Heat Of The Moment: Slaughter’s Sense Of Snow (September 20, 1998)

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Previously on Sunday Night Heat: Sable cut a promo on Jacqueline while in the middle of filming a sexy lesbian prison fight for Pacific Blue, the Brothers of Destruction continued brothering destruction, and Ken Shamrock challenged the WWF Champion.

Previously on WWF Raw Is War: Raw returned to Mondays with the budding friendship of The Rock and Mankind, the show’s first evening gown match, and Vince McMahon trying to eat Stone Cold Steve Austin’s face.

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Here’s what you missed 21 years ago on WWF Sunday Night Heat, originally aired on September 20, 1998.

Jim Ross is on assignment, presumably barbecue sauce-based, so meet the most popular and least problematic announcing duo in WWE history: Shane McMahon and Jim Cornette.

It wasn’t a big deal at the time, because social media hadn’t yet turned us into warring ideological tribes who can’t even process fake fighting for entertainment without screaming at each other for not doing it right, but can you imagine the 2019 versions of McMahon and Cornette on commentary Holy shit. Shane just constantly putting himself over with lazy indifference while Cornette piss-shouts into a microphone about how anyone laughing at R-Truth or whatever he doesn’t like this week is a fat, stupid, [gay or racial slur] he’s going to beat up in real life The only step above this in terms of commentary is, what, Hulk Hogan and Vince Russo Mark Madden and Sadako from The Ring

This week’s episode starts with pansexual Oscar statue turned reform preacher turned … cuckold conspiracy theorist () Dustin Runnels losing a short match to Mankind and His Amazing Friends via Mandible Claw.

He can’t concentrate on winning wrestling matches because he’s just learned that his wife starred in a shot-for-shot remake of the Val Venis classic Land of the Rising Venis. Unfortunately for Dustin, Val is pro wrestling history’s sorest winner and shows up after the fall to announce that, in true porn industry style, he’s already scripted, shot, and released the sequel:

It’s just like The Preacher’s Wife, only they’ve switched sides. Also, apparently if you called something “How ____ Got Her Groove Back” in 1998, Terry McMillan and the How Stella Got Her Groove Back lawyers would descend on you like a cast of ravenous hawks. But can we take a second to appreciate Val Venis naming all his homemade Marlena pornos after films with strong female leads of color I hope the third one is a first-draft sex joke about Set It Off.

In case you needed the grander themes of the feud illustrated for you, Val ends the segment by aggressively massaging his own snail trail until Dustin submits.

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