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* In 1991, Barry Darsow (formerly Smash of the tag team Demolition) was repackaged by the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] as "Repo Man", which was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. A horrible gimmick that was presumably aimed at provoking [[Good Name for A Rock Band|cheap heat from deadbeats]], Darsow played the character so [[Card-Carrying Villain|ridiculously over the top]] that it was [[So Bad It's Good|hard to hate him]].
* Every single thing that [[D Generation X]] has ever done. There is not enough time in a week to list all of the jaw-dropping, boundary-crossing hijinks.
* In late 2005, WWE was at a loss for how to make the crowd root for [[John Cena]] and boo [[Kurt Angle]]. They tried all of the cheapest, most offensive tricks in the wrestling playbook to make Angle the bad guy: he began bashing America and was given an Arabic manager to interfere in his matches, all the while playing the xenophobic angle to attract as much cheap heat as possible. It failed because nobody was buying an anti-American [[Kurt Angle]], and eventually Angle [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] the difficulty in getting people to hate him by going even ''further'' into offensive territory. The resulting promo is generally held to be hilarious because nobody can take it seriously:
{{quote|'''[[Kurt Angle]]''': First of all, I'd like to say that: I hope the US loses the war in Iraq. And, uh, while I'm at it, I think the greatest country in the world is...France! Y'know, truth be told, I'm not a very big fan of...[[Buffy-Speak|"the black people."]] And if I would go back in time, the one person in history I'd like to make tap out would have to be...Jesus! ...The point is, I can say ''anything I want'' to these idiots, and they'll ''still'' cheer for me!|'''* Right on cue, the crowd cheers enthusiastically* '''}}
** After this, WWE finally gave up on trying to make Angle a heel. But they only did that when Batista got injured and Angle was switched to SD hastily. Maybe they weren't even planning on stopping there.
** [[Unfortunate Implications]]: French people are comparable to America-haters, racists, and anti-Christians? 
*** This occurred not long after the war in Iraq started. Since France didn't want to go to war, France became something of a punchline (this occurred around the same time as the "Freedom Fries" fiasco.)
* Katie Vick. [[Triple H]] pretending to be [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], having sex with his dead girlfriend in a casket.
* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s Most Intimate Relationships Revealed segment on ''[[Monday Night Raw]]'' when [[Jerry Springer]] [[Guest Host|hosted]] was very much this trope. It started with Jerry revealing that [[Kelly Kelly]] [[My Secret Pregnancy|was secretly pregnant]]. Kelly reveals that she had a few drinks with [[Funny Foreigner|Santino Marella]] and things happened. After Santino declared that he was the father, Kelly revealed that she needed someone to finish the job, [[Michael Cole]]. This results in the possibility that [[Jerry Lawler]] may be the father, but Springer shoots that down because [[Dirty Old Man|Jerry likes to pick up his chicks from recess]]. This brings out the Bella Twins and Nikki reveals that [[Half-Identical Twins|Brie is a man]], resulting in a [[Cat Fight]]. Jerry steers that topic back to Kelly, and this brings out [[Pec Flex|Chris Masters]] to reveal that [[Your Cheating Heart|he slept with Kelly]], and this brings out his very angry girlfriend [[Eve Torres]] who also reveals she had an affair with [[Casanova|THE GREAT KHALI!]] With [[Dysfunction Junction|almost all of the comedy characters accounted for]], Jerry Springer reveals that he has the pregnancy test results back. Santino [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|questions this possibility seeing as though this only happened three days ago]], and Springer simply says, [[Hand Wave|"I'm Jerry Springer."]] The results reveal the father to be [[Leprechaun|Hornswoggle]], and this is too much for [[Break the Badass|Jerry Springer of all people]], and he begins to leave in disgust. [[Jerry Lawler]] then reveals that the entire segment was a [[I Was Just Joking|prank]] and that the Great Khali probably does not even know what's happening. Khali's translator says that Khali [[Audience Surrogate|felt like the audience]] in that this was a [[Lampshade Hanging|giant waste of time]]. To close out the segment, Lawler turns the tables on Jerry and reveals Springer's secret fling, [[Dirty Old Woman|MAE YOUNG]]! RAW goes to a commercial as [[Squick|Springer makes out with Mae]].
* [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] owned this trope.
** [[CM Punk]] is not far behind.

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