I really hate doing these intros, because I basically am out of fucking shit to say. The November 14th, 1992 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event marked the final appearence of WWE on Primetime television until the debut of Smackdown in april of 1999. This also marked one of few times Hogan wasn't on a SNME, with the other being from the Summer of '88 when he was off doing whatever it was he was doing.

- Because this is on the FOX network, they decided to cross promote, using Ed O'Neill's character of Al Bundy to pimp the WWF in a 30-second spot, which no doubt led to another King Kong Bundy appearence on the show, this time as himself instead of Uncle whatever Wanker. Tonight's broadcast team consists of Vince McMahon (as usual for SNME) and Bobby Heenan. They run down the card as we go into the first match...

- WWF Tag Team Championship Match:
Money Inc. © (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs. The Ultimate Maniacs:
Interesting match to open the show with, considering the star power is far greater here than for the rest of the card. Money Inc. had "recently" regained the Tag Titles from the Natural Disastors on Primetime Wrestling. The Maniacs are the combination of Savage and Warrior, who went from hating each other to respecting each other, no doubt a formula used many times since then. We were just Ultimate Powers away from having the unholy name of Mega Ultimate Power Maniacs. Money Inc. blind sides the Maniacs, but Warrior no sells and saves Savage from a double teaming. Dibiase gets thrown over and out by Warrior, and a double clothesline floors both champs. Simultanious dumping of the opponents and now the Maniacs pose as we go to the Brain Scan, courtesy of Bobby Heenan. Heenan somehow turns it into a drawing of Ross Perot, the big eared loser who was a 3rd party candidate for the 1992 and 1996 elections. Savage hangs Dibiase across the top rope, and here comes Warrior, only to take a shot to the mouth. Irish whip, and Warrior catches him off guard with a suplex. Dibiase sidesteps a diving shoulderblock, so Warrior sells like he was Dave Chappelle on a coke binge. I.R.S. tags in and applies a sleeper hold. :Yawn: We go backstage to Ric Flair and Razor Ramon watching the match because whats going on in the ring is too boring. I wonder how many times Scott Hall watched Scarface to rip off every mannurism and "cuban" slang for his character. Warrior continues to get beat up, in a boring fassion. After some shit, Dibiase and warrior clothesline each other for the hot face tag. Savage and Irwin tag in, which means the taxman is fucked. Savage hammers away with jabs and back drops Irwin into the heavens. Clothesline to Dibiase and a scoop slam to Irwin. Savage heads up top and nails the flying elbow drop, but Dibiase breaks up the pin. Heck breaks loose... with a VENGEANCE~!, and the heels decide to take a well deserved walk, giving the Maniacal Ultimates the victory at 6:11. 1/2* Match was the usual crap you'd expect from the Warrior, especially when the heat segment was 2 spots long. Afterwards, Ramon and Flair run in to assault. How weird... Flair had his robe on in the backstage segment, but decided to take it off for a beatdown? Logic in Wrestling...

- Really shitty Bret Hart music video tribute that would return for Wrestlemania X, except with more highlights of guys, you know, employed by WWF in 1992 instead of 1994. Bret sure got lots of videos... 2 versions of this, the "Respect" video leading up to Wrestlemania IX, the You Start the Fire song for his "retirement" in 1996... I'm sure I forgot one, but damn that's a lot. Nowhere near the levels of Shawn Michaels video blowjobs, but more than anyone else that people give a shit about. Speaking of Shawn Michaels...

- WWF Intercontinental Championship Match:
The British Bulldog © vs. Shawn Michaels:
Let's see how fucked up this can be for Survivor Series... the Bulldog is scheduled to defend the title against the Mountie while Michaels is challenging for the World Title in one of the most nonsensical ideas of 1992. How a JTTS Tag Wrestler that gets a midcard push gets a World Title match on PPV really puzzles me. Of course, we used the same argument for Bradshaw last year. Sherri isn't at ringside, thanks to Marty "I only had a few" Jannetty and his wild blow with a mirror. In a fact I'm sure hasn't gone unnoticed, the Bulldog has NEVER pinned Shawn Michaels on television or even commercial release videos. I don't know why, but it never has. Lockup to start, and Bulldog with the easy shove off. Lockup #2 with the same results. Michaels with a standing side headlock, but Bulldog shoves him off and bounces him off with shoulder tackles. Michaels with a cheap shot to the nose, and does his special 3-moves-to-do-a-hip toss spot, then grapevines the elbow. Bulldog no sells, of course, and lifts Michaels up over his head (after 2 failed attempt) and slams him back to the canvas. Irish whip, and DBS with a gorilla press slam, followed by a clothesline that sends Michaels flying (in a spot I called 6-7 seconds before it took shape). Back inside, and Michaels controls in the corner with not much. Irish whip to the corner, but it doesn't go well for Michaels. Arm drag by Bulldog and into an armbar. Michaels mounts a comeback, but it consists of punching. Bulldog gets dumped out of the ring and Michaels has trouble undoing the turnbuckle pad. I guess the turnbuckle can't work, eh Shawn? Snapmare by Michaels, followed by a boot to the back. Michaels works over the back more then works in the abdominal stretch. Bulldog powers out, but gets laid out right after for a two count. Michaels sure as hell isn't busting out the workrate here. Back to the abdominal stretch as I beg for a mercy kill of this match. Bulldog escapes again and slams Michaels face-first into the canvas. Clothesline in the corner, and Bulldog with a sling shot into the buckle. Another clothesline connects for a two count. Delayed vertical suplex by Bulldog for another two count. Irish whip to the corner is reversed, and Bulldog hits the exposed steel. He no sells though and eventually goes for a superplex, but his back goes out and Michaels lands on top for the victory and his first Intercontinental title at 10:25. *1/2 Definitely not the classic that everyone pretends it is, as it's mainly Davey Boy hitting his spots and Michaels resting... a LOT. Sucky match from two guys who went on to have much better matches with each other.

