10 Times WWE SmackDown Went Too Far
6. ...And Eating It Too
When Mickie James gained decisive redemption at the 2010 Royal Rumble as a grand payoff to the 'Piggy James' storyline with Michelle McCool and Layla, the 20 second victory was designed to be as emphatic as the heat segments that built towards it.
It failed.
After months of bullying James, a body-shaming angle located a nadir in a deeply upsetting beatdown of the babyface. The storyline had called for LayCool to conduct a campaign of abuse against Mickie as avatars for the organisation's genuine (and genuinely ludicrous) belief that she was somehow overweight.
Vignettes putting James’s face on a farmyard hog gave the arc its lifetime label, but nothing sunk as low as when McCool rammed a cake into James' face. at the climax of this humiliating scene. Mickie was left drenched in fruit punch and her own tears after having the desert and various other foodstuffs thrust upon her in a scene that might have made for great fiction had it not been tied to disgusting fact.
To a pinpoint degree, the angle masterfully captured the true horrors of bullying, it just failed to highlight who the actual offenders were.