10 Times WWE Destroyed Something Brilliant
9. The Fandangoing Craze
On April 8, 2013, a drunken and boisterous crowd of international fly-ins greeted the sight of Fandango - a ballroom dancing character straight out of the very worst of the WWF New Generation era - as the second coming on the post-WrestleMania RAW. It had much - no, everything - to do with his Jim Johnston banger of a theme, ChaChaLaLa. As he danced around the ring, the fans stood up in unison, sashayed and hummed along.
And thus began the Fandangoing craze; ChaChaLaLa charted on iTunes, and the character briefly penetrated the fringes of the mainstream consciousness. It was an organic development, and so of course, WWE, with all the desperation of a sixteen year-old virgin, killed and flogged the dead horse in record time.
On the next edition of RAW, WWE trotted out cutting edge commentator Jerry Lawler to brag about how "Just this past week alone, there's been over 100,000 instances of Fandangoing on social media!" Cut to: a fawning highlight reel of dancing on the subway and streets of New York City. Fandango then appeared, but the crowd reaction was decidedly muted. They had been put off by WWE's bunny-boiling quest for mainstream acceptance.
In an instant, the whole thing was rendered utterly lame and contrived. Funnily enough, it has taken the character a full four years to become relevant again.