WWE SmackDown Top 4 Moments: Stakes for Survivor Series

Bludgeon Brothers

Have any of you ever watched Battlefield Earth? You know, that early 2000 sci-fi film with John Travolta in dreadlocks? I sure have. At the time, it was considered one of the worst films ever made by a major Hollywood studio. I got around to watching it a couple of years ago. Did you know that there’s this one scene where Travolta’s character takes his alien space-gun and starts doing trick shots on cows? On his very first shot, he slices off a cow’s leg clean off at the joint. So clean the leg hilariously kind of tumbles off. I think it was meant to be impressive, but the execution was so cheesy I exploded with laughter.

This is exactly what I feel about the Bludgeon Brothers and their amazingly ramshackle vignettes. I get what WWE is trying to do. I really do. I understand they’re supposed to be intimidating and terrifying.

But how the hell am I supposed to take them seriously when both Rowan and Harper speak like Ultimate Warrior with a whole avocado in his mouth? How can you not burst out laughing when Erick Rowan cocks his head to the side and grumbles “HANGUISH” as he holds his LARP war hammer?

I’m at a point where I’m looking forward to their vignettes as much as the Fashion Files. People who are poo-pooing the Bludgeon Brothers should lighten up and find solace in the unintentionally hilariousness of the vignettes.