[1990-10-20-WWF-Superstars] Jake Roberts vignette / Brother Love: Rick Rude & Bobby Heenan

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Jake's bandaging is removed. The shock of Jake not having a pupil on his affected eye was a pretty shocking moment at the time.

 

Rude calls Boss Man's mother an array of names, saying her breath smells like an overused barf bucket. Heenan adds that those are her good points. Rude getting out of the WWF was good for him, because he reinvented himself to be more serious, and he was put in these hokey angles.

[PeteF3]

I'm still getting freaked out watching Jake's treatment.

 

Martel gives us a preview of the Axe/Tag body spray ad campaign--Arrogance will make babes 18 to 80 crawl all over you. You'd think Rude and Martel would be natural allies--or enemies. Rude is back to being a cartoon character--he's trying but this material is not what he needed at all. I prefer Heenan trying to paint himself as standing up for all the prisoners that the Boss Man abused in jail. I wonder how long they were sitting on the idea of Nailz.

[shoe]

Jake is so good in these vignettes. Like when his Dr. says his name he jumps a little.

[soup23]

Jake keeps hitting this eye stuff out of the park and making it uncomfortable.

 

I had forgotten how much it was Rude vs. Boss Man at first when the feud developed. Rude was ok in this promo but does need a change in scenery.

[Kevin Ridge]

Jake gets the bandages off but struggles to open his eyes. We get a brief glimpse of his solid white left eye.

 

Rude makes more comments about Boss Man’s mother. Not feeling this feud.

[garretta]

I'll say this for Rude; he's doing the schoolyard bully routine very well after being oily and sleazy for so long. I like that he doesn't apologize for his comments; in fact, he restates them and dares Bossman to do something about it. Heenan's golden here as the protector of prisoners' rights everywhere. Interviews like this are what I'll miss when he goes to the booth full time.

 

As for Jake, he continues to make you feel his pain whether you want to or not. The visual of the pupil in one of his eyes being burned away not only puts over the damage done to him, but gets Arrogance over as something more than just perfume. Vince and Rod do a good job of this as well, implying that Arrogance has an industrial-strength odor of some sort, almost like it's drain cleaner or something similar, which we all know can mess up an eye horribly. That's a tremendous amount of detail for a WWF angle.

 

I'm looking forward to the next segment if it is what I think it is.

[drew wardlaw]

Whoa this kind of blew my mind. Super shocking image, even with just the bandages on Jake. He looked like a war veteran. Then the reveal of the eye.... Jake is doing a great job with this.

[dawho5]

Jake is so damn incredible. Even as a sympathetic babyface he never loses the edges of his character.