Before major league sports called off their respective seasons, there was a short-lived solution to the threat posed by the novel coronavirus: allow the athletes to compete in empty stadiums.
That led to some very strange imagery like this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qgrKWADAb/
But that’s nothing compared to the dynamic achieved by combining the empty-stadium approach with the highly-produced, energy overload of professional wrestling.
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In this WWE clip, Bray Wyatt gets into it with John Cena, but the whole thing feels like some kind of warp in time/space:
"At #WrestleMania, it's going to be a slaughter. You just don't know it yet."#SmackDown @WWEBrayWyatt @JohnCena pic.twitter.com/3NOgXrjp4Y
— WWE (@WWE) March 14, 2020
And the actual matches are even stranger:
It’s getting weird out there.
cwaigy
Silly question! Why not broadcast some of these events that don’t use a lot of sportspeople? Make them free live broadcast
iminheatlikeacat
If you think that’s weird, go on YouTube and watch clips of Friends with the laugh track removed. It’s utterly bizarre.
jasentylar
Friends is weird with the laugh track.