10 Most Memorable WWE Funeral Parlor Segments
Dead men tell no tales, but their interview segments CAN tell a great story.
When compared to their Golden Era predecessors, the WWE talk show segments of today are in a woeful state. The current roster boasts SEVEN ongoing interview segments, each with little to no personality. Everything from MizTV to A Moment of Bliss to The KO Show is a bland, monochromatic revolving door of TV screens, cardboard signs and chairs.
Back when interview segments were an art and not just a time slot filler, the effort and love put in to each elaborate set made the segment an extension of the interviewer's character itself. Week after week, The Brother Love Show, The Barber Shop and Piper's Pit would do their part to move along narratives and craft classic storylines. The best ones are still fondly remembered even today. But none of these shows exuded as much personality or built the aura of their presenters quite like The Funeral Parlor.
Later this month, The Undertaker will commemorate 30 years with WWE at Survivor Series, the result of which will be an extravagant send-off at the PPV itself and/or one final run-up to WrestleMania next year (surely they wouldn't let 'Taker retire behind closed doors, right?). Now seems like the perfect time to reflect on the moments that stand out the most from WWE's Graveyard Shift.
10. Sensational Sherri (1 February 1992)
This segment might not have moved the needle as much as the Barber Shop segment that led to it, but it IS noteworthy as the moment that HBK's career was strapped to a rocket.
Three weeks after Shawn Michaels tossed his tag partner Marty Jannetty through Brutus Beefcake's Barber Shop window (or Jannetty committed the ultimate act of cowardice by leaping through the window to escape, depending on who you ask), Sensational Sherri would emerge on the set of the Funeral Parlor to express her infatuation with the Heartbreak Kid and announce that her former charge, 'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase, had granted her an open-door policy to chase the object of her affection while welcoming her back at any time she chose.
A simple, yet unique segment that allowed for an amicable split between manager/partner and client (a rarity even by today's WWE standards), the company solidified their faith in Michaels by pairing him with a trusted hand in Sherri. She would guide him to the Intercontinental Championship that November and HBK would become a household name in WWE for the next 18 years. He remains a beloved figure a nearly a decade after his Hall of Fame induction.