I love SD being TV PG and full of goofy shit when right before it, you can watch horror flicks, like The Hills Have Eyes II with a giant evil doer getting his balls smashed in with a sledgehammer and taking an axe to the arm. Then again, RICARDO TOOK A BULLET FOR DEL RIO, so maybe SD is more serious than I'm giving it credit for. Love Ricardo getting a wacky neckbrace, but he should've had his bowtie on over it like Gertner. He can be the Naughty American Studmuffin. Thank God, we're invited to join in the conversation on TWITTER and are free to TOUT IT OUT too. What a giving company WWE is. Del Rio clutching Ricardo's hand to help him into the ring was adorable. I demand Ricardo plushies be made immediately. Tremendous highlight reel on the Brogue kick - really made it seem super-deadly. Josh is fine with Kane being fined...some sort of amount of money after being seriously attacked - what an idiot. YAY, Rey/Cara vs. Miz and Cody...a match I think I've seen a thousand times over the past month.
Aww, a fan has a homemade white and gold Sin Cara mask - awesome. I Miss Lita sign guy is back. I liked Miz yelling at Cody to grab Rey's foot to prevent a tag...and then he didn't do it, but he did hear him say duck and did it. I think Sin Cara was supposed to do the Asai DDT to Cody off the backdrop, and only missed it by 20 miles if that was the goal. LOVED the wheelbarrow bulldog possibly leading to the Finale. Great tornado dive from Sin Cara after that and the splash finish was fine. Zero reason for Kofi and Truth to be tag champs instead of Rey and Sin Cara. Real fun match there, even if Cody looked like a bit of a dope kicking Miz despite Miz clearly being in his path for a good little while. THE WWE APP IS ALL OVER THE CENA-PUNK STORY! Bryan was amazing with Hornswoggle - he can make anything fun.
SD WAS THE MOST SOCIALLY ACTIVE SHOW ON FRIDAY NIGHT BY 300%. Good for them. Otunga calling something "unnatural" is amusing. The NoC poster with Cena and gold is among the corniest ones ever. Loved Otunga's slideshow and him calling Booker Mr. T. Tremendous Bryan-Kane video, even though it really exposed all the weird makeup on Kane's face. The wacky music playing during the video ruled. Bryan quietly pleading with the fans 'no' is amazing. I imagine him going 'sir/madame, I must kindly request that you cease doing that'. Yay, Bryan gets to kill Ryder! I hope Bryan doesn't try to play Zen's Intergalactic Ninja while doing his zen excercises - they won't work very well. Love the hug into the No Lock, and it leading to a DQ since he wouldn't break the hold. Glorious crazed stuff from Bryan afterwards. Hearing Cole call him a great competitor reminded me of how amazing it is that Bryan was able to get over the hump of Cole burying him 6 feet under for years.
Orton gets to face...some dude in the hour 1 main event. Maybe it's the A&8s Armbreaker! Or it could be Sandow since he's coming out. He has something to get "out of his chest", I think he meant "off of his chest". Guess he's not so smart. He was offended by Tweets and Touts...wow. Just him saying that made him seem stupid. Wacky promo, but full of amusing facial expressions. Him saying Einstein wasn't Tweeting or Touting ruled. I liked Orton just blowing off whoever he was going to face before and saying he WANTED to fight Sandow...in the most boring way possible. Dolph calling Sandow's robe ratty ruled. I liked Dolph putting Orton over huge on commentary - made him beating the man seem that much more important. Him saying that Sandow ran to get a new bathrobe was amusing and he was great during his time on the mic. Sandow took the RKO terribly.
Otunga and Booker discussing X rays was about five billion percent less entertaining than Piper and Bob Orton Jr. meeting with a quack on SNME. Way way way too many Da jokes in this, but Otunga angrily grabbing his Thermos leading to Booker staring in amazement at the X rays was amusing. Saturday Morning Slam was the #1 show for kids! LOL at the champs getting an intro to do commentary while the 3 teams in the #1 contender's match got jobber intros. This match was a blast. Lots of a rapid-fire stuff from move to move. Could've done without the heels stealing the win since they need credibility. Especially after Josh brought up the PTPs losing to the champs TWICE already.
Interesting to have them hype Raw up by talking about Bret returning to Montreal. Punk-Cena vid was fine. It's amazing how little you miss just watching Raw in video package for versus watching the whole show. SOCIAL MEDIA IS BLOWING UP DUE TO PUNK AND HEYMAN! According to Cole, both Raw and SD are sinking ships. Wow. Eve's jittery Tout was amusing, but would it kill the company to mandate anyone using Tout to keep the damn camera still. Barrett's new finisher rules. The rest of this new act is much less cool than the vignettes, and it makes no sense to just bring him back out of nowhere instead of just saying last week at the end of the video that the Barrage was coming back this week. More weirdness with the Montreal ad as they're showing the screwjob and I'm getting a feeling that they'll have him try to shake Vince's hand on the show. Booker coming out at the end and banning the Brogue kick was stupid to do DURING the match. Made Booker seem like a jerk, but this should help get the cloverleaf over. Using the Irish Curse as its setup is great, and I like him doing the move out of a Bossman slam position - looks far less careless that way.
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