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| 3 | '''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. |
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| 5 | !!Tropes appearing in this work |
| 6 | * 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]]. |
| 7 | * TheNicknamer: Road Dogg gives Josh a new nickname every week. |
| 8 | * NoodleIncident: Whatever Road Dogg and Josh did to end up in the Vault. |
| 9 | * OldShame:[[invoked]] See Take That Us. |
| 10 | * 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. |
| 11 | * 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". |
| 12 | ** 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. |
| 13 | ** [[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. |
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