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Making Kayfabe (Podcast)

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Making Kayfabe was a podcast presented and written by Bryce Kitcher and Dylan Copeland, which focuses on the missed opportunities of Professional Wrestling. Its format consists of one of the hosts presenting a wrestling storyline that could have been booked better, and then telling their ideas of how the narrative could be improved.Each episode finishes with Kayfabe Tombola, in which the other host (who did not book that episode) chooses at random a wrestler and a bizarre scenario from a selection of 4, and is tasked with writing a storyline about that combo in a minute; Hilarity Ensues.After 6 seasons, Making Kayfabe ended in August 2022. Bryce is set to continue fantasy booking in YouTube form; see Crafty Kayfabe for his next project.Making Kayfabe is available on all of the platforms shown here, and also has a Patreon page where exclusive content is on offer.
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Sure, Let's Go with That: In "KATIE VICK", Bryce recounts the story of how the Katie Vick storyline was supposed to be a vehicle for the debut of Scott Vick (Sick Boy of Raven's Flock). Dylan misapprehends this, possibly for comedic effect:
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Feghoot: The Kayfabe Tombola in "The Same Paige" is one of these. Chuck Taylor, who is afraid of the letter T, challenges for the TNT Title, but gives up when he discovers his opponent will be Booker T. He leaves the wrestling business after going... T-total.
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Shocking Moments
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Shocking Moments: Discussed in both "Taka Takes the Title" and "It's Good To Be King", as both revolve around surprise title victories. The argument is that you need genuinely surprising results from time to time, even at the very top level, in order to make your audience believe anything can happen. invoked
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Unwanted Assistance
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Unwanted Assistance: In "Keeping Up With the Kanellis'", Tye Dillinger really does not want Maria Kanellis interfering on his team's behalf, as he often proves he can win clean. He reluctantly accepts an opportunity to win the championship by their chicanery, but he continues to question the Kanellis couple's methods throughout. This causes their title loss and breakup.
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Sophisticated as Hell:
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Strange Minds Think Alike
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Twice in "KATIE VICK", Dylan manages to guess a beat of the Katie Vick storyline that really happened (Kane saying "now I'm going to screw you" to Triple H, and Jerry Lawler calling the Katie Vick mannequin attractive) which leads Bryce to accuse him of being the one booking the storyline.
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Found Footage Films: In "Twisted Alexa Bliss", one episode of Raw is punctuated by footage from Shayna Baszler's home, filmed by Nia Jax. They didn't make it to Raw, officially due to having "missed their flight", but really they don't want to have to deal with Nikki Cross having possibly freed Alexa Bliss from her institutionalisation. This doesn't stop unusual occurrences from reaching them.
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: In the Kayfabe Conundrum episode "Cinematic SmackDown", Fox has a bad case of this when they cancel SD not over the nonsense in that show, but over a Wardrobe Malfunction.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "He Can Dig That, Sucka" sees the recent increase in Buried Alive matches cause unrest among the wrestlers (who don't want to be buried alive), writers (who are running out of talent to use), and fans (who miss everyone who's getting buried alive).
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Morton's Fork: The final Kayfabe Tombola of Season 2 had all four wrestlers and all scenarios be the same: "Reno joins WWE and everyone makes fun of his shit haircut".
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Never the Obvious Suspect: In "Naomi and the Bloodline", Bianca Belair is attacked prior to her match at SummerSlam, forcing her championship to be vacated, and letting Naomi into the match. Given that there was talk of Naomi joining Roman Reigns' Bloodline, wouldn't you suspect the Usos had something to do with it? Nope - Reigns shoots that down, and it turns out it was Sasha Banks, Belair's scheduled opponent who was hoping that the attack would give her a forfeit victory and the title.
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: At the start of "The REAL Johnny Wrestling", they joke that the Miz dies in a car accident, which Dylan had nothing to do with.
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Wardrobe Malfunction: The punchline, so to speak, of "Cinematic SmackDown" is that the reason Fox cancels SmackDown is not because of the Brothers of Destruction committing hate crimes, random supernatural and sci-fi elements, and the legit deaths of multiple people, but one of these.
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Worked Shoot
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Worked Shoot: In "Keith Lee's Limitless Potential", Keith Lee cuts a scathing promo on creative's plans for him, including having him work an unnecessary gimmick and chasing the 24/7 Championship. Followed by the sequel, "Adam Cole Bay Bay!", where Adam Cole does this on WWE's plans to cut his hair, change his name, and have him as a lackey. Though this time it's a subversion as it turns out Adam Cole himself chose this idea over bringing The Undisputed Era with him to SmackDown.
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Xanta Klaus Is Coming To Town - A Christmas Special featuring the Xanta Klaus character from 1995 WWF.
