YMMV / Booker T

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• Fountain of Memes: Booker's commentary gives the fans certified gems to quote.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • From being pinned to hell by the Charmed Ones to winning the tag team titles for the Main Event Mafia, Booker T and Scott Steiner's road as a tag team over the years has certainly been…interesting.
  • His one night stint as colour commentator Black Snow in TNA was funny as it is, but when WWE made him colour commentator on Smackdown? Hilarious.
  • Or possibly Harsher in Hindsight depending on your perspective, but the Memetic Mutation/Never Live It Down moment below is either much more or less funny after Hogan's own Never Live It Down moment in 2015. (Although it should be noted that Booker T was one of the first people that Hulk Hogan apologized to.)
• Memetic Mutation: "Hulk Hogan! We comin' fo' YOU, nigga!" (Cue self-Facepalm)
  • "What da hell?!"
  • Go on YouTube and go to any video that has the "Booker T/Harlem Heat" theme, each one will have comments that says "Sounds like a Tekken stage theme".
  • "You lookin' real jacked, baby!" ^ExplanationDuring the Backlash 2017 pre-show panel, Erick Rowan approaced the analysts, and Booker tried to calm him down by repeating this phrase.
• Narm: A lot occurred during his King Booker gimmick in 2006.
  • Narm Charm: But then there were the times when he would break character.
  • While he'll never be mistaken for Jim Ross, his commentary was often one of the most entertaining parts of Smackdown.
• Never Live It Down: See Memetic Mutation. He's had plenty of other lines. To paraphrase independent wrestler Afroman/Grizzled Youth
  "When I used to hear Booker T I thought five time champion, bookend, spinaroonie, scissor kick. But thanks to youtube..."
• So Bad, It's Good: Booker T on commentary is either this or just bad. Either way, there is no way to honestly say he's a good commentator, but can be entertaining.
• Spiritual Successor: While the Pro Wrestling Alliance school was founded by Booker T to make sure more pro wrestlers were properly trained, the shows they put on were supposed to call back to Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling, a promotion from the 1920-1980s.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: This is the guy Linda McMahon herself personally walked up to backstage at his first WWF show, smiling, to tell him face to face "after all these years, we finally have you". And he loses the blowoff in a feud (which the babyfaces hardly ever lose). He never completely came back from that despite winning the world title some years later. People view HHH as a mellower version of Vince, but some of his decisions should frighten you.

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