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Watching Prime Time Wrestling from June 2nd, 1986 right now and, other than the Mr. Fuji and Don Muraco Miami Vice parody from a couple of months earlier, this is the first real sports entertainment WWF thing I have found. You can really see even this early on how much Vince wants to be making television entertainment instead of presenting wrestling as a sport.
This segment is a parody of the old game show Love Connection and features Vince as the host with Jimmy Hart, Bret Hart, and Jim the Anvil Neidhart as the contestants. Vince buries the fuck out of them as he makes the introductions and Jimmy and Jim take it with a grain of salt laughing and playing along. Bret is just sitting there seething over the fact his boss is not taking him seriously. Vince pretty much low key buries Bret as being an incredibly boring and self-centered person during the introduction. The audience, made up of wrestlers, is chuckling as Vince introduced Jimmy, but when he started in on Bret they lost it. Jim Neidhart got roasted by Vince for being dumb as a box of rocks, but took it better than the other two and had a great sense of humor about everything.
Bret really is the same faggot that he is now as he was back then.
Also Gorilla Monsoon is the GOAT tier wrestling commentator. Give him Bobby "The Brain" Heenan as his color guy and you have a team better than peak JR and King.