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Easy Amnesia: Bryce and Dylan see this as good fuel for Kayfabe Tombolas (these being throwaway stories, after all), and have invoked this more than once to allow for the more interesting "change in identity" scenarios.
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Driving Stick: Bryce and Dylan (both from the British Isles, where manual transmission is the norm) mock the trope of Americans being unable to do it in "KATIE VICK".
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Conrad Thompson, wrestling podcast magnate to which Making Kayfabe presents itself as an Unknown Rival.
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Creator Thumbprint: For Dylan, a Number 1 Contender match figuring in the story.
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Red Herring Mole
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Red Herring Mole: In "The Summer of Punk", Kevin Steen, even in-universe. Steen is kicked out of Team ROH by Punk because, since his dream was always to be a WWE Superstar, he suspects that Steen will screw the team. He never does, and even takes a superkick for longtime rival El Generico. Also played with with regard to Daniel Bryan; while it's teased he will switch to the ROH side and betray Team WWE, he never really does, though he does hug it out with Punk as part of the twist ending of the match.
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: "The Viscera Episode" reveals the ending of "Vince McMahon Blows... Up!", due to them taking place at the same time.
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: Bryce is a big fan of The Hurricane, inspiring the rebooking of the gimmick.
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The Power of Love
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The Power of Love: As in reality, in "Keeping Up With the Kanellis'", Mike and Maria Kanellis claim that this is what's winning their matches, when in fact it's the Power of Maria Cheating On Mike's Behalf.
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot / They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: This waste of potential by wrestling promotions is often the focus of the rebookings. The shining examples come from even the smallest of points (such as Titus O'Neil touching Vince McMahon's arm). invoked
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: In "Vince McMahon Blows... Up!", Ken Kennedy's name being a reference to Vince McMahon's middle name is actually revealed as important - because his full name is Kenneth Kennedy McMahon.
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Talk Show with Fists
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Talk Show with Fists: In "Keith Lee's Limitless Potential", Dr. Keith Lee gets The Doctor's Surgery. It doesn't even last through its first edition.
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Real Life Writes the Plot: An interesting defied example in "The Same Paige". The story was written with Sasha Banks having a primary role. However, a couple of weeks before the episode aired (i.e. while it was still being written), Sasha walked out on WWE. The story is retained as-is. The only real example of this affecting the booking is a cheeky little In-Joke, when Sasha mocks Paige for her retirement and says she would never "take her ball and go home".
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mark Henry gives one to Viscera in "The Viscera Episode", calling him a "people-pleaser" to insult him and drawing comparisons to his own weakest, least effectual point (the "Sexual Chocolate" era). This is done to inspire him to snap out of the "World's Largest Love Machine" and become the beast he can be.
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Trial Balloon Question
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Trial Balloon Question: Played for Laughs in the Talking Kayfabe episode "The Vince McMahon Scandal", which spends the first 8 solid minutes of its runtime not mentioning Vince McMahon at all. Instead, Bryce and Dylan discuss a hypothetical person who did all the things Vince did, and act like they've never heard about it.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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John Cena Gets Hit By a Bus! - Exactly What It Says on the Tin, leading to a fear of buses.
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Lampshaded Double Entendre
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Lampshaded Double Entendre: In "A Man Called Test":
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: Done knowingly in "RETRIBUTION", where they mock the names of members T-BAR and SLAPJACK at length and in deliberately hackneyed fashion ("Did he slap a guy called Jack?").
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Stealth Sequel
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Stealth Sequel: While multiple rebookings have been shown to be in the same universe as each other, "Adam Cole Bay Bay" is the first one to directly follow a rebooking of a different star. In this case, it follows on from "Keith Lee's Limitless Potential", with a Keith Lee well-established on the main roster. This is a case of serendipity, as part of Adam Cole's aborted main roster plans saw him managing Keith Lee. Bryce and Dylan even joke about what Cole's position would be as the lackey in the Doctor gimmick.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: In Bryce's segment of "Book It Like Russo 4", Vince Russo uses this to give Vince McMahon a terrible booking idea, then convinces the shareholders that Vince has gone insane so they will remove him from the company, letting him take over.
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De-power
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Depower: Played with in "Twisted Alexa Bliss". Alexa Bliss' supposed supernatural abilities are revealed to be gone when she tries to use them on Shayna Baszler in a rage, but nothing happens. As it turns out, there was no power to remove; everything supernatural she did was the Fiend acting on her behalf, and having abandoned the Fiend, she can't use them anymore.
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ColdOpen
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Cold Open: Later Season 1 and Season 2 episodes often started with one of these.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Dylan absolutely hates The Miz and reacts negatively whenever he's brought up.
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Acronyms: The final line of "A Man Called Test": Dylan proposes a stable between the APA and Test, called the "Test-Acolyte Protection Agency Service", or TAPAS.
