In the 1980s, one of the hottest shows out there was Perfect Strangers. I never got into this one, but I do have a Wikipedia article to help me out. Larry Appleton, played by Mark Linn-Baker, lives with his cousin Balki Bartokomous, played by Bronson Pinchot. Balki is allegedly from some distant island known as Mypos in the Mediterranean. His character seems somewhat strange, as Mypos doesn’t exist, and his name is definitely strange, along with him doing what he calls his “dance of joy” when goodness is about. The show really wasn’t much beyond the whole “odd couple” scenario and Balki’s “fish-out-of-water” status with the US. To tell you the honest truth, since the show was bare-bones and repetetive, I really can’t say much about it.
My Pros:
I really don’t have any, I didn’t watch the show, it was just so strange, almost terrible in fact;
My Cons:
Damn-near terrible. Bizarre character histories, repetetiveness, the show was one big con. But it ran for a whopping 7 years!
Alright, next week: My Life As a Teenage Robot…
On October 26th, the fans choose the match types, special refs, whatever they can vote for on WWE.com. The card is:
World Heavyweight Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Kane in either:
.An Inferno match
.A Ladder Match
.Or a Cage Match
.CM Punk cut a promo at the beginning of the show, World Tag-Team and World Heavyweight belts with him. William Regal announced that at Cyber Sunday on October 26th, CM Punk will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Kane in either an Inferno Match, a Ladder Match or a Cage Match, and that next week on Raw he will defend against JBL in a Lumberjack Match!
WWE Light-Heavyweight Title Tournament: Tajiri defeated Joey Mercury to advance to the No-DQ match with Hirohito that is to decide the first-ever Light-Heavyweight Champion on ECW October 7th!
Tables Match: Rey Mysterio defeated Hardcore Holly by throwing him head-first into a table in the corner
Davidian issued an open challenge and was greeted by SmackDown Intercontinental Champion MVP, who defeated him, giving Davidian his second straight singles loss
Ken Shamrock defeated Chris Jericho
World Tag-Team Championship: CM Punk and Kane (c) defeated Orlando Jordan and The Real Elijah Burke to retain
WWE Light-Heavyweight Title Tournament: Joey Mercury defeated Carlito to advance
WWE Tag-Team Championship Match: Kurt Angle and Undertaker (c) defeated Booker T and John Moondog to retain
No-DQ Match: Shelton Benjamin defeated Chavo Guerrero
World Tag-Team Championship Match: CM Punk and Kane defeated The Bournes (c) to win the titles!
Intercontinental Championship Match: Orlando Jordan (c) w/The Real Elijah Burke defeated John Cena to retain
ECW Championship Triple-Threat Match: Matt Hardy (c) defeated John Morrison and Mr. Kennedy to retain
Ladder Match for the World Heavyweight Championship: CM Punk (c) defeated Kane to retain
Armageddon Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match for the WWE Championship: Jeff Hardy (c) defeated Edge, Hirohito, Carlito, Undertaker and Triple H to retain!
Undertaker prepares:
He’ll defend his Tag-Titles with Kurt Angle against the reformed Connection, but his real challenge will be later when he competes for the WWE Championship in the Armageddon TLC match. “I am unstoppable. I’ll get back at Jeff Hardy for taking back my title last month after I only had two days with it,” said The Deadman about the match. On September 12th, Undertaker began a two-day reign with the title and is hoping to enjoy what he considers will be a “real reign”.
Edge prepares:
He survived the first TLC match 8 years ago and still feels he has yet to discover the joys of being WWE Champion. Like ‘Taker, Edge recently yielded a two-day reign with the WWE Championship in July and feels he had the title robbed from him by Shelton Benjamin. Will he reclaim the title?
Kurt Angle prepares:
He and Undertaker are to defend their Tag-Team Titles against Booker T and John Moondog, having held them for a month now. Their runway success has prompted questions about both mens’ WWE Championship opportunities in the future due to being in the tag-team division, but they both say they can do any title, anytime. “Me and ‘Taker are the best team in WWE today. We took the titles in our first match and are sure to retain the gold into 2009. There’s no stopping us now!” said a hyped Angle.
John Moondog prepares:
He was originally scheduled to return at Survivor Series in November, but was cleared to return a whole month earlier by his doctor in early September. “Me and Booker T should still be Tag-Team Champions. That thing in August was totally unfair,” said Moondog. “We will take back our gold this Sunday.”
Matt Hardy prepares:
While his brother Jeff is embroiled in the main event at No Mercy, Matt has troubles of his own with Mr. Kennedy and John Morrison at the event in a Triple-Threat match for his ECW Championship. “I wish Jeff good luck and all, but I feel I need to have some time away from him so we can both plan our daring escapes from title loss at No Mercy,” said North Carolinian Matt Hardy.
Jeff Hardy prepares:
He’s in his third reign as WWE Champion, but must now defend the title in the most difficult title defense he will’ve made yet. He was in the first TLC match, but the six men involved in that were in three units of two, meaning some worked together, but here the six men are simply beating eachother to the core in the first-ever Armageddon TLC match. Will he still be champion after No Mercy?
No-Disqualification Fatal-Four-Way Elimination Match for the SmackDown Intercontinental Championship: Montel Vontavious Porter defeated Kurt Angle (c), Mr. Kennedy and Booker T to win the title and his debut match!
