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Hornswoggle.
I've not watched wrestling as much as in previous years, but I caught Smackdown in a hotel when I was over in India and there's this skit where Hornie is confronted by Carlito.
He paints what I assume was meant to be a hole in the wall using his black spraypaint cannister and runs through (thankfully, out of the view of the camera). Carlito tries to chase him through like that Wile E. Coyote and gets a face full of wall.
Now, I assume this whole segment was meant to get Hornswoggle over (as presumably it wasn't meant to make Carlito, supposedly a big heel, look stupid) but I'm asking myself who is this meant to appeal to? New viewers or semi-casual viewers are going to scoff and turn this off, and the existing fanbase might be so insulted that they turn their back on the show.
To me, Hornswoggle adds nothing to the show and is detrimental to the product's image. They could better spend the 20 plus or so minutes allocated to this midget on helping get existing or new talent over to help their long-term image.
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