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{{quote|''"Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for welcoming us into your home for this edition of Monday Night RAW!"''|[[Jim Ross]]}}
 
A [[Professional Wrestling]] [[Series]] that currently showcases the superstars of the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s ''Raw'' brand (the full name of the program is ''WWE Monday Night Raw''). Airing new episodes year-round (for the most part) since its debut in 1993 - with over 900 episodes (and counting) under its belt so far - ''Raw'' is the [[Long Runners|longest running series in the company's history, and one of the longest in television history]].
 
It originally aired on the [[USA Network]], [[Channel Hop|switched]] to the National Network (TNN) - now known as [[Spike TV]] - in 2000, and went back to USA in 2005, with its first night back on the Network dubbed the "WWE Homecoming" (which isn't far off, considering that the 'E has since formed a trusty partnership with USA's parent company, [[NBC]]-[[Universal]]).
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=== '''Tropes featured include:''' ===
 
* [[Aborted Arc]]: For example the Anonymous Raw GM storyline. In June 2010, Vince McMahon appointed a new Raw General Manager "who [preferred] to stay anonymous" and thus relayed all his orders through a laptop computer seated next to the announcer table. Despite some teasing hints that went nowhere, some mildly heelish decisions and a couple of feuds (including one where Edge actually beat up the laptop), his identity was never revealed and the whole thing was quietly swept under the rug in October 2011 when Triple H took over.
** A far worse example would be the "GM-less" era; after Eric Bischoff was fired from the position in December 05, the central story Raw was who would replace him. Shane [[Mc Mahon]]McMahon, Dusty Rhodes, and various other big names were teased, along with a running gag of the most unlikely people approaching Vince and asking for the job only to be blown off. After about a month or two, the whole thing was dropped, with one glaring problem; ''there was still no general manager''. The position would not be filled until June of 07, a year and a half later, and would receive no mention up until that point.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Whoever is in charge of the show tends to be one of these (i.e. [[Vince McMahon]], Eric Bischoff, John Laurinaitis ), as opposed to Smackdown's typically more benevolent GM's.
* [[Broadcast Live]]: since September 1999.
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