The fans in the upper deck, upon reading spoilers that Chris Jericho would get a meaningful push, spontaneously combusted.
Before the show
HAYES: Hey, Vince! I have another great idea! That slidey-pose taunt worked for Shawn Michaels...it HAS to work for Chris Jericho.
VINCE: I don't know, Michael.
HAYES: Everyone else thinks it's a good idea.
VINCE: Okay, let's do it!
HBK showed once again why he's the best in the business by springing to the top rope and hitting a
Seven-Star Frogsplash.
Taking a cue from Brock Lesnar on last week's SmackDown (and, of course, mastering time travel since this took place nine months before last week's SmackDown), Jericho managed to trick Triple H into putting on the referee mask and stepping into the quicksand.
Backstage
STEINER: Hey, if one of those guys spun around and slammed the other one down, that'd be like a suplex, right?
TEST: I think you may have just learned your move.
Not
quite what the fans had in mind when they yelled "Show us your cans!"
VICTORIA: See, A-Train? THIS is how you do a giant swing!
The ref would have to hurry. Trish and Victoria gave him a wonderful limbo opportunity, but they wouldn't be able to hold it for long.
Steven Richards would always remember this as the night when Victoria finally said those five words he'd longed to hear: "Let's do it standing up."
Stacy's "BOOB" t-shirt was a not-so-subtle hint as to what she wants for Christmas. Ironically, it's what the King wants, too.
Christian Sawyer and Huckleberry Jericho tried to get a closer look at their funeral from the rafters...until part of them broke loose.
RVD worked the graveyard shift as a mid-carder delivery man.
RVD: Dude, if your belt's up there, what's keeping your pants up?
CHRISTIAN: They're tights! Like yours!
RVD: Nuh-uh! I have suspenders holding mine up!
CHRISTIAN: How high are you?
RVD: So this is what it's like to be elevated.
ROCK: Who made your jacket, Bill?
BILL: Huh duh.
Bill always got angry when people made fun of his monosyllabicity (yeah, I made up a word! What's it to ya?)
Ah, Christmas morning at WWE Headquarters. The Rock loved it. Goldberg trying to unwrap his presents, Kane setting stuff on fire. In fact, if he sniffed hard enough, he could smell RVD lighting up a "yule log."
Rock hated when it was his turn to burp Goldberg.
ROCK: Bill, did you eat all your broccoli?
WWE's storytelling was showing. Maybe the fans might have bought that a drunken redneck had wandered into the arena...but with his own TitanTron video?
Watching at home
LOOPYDATE: Please let Kane set off his pyro... Please let Kane set off his pyro... Please let Kane set off his pyro...
AUSTIN: That's funny. My watch stopped. Somebody help me out here. It's still 1998, right?
SHANE: It'll only take a minute.
KANE: I don't wanna!
SHANE: It'll just be a little prick, then it'll all be over.
KANE: I DON'T WANNA SHOT!
SHANE: Well then you leave me no choice, mister!
SHANE: You can hold my hand if you want... No squeeOW! No squeezing, Kane. I mean iOW! OW!
KANE: I TOLE YOU I DIDN'T WANNA SHOT!
Kane and Shane, through interpretive dance, try to suggest that Vince "Get the F Back In."
HURRICANE: I told you that Flair put your trunks in the freezer!
FLAIR: No!
Takes a long break and dances around like a maniac.
FLAIR: Whoo! It's you! Whoo!
More strutting.
FLAIR: Who is...
Long pause.
FLAIR: A HOMO! Whooooo!
HHH: Ric, you know your rack is almost as nice as Stephanie's?
RIC: Yeah, I know.
HHH: Yeah, that's...wait, what?
HHH: No, you're a homo!
RIC: The moment's passed, Hunter.
Once more, the WWE camera crew takes the picture too early. This may look like the set-up to the Pedigree, but what you don't see is Flair reversing it into a Samurai Driver.
ROCK: Layin'...the smack down.
And...um...pie...
Jesus, I need to do this more often.
STEINER: Hey, Austin! Check out my ass!
AUSTIN: Learn how to wrestle, you 'roided-up freak!
STEINER: What?
Steve always got emotional when he sang "My Heart Will Go On."
You can't read the back of Steve's shirt. It may look like his normal "F*ck fear, drink beer" shirt, but the one he's wearing actually says "F*ck fear, leave beer in the ring, while backing away and flipping off what's left of your fan base, knowing full well that this gimmick won't hold and you'll be back WAAAAAAY before Wrestlemania."