| Note
from Triple Kelly: The dynamic
duo of Stevie Richards and The
Blue Meanie parody The Blair Witch
Project and WWF diva Sable in
a series of segments (of which
only 1 made it to air). WWE, get
on the ball and put the unaired
segments on your On Demand channel,
post haste!
In
the storied history of WrestleCrap,
this may be a first. Not only
are we inducting something on
the basis of what could have been,
but we are also simultaneously
kinda sorta defending Vince Russo.
Did
the world just stop turning?
In the summer of 1999, a movie
hit theaters that was unlike any
before: The Blair Witch Project.
It was a "movie" much
in the same sense that say Blade
Braxton's Revenge of the Scorpion
was a movie. While the film makers
no doubt had dreams (much as I'm
sure Blade did), they could have
never in their wildest imagination
counter on the fact that their
$22,000 film would eventually
go on to become the biggest independent
film ever made (memo to Blade:
this will never happen).
In
other words, in the summer of
99, there wasn't much a whole
lot hotter.

Meanwhile,
in the land of the WWF...
Raw
was starting to really catch on
with wrestling fans, pulling in
both the hardcores and a new,
casual viewing audience. While
acts like Stone Cold Steve Austin,
D-X, and Mick Foley were the main
attraction, there was also someone
who drew just insane ratings that
is often forgotten: Rena Mero,
known to fans the world over as
Sable.

Hands
off, buster!
No
doubt she was breathtaking - a
gorgeous stacked blonde who was
fit, and could "wrestle"
just well enough to keep fans
totally entertained. But just
as she was hitting her zenith
by appearing in Playboy, things
began to spiral out of control
behind the scenes. Mero filed
a lawsuit against the WWF, claiming
sexual harassment and an unsafe
working environment. Well, someone
did take a poop in her gymbag.
Not sure that's worth ONE HUNDRED
AND TEN MILLION DOLLARS, but I've
never had someone defecate on
my personal property so who am
I to say?
Those
within WWF were, naturally, furious.
Seeking some type of retribution,
they decided that perhaps a series
of skits mocking Sable would be
just the ticket. And who better
to perform this comedy routine
than arguably the two most underutilized
guys on the entire roster - namely,
Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie?
Before
I continue, a confession: I think
that Stevie Richards is the single
most underused and underappreciated
wrestling talent of the past 10
years. I thought he was by far
the most amusing character in
the history of ECW, as his stuff
with the likes of Raven and Beulah
were some of the funniest bits
I've ever seen. His run with the
bWo was great, and it seemed when
he hit WCW, and later the WWF,
he would be a tippy toppy guy.
Sadly,
that never happened. Instead,
he has seemingly been stuck in
lower to midcard hell for the
past few years (although even
then, he's tried to do something
with his career with stuff like
Stevie Night Heat). Could the
Blonde Bytch Project have been
his ticket out of the slums?
Hindsight
being 20-20, perhaps it could
have. Obviously Richards had a
knack for doing parodies; the
Blue World Order was a send-up
of the New World Order, and he
also did countless, ahem, "tributes",
to the likes of the Fabulous Ones,
Baron Von Rashke, and others during
his ECW stint. So it seemed very
appropriate that he, along with
his co-hort Meanie (who also appeared
in many of his ECW bits), would
be given a chance to lampoon one
of the biggest movie hits of the
year.
Now
if you've never seen the Blair
Witch Project, let me set
the scene. There were these three
student film makers who headed
out into the woods to track down
the mythical Blair Witch. The
story goes that they went out
into the woods with their cameras,
but were never seen again. Their
footage, though, was found and
was spliced together to make the
movie. The producers of the film
even went so far as to claim that
the three leads were, in fact,
deceased. This lead to a ton of
folks believing that the footage
was real, a theory played up by
the fact that the footage was
all shot on these crappy home
video cameras.
Now
if you've ever seen the movie,
you remember the ominous opening...

No
doubt WWF fans knew something
was up when they saw this appear
during an episode of Sunday Night
Heat:

And sure enough, here are our
two sports entertainers, hanging
out at what appears to be a dilapidated
shack. Come on guys - surely you
can you afford something a LITTLE
better than that on what Vince
pays you. Right? Right?
Anyways,
Stevie starts ragging on Meanie,
calling
him a big loser. 

To
be fair, I have to side with Stevie
here since a) Meanie is playing
In Your House and b)
he's chosen Ahmed Johnson as his
character. I mean, dude - fessing
up to playing that pile of crap
is bad enough, but doing so as
BIG T does kind of grant you exclusive
membership in the Dumbass of the
Month club.
Meanie
gets mad and turns off the game,
chosing instead to watch a scary
movie. Richards starts ripping
on him again, but this time Meanie
tells him to plug his word hole
- he has something REALLY scary
to tell him about: the legend
of the Blond Bytch!

And then, just as in the movie,
the two run off to the woods to
find out to discover the truth.
Unlike
the movie, however, this story
ends two minutes in.
Yes,
sadly only the first episode of
Blond Bytch ever aired. The plug
was pulled a mere one week into
its run, thus giving the wrestling
world the biggest mystery since
the saga of the Dusty Rhodes-Baby
Doll photos: what happened to
the Blond Bytch?
Glad
you asked. See, there are two
prevailing theories. One is that
the WWF got cold feet with the
threat of the lawsuit, and decided
that perhaps making fun of Sable
on air wasn't the best idea. After
all, why give someone who is already
suing you more ammunition for
their case?
The
second, and much more amusing
story (provided to us by Vince
Russo during his interview on
WrestleCrap
Radio) is that Vince McMahon
saw the first skit, and was baffled.
He just didn't "get it".
This was because Vince McMahon
had never seen Blair Witch and
therefore presumed that no one
else in the world had either.
This,
of course, despite the fact that
the movie was in the process of
making a QUARTER
OF A BILLION DOLLARS.
Apparently
there were actually up to a half
dozen of these segments filmed,
so one can only hope that some
day, when WWE 24/7 really starts
cracking open the vault, we will
finally get to see what happened
with the Blond Bytch.
After
all, Sable isn't hanging out with
anyone who might sue the company
these days.
Oh
yeah, right...
- Stevie Richards: "Meanie,
you can practice all you want,
you're still a LOOOO-SER!"
Blue
Meanie: "Look bonehead, when
we were playing In Your House
and I was Ahmed Johnson, you couldn't
touch me!" |