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Wrestling Doesn't Pay
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Wrestling Doesn't Pay: In "Keith Lee's Limitless Potential", Keith Lee shows up one Raw with a doctor gimmick. He is not happy with it, and abandons it.
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Bestiality Is Depraved
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Bestiality Is Depraved: In "Book It Like Russo 3", Russo repeatedly refers to CM Punk's Tiger King gimmick as possibly involving fucking the tiger.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: In "The Best Feud You Never Saw", John Cena's letter to Invisible Stan is described as 60 pages long, and the last few pages were just him saying "Screw Stan" over and over again. In "The Vince McMahon Scandal", they repeatedly refer to Tony D'Angelo as "Tony Macaroni", a local and fairly obscure reference to the Scottish-based chain of Italian restaurants.
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Waxing Lyrical
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Waxing Lyrical: In "The Best Feud You Never Saw", John Cena's letter to Invisible Stan is mostly taken from Eminem's "Stan".
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Love Redeems
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Love Redeems: In "Keeping Up With the Kanellis'", Tye Dillinger attempts to team with Mike and get friendly with him in order to convince him there's a better way than heelishness. It doesn't work.
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Something We Forgot
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Something We Forgot: A variation in "He Can Dig That, Sucka": "And they all lived Happily Ever After, except Vince, Brother Love... and the 15 other wrestlers who got buried alive" - implying that no one remembered to dig them up.
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The Scapegoat
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The Scapegoat: In "Keeping Up With the Kanellis'", Mike and Maria habitually blame Tye Dillinger for their own failures in their tag championship run - which becomes something of an Ironic Echo when Tye legitimately does stop Mike and replacement partner Mojo Rawley from winning.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: In "Vince McMahon Blows... Up!", Paul London, whose infamous smiling incident during Vince's walk to his death (which got him fired in real life) is actually a clue to his having perpetrated the bombing at Shane McMahon's behest.
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The Mole
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The Mole: In "The Summer of Punk", CM Punk himself, who was playing the ROH wrestlers and fans for fools in order to allow Vince McMahon to gain control over the company.
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Flashback... Back... Back...
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Flashback... Back... Back...: In "Re-Legitimising Shayna Baszler", Bryce has one of these, complete with echo and harp, when he starts to dream about Shayna Baszler being treated appropriately. Dylan has to remind him that the audience wouldn't see the dream.
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The Talk
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The Talk: In "A Man Called Test", after the "clarification" listed in Lampshaded Double Entendre, Dylan humorously asks if the clarification was needed, and kicks off one of these.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Discussed in "The Summer of Punk" as part of the Kayfabe Tombola, and also appears as part of the twist of that episode with CM Punk screwing Daniel Bryan. In "'The Boss' Spike Dudley", this is Spike's preferred method of disciplining his subordinates.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: In "King Regal", CM Punk with the Money in the Bank contract, snatching the WWE Championship out from under William Regal's nose just after he's abused his power to win it.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: A real example (Michael Cole forcing an Adam Cole name change on the main roster) is used in "Adam Cole Bay Bay!". Under threat of violence, Adam Cole convinces Michael Cole to appear as just "Michael" from now on.
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Technician Versus Performer
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Technician Versus Performer: The main difference between the two hosts (aside from their obvious accents); Dylan is more attached to the "sports" side of sports entertainment, whilst Bryce is more attached to the "entertainment" side. This manifests in their bookings as Bryce takes on most of the more out-there storylines (ECW Zombie, The Ascension conspiracy...) while Dylan's starting points are more grounded.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Several wrestlers appear as Running Gags, and are known as "Friends of the Show". Repeated mentions of Ministry of Darkness member Viscera as the greatest wrestler ever are common. In fact, this was the first of the "Friends of the Show" to be mentioned, in the very first episode. After noting how often Stevie Richards appears in their storylines, both began to guess Stevie Richards was involved in storylines on a regular basis. In Season 4, this escalated to involve cries of "STEVIE FUCKIN' RICHARDS" and gratuitous amounts of airhorn. Reno was a running gag for much of Seasons 2 and 3, remembered simply for how unmemorable he was (and for his laughable haircut). Headbanger Thrasher was mentioned often in the early seasons for appearing multiple times in Kayfabe Tombolas, but now is rarely seen. Other than wrestlers, Dylan's tendency to work Number 1 Contender matches into his storylines is notable, and is also accompanied by airhorns. Crab hands, in Kayfabe Tombolas. The WCW show Slamboree is often referenced also. SummerSlam, as a result, has become Summer Slamboree to them. For most of season 5, the "$100 Million Golden Egg" that appeared at Survivor Series 2021, used as a comparison to wrestlers who were released around that time ("who needs Keith Lee when you've got a golden egg?"). Series 6 has Bryce's approach to timeskips: asking Dylan to close his eyes and open them, explaining they're now on a later show whilst Dylan acts distraught.
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