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Professional wrestling in general is full of [[Non Sequitur Scene|these kind of moments]] due to its on-the-fly writing style and the relative secrecy most wrestling companies work under to avoid [[spoiler]]s. Frequently story lines are started and then squashed due to one or more of the performers dying, quitting, being fired, or being injured. Angles can also suffer heavily from attacks by [[Moral Guardians]] and by [[Executive Meddling]]. It's worth noting that since Professional Wrestling is an ongoing medium, users should wait before posting recent examples until the actual storyline plays out.
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* In 1990, the [[
** The Gooker has been referenced since then, but it's usually been to reference just how [[So Bad It's Horrible/Professional Wrestling|horrible]] the idea was.
** And it wasn't a chicken, but a ''turkey'' - [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|which makes perfect sense]] when you recall that ''Survivor Series'' used to be held on Thanksgiving Day. The most hilarious aspect of this episode was that for weeks, both wrestling commentators and fans were wildly speculating on what could possibly be inside the egg. [[What an Idiot!|Some even wondered if a new wrestler was about to make his debut.]] I mean....IT'S AN EGG! Did they actually think that ''anything'' other than a giant bird (or maybe a dinosaur) was going to emerge from it?
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* A Halloween episode of ''[[WWF]] [[WWE Smackdown|Smackdown]]'' has Smackdown General Manager [[Stephanie McMahon]] encounter Raw GM Eric Bischoff wearing a [[Vince McMahon]] mask in her office. After doing a bad impression of Vince, he rips off the mask and gives her a long, passionate kiss, which she resists at first, but slowly begins to enjoy. Aside from a very small inside joke during Eric Bischoff's trial in early 2006, it is never referenced again.
* [[WCW]]'s entire "Blood Runs Cold" angle was rather infamous for being a BLAM that was several months long, and ate up time on several of their shows. At a time when the entire WCW is gearing up for war with the [[New World Order|nWo]], and every storyline seemed to gradually weave its way into that, there was always one segment each night that involved a bunch of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' knock-offs fighting over a helmet for some reason. Once the whole thing was over, Glacier and Wrath disappeared for months, Ernest Miller was demoted to a [[Jobber]], and Mortis got mocked by Raven, eventually lost his mask, and became Kanyon. Glad to find out that this storyline, which was hyped for months and played out (badly) over several more months, was so damn important, guys.
** WCW was prone to creating unintentional [[Non Sequitur Scene|BLAMs]]. They did not allow their commentators to view the backstage segments so that the commentary would be more spontaneous... unfortunately they just looked clueless more often. One notorious example was a segment where the nWo beat [[Ric Flair]] up in some random farm field. Flair later hitchhiked to the arena in a truck filled with turnips. When he finally made it to the arena, dirty and stumbling around dazed holding an axehandle, the commentators - who didn't see the beating or hitchhiking scenes - wondered if he was drunk, rendering the whole thing a BLAM.
*** Not to mention, Dustin Rhodes is Seven... well, for a few vignettes anyway. The Standards and Practices department at Turner hated the character and wanted him gone, mostly because WCW made Seven look like a child abductor/molester. Just before Rhodes made his debut as Seven, [[Vince Russo]] was hired to be the head writer of WCW, and he debuted the character with a spooky Undertaker-like entrance - then had Rhodes [[Who Writes This Crap?|rail against that gimmick]] ''and'' his Goldust gimmick in one of Russo's many [[Worked Shoot]] promos to bury the gimmick once and for all.
* On a 2003 episode of ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Raw'', there was a note found backstage saying "I Still Remember" left for [[Booker T]]. [[Booker T]] was alarmed by this and seemed to be frightened by what it meant. It was never mentioned again, although it was speculated to be a sign of Goldust's return which didn't happen until quite some time later. (They could have at least [[Lampshade Hanging|hung a lampshade]] on Booker's earlier discovery of that note.)
* During [[WCW]]'s Capital Combat in 1990, [[
* WCW had a strange one that actually lasted a few months. In 1998 during Nitro and Thunder the lights would flicker and an [[Evil Laugh]] would be heard. Most assumed it was a buildup for a new wrestler until the whole thing reached its conclusion when Rick Steiner was doing an in-ring interview with Mean Gene Okerlund, only to be interrupted by the evil laughter, who was then revealed to be (we are not making this up) [[Child's Play (film)|Chucky]]. The evil possessed doll star of the Child's Play movies appeared on the video wall and made some jokes at Rick Steiner's expense for a while, while Steiner actually challenged Chucky to come to the ring and face him. Chucky did a plug for his new movie, ''Bride of Chucky'', and then told Rick Steiner not to mess with [[Scott Steiner]] (who Rick was feuding with at the time) because Chucky wanted to direct him in a new film. This was, however, Chucky's only appearance in WCW, and the whole thing was never mentioned again afterward.
** Something similar (and more amusing) happened in WWE in 1994. They did this promo called "The Search For Undertaker," in which [[Leslie Nielsen]] (then hyping one of his [[The Naked Gun]] movies) pretended to be Lieutenant Frank Drebin on a case to find [[The Undertaker]]. Nielsen narrated the whole thing in voiceover in his trademark style, and all the gags were of the [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] variety, just like in Nielsen's movies. When Drebin says, for example, that "the girls were feeling macho," we immediately cut to a scene of some supermodels literally stroking the face of "Macho Man" [[Randy Savage]].
