4. Pay Attention King!
The Amell fun didnt end there, as on SmackDown, Jerry Lawler did his best impression of the average viewer by struggling to pay attention. So now its the Queens Crossbow? Jerry asked when Stardust hit his finishing move on Zack Ryder. When they went to a replay of the move, he noted how it was a dig at Stephen Amell. He then asked again for clarification What is it? Queens Crossbow? Yes, King, he re-named it that over two months ago! Now, I get it. SmackDown is like a more boring version of Raw, which in itself is a more boring version of a decent wrestling show. Theres plenty of other things King, and others would like to be doing on a Thursday night. But the man gets paid a lot of money to watch the product, and at least pretend he knows whats going on. The least he can do is learn the finishing moves of the roster! And if he didnt know the name of the move, then how did he even know that The Queens Crossbow was a dig at Amell, since his character is named Oliver Queen on Arrow? Maybe we shouldnt be so hard on him, as learning moves and things would mean hed have less time to come up with jokes revolving around the 1970s band The Fifth Dimension, or the cartoon Tom and Jerry. It seems that Jerrys kryptonite is coming up with any pop culture reference from the past 35 years.
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
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