8 Times WWE Went Scottish
4. Big Fat B*stard
It would be easy to blame WWE for exploiting every stereotype to draw Pavlovian responses from crowds, but they're not completely to blame for this clichéd comedic misfire.
Back in 2000, The Big Show was on about his fourth character shift in 12 months, acting the fool in response to his failure to be a tough guy. (That sort of thing made sense in the Attitude Era). Before the act peaked with a blistering Hulk Hogan impression, Show rocked up on SmackDown resplendent in a tartan one-piece and ludicrous ginger eyebrows, knocking out a rotten version of Mike Myers' equally interminable Fat B*stard character from the Austin Powers films. Because being large and Scottish is both villainous and annoying? Anyhow, this act was apparently so abhorrent that Kurt Angle felt the need to bollock him into getting his act together as a build to the match where we'd see the aforementioned 'Showster'.
A great and all-too-familiar example of WWE shooting for comedy, pop culture, and international references and missing every target. And all done with a pretty reductive Scottish flavour. Show had turned again within three months, if you were keeping score.