were a TNA Knockouts tag teeam known as The Beautiful People. In a series of backstage vignettes, a knew knockout named Winter would start appearing to Angelina, but no one else could see her (except the viewers at home, of course.)



This kept going for a few weeks, with Winter professing her obsessive love for Angelina and other crazy lesbian stalker type stuff. Then, Winter intervened in a backstage brawl to assist Love, with no explanation as to why everyone could now see her. Even Sesame Street explained why everyone became able to see Snuffleupagus.

Then, during a tag team match, Velvet was getting double teamed, but Winter appeared to have mental control over Love and she walked away, turning heel in the process. Over the next few weeks it was revealed that Winter's control over Love was from a special "medicine" that she was giving her. Yes. A woman was being roofied and turned into a zombie by her obsessed lesbian stalker.





This went on for far too long, with no one seeming to care that Love was being date raped (It having been heavily implied from the beginning of the angle that Winter had romantic feelings for Love). Eventually, Velvet won a handicap match against Winter and Love, "blowing" off the feud, but resulting in Velvet just letting her best friend remain under Winter's mind control.

Eventually, Love told Winter she no longer needed to take the "medicine" because she was now with Winter of her own free will. Because as everyone knows, people fall in love with their rapists all the time. And then, Love was released by TNA.

For some reason, Vince McMahon thought it would be a good idea to capitalize on the popularity of The Apprentice and the real-life feud between the two. How best to do that? A match between the two, of course.

They actually promoted this for the first two hours of Raw, and sold it though they would actually both be there. No one actually believed that actual Donald Trump and actual Rosie O'Donnell would show up live, but it was still false advertising.

For those that don't feel like watching (though I feel like all videos posted ITT should be required viewing for all drafters), Vince begins by introducing "Rosie". The introduction is full of cheap fat jokes and blatant homophobia. Be a star. Then Vince's friend and fellow billionaire "Donald" comes out, complete with an absurd wig.

After the ref goes some wrestling rules like being in the ring before the count of ten, the bell rings. Apparently Donald is wrestling in a suit and tie. The first thing Rosie does is leave the ring and starts eating some of the cake that for some reason (and I'm not going to go research why) is on the announce desk. The boos instantly start raining down. Rosie eats some cake and says that it's pretty good. Apparently the ref doesn't listen to his own rules, because she's out there way longer than a count of ten.

Rosie gets the better of the first tie-up, and the crowd starts chanting "boring" only one minute after the bell. They continue circling each other yelling insults from ten feet away. One more tie-up, Rosie throws Donald down again, and Donald takes off his suit and throws it to the ground. After Donald gets a headlock, Rosie throws Donald into the ropes and drops him with a shoulder block. And then another. Rosie then gets a Lou Thesz press off on a charging Donald and starts throwing the worst punches this side of Dean Ambrose.

After two hair tosses, the "boring" chants are in full swing. Rosie doesn't care though, and starts doing Hulk Hogan poses. Then as Rosie puts Donald's head into the turnbuckle (which has no effect because Donald is Samoan or something), the most amazing thing happens. To my knowledge it has not happened before or since on any WWE programming.

THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING "T-N-A! T-N-A! T-N-A!"

The Donald now realizes that his head is a good weapon and headbutts Rosie a few times. Then he tries to pick her up, and despite clearly being able to handle Rosie, he falls (actually jumps under his own power) backwards because Rosie is too fat. This gets a two count, and some of the loudest exasperated boos you'll ever hear descend upon the ring.

Rosie then misses the worst splash in wrestling history and Donald goes to the outside. He grabs the cake and hits Rosie in the face with it. This is in plain view of the ref, but this is legal apparently. After a second rope headbutt to the chants of "We want wrestling", Donald pins Rosie.

Bell to bell, it's just under 6 minutes long, but feels like so much longer.

To make matters worse, this all happened while Florida was kicking the **** out of Ohio State in the BCS title game, so there wasn't even compelling TV to turn to.

