That Time Chris Jericho Trolled Wrestling
A Little Bit Of The Bubbly, or a whole lotta nothing?
"It is time. The end of the world as you know it is here. Now."
These were the last words of a creepy child in a creepy school that had been seen for weeks on WWE television in order to hype somebody...or something or other appearing on Monday Night Raw on January 2nd 2012. It felt strange, it felt mysterious, and it felt big.
And then the motivation and man behind it all was revealed, and for one of the first times in his career, Chris Jericho was a disappointment.
WWE shook the cameras around and turned the house lights off to reveal 'Y2J's new light-up jacket, but the expectant pavlovian pop was all the company and Chris himself were going to get. This was a pleased-to-see-him pop, not a pleased-with-the-payoff one. The raw-throated energy that greeted "JERICHO" flashing up on the TitanTron in August 1999 was absent. The sheer relief and giddy thrill of a genuinely entertaining talker interrupting Randy Orton in 2007 to "Save Us" yet again was replaced by a near-clinical instinctive cheer.
And it was the most they were going to be given. Jericho was back, but he was going to test a method of getting over he'd never eeeeeeeever tried before, and wouldn't, to date, try ag-ayne.
He was going to say nothing.
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