10 Funniest WWE Dark Segments Never Broadcast

After RAW, August 12th 2002, Seattle WA

The grandfather of all post-RAW comedy, dark segments, this is the legendary ‘Spinaroonie’ segment from just after the very beginning of the Ruthless Aggression Era.

It all kicked off after the hugely energetic eight-man tag match main event, in which the Unamericans (Christian, Lance Storm and Test) and Triple H defeated the team of the Undertaker, Bookdust (Booker T and Goldust) and The Rock.

As the Unamericans celebrated, RAw went off the air, leaving the babyfaces regrouping in the ring. As the man who’d taken the pin, the Dead Man was buttonholed to carry on running the mic and put a smile back on the face of the fans in attendance, and did so by commanding Booker T to perform a Spinaroonie.

So far, so good, and entirely as expected and as agreed with the boss in advance. Unfortunately for the Undertaker, Vince McMahon had other plans for him, and had arranged for Booker to run a number on Big Evil, inviting him to perform his own Spinaroonie in front of the massive crowd.

There was no way in hell that even this Texan hardass biker version of the Undertaker was ever going to do the Spinaroonie… but that didn’t stop everyone from trying.

First Booker gave it a shot, then The Rock returned to the ring to demand a ‘Takeroonie’ on behalf of the People. After that, his mortal enemy Triple H hit the ring to demand the same, their feud set aside for the moment: claiming that "after twelve years of ‘Dead Man Walking’, I wanna see one damn night of ‘Dead Man Spinning’”.

The Unamericans returned to ringside just to gawp, so it was left to Vince McMahon himself to come to the ring and perform his own Vinceroonie - which Triple H tried to convince him should be called a ‘Macaroonie’ instead. After much back and forth procrastination, we were treated to a ‘Triple H-aroonie’ before the heels attacked the babyfaces and it was business as usual, Undertaker using the melee as an excuse to get out of Dodge.

That left Triple H, sore from a thunderous chokeslam, to peer pressure his rival The Rock into delivering a ‘Rockaroonie’ before it was time for the spinebuster, the People’s Elbow and goodnight.

This is still the greatest ever dark segment WWF/E have ever produced, involving genuine legends of the business, half-in and half-out of character, doing their best to make the most poker-faced man in all of wrestling crack up. Genius.