I enjoyed the Funkasaurus in a "ok this is terrible, but still pretty funny" kind of way. He completely jumped the shark at Wrestlemania though.

The problem with Brodus was that he was shoved down our throats. He was entertaining for awhile, but when he was on every Raw, every Smackdown, and every PPV doing the exact same thing over and over and over again, he got old. Fast.

They really don't need to put on four (now five) hours of programming per week. Two hours is plenty for the entire company roster. And there's zero need to put every popular wrestler on every single week, and especially not twice a week except in rare instances.

The problem was that there was no way that WASN'T going to get old fast. What was he going to do, a different dance form each week? Like, "On this week's Smackdown, Brodus Clay learns the rumba"?

EVERYTHING gets old after a while (we ran out of interesting positions for someone to be RKOed from a few months ago, we've nearly run out of ways for HHH to bury someone, and I suspect that if Punk was his post-shoot self for an entire year we'd be tired of that by now and wondering "Jesus Christ, if you're feeling that rebellious why don't you just leave already so this Tensai guy can get some more air time"? Brodus's problem was that he complemented that lack of repertoire by never showing more than like three wrestling moves (a full 40% less than John Cena, ffs), doing it against completely uninteresting people, and having his main schtick be something completely unrelated to his (kayfabe) JOB.

How do you like Santino then? He does the exact same thing every single week. He gets shoved down our throats to the point of being holding the US title, being in the Elimination Chamber, and being in MITB. Santino's finishing move is poking you in the throat with a sock. I will never understand how anyone who isn't a little kid enjoys Santino.

Exactly.

Also, Santino is very clearly supposed to be comic entertainment. Aside from this recent US title win thing (which I think everyone agrees is dumb), he usually lost. I'd agree that Santino's become a much worse character now that the Cobra is actually connecting and he's being a serious wrestler who is winning matches in a non-fluky way. The Cobra was better when it connected at like a 3% rate.

Brodus was supposed to be some damn unstoppable force that destroys mid-level talent like Swagger in a minute flat, yet we can't take him seriously because, well, he's a fat guy with Lee press-on nails. Pick a lane, basically.