New Day’s Pancake Powered New Year Super Spectacular: They Made It Seem Happy
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Pancake Powered New Year Super Spectacular
Date: December 19, 2018
Hosts: New Day
Now you knew we weren’t getting out of the latest biggest week WWE has ever had without the New Day getting to do something right? This is a year in review special, which is going to mean a lot of copying and pasting. These things tend to be fun though and hopefully we get some of the good stuff from this year, which actually does exist. Let’s get to it.
New Day is in front of a massive green screen to start with Big E. in a top hat and holding a magic wand. Big E. wants to see some pancakes and with the power of positivity, creates a pancake unicorn world. After talking about the lazy river of syrup, we look at a montage of title changes over the year, both on the main roster and in both NXT’s. And yes, Nicholas is included.
Big E. is proud of his pancake power.
And now, a video on pancakes, including the humanoid versions at Wrestlemania. Still not funny.
Video on Braun Strowman. Still doesn’t include a World Title win, which it certainly should. The cello is still funny though.
Video on Ronda Rousey. I would say it’s been a rise, but she’s about where she was when she debuted. Thankfully Stephanie surviving the armbar at Wrestlemania is cut.
We look at the year for women in WWE. It says a lot when the women main eventing a pay per view is just a thing anymore. The more I think of Evolution, the more I like it. That was quite a thing.
Video on Becky Lynch. Yeah I’d think she’s earned that.
Becky shows up in the rainbow land and scares New Day for questioning her.
Video on Seth Rollins. This must have been made before the horrible TLC match.
Video on reunions in 2018, including the Shield, the Brothers of Destruction and DX.
Video on Roman Reigns’ quest to win the Universal Title. Egads never bring that up again. His farewell speech is included as well and New Day give a serious response, telling him to get well.
Video on Dean Ambrose turning on Rollins to break up the Shield.
Video on the rising stars of 2018, both on the main roster and in NXT, capped off by Ricochet’s flip over the top rope to land on the ramp right in front of Velveteen Dream. That’s still incredible.
Big E. wants Ricochet on the team. Kofi: “NOPE!”
We get a By The Numbers look at 2018.
30 title changes
85 superstars performed at Wrestlemania
22 times Aiden English sang Rusev Day
29 people interrupted Elias
8 low blows from Shinsuke Nakamura to AJ Styles
56 losses for Curt Hawkins
0 wins for Curt Hawkins
14 Dance Breaks
284 members of No Way Jose’s conga line. Imagine having the job of counting those people.
Video on Daniel Bryan’s return from retirement. The look on his face when he got tagged in at Wrestlemania was awesome. This leads into his heel turn, which is working far better than it should.
Video on the sounds of 2018, including a lot of songs and sound bytes, which are hit or miss of course. The best of them all though is the announcers just dying over Titus O’Neil falling at Greatest Royal Rumble and I can’t blame them a bit. Also, somewhere, the Seattle fans are still booing Kevin Owens and Elias.
New Day wraps us up, but not before R-Truth and Carmella pop in for a dance break.
Overall Rating: C. While completely unnecessary, there was nothing wrong with this. They covered a lot of stuff here and it’s not like it was supposed to be anything serious. It was over and done with in a hurry and you can’t really complain about a bonus show like this. This was a pretty hit or miss year for WWE but you can do something like this to show off all the good stuff that happened. It’s not really worth your time, but it’s not terrible if you happen to see it somewhere.
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