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9. Whats The Demographic Again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AVcCggRnU WWEs love affair with mainstream press and attention often means that well see move crossovers and/or previews on WWE programming. Sometimes, it can work well, but many times, we end up with Sin Cara coming out of the Mystery Machine with Scooby Doo. Monday, we didnt get a physical crossover, but we did get a movie preview for Ted 2. If youre unfamiliar with the first Ted movie, its basically about a teddy bear wished to life and voiced by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy. There is ton of profanity, drug use, sexual situations and other off-the-wall stuff throughout. Its absolutely hilarious (if youre in your 20s or 30s and love Family Guy, like this writer). However, put yourself in WWEs shoes. Youre a PG show that markets toward kids and you air a preview for an R-rated movie that features a foul-mouthed stuffed animal. Thats not to say that its horribly wrong, but it certainly sends mixed messages about what WWE thinks is appropriate. Maybe El Torito and Ted can have an interspecies match at SummerSlam!
Scott Carlson
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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.
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