- Fandom Rivalry: With The Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast, which like OSW, focuses the same pre-modern era of pro wrestling, interspersed with comedy and sketches. However, The Lapsed Fan tends to go into FAR greater detail (the average podcast can last anywhere from 3-5 hours) and there is a far greater amount of Black Comedy and self depreciation from The Lapsed Fan. Specifically, while the lads from OSW embrace the ridiculousness of kayfabe, The Lapsed Fan mocks it and pro wrestling as a business, referring to its fans as naturally self-loathing (and encouraging such a perspective). Naturally, fans argue who does the recap concept better.
- Growing the Beard:
- Around halfway through the Hulkamania era, the sound quality improves and the jokes get better. They also establish a number of Running Gags.
- The beard started growing once OOC returned (Survivor Series '88), establishing the trio of reviewers that have been there ever since. The beard was fully set for the Survivor Series '91 review, which debuted the "What bar?" bit.
- Harsher in Hindsight: WrestleMania VII sees 17 participants now dead. It gets even worse, as that episode was recorded before Paul Bearer, Ultimate Warrior, Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka, Jim Neidhart, Bobby Heenan, "Mean" Gene Okerlund, Howard Finkel, and Road Warrior Animal died, putting the current total at 26 (28 if you include guest commentators and interviewers Regis Philbin and Alex Trebek).
- Right in the middle of the boys reviewing the Warrior in WCW arc, which included the "Last Call" Scott Hall gimmick, Scott Hall passed away due to complications from a broken hip. The next episode released afterwards having been recorded a month before.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In the Capital Carnage review, recorded while Becky Lynch worked under a Riverdance gimmick in NXT, the boys riff on the idea of Becky being fast tracked to main-event a PPV held in Ireland. Following her Character Rerailment in late 2018, Becky became so wildly popular with WWE Fans that she went on to headline WrestleMania 35.
- In their review of Total Divas, the guys cover the WWE's aborted attempt to launch their own premium cable network, with them remarking that the channel would have never gotten the million subscribers needed to make it viable due their belief that the majority of wrestling fans wouldn't care about old back content. Not three months after the review released, the WWE Network launched as a less risky streaming service and has become one of the company's biggest ventures, with close to two million subscribers. And what drew a very significant number of those subscribers? Old back content.
- In the WrestleMania 35 episode, Jay, V1, and Maffew bemoan Braun Strowman's many stop-start pushes when it came to WrestleMania time after he wins the pre-show André the Giant memorial battle royal. One year later, Braun defeats Goldberg for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 36.
- Heartwarming Moments: Jay is always there for aspiring podcasters or youtubers, giving them advice or outright promoting their channels on social media.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "Oh, yeah, I got this. What a pittance!"note
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