{"id":46853,"date":"2018-10-17T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=46853"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:39:10","slug":"pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/17\/pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruett\u2019s Blog &#8211; Smackdown 1000 showed both the joy and mundanity of WWE weekly television"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-782233694\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Will Pruett<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ProWrestling.net Senior Staffer (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itswilltime\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@itswilltime<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smackdown 1000 was an almost perfect encapsulation of WWE\u2019s weekly aesthetic. They provided some major moments, but unlike so many of WWE\u2019s landmark anniversary shows, Smackdown 1000 was unafraid to be absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s start with the beginning: Truth TV with R-Truth and Carmella is one of the greatest and dumbest things WWE has come up with in months. It\u2019s ridiculous, but everyone has fun with it. This version of everyone included the McMahon family (aside from a member of the Trump cabinet). There wasn\u2019t much to say other than \u201cwelcome and thank you\u201d but this was a highlight segment. It was one of WWE\u2019s few attempts at comedy that really made me laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The photos going in and out of commercial breaks also displayed the tone of the night. While some featured the serious moments of Smackdown\u2019s history, others gave us the greatness of Big Show chasing his father\u2019s casket, Edge and Vickie Guerrero\u2019s legendary romance, and Randy Orton\u2019s act of cabin arson. While many of the notable Raw episodes (1000, 25, etc.) feel self-serious, this show felt fun in its best moments. It recalled how ridiculous being a WWE B show has been for the last 19 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Evolution reunion was another moment of silliness that somehow worked. Batista finally received the return reaction he deserved in 2014 and held court in the ring for an extended promo. The reactions of Ric Flair, Triple H, and Randy Orton (who legitimately seemed to be giggling pretty often) made this even better. This was not a super serious reunion. This was joy distilled into pro wrestling nostalgia. Getting serious at the end with Triple H and Batista elevated the moment, but it didn\u2019t take away the fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of great wrestling segments, Edge doing his best Mick Foley promo segment brought some gravity to Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair\u2019s storyline. This was a notable chapter and continued the pseudo-Stone Cold Becky Lynch revival. It\u2019s nice to see Becky getting cheered while saying unforgivable things, but it does make me pause and wonder what happens next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only returning legend who truly bored me on this show was Undertaker. Somehow the morally abhorrent Saudi show build has made one of the greatest spectacles in WWE feel utterly pointless. Undertaker\u2019s entrance should be enough for any show, but it was downright boring. The Deadman has been limited in his promo abilities for years, but recycling a line from the night before and saying little else was a new low. I\u2019d be fine with WWE just cancelling the Undertaker and Kane vs. DX feud, never having Shawn Michaels return, and pretending they never produced propaganda for Saudi Arabia\u2019s murderous regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rest of the Smackdown roster felt wedged into a rather mundane show. Sure, The Bar won the tag titles with Big Show\u2019s 1,000th heel turn and Daniel Bryan and A.J. Styles had the standard babyfaces getting ready for a title match tag. It all happened, but it truly showcased how much week-to-week WWE programming doesn\u2019t matter. There are standout moments every once in a while, but WWE TV, even on the 1,000th episode of a show, is constantly reaching new levels of pointlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m fine with the mundanity, as long as I know to expect it. At five hours per week, mundane viewing is probably more in line with most people\u2019s schedules. It is not interesting. It is not fun. It is, however, present. As background noise in my life, WWE\u2019s mundanity should be praised. How else would I have written my MFA thesis, accomplished anything as a writer, or figured out how to sleep with background noise?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this blog is about the joy and mundanity in WWE\u2019s non-serious reunion episode of Smackdown, maybe I should be writing about the joy IN the mundanity of it. I\u2019ve been ignoring WWE weekly TV since the birth of my daughter a month ago and plan to continue doing so, but when I come back, know that I\u2019ll have a new appreciation for the background noise it provides.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"prowr-2607648380\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will Pruett writes about wrestling and popular culture at prowrestling.net. Of interest to him are diversity in wrestling and wrestling as a theatrical art form. To see his video content <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfMU6sUZAYG8YeYzoOgEQrQ\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe to his YouTube channel<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To contact, check him out on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/itswilltime\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter @itswilltime<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, leave a comment,\u00a0or email him at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:itswilltime@gmail.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itswilltime@gmail.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-3940335257\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Will Pruett, ProWrestling.net Senior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,27,76],"tags":[442,357,2407,389,2421,204,56,31],"class_list":["post-46853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustreadarticles","category-viewpoints","category-willpruett","tag-batista","tag-dave-bautista","tag-evolution","tag-r-truth","tag-smackdown-1000","tag-undertaker","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pruett\u2019s Blog - Smackdown 1000 showed both the joy and mundanity of WWE weekly television - Pro Wrestling Dot Net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/17\/pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pruett\u2019s Blog - Smackdown 1000 showed both the joy and mundanity of WWE weekly television - Pro Wrestling Dot Net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Will Pruett, ProWrestling.net Senior...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/17\/pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pro Wrestling Dot Net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-17T19:39:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/07\/newsmackdownlogo1.jpg?fit=299%2C168&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"299\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"168\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Will Pruett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Will Pruett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/17\\\/pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/17\\\/pruetts-blog-smackdown-1000-showed-both-the-joy-and-mundanity-of-wwe-weekly-television\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Will Pruett\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/18b8715fbf4523811238ea1695047f37\"},\"headline\":\"Pruett\u2019s Blog &#8211; 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