10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE Raw From 2006
3. WWE's Toilet Humour Was Unhinged
If all else fails, then dump fake crap on everybody for some laughs.
Vince booked a ton of toilet humour throughout his feud with DX in 2006. In amongst all of the pee and poop stuff, there were promos that hinged on how much ‘Vince loved dicks’ (in reference to friendships with Dick Ebersol, Dick Cheney etc). It was all sophomoric, but it was coming from two grown dudes (Triple H and Shawn Michaels).
Then, Vince, Shane and the Spirit Squad had fake crap dumped over them in late June. The next week, those pesky degenerates did the farting gimmick with McMahon by tampering with his live promo on the 3 July episode. At one point, they even borrowed Bobby Heenan's 'Brain Scan' machine to scribble, "I love cocks" in a speech bubble next to Vince's mouth.
Not everything was bad, of course. Some of the hijinks DX got up to were good fun, but they leaned heavily on juvenile humour during the reunion and that often took priority over anything else. Promising acts like the Spirit Squad were pushed aside so Hunter and Shawn could act like 14 year old boys in high school, and much of the focus seemed to be on Vince as a hapless headmaster who couldn't keep them in line.
D-Generation X vs. Vince dominated far too much time on Raw over the summer. Again, as aforementioned, WWE likely should've moved onto something else once HBK had soundly beaten McMahon at WrestleMania 22. 'Sorry', someone said, '...there's toilet humour to stick on telly!'.