10 Unthinkable Masterminds Behind Legendary Wrestling Ideas
8. ...Which Is Strange, Since Conan O'Brien Came Up With One Of The Worst
Right, so this doesn't exactly fit the theme, but if not legendary, this moment is certainly infamously bad, given the standard set elsewhere by the performer involved.
Amongst Simpsons fanatics, it is generally accepted that seasons 1-8 represent the peak of the show. Some even think that the decline began with 8, before the infamous season 9 "effort" 'The Principal and the Pauper'; episodes like 'The Secret War of Lisa Simpson' and 'The Canine Mutiny' are considered mawkish where real sentiment was once rare and well-earned. There are still great gags tucked in episodes all the way to season 13, after which the show is rubbish. The people who like "new Simpsons" are your "The Miz is the greatest Intercontinental champion of all time" types.
The most ardent Simpsons fans, your "wrestling peaked with the intricate holds of Dory Funk, Jr." types, insist that the show actually peaked when writer Conan O'Brien, credited with the immortal episodes 'Homer Goes To College' and 'Marge Vs. the Monorail', departed after the fourth season. His laser-precise satire of terrible TV tropes - "after all, I am the President of the United States" - elevated the Simpsons above everything else.
Which makes it all the more strange that he, indirectly, came up with the Rock's worst catchphrase; his intentionally stupid "Why don't you have a big, tall glass of shut-up juice" insult, which he'd say to those underneath him as a joke, found its way into the Rock's repertoire through writer Tommy Blacha, who left Late Night With Conan O'Brien to work for WWE in 1999.
So what has been discovered here is that one of the worst wrestlers of all time came up with one of the Rock's worst catchphrases, where one of the funniest men of all time came up with his worst.