Teddy Long’s "heart attack"
It simply didn’t rank up there with Sanford and Son’s Redd Fox grabbing his chest and yelling heavenward at his deceased with that he’s coming, the big one had arrived. Instead, it played like a bad parody of that.
I’m speaking, of course, about the Teddy Long-Kristal wedding that dominated last Friday’s WWE SmackDown. With all the real-life health problems, all the real-life deaths and all the real-life tragedies the WWE has suffered, they never seem to learn that fictionalized tragedies are not entertaining.
One would think, after last summer’s badly-botched, terribly-timed “death of Vince McMahon” storyline that too closely mirrored the real-life Benoit family tragedy, that it would be a bit longer before the WWE went the “fake death” route again.
Unfortunately, they seem to have gained no wisdom in this area at all, as Friday’s program verified. Every creative type responsible for Friday’s show should be given a set of dog tags to wear that read: WARNING! This WWE creative type may be allergic to entertainment. Keep away from shooting scripts!”