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*** 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 ''[[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.)

* 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]].

* 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.")

* 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]].

* 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!"]]

* 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.]