- Mean Gene interviews Razor Ramon, Ric Flair, and Mr. Perfect. Flair conveniently has his robe back on and doesn't have a bit of sweat on him. They throw threats at the Maniacs, same old, same old. Commercial break and we get a Bret Hart interview. He's a fighting champion, you know. Just a reminder incase WWF hasn't mentioned it in the last 5 minutes.

- WWF World Championship Match:
Bret "Hitman" Hart © vs. Papa Shango:
What a match to end the SNME run with... a WrestleCrap gimmick and the token title defense to prep the World Champion for a better challenger at an upcoming PPV. This is one of Hart's first "Big" defense, with others being against Virgil and the Berzerker. Shango hammers on Hart with forearms to start. Irish whip to the corner is reversed, and Hart takes him over with a monkey flip. Hart with a series of shoulder blocks and a cross body press for a two count. Inverted atomic drop and a clothesline sends Shango flying out of the ring. Hart follows with a plancha (lucha-Hart) as we go to a commercial. We come back with Shango sending Hart 100mph into the corner. Shango now controls the pace of the match, and let's just say I'd rather watch a Gonzalez/Undertaker Ironman match. Shango with a bearhug to kill some time, but Hart bites his bald head to break free. Shango has yet to perform an actual wrestling move. Irish whip, and he drops Hart with a back elbow, followed by stomp-stomp-stomping. Choke lift by Shango, so Alfonso gets in his face. VULCAN NERVE PINCH~! by Shango. How the fuck did WWE keep him employed until 2002? Hart elbows his way free, but gets sent back down with a clothesline. More nerve locks. (falls asleep) 20 years later, and the hold is still applied. Hart mounts a comeback but kicking him in the face and applying a sleeper hold, the move of the night, but Shango drops him face first into the buckle. Shitty, Andre 1988-90 level elbow drops from Shango, and he heads up to the second rope to miss the ugliest elbow drop I've ever seen this side of an Erik Watts dropkick. Hart with a side russian leg sweep for a two count. Back body drop gets a two count, as does a second rope clothesline. Irish whip to the corner, and Shango misses a charge. Sharpshooter out of nowhere, and Hart retains at 7:14. * Hart was game here for a good match, but the suckitude of Shango dragged this baby WAY down from what it could've been with a half-competitant wrestler. Not the best way to end the show with, but at least Hart actually won the match clean.

- The Funeral Parlor with... The Undertaker. I guess Paul Bearer couldn't get a real guest, or was too cheap to bribe someone to come on and get assaulted by the Undertaker. We get clips of Undertaker designing Kamalas casket, which has been used countless times against other, and much fatter, losers in the WWF. Nothing much is said, because I fast forward through Undertakers 3-words-a-minute pace.

- Mean Gene interviews Bret Hart, but Shawn Michaels comes in soon after to gloat about beating the Bulldog while Hart couldn't. Only the World Title is on the line at the Survivor Series, so Michaels has everything to gain and nothing to lose. We cut back for the farewell from McMahon, but Heenan has ground breaking news that 1 of the Ultimate Maniacs will not be at Survivor Series. Take a guess what that means.

Final Thoughts: I don't feel like going through this, so I'll be brief. While booking three title matches on the same 1 hour broadcast was a smart idea, the ratings probably weren't too good, which is why SNME was never picked up again for a new episode. The matches all could've been good with the right booking, but they all come off flat and boring with way too much resting in all of them. Recommended as the final SNME, not recommend for good taste in wrestling.

Funny that you listed this. Do you remember the thread we did where you posted the first show you ever attended? Well if you check mine there was a Bulldog/HBK match on mine. I remember the SNME match being the sam move for move until the finish. In the SNME one Michaels reverses the superplex. At the show I went to Bulldog hit the superplex and then did the running powerslam for the win. Then the EMS guys came down and took out Michaels on a stretcher.

Pretty lame. :-P Shawn Michaels did a stretcher job for a fucking powerslam? Damn, he can be a company man sometimes.

I just gots ta' know... did the Ultimate Maniacs have matching kneepads again? Or more importantly, did they hug?

Hey now..don't knock the Running Bulldog Powerslam! Didn't he send Stephanie McMahon to the hospital with it?!

And, sheesh.... everyone knows Chappelle smokes weed.

Davey Boy KO'ed Stephanie when he tossed a garbage can in an act of anger. Of course, the camera didn't show it, and it made a loud thud against a concrete wall, but we assume it hit someone. :P

I don't think the Maniacs had matching in terms of attire, just colors of yellow and red-ish. Sounds like the Mega Maniacs, including a face mask that reminds me of Warrior's face paint.

I'm bummed. No matching knee-pads means that Very Special Podium Interview was all for naught. The one where Warrior came out and gave Macho a Warrior knee-pad...and Macho reciprocated by giving Warrior some Macho-Shades. Then they hugged, in a symbolic gesture of how the fans felt about the whole heartwarming angle.

And people say that wrestling is filled with homosexual tendancies. :P The VQ wasn't the greatest, but I'll check again for matching pads incase I missed it...

Nope. Savage had normal yellow kneepads, and Warrior has the brick designs.