Non Sequitur Scene/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

Professional wrestling in general is full of [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|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.

* In 1990, the [[WWEWorld Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] was hyping a giant egg, whose contents would be revealed at the ''Survivor Series''. The egg's hatching turned out to be a [[Stealth Pun|rotten]] moment, as what emerged was a huge chicken-like thing called the Gobbledy-Gooker (played by [[Eddie Guerrero]]'s older brother Hector in a hideous suit). [[Wrestlecrap]] [http://www.wrestlecrap.com/gooker.html has more]{{Dead link}}. Also, they name their yearly people's choice award for wrestling's worst thing, The Gooker.

** WCW was prone to creating unintentional [[BLAMNon 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.

* 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, [[Wrestler/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.

* 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 -- butentrant—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, [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] entered at seven and was the last man over, at one point eliminating the entire ring single-handedly. So the next person to come out was old-timer Honky Tonk Man, who did something similar: had the audience participate in singing his theme song. After two minutes (exactly!) Kane beat him with his own guitar and eliminated him. The next entrant was [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]], who stayed for the rest of the Rumble almost, so it was definately just to let Kane rest before having an epic battle with Rocky. Still BLAM.

* 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...]]

* The November 1, 2010 edition of Raw -- theRaw—the day before Election Day -- featuredDay—featured a segment in which, after many weeks of not seeing [[Vince McMahon]] on TV, he appeared asleep in a hospital bed with Freddie Prinze Jr. standing next to him, dressed in a doctor's outfit. Prinze commented on Linda McMahon's electoral campaign and how much money she spent on it, at which point Vince awoke from his coma, covered in Linda campaign stickers. He commented, "I hate politics" and asked Prinze if everything was okay in WWE. Prinze recounted several recent storylines -- suchstorylines—such as Undertaker being buried and Nexus's reign of terror -- andterror—and Vince felt sick and had to go to the bathroom. Then he announced he would run for president, before standing up and apparently preparing to poop; a banner with the name of Linda's political opponent covered his butt. THEN, it cut to [[Stephanie McMahon]] waking up in bed and talking about how she had "the most horrible dream" where her dad woke up from his coma and announced he was running for president. Offscreen, [[Triple H]] reassured her "No, I'm pretty sure he's braindead." She responded, "Thank God." and the segment ended. Then the rest of the show continued as if absolutely nothing happened.

* Ron Simmons uses his [[Catch Phrase]] "DAMN!" whenever he personally witnesses a [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]].

* On the 4/2/2010 edition of Smackdown, [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] decided that he was bored and would take on all 8 of the Season 1 NXT rookies by himself in an elimination match. Kane would prove dominant and score a few eliminations, until the remaning rookies got together and ganged up on Kane and beat him down handily, even though they ended up getting [[D Qed]] for ignoring the ref's 5 count. Aside from Kane making a couple apperances on NXT, this was never mentioned again. However, this would not be the last time that the [[The Nexus|NXT rookies teamed up,]] so it may have been subtle [[Foreshadowing]].

** Santino is pretty much the resident [[Comic Relief]], and tends to be the source of everything [[Cloudcuckoolander|nonsensical and random]]. That said, the APPLE team-up may have also been a vague [[Call Back]] to the Corporation angle, when [[Mick Foley|Mankind]] assembled the "Union of People You Oughtta Respect, Son!", a rough assembly of people who had been attacked or generally screwed over by [[Shane McMahon]]'s group. It consisted of him, Test, Ken Shamrock and Big Show, and after the introduction he stopped, counted on his fingers, and figured out the initials worked out to "UP [[Y Ou RS]]!" The Union feuded with the Corporation for about a month until Mankind (the only top-lister at the time) was injured and the confusing Corporate Ministry angle started, after which the Union evaporated, almost making it a month-long [[BLAMNon Sequitur Scene Episode]] of its own.

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