10 Terrible WWE Gimmicks That Were One Tweak Away From Perfection
4. The Gobbledy Gooker
Had The Gobbledy Gooker been everything he was supposed to have been, he might have stood a chance.
WWE wanted a kid-friendly mascot to f*ck about between the matches, like every mascot at every sporting event that's ever happened. This in itself wasn't so daft a deal - WCW later took the concept forward, and one senses this would have been Pharaoh's role for AEW had Cody not nearly cooked him over a pyro barbecue on pay-per-view earlier this year.
What WWE f*cked was his build, his arrival and his introduction. There's one fleeting chance to made a good first impression, and Survivor Series 1990's Gobbledy Gooker debut was categorically not it.
The mammoth egg he laughably emerged from was ridiculous, but drew enough interest before the event that, as a payoff, he was an immediate disappointment. When has a mutated turkey been anything but?
As a gentle introduction to the halfway point of a house show, or comical visual aid between television squashes, the odd concoction could have been a charming aside. As the giant reveal from a giant f*cking egg, it was dead before it hatched.