Fans of the Smack Talk and Monday Night Raw Post Show podcasts are well aware that there are a lot of recurring jokes that continually pop up during our podcasts. To help the newer listeners understand what they mean and where they are coming from, the following list has been compiled. Enjoy!
- After watching Wrestle Kingdom 10 and making fun of the way AJ Styles was announced, we began doing impressions of this, drawing out the pronunciation to more exaggerated levels. AyuhJayuh Styulazuu and whatnot.
- When you've been arguing with someone and you come to an agreement, but your adrenaline is up too high to calm down, you tend to just keep the volume up even when you're supportive of each other. "WELL I'M GLAD WE'RE IN AGREEMENT." / "YEAH. GOOD. YOUR OPINIONS ARE VALID JUST AS MUCH AS MINE." / "OKAY THEN." / "OKAY."
- When Tony, Drew and Mike were talking about wrestlers that have a bus, we wondered if Ryback would have one. This turned into us discussing how Ryback would be the annoying guy who you travel with. He would want to do every cheesy thing like throw pennies off the Empire State Building, run up the Rocky steps, wonder how long it would take for his spit to hit the bottom of the Grand Canyon, etc. "Hey Uso, how do you think the Liberty Bell got that crack? I think it was a big hammer. Heh heh, a big hammer." He would also be the annoying guy you'd go out to eat with and discuss things like the one time he got a curly french fry in with his crinkle cut fries but he thought they were going to be straight cut fries when he ordered them so it was all chaos and you'd never believe it. He would get so excited to meet the costumed characters at Disney World. "Yo guys, I met Goofy!"
- Tony has a habit of asking really annoying questions for the Ask Him segment. They frequently are riddles, stupid jokes of answers, or bothersome statistics of some sort, rather than something people can know off the top of their heads.
- On Episode 0011 of A Review to a Kill (the Fanboys Anonymous James Bond podcast), the movie Moonraker was reviewed. In that film, Roger Moore delivers the line "A woman" in a funny way. This has become a regular thing to repeat, as well as variations like talking about the women's division and following it up with "the women" or even twisting Aliyah's name to fit the cadence.
- For Tony's predictions of the EVOLVE 131 event, all he decided was necessary to say about Babatunde's match was that he is huge and Colby Corino isn't. This eventually became the go-to talking point about Babatunde in general.
- At the beginning of the year, we pick our "One to Watch" for WWE based on who we think will receive a big push. Shaun went outside the norm and picked Baron Corbin. All throughout the year, it's been a running gag that Shaun will pick Baron Corbin to interfere in matches on the main roster and make a big impact of some sort.
- While doing impressions of Baron Corbin's theme song, we've decided that it sounds like it would be his mother yelling to get his attention from another room in the house or something of the sort. Baaaaaroooon Coooooorbiiiin!
- In reference to the fact that we had postponed NXT TakeOver WarGames and Survivor Series talk in order to find out the teams for Survivor Series and Team Ciampa, but we still didn't know, Tony said we had to address "the elephant in the room" and opted to go for a cheap joke of just naming an elephant Barry for some reason. This then became a running gag of Barry being in the room while recording.
- On a week with not many Hot Tags to talk about, it was suggested that we normally talk about random and stupid things, so why not talk about how Batista has a lunchbox collection? Since then, at times, rather obscure Hot Tags can be referred to as Hot Lunch Bags.
- During an episode of the Monday Night Raw Post Show, Paul Hibbard expressed that he admired Big E's crotch and assumed everyone else had been doing the same all along, rather than him being an island.
- When Ryback was in WWE, Tony suggested during a Fantasy Booking that they should have a battle royal at WrestleMania 29 for him to win. Since he went by the nickname Big Hungry and used the catchphrase "feed me more", Tony's idea was to put all the big men like Ezekiel Jackson, Great Khali, Big Show and Mark Henry in there and call it the Big Man Buffet. This eventually became a go-to match for Tony to book on nearly every fantasy event card.
- During an episode of Monday Night Raw, Paul Hibbard mistakenly thought Big Show had been arrested for having a gun. During the Raw Post Show, he brought the topic up and "could have sworn" that they mentioned Big Show having a gun in that backstage segment.
- Due to Boogeyman's entrance in the Royal Rumble, we decided to do his theme for the outro for that week of Smack Talk. Since he's similar in character to Papa Shango, we've been singing the instrumental song with the lyrics of just "Papa Shango Papa Shango Papa Shango" and other outros have become about Papa Shango as well.
