People who bitch about the rabbit, and the Adam Rose gimmick simply don't get it.
The entire bunny gimmick is not supposed to be for us on the forums, or for older people who watch wrestling. It's for the kids who make up a big amount of the fans that watch, and I am sure a bunch of them love it.
If I was 6/7 years old, I would've loved to see a bunny inside a ring jumping around punching and kicking people, it would be awesome.
Doesn't matter who its for, it's completely terrible and so reminiscent of the kind of thing you would see in the early 90s when wreslting was dying a slow death
Yes! Because most kids like things that are cool, things that are an age bracket up from themselves. The only kids who are likely to be into this sort of thing are little children.
Yes it would. Gobbledy Gooker (The Egg) was hyped all PPV long and built up a lot of intrigue - the eventual reveal was one of the worst of all time, was pointless, unfunny, and the audience hated it; this is one of those things where people look back 20 years later and get a kick out of it but there really was nothing about it to cherish or celebrate.
Humour is a huge part of my world, I love funny stuff - that just does nothing to entertain me.
It's misleading to say that. We're all smarks, every one of us is a smart mark; when most people say that these days they're evoking a stereotype (that rarely is ever actually the case) that supposedly cares about workrate and five star wrestling clinics over silliness and the variety show aspect: Chikara is ABSOLUTELY about silliness and the wacky variety show aspect of "sports entertianment".
You make it sound like it's Ring of Honor or something - now *that* is the archetypal "smark fed". Chikara is the sort of thing that purists/Jim Cornette school of thought fans would hate!
it's for the 5% of the audience that are small children? a guy in a bunny costume humping adam rose and then air humping isn't for the 5% that are kids and the adults find it stupid. it's for no one.
This bunny bull shit with adam rose needs to fucking go.
At OP so since this bunny shit is for the kids. Then why the fuck was it humping adam rose. God the fact I even am talking about this shit just makes me shake my head.
EDIT another thing that pisses me off is the fact that this shit is supposed to be PG now. (IMO it's a G rated product with a PG label) that was until yesterday night when I seen a grown man dresses as an easter bunny humping some ****** sissy bitch fuck wearing eye liner and maker up and prancing around like a freak. And then proceed to hump him and then leave the ring and make more humping gestures.
We can't get hot half naked women in wrestling or men slapping women on the ass and we have all this watered down corny bull shit where I feel like WWE insults my intelligence and treats me like a petulant child. Yet this shit is allowed on this supposed ''PG'' show? Get the fuck outta here
And yet 80 percent of the demo has always been 18 or older... kids have never truly been the main demo at any time. They might stupidly target them and like to think they are, but the true money is in the adult demos and it's been proven time and time and time again. Hell, family friendly and kiddy are two different things when you get down to it... you can be a family friendly show that adults love to watch and you will do huge business. Pixar and Disney made billions off that strategy.
I don't get how people can get so irritated about something that takes up 3 minutes of the show and most likely doesn't affect their favorite wrestlers.
Hard to watch Raw in the presence of non-wrestling fans as it is. Imagine doing it with a fucking guy in a bunny costume in a match tonight? And I'm not one of those people who are afraid to admit I like wrestling, if asked by someone. But come the fuck on, this is pushing it. I have two eight year old cousins who wouldn't even want to watch that shit, and they are in WWE's wheelhouse age target with this shit. So fucking corny, even to kids.
And people wonder why wrestling isn't popular today.
I don't get kids nowadays if they like shit like this (some adults seem to like it too), when i was a kid in the middle of the attitude era i loved Stone Cold whooping ass and sticking his middle finger up, he was cool, if Cena and the Bunny were around then i'd hate the childish shits.
If by "kids" you mean "small", then yes, the bunny is for a kid-sized fanbase, numerically and mentally.
There's nothing funny about it, there's no reason to care who's inside it, and if you would've loved it when you were five or six years old, it would've been because of bad taste.
"Children love the bunny" - is that why he (like Adam Rose) is on screen for 5 minutes with the theme music louder than the crowd? Is every act WWE shoves down the fans' throats "not for us, for someone else"? Yeah, if "someone else" means the person in the suit and a few people backstage. It's ultimately just another defense of WWE: "Think of the children".
OP what you need to understand is us grown people need stuff as well for us. WWE completely sold out and turned into sesame street.
The entire show has too much stuff geared for children now and nothing for the adults, and anything we get for us is ruined or corny as heck.
The face of the fricken company is geared for kids... and boy does he ever suck.
Having a bunny in a wrestling ring is already a disgrace for the guys who busted their ass and helped built this business on their blood and sweat, from sammartino, billy graham, hogan, andre, macho man, austin, rock , bret , etc etc etc.....
