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Promo of the Day: "I'd like to talk to Tom" - 1988 angle of the year

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Dirty White Boy v. Tom Pritchard from Continental.  No way this angle would fly today, but hot damn!

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  1. kbjoneSeptember 30, 2013 at 9:52 AM

    That's called knowing your crowd.

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  2. PrimeTimeTenSeptember 30, 2013 at 10:08 AM

    Then the WWF tried the same thing in 1999 only Marianna couldn't act and the payoff was Thrasher saying "BUSTED!"

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  3. Biscuit!September 30, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    Ah, the yellow paint angles, a Memphis/Mid South classic. Dollars to donuts Bill Dundee had the book.

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  4. ScottyflamingoSeptember 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM

    yup

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  5. ScottyflamingoSeptember 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM

    That's what I miss,,,all the different flavors of wrestling. Now the is just chocolate. And it's made of Vince's and HHH's shit.

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  6. goochedSeptember 30, 2013 at 1:52 PM

    Unfortunately for us (and unknowingly to most) the WWE's crowd consists mostly of children, we may not like it...but it's the truth.

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  7. Pete LabozettaSeptember 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM

    It's funny to observe that it seems like as a society, we're more sensitive to emotional damage (obviously there's alleged physical damage with this angle, but the emotional scarring an abusive relationship creates is almost always the bigger problem) but most modern TV shows continue to push the limit in terms of pure violence and gore we're able to see on basic TV. Like the stuff done on Sons of Anarchy would never fly in 1988, but is OK now and this angle that was OK in 1988 would never fly now.


    I don't what that says or it means, I just find it interesting.

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  8. Your_Favourite_LoserSeptember 30, 2013 at 2:23 PM

    yep, thats on the set

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  9. ARRRRGHSeptember 30, 2013 at 4:35 PM

    No, it doesn't, the average viewer age is in the 40's, even on their corporate site they say something like 3/4s of their audience is 18 and up

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  10. toddlorenzSeptember 30, 2013 at 5:50 PM

    On a somewhat related angle, Blazing Saddles would never get made today.

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  11. toddlorenzSeptember 30, 2013 at 5:53 PM

    Christ. That was fucking brutal. Hanging a dude. Damn.

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