10 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 10)

8. A Winning Team

This column has long lamented the forced in-program commercials that WWE foists on its talent and us the viewers. They look like real segments as part of the show, but turn out to be annoying, contrived commercials that make no sense in the context of the program. As a rule, they suck.

Of course, there’s always an exception, and leave it to Chris Jericho and R-Truth to be that exception. Jericho, who continues to turn everything he touches into gold, was talking to someone on the phone when Truth overheard Y2J mention a payday. Truth offered Jericho a candy bar, to which Chris said he was talking about money. Truth bowed out, leaving Jericho to lament that he never said he didn’t want the Payday bar, and then called Truth a stupid idiot for walking off.

It was short and inoffensive, but also, both men stayed in their regular characters. Jericho would have talked to Truth the same way if it was a regular backstage segment, and Truth would have been the same goofball. It actually worked.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.