There’s an unwritten rule on WrestleCrap that we don’t induct the Bushwhackers. Sure, they were goofy. Sure, their matches sucked. But they were there to entertain the kids and warm up the crowd, and they delivered.
That said, there’s no rule against inducting stuff involving the Bushwhackers, like say, Heroes of Wrestling or Four Doinks or the 1995 Royal Rumble…
…or this week’s entry.
It’s hard to imagine kid-friendly characters like Luke and Butch appearing in the WWF during sexually-charged story lines like HBK propositioning the Bulldog’s wife…
…or Goldust fondling Roddy Piper…
…and even harder to imagine them doing it with a kangaroo. Uh, alongside a kangaroo. But they did do it (Appear in the WWF, that is).
See, when the WWF put together a tag team tournament in early 1996, the tag team scene was absolutely dire…
…so to fill out the brackets, the Federation pulled the Bushwhackers out of mothballs.
Luke and Butch then started appearing semi-regularly on WWF Superstars again, this time really playing up their Aussie roots (Roots that, as New Zealanders, they didn’t have).
It was all a thinly-veiled attempt to promote their new “Bushwhackers Down Under” restaurant—a tough sell, given… 
…well…
…everything fans had ever seen the Bushwhackers do.
And this was certainly not Outback Steakhouse, but a completely different Tampa-based Australia-themed restaurant.
Despite having always been billed from New Zealand, the Bushwhackers now hailed from simply “Down Under”…
…and came to the ring in full khaki outback gear, crocodile teeth on their hats, a giant map of Australia on their backs, boomerangs in their hands…
…and a guy in a kangaroo suit. I should note that New Zealand has no kangaroos (or crocodiles) (or an outback).
This kangaroo wore not only elbow pads, but sneakers.
And despite being a kangaroo in Nike shoes…
…he got less air than MJF on a stretcher.
Actually, I should say, “she”, as the kangaroo not only was dummy thicc, but also sported a pouch.
Also, eyes that followed you everywhere, even into the bathroom.
But this marsupial abomination wasn’t content to just dance, haunt your dreams, or rub the Bushwhacker’s heads for good luck. No, she got involved in the action.
See, the Bushwhackers’ trademark move was the battering ram…
…where Butch would put Luke in a headlock and drive his head into an opponent’s gut.
But with their non-placental enforcer at ringside, they’d put the opponent in the headlock and ram him into the kangaroo’s plush abdomen…
…even though this was the opposite of their finishing move…
…and even though the kangaroo’s pouch was full of t-shirts half the time. But the opponent was always devastated.
The kangaroo made just a handful of appearances, disappearing before the Bushwhackers’ final angle in the WWF, a feud with—ready for this?—the Loose Cannon Brian Pillman…
…who beat Butch with his crutch just months before pulling a gun on Steve Austin.
Clearly, this new, edgy WWF was no place for a cartoon kangaroo…
…who spent the rest of her days in Florida stalking restaurant-goers…
…and raising a family with Stomper.
Hop on back next week for the 2024 Gooker Award induction!