2. The Cobra Biting Randy Savage
The two legends talk about the classic angle during The Macho Man's wedding to Miss Elizabeth at SummerSlam 1991. The valet-turned-wife opened a box containing what she presumed was a wedding gift but instead turned out to be a cobra. On a subsequent episode of Superstars of Wrestling, during a post-match confrontation between Jake and Randy Savage, the dastardly villain tangled his foe in the ropes and unleashed the cobra on him, allowing it to bite a defenseless Savage. While the moment is one of the most memorable ever, the story behind it is just as entertaining. When Piper brings it up, Jake says he loved it.
"It chewed on him. Yeah I loved that, man. I still get wood. I watch the tape...if I'm with a girl then I watch the tape and I'm ready to go."
Jake states that Savage came to him and alluded that he didn't trust that the cobra's venom sacks had been removed (Roberts does a great Macho Man impersonation here) since a lot of people around would love to have his spot in the company. He tells Jake if he wants him to go through with the angle he'll have to let it bite him first. Roberts went into the locker room and let the snake bite him, then Randy made him sit there for thirty minutes without moving to make sure he wasn't going to "drink no solutions and no anecdotes." He decides to get his revenge on Macho by slapping the snake to anger it right before it bites him "so when I turned around it was ready to chew on somebody's *ss." Vince sent Roddy down to tell Jake to get the snake off of him, but since Piper is so scared of snakes and didn't have his pistol on him he shielded himself behind Elizabeth while delivering the message.