The Think Tank: I Hate When They Do That!

By Pete Ellis

Okay, seriously. I watch World Wrestling Entertainment to get away from the nightmarish realities of life. In general, bombings, hostage situations, miscarriages, gun play, mutilation and death make me question why I watch wrestling in the first place.

When Eddie Gurarro died, his fellow athletes gathered together on camera to say goodbye. It was touching and appropriate. What I saw on Smackdown on Friday infuriated me. It was a classless mockery of what is all too serious in the real world.

The predictability of this whole storyline is the worst part. They spend a week mourning. Then we're subjected to some long, drawn out "investigation" into McMahon's "killer."

Then, weeks or months later, Vince McMahon reveals himself alive and well and scares the living crap out of J.R. or whoever and claims that it was all part of some master plan to accomplish something meaningless that no one will care about.

Years from now, we will all look back on this as a mistake in writing and in wrestling. Which reminds me of all the other crap I've had to endure to enjoy some of the WWE's better moments.

Here are my top 10 most regrettable WWE story lines:

10. Stone Cold pulls a gun on McMahon. Isn't there enough shooting in the real world? Even if the gun was fake, I found this kind of stuff disillusioning.

9. May Young gives birth to a hand. If you don't remember this, consider yourself lucky.

8. Austin pees on Arn Anderson. Somewhat symbolic of the way the old WWF has faded away, but still classless and stupid.

7. Triple H dresses up as Kane and has sex with Kane's dead ex-girlfriend while she is in her coffin. Curse this reliable memory of mine.

6. The New Diesel and Razor Ramon. Bad idea. I don't know how this ever made it off the drawing board.

5. Old Kane fights new Kane. Just to prove that we can still have bad ideas in the mid 2000s.

4. Paul Bearer is executed by the Undertaker. This made so little sense that they didn't even try to explain it.

3. Triple H gets dropped inside his own car by Steve Austin and a bulldozer. There is a reason some clips are never seen again.

2. Big Boss Man gets "hung" at Wrestlemania 15. Mistakes: they aren't just for little pay per views anymore.

1. Vince dies in his limo. Predictable, forgettable, time-wasting nonsense. You know what would have been better then that? Anything.