Line #35 YMMV/Botchamania


1	* ArchivePanic: There are currently well over ''400'' episodes of the series.[[note]]Though technically there's actually no Botchamanias 1-3, or at least not ones made by Maffew: Maffew's first actual Botchamania was titled "Botchamania 4", which was made in response to three poor-quality compilations of wrestling bloopers called "Botchamania" created by two different people (though he did compile the best-quality clips he could find from the original videos into a new entry called "Botchamania 1, 2, & 3 Maffew Edition"). Granted, three episodes out of ''+400'' is a small difference.[[/note]] Each is about 10-15 minutes long, with more coming out every couple of weeks. Making matters either worse or better, dozens of them have been taken down or lost, meaning you probably ''can't'' see them all, even if you wanted to.
2	* CrossesTheLineTwice: The ending to Botchamania 157/158. Protester attempting suicide via stagedive? Not very funny. Protester attempting suicide via stagedive while overdubbed with New Jack's entrance? Utterly hilarious.
3	--> '''[[Wrestling/TheIronSheik Iron Sheik]]:''' no comment
4	* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Virtually every Botchamania thanks to a soundtrack heavy on tunes from 80s and 90s video games and remixes thereof.
5	** [=ECWPPVaMania=] is a two-part special backed solely by ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' music. It's shocking how well the music fits.
6	** 75: "High Voltage" vs. "Invincible".
7	** 159: "[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Bowser's Theme]]" vs. "[[Music/RunDMC My Adidas]]".
8	* HarsherInHindsight: Wrestling/MikeAdamle's "Jeff Harvey" quote, which is famously immortalised in the ''Botchamania'' original intro sequence (and its various versions), becomes far less funny with the revelation that he was suffering from CTE at the time (he's a former NFL player), and that he was eventually diagnosed with dementia in 2017. Maffew removed him from the intro after Adamle announced his CTE diagnosis out of respect to him.
9	* JustHereForGodzilla: Some viewers, burnt out on watching botches, only watch for the skits at the end.
10	* MemeticMutation: "No Selling Table(s)"; tables that don't break on cue are called "[[KatanasAreJustBetter Japanese tables]]" in contrast to the {{Spanish Announcers Table}}s that always break.
11	** "[[Music/{{Metallica}} I AM THE TABLE!]]"[[note]]Specifically [[https://youtu.be/C25L4P79wY8 "The View"]]. Used anytime a table doesn't break, and occasionally spliced with other music.[[/note]]
12	** "Look It's Sabu, It's Sabu".
13	** "Cena No-Sells Death"
14	** "[[ArtisticLicenseBiology ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES!!]]"
15	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPAVGJb5-w IT'S THE YEHTAY!!!]]"
16	** Countless snippets of mashups of the theme from ''Film/SpaceJam'' have been featured throughout the series.
17	** "[X] {{Corpsing}}? SEND FOR THE MAN!"[[note]]Used whenever someone corpses, it's always followed by the infamous ''WCW Monday Nitro'' bit where Wrestling/RandySavage slaps Wrestling/TorrieWilson to make her stop corpsing in what was supposed to be a dramatic and scary scene. After Wrestling/BeckyLynch started calling herself "The Man" in late 2018, she replaced Savage, showing clips of her coming to the ring. Bonus points for being set to a chiptune riff of "Beat It".[[/note]]
18	** "[[Wrestling/{{CZW}} JEEZUS]]!"
19	** The sound of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock's]] imitation of a truck horn, towards Kevin Nash (in reference to his previous gimmick Diesel's truck theme) and the nWo in 2002, has become such a popular gag that several Botchamanias following the episode it was used in has had an ending featuring the clip, usually of it mixed into music.
20	** Wrestling/CodyRhodes telling a story about an angry Wrestling/TedDiBiaseJr complaining to Vince [=McMahon=] in regards of the botched finish of a match (in which he was supposed to pick up the win) that the referee was trying to "FUCK ON ME!" Similar to the truck horn above, several Botchamanias following the episode it was first shown had an ending featuring the clip mixed into music, such as Music/{{Aha}}'s "Take On Me" or Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Have a Drink on Me".
21	* MisBlamed: With how often Maffew himself has sounded off about the state of copyright on Website/YouTube (as well as how often his [=YouTube=] channels have fallen victim to it), a lot of viewers could be forgiven for thinking copyright was the reason why "I've been in the danger zone", "JEEZUS" and "We're comin' for you, nigga" were noticeably missing from the intro to Botchamania 388. As Maffew pointed out on his Twitter, they were actually cut from the intro by accident and he didn't notice until people pointed it out (presumably while inserting the usual CouchGag over "The Yapapi").
22	* NeverLiveItDown: Botchamania 92 is, by Maffew's own opinion, one of the worst Botchamania's he's ever made. See the ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs entry as to why.
23	* OneSceneWonder: Raja Lion, an amazingly unskilled puro wrestler who fought in only two matches, both of which can be seen in Botchamania 119. He is honored with a brief appearance in the series intro (he's the guy who crouches when making his entrance so as to not bump his head into the entrance due to his height).
24	* RetroactiveRecognition: Wrestling/KevinSteen, Wrestling/SamiZayn, and [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]] are some of the folks who did Botchamania intros while working the indie circuit in high school gyms around the country before becoming big WWE stars.
25	* {{Squick}}:
26	** A [[HighPressureBlood particularly nasty blading incident]] is featured in a CZW botch in Botchamania 160.
27	** Wrestling/JohnNord's story about Dusty Rhodes in 172.
28	** Botchamania 125 featured a match with a wrestler named Jay N, who repeatedly threw up during the course of match with another wrestler, and wound up being hit with a DDT on top of a spot where he had just thrown up.
29	** James Mitchell's flash-gun incident in 121.
30	** One Botchamania features a wrestler getting thrown into a trash can of light tubes, and his leg is so mangled that Maffew has to censor the injury.
31	* TearJerker:
32	** The end of Botchamania 244 accurately describes the utter fucking despair of WWE fans going into ''[=WrestleMania=] XXX''.
33	** His reaction to [[TearJerker/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's retirement]]: "I didn't think the original image was depressing enough, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} so I added]] [[https://twitter.com/maffewgregg/status/697136474702086144 another.]]"
34	** While one of the endings of 447 doesn't seem to be this on the surface (Music/DollyParton's "Jolene", except with Wrestling/TripleH shouting "[[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene!]]"), the very last moment can count as this: Wrestling/WilliamRegal comes out to confront Triple H, as the captions read '''"B[-YE-] R[-EGAL-]"''' -- referencing that around the time the video was released, Regal was released from WWE after over 20 years in the company.
35	* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: While commenting on the video for Botchamania 92, Maffew explains what he was doing while editing the video and [[OldShame why he wasn't particularly fond of the video itself]], and he basically admits that if anyone was guessing that he was on drugs while making it, their guess was correct.
36	-->'''Maffew''': This was made around the time I took E for the first and last time. This was made during the god-fucking-awful comedown and I don't tend to re-watch this one much. It explains why the ending is as strange as it is... Halloween 3, Full Metal Jacket, Akira and Street Fighter The Movie. And Phillip Glass. '''NOT EVERY IDEA IS A GOOD IDEA'''.
37	* TheWoobie:
38	** Maffew apparently feels some guilt including Sonjay Dutt in Botchamania, saying that he "deserves better" each time he's featured.

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