That exchange was a callback to "Heart of Archness", right?

…so, The Miz? Seriously, he's been working that gimmick for THAT long.

"I don’t know much about what’s happening on Supergirl these days, but I did enjoy J’onn revealing himself as Martian Manhunter to the STAR Labs crew."

Jordan totally dusted off his "Captain Jack" Kelly accent for this episode.

I was thinking Gauntlet Match as well…although the phrasing of Bryan's announcement ("Every available woman on the SmackDown Live roster") got me doing some fantasy booking, especially given the current heel-heavy state of the SD women's division.

The answer to 'why not just strip Bayley of the title?' reared its head on SD! - Naomi had to surrender her title due to injury, and they probably didn't want to have both women's titles held up in the same week. It's difficult to run the 'Daniel Bryan surrenders the title due to the Authority's fuckery' storyline…

Short-term, at least, it looks like Joe will be feuding with Sami, which is 100% OK by me. Not sure if there's a Sami/Jericho rematch in our future, considering the fallout of tonight's Raw…my guess is Sami/Joe at FastLane (which has the potential to be a classic - and by a fluke of timing, a match not over-exposed in…

Your plan started unfolding during tonight's "Festival of Friendship" segment on Raw.

The benefit to Joe is that rasslin' fans who haven't been watching NXT still know his work in TNA and elsewhere, so just as with "That Guy From Atlanta" a year ago, the Rumble match is a perfect way to call him up.

Ironically, reruns of Sasuke had just returned to the US, airing on…

Oooh - will Cut-Rate James Mason be there? (Again?)

…that, and generally holding WWE title matches (excluding those v. Ellsworth) for Network specials or "event" episodes, like the oddly-named "Wild Card Finals" last week. Making the secondary strap the focus of weekly TV keeps the top title matchups from getting stale.

"So if Daniel Bryan won’t be the one taking down The Miz, and Dolph is a failure, who is the surrogate that finally gets the job done?"

I disagree - primsrily because the finish was the opposite of the Montreal Screwjob. The whole point of the Screwjob was to get the WWF World Title off Bret Hart before he defected to WCW, whereas here, the title remained on the champion (in this case, The Miz), so at best this is a subversion of the Screwjob…

I had to look to it up - "+61" is the international dialing code for Australia. (Note that on their tights, the team name usually includes the "+".)

Shin's entrance theme is easily one of my favorites of any current superstar (along with Rich Swann's "Can You Handle This") and very nearly used it as a ringtone (there are clean copies available on YouTube, although I love the sing-along quality of it). But more than the music, Nakamura's entrance as a whole is near…

FREAKY MOOKIE!

Match Game's main theme and think music is either the original or a very exacting recreation. Pyramid, on the other hand, is using a new recording and new arrangement of the classic theme (the more upbeat late 70's/80's version) which is serviceable but not as peppy as the classic version.

Good luck finding a host who's OK with being the next victim of the Password curse…

…except that if the season 1 finale's outcome is changed as a result of the tangent timeline, then Ronnie never dies and Jax doesn't become the non-Victor Garber half of Firestorm. That could create an issue that the LOT writers can't ignore.