5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2021

8. Egg! Egg! Egg!

Vince McMahon egg
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WWE just can’t seem to figure out how to do effective mainstream crossovers these days.

With Survivor Series being the 25th anniversary of The Rock’s WWE debut, the company was bound to do stuff to honor him, even if he wasn’t appearing on the show. One such moment was backstage during the kickoff when a limo pulled up and Vince McMahon emerged. He then silently pulled out a golden egg, which caused the assembled geeks (Madcap Moss, Mansoor, Jinder Mahal, Shanky, Doudrop, Aaliyah, Mace, T-Bar, Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville) to cheer and gasp like crazy.

Unless you knew, the egg is part of “Red Notice,” Rock’s latest movie with Ryan Reynolds and Gal Godot. It’s not like it’s a blockbuster everyone has seen or even immediately equates with The Rock, so it just fell flat until the kickoff panel stumbled on telling us what it was.

Instead, everyone just looked silly gasping and cheering and chanting about an egg. At least this one didn’t hatch the Gobbledy Gooker.

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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.