WWE Tag-Team Championship Match: Undertaker and Kurt Angle (c) defeated Razor Ramon and Carlito to retain
WWE Light-Heavyweight Title Tournament: Carlito quickly defeated Spike Dudley to advance
WWE Light-Heavyweight Title Tournament: Joey Mercury, a free agent, defeated Trish Stratus to advance
Finlay defeated Hirohito
Champion of Champions Triple-Threat Match: WWE Champion Jeff Hardy defeated ECW Champion Matt Hardy and World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk
Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima were part of a rant I made earlier about how they don’t get enough credit in the mainstream media. Sure, it’s not like the old days where idiot reporters were asking equally idiotic Nintendo of America execs about Mario and Luigi’s last names, but they still don’t call the creators by name or acknowlege the gaming community and its acknowlegement of Kojima and Miyamoto. When I say mainstream, I don’t mean things like mainstream game outlets, I mean Fox News (even though that is shit-tacular), The New York Post, things everyone far and wide get their information from. There are so many people who don’t play games and don’t want to get into it, and that’s ok, but I think they need to know of the industry’s foremost icons whose works much upstage many of today’s Hollywood movies. It’s like the 1973 classic The Exorcist, which went up against the crappy 2000 Urban Legend sequel during its “Version You’ve Never Seen” run in late 2000. The latter got negative reviews yet it beat Exorcist at the box office for a time. On top of that, The Exorcist would be a better Halloween horror flick to see on October 31st than that Urban Legend crap, and Roger Ebert probably got tired of seeing the dreck cliches in it. Just look at Exorcist, it’s a god of horror, a truly disturbing film worthy of many Halloween viewings this year and for many years to come. Yet it was beaten, although just once or twice or so, by a film that a 7-year-old probably wouldn’t be scared of. Same goes for video games made by these two creators and others compared to most of today’s typical action or drama movies. Today, those movies have lost their spirit just as horror has, with the cliches and crappy acting while games are seemingly getting better. Almost all I’ve seen within the movie industry is untalented actors in big roles in films probably intended for the stereotypical redneck/NASCAR/beer/etc. market if not for a regular audience, and another problem is over-the-top, overused and very fake-looking CGI being used in every big movie there is today. It just looks ugly for the most part, while the older, practical special effects (not unlike the ones used in The Exorcist) looked more realistic and effective. And yes, even games have been accused of abandoning their roots for gimmicky controls and good graphics, but movies and television are the biggest culprits in those departments. It seems that as nearly everything ages, they all lose their spirit eventually. Can’t anything live on? Well, back to the creators thing. Shigeru Miyamoto should be credited by name and acknowledged by the mainstream more often, and Hideo Kojima is under-rated to the highest degree. Well, you can post your thoughts through comment, anyone at all on earth can tell me what they think of these issues.
He’s set to debut in two days on SmackDown’s MyNetwork TV premiere, but we caught up with him. He wore a black mask to obscure his face, so we’ll still have to wait until Friday to see it, but we got quite a bit of background about Montel Vontavious Porter. Todd Grisham is here to ask him questions:
Grisham:
So we’ve learned that MVP is an acronym for Montel Vontavious Porter, you have been signed to the most lucrative deal in SmackDown history to date, and enjoy the finer things in life. So who is the man behind all of it?
MVP:
I was born Alvin Burke, but that was the name I used when I landed myself 9 years in prison in 1990, so now I enjoy the finer things in life, having stopped being stupid, and changed my name to Montel Vontavious Porter, or MVP.
Grisham:
So how was it in Miami when you got yourself in prison?
MVP:
I acted stupid, I got on the streets, I ran the streets, I essentially was a thug, a hoodlum. Now I can’t go to Japan or several other countries on international tours because of my criminal record.
Grisham:
We’ve heard that you take inspiration from Japanese wrestlers. If you could, who would you want to wrestle from there?
MVP:
Well, The Great Muta has always been a favorite of mine, but the one I’d wrestle would have to be The Great Sasuke.
Grisham:
When did you start wrestling, and how did you get the lucrative SmackDown contract?
MVP:
In the early 2000s, my corrections officer, also an independent wrestler, helped me get into wrestling and I soon got rich due to my money matches with too many talented independent guys to name. In October 2007, I was contacted by WWE about possibly considering joining, so I sat on it for a while and in about August 2008 I agreed to come here on SmackDown.
Grisham:
Lastly, what are your goals?
MVP:
Before I inevitably become WWE Champion, I would like to win the SmackDown Intercontinental Championship from Kurt Angle in the No-DQ Fatal-Four-Way Elimination match this Friday.
Finally, fall has really started to kick in. Like yesterday, it’s in the 60s out there for the rest of the week, surely to decrease in the coming month. So as we approach Halloween, and as I said eventually Christmas, October 1st is a great day!
So like last week it was a bus trip day. Again, we ate our meals at home. On the trip, I saw some rather offbeat people. First off, on the bus a pretty tall guy wearing a red shirt got on with this weird smile, and he talked in this weeeiiirrrddd voice to himself. I think he was just a little strangely disabled and I just kinda chuckled under my breath trying to keep a straight face after seeing him. It wasn’t all that funny, I’ve seen a lot of people like that and there were plenty on the trip, so I’ve gotten used to them. I saw him later at the library when he passed me talking in that silly voice unintelligibly to himself. Also, a homeless guy, those of whom I’ve also seen a lot of in Iowa City, and a blind man were there, dad helped the blind one and apparently had seen him. He asked him how tall dad was, what he was touching with his cane, even where dad was from. I didn’t get it, but everything was alright. So I didn’t watch ECW with it’s new 8:00-9:00 time, it had only three matches. What a drag. So, goodnight, I guess.
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