And the fact that it gets shown at the 10 o clock last hour where I am from the last hour is 10 PM. It just goes to show WWE is dumb because why air that the last house? Since when do the majority of kids stay up that late? Now granted I did as a kid but most parents ESPECIALLY these soccer moms nowadays probably won't let the kids who watch stay up. So how about catering to us adults as well? I mean we are consumers as well and I pay for the WWE network despite hating WWE.
If they want to show this garbage then bring a show like saturday morning slam back for the kids then...
So why is it we can't get stuff as well? And one more thing, better talent can be showcased in place of the rabbit and adam rose.... How about bringing up the NXT roster let them show case some matches on RAW this way they get exposure and what not. BUT NOOOOO we have to get this trash? Come on.... There is much better entertainment WWE can put on and have show cased. Tons of talent in the company and they give us this crap? Sheeshh....
When I was 6 or 7, I liked Stone Cold, the nWo and Sting. All the kids I knew liked them as well. We wouldn't have cared about some guy in a bunny suit.
If they reveal a badass Superstar in the Bunny suit, then you'd care.
"BAH GAWD THE BUNNY IS AUSTIN! AUSTIN IS THE BUNNY! BAH GAWD KANG! STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD IS THE BUNNY!"
I love the bunny because it is so stupid and pisses off so many of the IWC. I want the bunny to have an epic 15 year career. I don't ever want to know who the bunny is, just make him a lefelong lower mid-carder and I will be happy. I want the Bunny around years after Adam Rose retires.
I don't know why, it just cracks me up that amid all the bad ass antics, all the stand offs between Cena and the villians, all the authority manipulation. That in the same show... there is a guy in a bunny suit wrestling. Brilliant in it's stupidity.
People who bitch about the rabbit, and the Adam Rose gimmick simply don't get it.
The entire bunny gimmick is not supposed to be for us on the forums, or for older people who watch wrestling. It's for the kids who make up a big amount of the fans that watch, and I am sure a bunch of them love it.
If I was 6/7 years old, I would've loved to see a bunny inside a ring jumping around punching and kicking people, it would be awesome.
The kids actually make up the smallest demographic of their viewership.
This apparently appeals to less than 20% of their audience, and I would even bet alot of the kids don't like this pussy Adam Rose/Bunny shit. There is a reason more kids watched during the attitude era, its because younger people want to be like adults.
Its just dumb shit, that even alot of kids probably don't like. I guarantee more kids would take say Stone Cold Steve Austin or Brock Lesnar or The Rock or some badass wrestler over this pussy Adam Rose & that Bunny.
this should be for children? what should children learn? we are friends as long as you accept my leadership - that'S megatron
two weeks ago there was a segment when rose went mad about the bunny. what is the rose character. you cannot regard him as the funny party guy any longer. he was like a bad leader who is ok as long as you don'T steel the spotlight from him. that day rose looked like hitler turning one someone and his rosebuds were dumb fellows who cannot reflect between right or wrong; and friendship.
really good lesson for kids: right is the FRIEND who can beat you up, but you are FRIENDS.
That's a stupid argument. When you were a kid who did you prefer? The geek or the badass?
Kids like anything so it's completely stupid to market something directly to them at the risk of alienating your adult audience. Back in the day wrestling was full of ugly fat guys bleeding all over each other and kids still loved it. It's good to have a comedy segment every once in a while to lighten the mood but WWE has way too much comedy nowadays and that's an undeniable fact. Wrestling should be presented as serious, with strong similarities to real sport in its presentation. It's up to the wrestlers themselves to bring out the entertainment part of wrestling, not the TV format and its presentation, otherwise it becomes a joke, like WWE has. Commentary needs to be serious, interviews need to be serious and the presentation itself also needs to be serious. That's how you make the guys' personalities stand out and shine. If everything is bullshit how are you supposed to get invested in it? It's exactly like comedy, you need the straight serious guy or situation to play off, because if everyone is a clown and a joke then it immediately loses all credibility and interest.
I'd be OK with the Bunny if if was an isolated crazy comedy character but there's tons of things on the show that aren't serious so everything comes off as goofy. Stardust/Goldust, Miz/Mizdow, Adam Rose and the Rosebuds, 90% of the divas, Heath Slater, Fandango, Usos, John Cena... Wrestling is seriously lacking guys who have an image of credibility and who take themselves 100% serious, like Bret Hart or even Rusev and Adrian Neville.
The Bunny is for Vince McMahon, it's not for anybody else PERIOD. Vince likes it, so it's on the show.
Just a few weeks or about a month or so ago, a former creative member said that all creative does is spit around ideas that get turned down until they eventually come up with what they KNOW Vince wants. They're booking for ONE GUY. Vince loves his product and this is how he visions wrestl....I mean entertainment to be.
Whenever the bunny goes out there, Vince belly laughs. He loves it. So he will continue to be there.
I couldn't have said it better myself, when I was a kid my favorite was two bad ass motherfuckers with spiked shoulder pads who whipped everyones sorry asses..
Tell um Hawk!
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