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And in this corner, weighing in at 30 paper-pushers, [[Executive Meddling|the Executive Producer!]]
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* Soon after [[Kayfabe]]![[Vince McMahon]] was blown up in a fiery limo explosion, confirmation came that [[USA Network]] executives told the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] to perform a murder storyline, much to the consternation of the writing staff, Vince himself, and half the fanbase. This made them look like idiots, morons, and every other epithet in the book when news of [[Chris Benoit]]'s [[Real Life Writes the Plot|murder-suicide]] hit the airwaves a few weeks later.
** Among other things USA has been pressuring WWE into: more celebrity involvement and 3-hour ''[[Monday Night Raw]]'' broadcasts.
*** The 'E did however work the celebrity involvement into some genuinely amusing moments (such as [[John Cena]] being beaten by Kevin ''flippin''' Federline, Steve-O being legitimately beaten for laughing during his match, and Donald Trump causing [[Vince McMahon]]'s infamous "bald moment").
** Of course, Vince himself is the source of much [[Executive Meddling]] in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], such as when he canceled "The Blonde Bytch Project", a Blair Witch parody that was to star Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie, on the grounds that ''he'' had never seen the movie, and therefore assumed nobody else had either.
*** He did the same thing to Paul Burchill because he had never seen ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' and assumed that a pirate should be a [[Heel]]. Later, he placed him into an incest gimmick character. That went about as well as could be expected -- the storyline never really developed, and Burchill vanished fairly quickly.
**** This was at least Vince's ''fourth'' attempt to do an incest storyline. His first attempt was to portray Ken Shamrock and his (kayfabe) sister Ryan Shamrock in an incestuous relationship (Ken refused). Then, when [[Stephanie McMahon]] became pregnant, Vince suggested that ''he'' be the on-screen father. When Steph vetoed that, Vince suggested her brother [[Shane McMahon]] be the father instead. ''Both'' Steph ''and'' Shane nixed that one. Most recently was the repackaging of Paul Burchill and Katie Lea as implied incestuous siblings. Given that Vince suffered both physical and sexual abuse as a child, most fans are of the opinion that he urgently needs therapy. They just wish it could be done in a quiet office instead of on live TV.
**** [[Vince McMahon]] wasn't the only one to try an incest storyline in the WWE, however. Former head writer [[Vince Russo]] fought hard to get Beaver Cleavage, a hypersexual take on ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'', on the air. It lasted about two weeks before [[Vince McMahon]] himself [[Even Evil Has Standards|pulled the plug]].
**** The storyline was done in by yet more [[Executive Meddling]]. [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] embraced the PG rating for all their television programming around the time Burchill and Katie Lea started appearing on-screen. The incest storyline was one of the first things to be nixed, leaving both with nothing to do before being moved over to the [[ECW]] brand.
*** [[Squick|Katie Vick]]. (Vince's own DVD has other members of the WWE saying how unfunny it was.)
** Soon before WWE's ECW brand got underway, there were Internet reports that the Sci-Fi Channel had been trying to shoehorn sci-fi elements into this wrestling show. Cue "The Zombie" and other characters [[Writer Revolt|being soundly beaten by the Sandman]] upon the show's airing.
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