10 Most Ambitious WWE Shows Ever

4. Shotgun Saturday Night

One of the initial episodes of Shotgun Saturday Night featured Sunny having relations with a man in an Elmo costume. For WWE, there's bold, and then there's out of this world mind-w*nkery such as this.

Conceptualized as an edgy late night offering, SSN was WWE's attempt at capitalizing on the underground popularity of ECW. Filmed initially in New York nightclubs and featuring more off-color, risque situations (like the aforementioned Sunny and Elmo buggery), the show was a far cry from what had been WWE's neon cartoon of the last few years.

Of course, the show would end up not garnering much interest from a national audience, and the show would soon be relegated as a B-show full of squash matches. Still, the fact that WWE were now actively taking cues from promotions such as ECW (in their own strange WWE fashion) showed that they were now willing to change themselves with the times. The failure of Shotgun Saturday Night would soon be replaced by the success of the Attitude Era, and all the sleaze and cheese that came with it.

If the Brian Pillman gun angle was the Attitude Era knocking on the door, SSN was that door creaking ajar.