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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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** 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, [[Sting (wrestling)|Sting]] was trapped in a cage with metal bars at ringside by the Four Horsemen. Later on, [[RoboCop]], yes, ''the'' [[RoboCop]], came out and bent the bars on the cage, allowing Sting to escape. There was never any mention of this again and [[RoboCop]] left just as quickly has he had arrived.
* 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.
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* 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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