RVD just could not STAND Booker's lame Popeye impression.
When the title match at Judgment Day was changed into a Garrote on a Rope Match, fans knew that things were going to change now that the new GM was James Gandolfini.
Bubba: "Look, Paul, I agree we have to take drastic measures to bring Smackdown's ratings up, but 'Rob Van Dam, the White Afro Thunder' is just not going to go over."
RVD: "All right, I'm a horse! Vince HAS to push me now!"
D-Von: "Um, Rob..."
Bubba: "Let him be, D-Von. Let him be."
D-Von: "But this man has done no wrong!"
Crowd: "We want BARABBAS! BARABBAS!"
Sure, Rikishi was always game for flag football! Unfortunately, he'd misheard the "flag" part.
Hey, you'd have that face too if you were crushed in between three ring ropes.
Scotty never had the skill, nor the attention span, to master wheelbarrow racing.
Fans were shocked when, suddenly, Rikishi pooped out Liberace!
JR: "Mah God, King! He was NEVER dead! He was just up Rikishi's ass all this time!"
Haas: "Oh God! Powerful... magnets! Trying... to take... belts... away! .... Ah hell, might as well have fun. Wheeeeee!"
At this moment, Haas started to suspect that there was something weird about his new ring valet.
In an angle that thrilled fans from two generations and three decades, James Gandolfini finally meets JR Ewing.
Disturbed by the Ref's lack of faith in his wrestling abilities, Bradshaw teaches him a lesson, courtesy of the Dark Side of the Force.
Renee: "...add a few highlights in your hair and... Voila! Now you are the most beautiful wrestler on Smackdown, Shannon!"
Shannon: "Wwwwowww!"
Renee was torn. Torrie ... or Fifi? Decisions, decisions...
"Yes, it's raining on prom night. Oh my darling, what can I do? I miss you.
It's raining real rain from the skies and it's draining real menstrual blood from my thighs, over you, oh over you."
Cena: "What, I have a match up? Coooooooooollll. WHAT? No Rob, I'm not bogarting the joint; I just want one more hit!"
Haas: "Hold on a second... this man looks nothing like Shelton Benjamin! Holodeck: end program!"