Claire Lynch: The drug addict impregnated by AJ Styles. But nahhh? Or maybe?


The pick takes us to TNA where our angle begins with heels Kazarian and Christopher Daniels calling out AJ Styles to drop a bombshell on him. It turns out the tag team has evidence that AJ Styles and Dixie Carter are having an affair. They show some pictures of the two of them together as well as a video of the two going into a hotel room together.

This, naturally, upsets Dixie's husband.



So for weeks after getting punched out Dixie and AJ decide to finally let the world know the truth. They come to the ring and before we can hear an explanation some new woman runs out to the ring.




This woman is clearly pregnant, is somewhat hysterical, and begins clearing things up for us in a promo that's interrupted a few times by her own sobbing.

So now we know our good pal AJ Styles was innocent! He was just helping someone out. The heels plans are thwarted!

Ah, there's more to this drama it seems. You see, Kaz and CD know something we don't know. It turns out that Claire Lynch's baby daddy? AJ STYLES!!!!! Claire comes out and cuts another promo


That's right. As the crowd boos along, we now have a heel pregnant drug addict accusing face aj styles of being her baby daddy. And AJ is not having any of it. But Claire has proof! She pulls out pictures of her and a sleeping AJ Styles. AJ continues to deny it.

This leads to a later Impact where Daniels and Kaz throw Claire a baby shower. They bring gifts of all kinds. Diapers. AJ Action figures for the baby to play with. Even a toy baby with an AJ hoodie on it! As the terrible segment is winding down, Claire grabs the baby and begins yelling into the camera "THE BABY IS COMING AND I NEED YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THE BABY AJ".

Finally, our hero AJ has HAD ENOUGH and in true Russo fashion decides to throw down a challenge to the heels CD and Kaz which have caused him so much turmoil. The stipulations: If AJ wins, he gets a paternity test to prove once and for all that he is NOT the father and dance off the Maury stage. If AJ loses however, he will admit he is the father and take responsibility for his actions.

Yes friends. That is a PATERNITY TEST ON A POLE TYPE MATCH.

AJ wins. Gets the paternity test. And finally, out comes a lawyer for Claire. It's revealed through dialog as wooden as can be that 1. AJ is not the father, 2. Claire is never and was never pregnant, 3. Claire roofied AJ to get those pictures, and 4. Kaz and CD paid her to make the whole thing up.

And thus the saga ends.



There are a few notes to add though.

1. Much like the Dominick Custody Case already picked, the angle is made even worse than it is on the surface by the fact that the wrestlers involved are incredibly talented. The matches between CD/AJ and CD/Kaz vs AJ/Angle were incredible. So why give them THIS?

2. Claire Lynch was a terrible actress. Delivery was ****. Voice was shrill. It was awful. That's why I just gave quotes instead of videos.

3. AJ was clearly uncomfortable with all of this - being a married man with a family and all that.

4. At the end of the day, the punchline is "none of these things mattered it was all fake lol everyone for sitting through it".

5. Claire Lynch quit the company which prompted the quick resolution of the angle. Why? Because her real name got out and she believed being tied to this would prevent her from getting any acting jobs elsewhere. Yup, the person involved in the angle thought it was so bad that it was cause irreversible harm to their future career to be associated with it.

Mae Young gives birth to a hand
Dawn Marie seduces and then kills AL
Claire Lynch

billy and chuck's gay butnahhhhhhhh wedding

so a while back billy gunn and chuck palumbo were a tag team. at some point into it they started acting loving towards each other, bleached their hair, hired some guy named rico as their personal stylist/valet and finally they dropped all pretenses and chuck proposed to billy which billy accepted

the wedding itself was actually a big mainstream deal for proponents gay rights and the idea that they were going to do this was getting a lot of praise and positive attention

so naturally billy and chuck announce in the middle of it that it was a publicity stunt that went too far, that they weren't gay (which hilariously enough apparently constituted a face turn) and rico turned on them.

way to go as usual, vince