The Pride is (Ry)Back!

Knowing what works and what doesn’t is important and can lead to a great deal of success, of course. But understanding why it works allows you to function on a completely different plane. Anyone who has ever seen Louis C.K. explain why farts are funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAkOijqSCAI

and seen someone do a spot-on Dane Cook impression

or, better yet, an actual Dane Cook bit

can tell the difference. And it’s the ability of Stephanie McMahon to do the former while appealing to the type of people who most often look towards the latter for entertainment — to wit: Louis C.K., as his show has made clear, took years to get anywhere near the success Dane Cook has had — that has her working on a level of heel-ocity that we really haven’t seen since her father was feuding with Austin.

Also, as I said last night:

As my wonderful girlfriend always says: @StephMcMahon's pantsuit game is on point. Girl's got swag for days.

— Nick Bond (@THEN1CKSTER) October 28, 2014

It’s not usually a good look to be the type of person who complains about this stuff, in large part because it imparts your morals on other people and does so based around what happened on a television show about superheroes, but the Usos either need to turn heel or never do Twin Magic again. First of all, they are NOT Guerreros, so where they even find the nerve is beyond me and, secondly, that type of blatant ass cheating by faces is just bad for business.
I absolutely do not care about Hulk Hogan at all, but there are a great number of people — maybe more than care about every other person in the history of the industry combined — who do. And to use that to highlight breast cancer survivors on a national television show seems like a pretty good use of such enormous power. But let’s be real for a second: that is one terrible looking t-shirt.

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