- Tony continues to joke that the world started going to hell after Lesnar ended The Undertaker's WrestleMania streak. Had The Phenom won that match, we wouldn't have the COVID-19 pandemic or everything else that's awful, because we're in the worst timeline, and some parallel reality had Taker win and everything was fine in the years to follow that.
- Tony got so tired of constantly talking about Brock Lesnar's title reign, repeating the same information and viewpoints about the same feuds that would be repeated for years-on-end, that he created "The Brock Lesnar Rule" as a response. Effectively, if you say "Brock Lesnar Rule" about a topic, you're saying "I've said all I can say on this many times in the past. Nothing's changed. I'm tired of repeating myself. You know what my point of view is. Let's just move on and talk about the next topic."
- After a podcast, a buzzing sound kept coming from Stephen's end of the call. When asked what it was, Stephen responded by saying that Johnna was watching television. That prompted the question "Is she watching The Buzzer Show?" This has been a long-running gag since then of this show actually existing, wherein virtually nothing else happens other than people pressing buttons that make buzzer sound effects. Hopefully it has been picked up for syndication.
- After the Stone Cold Podcast was replaced momentarily with Chris Jericho's, the running joke became that WWE would replace everything that Austin did with Jericho. Do you remember when Chris Jericho won the King of the Ring and cut the Jericho 3:16 promo? Or when Jericho drove the beer truck into the arena? So on and so forth.
- For a long while, Stephen maintained that CM Punk was not leaving the company and that it was all a work, even if he were to return several years from now, as that would have been the plan all along.
- Before recording, Rob had accidentally almost mispronounced Callum's name and basically nearly said "cowboy" instead. Tony ran with it on the introduction of that episode (Fantasy Booking WCW Starrcade 1998). Callum went full-on with the gimmick and dressed up like a cowboy for the WrestleMania 37 post-show.
- David Otunga hasn't been on the active roster in a long time, so what does he do, exactly? Well, he got on the roster for having a famous wife and he's been inactive because of some family issues, possibly with some unfortunate deaths. It had been suggested that he is getting paid to do nothing because of this, so what he does for a living is "has dead family".
- During the 2014 Smark Out Moment Awards, Tony's connection was awful and when he said something, Mike thought he had heard Tony say "Dean Malenko's yard sale". We ran with the joke and now, his moniker is The Man of 1000 Deals. One of them is on an arm chair.
- After recording one night and just talking about New York Comic Con, Tony and Mike were joking that it would be funny to see Drew get overloaded with everything and run out of energy, turning into a calm, "life is bleak" type of reflective mood. The go-to phrase for this became "Look at everyone wearing masks...we all wear masks all the time, but only some of ours are on the outside."
- This is Jeff's equivalent alias to how James Bond uses fake names and says he works for Universal Exports instead of MI6. At least Jeff has tenure, since he's been working there for "like 18 years".
- Tony referred to Dr. Michael Kirshenbaum, an ancillary character on WWE programming, as Dr. Hanukkahburger. In 2014, a similar character would appear alongside Rusev, so he was given the name Dr. Smirnoff Vodkaburger in reference to the original burger doctor.
- When answering a question about the level of our popularity, Drew said that he was sure there were lots of people that looked up to us as celebrities. We amped this up to be that Drew has a vain perspective of being higher than thou, which is dubbed Drew McBigBalls.
- When asked what there is to do in Indiana, Drew's first response was that they have a Red Lobster (which they apparently don't even have in his town). He has since then expressed several times going to a gas station in a way that made it seem as though that was the second best thing to do for fun in that town.
- During Drew's first semester at college, he would frequently do podcasts while at the McDonald's near his campus. Shaun's colloquialism nickname for McDonald's that the Americans on the team were not familiar with is Mackie Dees, which we found funny.
- After Drew moved to a new place, his internet connection was being tested at ridiculous levels such as 100mb/s upload. The joke became twisted that Drew's internet is a time machine and he lives in the future, which is why his speed is so crazy.
- Drew has an attractive sister that we like to tease him about. In particular, the joke is that Mike is going to be his brother-in-law when he marries her some day. Apparently everybody thinks Drew's sister is attractive, so he's used to it, having dealt with it for many years.
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