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* On the December 21st 2009 edition of ''Raw'', WWE apparently decided it was time for them to finally make a joke about Tiger Woods and his crumbling personal life. Unfortunately, they chose the worst way to do it: during the show's opening segment, while the guest host was cutting a promo, they had someone in a tiger mascot costume run out of the crowd with a blond woman chasing after him with a golf club (the two were also in a backstage skit an hour or so later). No reason was given for this, the announcers didn't really make a point of mentioning it, and felt so out of place with the rest of the show that it was pretty much a BLAM no matter how you look at it.
* Probably the funniest example ever in pro wrestling occurred during the 2004 Royal Rumble. Midway through the match, right after [[Chris Benoit]] and [[Randy Orton]] (the first two entrants) had managed to eliminate everyone else in the ring, they temporarily knocked each other out and the match essentially came to a standstill. That's when a diminutive fellow in a tuxedo and an Afro wig came running out with a microphone and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen -- Ernest 'The Cat' Miller!" Miller then came down to the ring as an official entrant—but instead of eliminating Benoit or Orton, or both, he and the diminutive emcee began doing a ridiculous dance in the middle of the ring to the tune of the Motown-esque song "Somebody Call My Mama." Even Tazz (who was commentating) thought it was hilarious, and started singing along! Oh, and did I mention that Miller was, for some inexplicable reason, wearing a ''white cape'' and ''platform shoes''? Needless to say, when Benoit and Orton finally woke up, they didn't find the segment at all entertaining; Benoit then tossed out the emcee while Orton eliminated Miller. The match then pretty much started over from square one, as if the Miller sequence had never happened. (Someone on [[YouTube]] appropriately referred to this as the "Royal Rumble intermission.")
** That's pseudo-common in Rumbles where there are early entrants who dominate most of the match like that, as a way to let them rest. In the 2001 Rumble, [[
* How about the 2002 Royal Rumble when the Godfather made his return after being away for months by taking an overly long time to come to the ring while he danced with his Hos? It took him about two minutes to get to the ring...he didn't last long.
* Then there was the 2010 Royal Rumble, which really got rolling when [[CM Punk]] entered early and quickly eliminated [[Evan Bourne]], Dolph Ziggler, and JTG of Cryme Tyme. His next opponent was The Great Khali, who easily manhandled Punk and seemed on the verge of eliminating him. That's when [[Beth Phoenix]] - yes, [[Beth Phoenix]] - came out as the sixth entrant and [[Crazy Awesome|managed to eliminate Khali from the match by grabbing his face, kissing him, and leaning back against the ropes so that Khali fell over her and hit the ground]]! It was the first time in years that a woman had participated in the Royal Rumble Match, but unfortunately it didn't lead to anything important as Phoenix was herself tossed out by Punk soon afterward. It did, however, help to bring about Beth's [[Heel Face Turn]].
** This doesn't really count. Beth cut a promo about making history the very next episode of ''Smackdown'' and the announcers have constantly referenced her appearing in the Rumble.
* In 2002, a [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] match between [[Booker T]] and [[The Big Show]] had a moment where [[Triple H]]- in full wrestling attire- [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1sfas_triple-h-and-the-forklift-of-doom_fun drove a forklift across the background]. Much like the original BLAM, despite the seemingly random nature of the whole thing [[Brick Joke|it did pay off later in the show - when RobVanDam's lumberjacks for the Lumberjack Match against Trips later in the evening found themselves mysteriously barricaded in their own locker room by a forklift...]]
* On the 4/19/2010 version of RAW, there was a promotional spot cross-promoting the movie ''[[MacGruber]]''. To help with the bit, [[Ron Killings|Ron "R-Truth" Killings]] was up at the start of the entrance ramp, drawing a reaction from the crowd, when suddenly...R-Truth disappears in an explosion set up by [[MacGruber]] earlier. Only his smoldering shoes are left. The whole thing is [[Played for Laughs]]. The next night on NXT, R-Truth shows up right as rain. No mention of it is mentioned ever again.
** On TV. Killings was dropped from the week's Power 25 for it. [http://www.wwe.com/inside/power25/archive/042410/\]
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* Ron Simmons uses his [[Catch Phrase]] "DAMN!" whenever he personally witnesses a [[Non Sequitur Scene]].
** The running joke was that the moments weren't actually [[BLA Ms]], but ''appeared'' that way because [[Not What It Looks Like|Simmons would only arrive on the scene in time to hear the punchline]]. One of the best was probably William Regal trying to get Jim Duggan to hand him his two-by-four, becoming increasingly frustrated, and finally screaming [[Double Entendre|"I WANT YOU TO PUT YOUR BIG PIECE OF WOOD INTO MY HANDS RIGHT NOW!"]]
* On the 4/2/2010 edition of Smackdown, [[
* In the latest episode of Raw, there's a brief segment where Derrick Bateman is promoting a WSM perfume, [[Mark Henry]] does a vo of the consequences of the perfume, and it's not at all talked about whatsoever for the rest of the show.
* In one episode of Raw [[Batista]] was shown backstage preparing for a match, when all of a sudden a strange fan jumped in front of Batista and began posing before being chased off by security. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYuPdFa7wVM Even Batista had trouble keeping his composure afterwards.]
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