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'''Are You Serious?''' was a WebOriginal show produced by Wrestling/{{WWE}}, airing on the company's [[https://www.youtube.com/wwefannation YouTube page]]. The series features former WWE superstar Road Dogg and current WWE commentator Josh Mathews being forced to watch not-so-great wrestling clips from the annals of wrestling history. They're inexplicably joined by a puppet Wrestling/TripleH that's been dubbed "Puppet H". The series amounts to basically a web video version of the Website/{{WrestleCrap}} site combined with ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', but it's proven to be the more popular of WWE's Website/YouTube efforts.

!!Tropes appearing in this work
* ADayInTheLimelight: The last episode of Are You Serious was hosted by Puppet H when Road Dogg and Josh Matthews were locked out of the vault... [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and decided to just leave]].
* TheNicknamer: Road Dogg gives Josh a new nickname every week.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Road Dogg and Josh did to end up in the Vault.
* OldShame:[[invoked]] See Take That Us.
* SmartMark: Parodied with the puppet character Smart Mark, aka Mark, who claims to be "very smart." Unsurprisingly he was presented as a full-fledged BasementDweller.
* TakeThat: The entire series is dedicated to taking potshots at some of wrestling's dumbest moments, many of which come from Wrestling/{{WCW}}. No wonder one of the show's regular sections was dedicated to proving that "WCW ruins everything".
** The aforementioned Smark Mark character is one of many examples of WWE programming taking shots at internet wrestling fans. It's rare you'll see a company directly insult their most passionate (and money-spending) fans as much as the WWE does.
** [[SelfDeprecation Take That Us]]: However, WWE isn't above putting the microscope on themselves, and both Road Dogg and Josh Matthews' more embarrassing moments have been on the program as well.
** Both Road Dogg and Josh like to take shots - usually weight-related ones - at Billy Kidman, a retired wrestler who hasn't been seen on air for several years but who works backstage for WWE.