It Came From YouTube: page 20

By now I’m sure most all of you have seen The Gobbledy Gooker’s infamous debut at Survivor Series 1990 where he hatched from an egg, and square danced with Mean Gene Okerlund to “Turkey In The Straw”.

But did you know he appeared in vignettes shortly afterward on WWF Superstars and WWF Challenge? I guess they wanted to get some more use out of the costume before it went into mothballs.

So here he is hanging out with such legends as Tugboat, Koko B. Ware, Saba Simba (I just love the serene, happy expression on Saba’s face as he marches in place like one of the Palace Guards from The Wizard Of Oz as the Gooker gobbles on in confusion), and The Bushwhackers.

Sadly, he disappeared (mostly) for good shortly after this. Oh no… Maybe Saba Simba hunted and ate him?! He did look sort of hungry!

I’d love to hear the story of how The Gooker and Tugboat met and became good friends. I have a feeling there’s a great story there that we’re just not hearing…

Can you imagine all of these characters together at some WWF office party? How fantastic would that be?

P.S- Yes, it’s The Gobbledy Gooker and The Shockmaster dancing together. My dreams have come true!

Happy Thanksgiving, Crappers!

Crapper Paul S. writes:

New Japan pro wrestling veteran Manabu Nakanishi is the spokesman for Tengu Brand Beef Jerky and reveals that it gives him the power to turn into a masked wrestler?

As you can imagine these Japanese commercials are very bizarre and very well.. Japanese.

The only way these commercials could possible be any better and even more bat-crap crazy is if there was an appearance by a CGI “Macho Man” Randy Savage wearing a cow costume saying “Snap Into A Tengu” in Japanese while they’re all being chased by Gamera.

Crapper Sean Bateman writes:

First it was Joe Gagne with his Fun Time Arcade with wrestling games, then Pat the NES Punk touched on the some of the NES wrestling games and now, The AVGN jumps into the ring!

Ah, I love The Angry Video Game Nerd! James is great!

I wonder if he knows WrestleCrap Radio’s own Nintendo John?

Crapper Paul S. writes:

Quite possibly the greatest moment in the history of indy wrestling. Context is for the weak…

Now that is how you make an entrance!

Crapper C Belles writes:

In honor of Halloween I present a match for it came from youtube featuring one of the original horror icon’s Leatherface, facing a scary man in his own right in Terry Funk in a Barbed Wire Board Chain Death Match in Japan.

I like how Japan not only liked Leatherface so much that they kept using him despite the blatant copyright, but they also brought in freddy kruger for a match as well.

Thank you again sir, and I hope you like my spooky and scary videos.

You’re welcome, and I love them! I’m sure the other Crappers will, too!

Crapper Paul S. writes:

In quite possibly the most Halloween-themed wrestling video since the last Halloween Havoc, New Japan Pro Wrestling hyped a match between their world champion Kazuchika Okada against… some kind of grim reaper wizard named EVIL who lives in Dracula’s Castle.

My old buddy Matt at Dinosaur Dracula posted this tribute to Cin*A*Burst chewing gum and included a link to the above commercial where a shark brags to his friend that he ate a wrestler (“Oooh! They kick on the way down!”).

Oh sure, it’s only tangibly related to wrestling, but it made me laugh so there you go!

Man do I miss that gum…

WrestleCrap’s own Art O’Donnell submitted this:

Here’s my compilation of all 252 times Vince McMahon said the word, “maneuver” on Raw in 1995.

Vince commentated 47 episodes of Raw that year, so viewers on those nights heard the word, “maneuver” about once every 11 minutes.

Wow! This is fascinating for reasons I can’t quite explain. Nice work, Art!

From WCW Worldwide in the fall of 1996, every time Tony Schiavone says anything nice or positive about Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Bobby Heenan loses it with uproarious laughter

A classic moment!

But poor ol’ Hacksaw.

Crapper Autrach Sejanoz writes:

Bryan Zayn, the man behind the Jim Cornette Gets It Wrong video has hit it out of the park once again! Well worth watching, especially for the cameo near the end.

Hilarious, and spot-on!