10 Weird Times TV Shows Had Wrestling Storylines
9. The Simpsons
The bigotry of Abe Simpson lends his son's belligerent stupidity a certain pathos, or at least, it did when the show was actually amazing.
In 'Gorgeous Grandpa', Homer binge watches 'Storage Battles' and is inspired to get rich quick from trawling through lockers, in which he finds what he initially adjudges to be his father's homosexual paraphernalia. "My gay dad is gay for gays," Homer laments, as the viewers, in turn, lament the loss of the best TV show of all time. This show once skewered homophobia through the lens of Rainier Wolfcastle accusing everybody else of being gay with a dead-eyed stare, exposing the humourless, defensive mentality at its rotten core. Homer becomes enlightened mere hours later, sprinting through what once might have yielded a seminal 22-minute arc just to get to a rubbish sex joke.
It turns out that bigoted Abe once revolutionised wrestling in the age of TV by inciting gay panic, and not watching Gorgeous George in disgust, thus compelling his wife to leave and informing the very essence of Homer's character.
Grandpa returns to the ring under the manipulation of old fan Mr. Burns, before turning on him and turning face under an Abe Lincoln gimmick and yes, whole thing sucked.
"What have we not done?"
"Erm. Wrestling?"
"Sure."
"Sure we've done it, or sure let's do it?"
"Sure."
A wretched shadow of its former seminal self and an utter disgrace to continuity, this was more an effective parody of WWE than was intended.