Hogan Knows Best......Annoying at Best
I know I've got some friends that really like this show and I tried to watch the first season but I just couldn't take much after that, it was just more of what we've seen out of Hogan for years, bad acting and ego. Don't get me wrong I'm not a Hogan-basher, I was a hulkamaniac way back in the day and I've enjoyed SOME of his returns but the acting on this show is just hideous and the whole shoving his daughter's attempt at a singing career down everyone's throat despite the fact that if she wasn't "Brooke Hogan" she couldn't beg her way on to American Idol is just annoying as hell. Also, Linda is really not that likable either, Nick is an obnoxious little shit so there's really no balance to the show, they are all very unlikable and annoying. You can have a show where one or two characters are annoying but they can't ALL be.
Anyway, so I've caught an episode here and there over the last couple of seasons when I heard of something interesting, like the Wrestlemania episode and the one where he was negotiating a "legend" contract but really haven't watched it much outside of that. Well I was flipping channels Sunday night and read the description of the episode (going to a theme park in disguise) and decided to check it out. WOW, this was perhaps them at their most annoying yet! First off, you've got Brooke preparing for a "concert" (a free gimmick they do for graduates at Universal) and saying how it's a big deal cause "Britiney Spears did it." Like that's a comparison you wanna make nowadays. Anyway, blah blah Nick wants to ride the rides but Brooke is concerned their parents will get "mobbed" and her hairdresser just so happens to know someone who does prosthetics and can make them up so they can roam the park unbothered. The kids tell the parents of their plan and they agree to do it. Not before Linda looks like a moron, when told they know someone who can do prosthetics, Linda replies, "Like a fake leg?" Yes Linda, they are gonna give you a fake leg to disguise you. They get there and Nick and his freind realize they didn't bring their swim trunks so they go to buy some, they come up with the very gay idea to pick out ones for each other, so they end up walking out in little short, tight, faggotty swim trunks cause I guess that's what they wanted to see each other in, or apparently it was supposed to be funny, not sure. Either way, it came across sorta gay.
The next day Brooke is showing off some of her hoochie outfits to her dad, which is just kinda odd, he in turn has her adjust his ponytail, again kinda odd. Now we're "treated" to some of Brooke's music (hmm when's the last time you heard her on the radio? Don't hold your breath waiting for her next hit) After that the prosthetics people do them up for their big day. They white trash them up pretty good (not that it's a stretch for them) and they decide on names and where they are from. They look more prepared to go to Talledega than Universal but they decide they are the Boones. I forget their names but they decide they are from Wisconsin?? Country ass rednecks from....Wisconsin. Ok. Anyway, so they begin their day of being "regular folk" and at first they seem to enjoy it, but after a while they can't stand not being the center of attention. Hulk has Nick steal a handicap chair and Hulk goes joyriding and then does his best Johnny Knoxville impression wrecking the scooter and falling off and having trouble getting up. Ground breaking original stuff here. Now they are starting to get pissed cause they have to stand in line everywhere and don't get the V.I.P. treatment that had been previously such a burden for them. Growing more and more desperate for attention they start randomly asking patrons of the park if they watch Hogan Knows Best on VH-1. (Smooth) Brooke in character asks some random fat dude from Jersey, "Do you watch Hogan Knows Best?" Sure. "Do you think Brooke Hogan is hot?" Yeah she's alright. "Do you think she's fat?" Not too much. HAHAHA This pushed her over the edge and she looked like she was going to cry right there. Next thing you know the attention hogs can't stand it anymore and they tear off the stuff to reveal themselves and get the attention they've all been dying for all day.
This episode just represented everything I can't stand about that bunch and just really annoyed the hell out of me. Nick has been increasingly cocky on the shows and especially in interviews and don't expect this whole wreck incident to turn out well for the Bolleas, they will probably need to drag out a few more seasons to pay legal fees, settlements, and to keep buying Brooke a "music career".
RACISM = RATINGS
I hate that BT beat me to the punch on this one as I felt the same way about the whole Sue Young angle from Memphis last weekend. Had this been a white promoter, white heel wrestler, and a black valet it would be getting heat all over the place from outraged people, but since she's asian, no big deal. Oh well, another annoying thing about the whole deal, if you want to base her character on someone from a movie, that's fine but why the hell use the EXACT same name as the character in the Rush Hour movie your basing her on?? Of course originallity is not their strong suit in Memphis these days, seeing as how you've got Kevin White using Ric Flair's name, wearing Hulk Hogan's outfight, and sporting the Moondog's hair and beard, Brian Christopher is still using that tired ass Grandmaster gimmick that was played out BEFORE he even got fired from WWE, a tag team using the same tired ass gimmick he is, Del Rios appears every six months reprising one of his previous gimmicks, etc, etc. Don't even get me started on Grady Watson, I know he's Lawler's buddy/driver or whatever but WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU LET HIM ON TELEVISION........AND LET HIM SPEAK. He makes Randy Hales look like a fucking Rhodes Scholar, it's pathetic. None of the Sue Young stuff matters cause in a week or two it will be like it never happened and she'll be playing Johnny Dotson's sister or something. Also, where the hell has Steve Sharp been all these years? He was in Power Pro as Ali Stevens and was touted to be on his way to WWE, at one point rumored to reprise the role of Ahmed Johnson then suddenly he fell off the face of the earth for like 6 years, then he shows back up and he and Brian Christopher job out the Southern Tag Champs on tv. Corey Maclin really pisses me off the way he's just phoning in this bullshit every week. I know at least five different promoters off the top of my head that could take that tv spot and do so much more with it than he's doing. Oh well, the ones who have the means are idiots and the ones who aren't idiots don't have the means to do it, so I guess that's how it will be.
HE'S AT IT AGAIN.....
Well Bert Prentice has television again, I finally decided to watch it this week after seeing it on the program guide for the CSS channel. It's a thirty minute show featuring matches from St. Louis Wrestling in the VERY EARLY 80's, I'm guessing from the dvd's that are available on Highspots by the looks of it, don't know what the logic is here as he has plenty of tapes of his own from Music City Wrestling, USA Championship, etc. why you would air matches from '81 and '82, I don't know. I don't know who the announcer is but speaking (or maybe reading) isn't his strong point as he's stuttering and stammering his way through most of it. During this half hour we were shown three old matches (that I fast forwarded through cause I've seen all the Classic St Louis dvds already) There was an interview with a "lounge singer" type wrestler named "Sweet" Teddy Tender who looked a lot like Big Bully Douglas and I'm assuming it is cause he used to wrestle in Mississippi before he was Bully Douglas and his name was Teddy something another. Anyways, promo from him, then there was a long promo with Christopher Love (Prentice) and his latest superstar find (love interest/boy toy) Matt Boyce. It always sickens me to have to sit through these promos with Prentice and his boyfriends that he pushes as stars, although I guess it helped Kasey James but I can't see it as being worth it for them. Anyways, they say they are having issues with Jerry Lawler, guess that will be the main event of the Nashville card they are mentioning off and on. All and all a waste of time, I may check it out again after they start showing current matches but I don't know, Prentice makes me sick and I don't know how much I can stomach of it, and these things never last long for him anyway so we'll see.
