25 Crazy WCW Facts (That Get Progressively More Ridiculous)
6. It’s Always Sunny In WCW
‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ is one of the best sitcoms of all-time. If you’ve never seen it, the general thrust is that five ne’er-do-wells treat the extended cast of people in their lives horribly. The five main characters are irredeemable narcissists with an inflated sense of their own importance, but cursed with profound stupidity. Their get-rich-quick schemes are blown up in their faces by a universe that treats them with the contempt that they deserve.
In one episode, ‘Home Of The Original Kitten Mittens’, one of the main characters, Mac, attempts to eat a contract to get him out of something. The lawyer who manipulated him into signing it simply laughs, because Mac is profoundly stupid. Not only is it possible to create copies of a written contract, but courts really only care about the agreement, not the paper, and any attempt to destroy a contract is only going to land somebody in legal trouble. Mac ate the contract because the idea that doing so would void it is stupid. The character is stupid and did a very stupid thing for the purposes of a gag.
In WCW, Goldberg ate Scott Hall’s talent contract in an attempt to get rid of him. Yes, WCW booked something so stupid that, years later, writers of a sitcom penned a similar storyline as a joke to make a character look like an idiot. And, because this WCW, the storyline was in fact even more stupid; Goldberg had already ingested the contract on the previous episode of Nitro, which appeared on the subsequent Thunder without a single bite mark on it, before Goldberg again ate it.
A court only needs to prove that an agreement existed in the first place, and in addition to overwhelming evidence of that - i.e., Hall’s many, many appearances as a contracted talent on WCW programming - Goldberg displayed and destroyed the evidence on live television.
Heels are meant to be stupid, but come on.