9 Things We Learned From Bruce Prichard's Undertaker 1993-1994 Podcast

4. IRS Skits Almost Ended In Disaster

Although any tentative plans to team both men together had long-since been abolished, it was decided that The Undertaker and Irwin R. Schyster should still be linked together on television in late-1994; cast as natural enemies, IRS goaded Undertaker by asking if 'The Deadman' still paid his taxes even in the afterlife.

To help promote a pay-per-view match between the pair at Royal Rumble 1995, the brash heel IRS filmed a number of vignettes at a real-life cemetery during the closing months of 1994, but nobody could have guessed what would happen next.

Being approached by concerned staff irritated Bruce Prichard, because he was directing Schyster's promo. The graveyard worker's interruption was genuine though, and he only wanted to alert the WWF crew that the owners of the grave plot they were standing on had just shown up.

A woman had recently purchased two plots, and had planned to show her husband where their final resting place would be together. The situation was embarrassing for all concerned, but Prichard says IRS was able to complete his filming before there were any real problems.