Jay: I thought this was desperate, comedy-type booking for two fucking excellent performers. This is the best you can do for Dusty Rhodes and Macho? Come on.
Mr. OOC: Overall it was shite, but the crowd were fucking mental into it.
Steve: Yeah. Two wrestlers that are just over; they don't have to work hard.
Jay: It's not like it's WrestleMania or somethin'.
Mr. OOC: Overall it was shite, but the crowd were fucking mental into it.
Steve: Yeah. Two wrestlers that are just over; they don't have to work hard.
Jay: It's not like it's WrestleMania or somethin'.
Vinny:Yes, and they showed the ring. The house of fun match is the ring with weapons hanging everywhere, for Halloween and whatnot, but that's the house of fun match and I thought 'Wow, you're plugging house of fun match forty minutes beforehand'.
Bryan:Um no.
Vinny:Then they went to commercial and then they came back. And it was time for the house of fun match. And then we're wrestling! Now I gotta tell everyone something, much as Bryan likes to deny, much as a lot of you don't believe, I actually do know something about wrestling. Gimmick matches, there's a point to them. The point is you want to attract eyeballs, whether it's a higher rating, more tickets, a higher pay per view buy, the idea of a gimmick match is by putting this match on we will get more people watching our product. If that's going to work, you need to give people a lot of notice. Ideally, a month's notice. Where you will let them know what's happening, remind them it's happening constantly, tell them why they should care and convince them they should partake in this, either buy it or watch it. You can't do that in, really, one week. You certainly can't do it in forty minutes and doing it in five goddam minutes defeats the fucking purpose. This outraged me, I hate this show.
Bryan:Actually, you have the 90s version of what a gimmick match is. A gimmick match used to be, like, there was a point to it.
Vinny:That too.
Bryan:Like you know, uh, a man kept getting counted out so you made a lumberjack match so he couldn't get counted out!
Vinny:That's true too.
Bryan:How you set up a fun house of oranges match I have no idea, but they didn't even set it up!
—The Bryan And Vinny Show, TNA iMPACT 8/9/2007
"Sometimes wrestling isn't enough. After all, the best cards are variety shows! [...] Familiarity breeds contempt, and over the years, bookers have tried to freshen up stale feuds, artificially heightened drama, and spike ticket sales with increasingly elaborate high concept and often bonkers stipulations. 'Oh this isn't just any match, this is an Elimination Chamber match! A Falls Count Anywhere Match! A... Stairs... Match. Oooh, stairs.'"
—Adam Blampied, "10 Worst Wrestling Stipulations | PartsFUNknown
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