YMMV / Stacy Carter

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The Armageddon PPV in 1999 is also where Stephanie McMahon made a Face–Heel Turn on her father and sided with Triple H, but that tends to be forgotten, despite having a much bigger impact on wrestling history. What everyone remembers is Miss Kitty flashing her breasts to the crowd, the first time there had been actual nudity on WWF television. If she's ever brought up, the flashing is what's mentioned. Granted she was pushed as a Ms. Fanservice character anyway.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Her mainstream popularity got quite big in 2000. A picture from one of her matches made it to Time magazine, and Hugh Hefner asked her to pose for Playboy.
• Funny Moments:
  • Her Diva Diaries shoot interview. She tells a story about her mother coming to a show with her, and calling out to Dwayne Johnson from afar. When he ignored her, she got up and yelled out "But I'm Miss Kitty's momma!" - and he immediately ran over to take a picture with her.
  • In the same interview, she's reminded that she won the Women's Championship in a Four Corner Evening Gown In A Pool match. Stacy responds "How else could I win it?" Addressed in an earlier promo when she freaks out after Chyna puts her in a bra 'n panties match, since she doesn't wear underwear.
  The King: Heeeeeere kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty.
  • And after the match happened, she had no idea the Toplessness from the Back plan had been messed up by the wrong camera going out live - so she arrives back in the locker room getting a standing ovation from the whole roster.
  "I was like 'was I really that good?', 'no, baby, we just saw your boobies'..."
  • During Jeff Jarrett's last match - with Miss Kitty at ringside - Jim Ross says on commentary "Miss Kitty's meal ticket is in jeopardy". Jerry Lawler (who of course was Miss Kitty's husband at the time in real life) gives a magnificent Flat "What".
  • She also claims that when she was part of MCW, she was randomly put as a colour commentator - despite being an accountant and hairdresser who knew very little about wrestling. Apparently while the other commentators were legitimately calling the match, she was just talking about "how cute somebody's tights are."
  • Her story about the first time she was ever on TV. As part of MCW, she was given an interviewer role to ask a fan in the crowd how he was enjoying the show. The fan just replied with "fine" and Stacy describes completely freezing before covering up by talking to the commentators - but she accidentally said the name of a commentator who had just left the promotion. Apparently as they cut back to the studio, you could hear Stacy Corpsing at her own goof.
• Growing the Beard: If one looks at her matches before she was released, she was doing alright in the ring and probably could have evolved into a decent wrestler. She credits Ivory with teaching her a lot, and had some decent matches on the indies after her release.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Her partnership with Chyna, and photos such as these◊ showing them all friendly. Stacy claims in her shoot interview that she and Chyna abruptly drifted apart in late 2000 and she strongly suspects that Chyna was the one who got her fired.
  "The person that was, was not the person that I knew..."
  • And of course Jerry Lawler supported her in her feud against the Right to Censor, as a nod to their offscreen marriage. They split up only six months later.
  • Ivory's dislike of The Kat on-screen is also uncomfortable to watch when Ivory gives shoot interviews and states how much she hated that storyline.
• He Really Can Act: Despite not being very good in the ring, The Kat was a pretty good manager (she had been one prior to joining WWF). During Chyna's match at Armageddon 1999 when Chris Jericho has her trapped in the Walls of Jericho, The Kat is at ringside calling out for Chyna to make it over to her where the ropes are - in a rather powerful moment of acting on her part. Earlier in the match she also prevented Jericho from using a chair on Chyna and when the referee reprimands her for it, she argues "he had a chair".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A lampshaded example. She used to know Jeff Jarrett from her days working on the Memphis indies, and had to pick him up from the airport one night. The day of her debut, she describes him waiting in gorilla ready to go out and saying "Stacy Carter, who would have thought it?" before they did their segment.
• Ho Yay: Her alliance with Chyna. They wore T-shirts with "MASTER" (Chyna) and "SLAVE" (Kat) on them, for gosh sakes. Stacy also says they considered doing a sexy photoshoot together for Maxim or another magazine like that.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • The wildcat screech that played at the start of her theme.
  • Whenever she tweaked her accent to sound like a Southern Belle.
• Never Live It Down:
  • After leaving WWF, her lawyer advised her to have her real name withheld from various wrestling websites and to have her pictures taken down. For years this got her a reputation of someone who was ashamed of her time in wrestling and didn't like her fans. She has shaken this off and shared numerous backstage photos from her time there - and made several indie appearances.
  • Her winning the Women's Championship was regarded as a low point of the Attitude Era - as she only won it in an Evening Gown In A Pool match, had no wrestling training at all and barely defended it. Expect her run as champion to be mentioned as an example of how badly booked the Attitude Era women were.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: From what Jerry Lawler and Stacy herself have said, the Right to Censor storyline was going to go on for quite a while. The day of her release, she was getting ready to tape loads of segments. It would also have been interesting to see how it tied into Chyna's feud with the RTC - given The Kat's storyline relationship with her.