10 Wrestling Moments You Didn’t Know Were Totally Ripped Off

10. The Rock

Seinfeld was very unlike WWE; it was really funny, it drew massive ratings, and so many wildly divergent narrative threads converged at the big payoff to create one incredible, out-of-nowhere punchline. It was a masterpiece of the writing craft.

And yet, it acted as strange inspiration for one of The Rock's old bits.

In the seminal episode 'The Marine Biologist', your writer's spirit animal George Costanza, the sad-sack fantasist, had his day.

To win the affections of an old college crush through deception, he pretended to be a Marine Biologist - only, at the conclusion of the episode, to be confronted with a beached whale. He braved the ocean, straddled the "great fish", and retrieved from its blowhole the golf ball inserted into it by his buddy Kramer's seaside golf drive (that's one of those threads converging, unlike, for example, Ricochet entering the Money In The Bank Ladder Match in place of the man who cleanly defeated him last week).

Recounting the tale in Monk's Café, Costanza told the distressed whale: "Easy, big fella!"

The Rock and or Brian Gerwitz happened upon this, and thought, "Hey, we can use this whale as a comparison to Rock's gigantic c*ck, and its inability to be contained."

And why not? That thing was 10 stories high if it was a foot!