Ahhh. The Saturday night memories.
-The Mother's Day debut. Nothing like seeing the Junkyard Dog dancing in the ring with his mom.
-Uncle Elmer's wedding. The best part was the bride getting pegged in the head by an object and Jesse Ventura pointing it out and laughing. This episode also features Hulk Hogan shining his boots with the Russian flag after beating Nikolai Volkoff. Also on this one, Mean Gene finds George Steele living in a jungle.
-The classic Halloween party including Roddy Piper dressed up as Superman hitting on Elizabeth. This party ended with the always funny pie fight.
-The "fun in the sun" episode which saw Junkyard Dog and Jimmy Hart in a waterslide contest and George Steele rolling around like a seal in water playing with his rubber duckie.
-The night Hulk Hogan was ambushed by King Kong Bundy and Don Muraco. He was carried out of the ring as if he was dead. But not dead enough to miss his MSG lumberjack match with Randy Savage a few days later. This was way before the internet and spoilers. So it made no sense that after the Sat. night show was shown, it was treated like a live show when it wasn't.
-During a match between Hogan and Junkyard Dog verses Terry and Hoss (Dory Jr.) Funk, the Haiti Kid gets ambushed by Jimmy Hart. This was one of the sickiest sights on wrestling television ever. And that's saying something. Also on the show, a nightgown wearing Adorable Adrian Adonis gets nearly stripped by Paul Orndorff. A packed show that also featured Adonis serenading to a lifesize cardboard cutout of Orndorff and Uncle Elmer's fried pig parts!
-More fun with Adonis as he runs in during a Hogan-Orndorff match. He was dressed as a woman and sitting in the front row for the entire match before he ran in. As Jesse Ventura yelled "Look, some fat sweathog is climbing over the railing. Hogan just hit the fat sweathog.", a freshly turned babyface Roddy Piper attacks Adrian with a crutch as he and Hogan do that "new good guy, should I trust you?" stare.
-During a match with Hercules Hernandez, the camera accidently shows Hogan saying he submits to the backbreaker. Ventura cries foul and the screwjob is invented.
-The classic double ending to the Hogan-Orndorff cage match.
-The British Bulldogs pin the tag team champs, the Hart Foundation in the 3rd of a 2 out of 3 fall match. But the Harts were DQ'ed in the second fall, so the Bulldogs don't get the titles.
-The introduction of the Mega Powers as Hogan saves Randy Savage from a beating from the Honkytonk man and the Hart Foundation as a young lad named SuperClerk marks out. But not before we are treated to an on air beating of a woman as Elizabeth gets shoved to the ground by HTM. Somewhere, a young Francine grabs her neck.
-During a match between Hogan and "King" Harley Race, Race dives head first through a table thus ending his in ring career. If you look closely, you can see Hat guy standing and screaming "E-C-DUB, E-C-DUB!"
-Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson pin tag team champs, Demolition in the 3rd of a 2 out of 3 fall match. But Demolition were DQ'ed in the second fall, and Tully and Arn still win the titles anyway. Bret Hart cries that Vince screwed the Bulldogs!!!!
-"The Genius" Lanny Poffo defeats champ Hulk Hogan by countout while "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig destroys the belt with a hammer. Legend has it that that belt was one of the early Hardcore belts that the WWF used. During this match, Poffo works out a math problem that he somehow uses to try defeat Hogan. 78 x E4/b + 4312 x 1333.98 = Defeat Hulk Hogan. Or something like that.
Ahh, the age of the pre-internet wrestling mark. How I miss these lonley Saturday nights.
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