5. Endless Montages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOKjYqlF7S4 Watch Monday Night Raw nowadays, and the sheer amount of advert breaks can be frustrating. For anybody who has been on holiday in the US, you'll understand how it's even more irritating that there seems to be a break every five minutes! Back in the day, the then-WWF had a solution to the differences between UK and US advertising schedules. There are more commercials on US TV than in the UK, so to remedy this, the WWF aired hype video after hype video, and montage package after montage package, filling the gaps between the action. It wasn't uncommon to see a video hyping the intimidating size of Sycho Sid three times or more during a single episode of Raw, which drove quite a few people daft!
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