BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“WWE Goes Seasonal!”
One of the things that professional wrestling always toots its own horn about is that “their season never ends!” Unless you’re in the WWE or TNA or in a different country your “season” isn’t the same as another professional athlete. It’s true, you have to work EVERY week but you have more days off than most people who work shitty 9 to 5 jobs. And really, outside of professional sports and television people the concept of a “season” is purely something we keep track of to know if we should wear a jacket or not. So the whole “our season never ends” line has always rubbed me the wrong way.
That’s just in the literal sense. The WWE is not a “sport” so much to me. It’s athletic and strategic, but it’s not decided by pure athletic dominance. So what though? Why does it have to be a “sport”? It’s more so “entertainment”. In that case, it would be like a television show. TV shows are seasonal. Why couldn’t the WWE run in a somewhat seasonal sense?
Today I figure out how the WWE can let their entire crew take two months off. They can still do house shows, but as a televised and pay per view entity they can take a breather.
They still get our money though.
The idea here is that at one point the WWE goes “animated”. It’s already being aimed towards children so why not just bite the bullet and make the WWE a cartoon?
So for two months in between Summerslam and Survivor Series, the show would “warp”. The same characters, promos, matches, storylines, and championships would STILL be in effect. The WWE would just have to prepare their asses off to make sure it worked out.
They can just hire some foreign animators (*cough*The Simpsons*cough*), figure out their storyline plans and make sure it’s all lined up. Get the commentators to do their job over it, get voice overs, and just let it all be one big animated production for about 6 to 8 weeks. Then it just goes back to being live-action with the same characters, storylines, and championships going forward like nothing is different or has changed.
What would it hurt? The marketing would be INSANE for it. The talent would get to rest. It would be something completely new and fresh to wrestling and without spoilers from the live event fans it may become “event television” once again.
Sadly, this idea sounds too good to ever be true. It’s not like Cartoon Cena would lose anyway…
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