This should be someone everyone loves and trusts. Bob Hope, Carl Sagan, or Ed MacMahon would be good. Don’t even think about Rone.
[Hold on TITLE for a few seconds. Fade into NARRATOR seated at a desk]
NARRATOR: Yes, pants. Everybody knows about them…
[Sudden crashing music. Zoom into a tight shot of NARRATOR’S eyes narrowing]
Or do they?
[Music stops abruptly. Zoom back to previous shot of NARRATOR]
Today on our historical docudrama, we take a look at pants. Pants throughout history. Their role in weaving the fabric of modern life. Pants in philosophy. Pants in war. And…
[Music starts to fade in: something orchestral by some baroque guy]
Pants in love.
[Music continues up. Picture fades away from NARRATOR, fades into a close-up of JULIET looking intensely at the camera]
JULIET: Romeo, oh Romeo. Where art thy pants?
[Pull back slowly. JULIET is on a balcony. Beneath her is ROMEO. He is not wearing any pants]
[Back to NARRATOR at desk]
NARRATOR: But let’s start at the very beginning. Let’s look at the Dawn of Pants.
[Shimmery bit of camera work; scene changes to a shot of jungle, loud bird noises, monkeys hooting in the background, that sort of thing. Hold long enough to establish shot, then GROG runs past as fast as he can. Immediately behind him is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. GROG is not wearing any pants. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is wearing pants]
NARRATOR (VOICEOVER): Is this where it all started?
[Scene changes to a PANEL OF EXPERTS sitting at a long table. Camera starts at far left, pans right. As it picks up each new person’s head, that expert speaks. Very serious]
MATT: Yes.
GROG: No.
CARL SAGAN: Billions… er, yes.
TIGER WOODS: My putting was good, but my drives were short.
TYRANNOSAURUS REX: Yes.
[Cut to graphic. Three pairs of pants are stacked to show “Yes,” one pair of pants is stacked to show “No,” two pairs are stacked to show “Putting.” A pair of cut-off shorts shows “Drives.” Hold on graphic for three seconds]
[Scene changes back to NARRATOR at his desk]
NARRATOR: But pants didn’t really enter history until the Trojan War, when the cunning Odysseus suggested the Trojan Pants.
[Scene changes to outside ancient Troy. A huge pair of wooden pants stands on the plain outside. After a minute, the gates of Troy open and the Trojans come out and pull the pants inside the walls with a giant pair of suspenders]
NARRATOR (VOICEOVER): And not until Roman times did pants really become part of the mainstream of history.
[Camera moves smoothly along a Roman road. It passes a series of stone pants on the side of the road. Chiseled on the pants are the following inscriptions:
WHEN THE ROMAN LEGIONS
CONQVERED FRANCE
THEIR WHISKERS CAME OFF
SO DID THEIR PANTS
BVRMA SHAVE ]
[Scenes change to various examples of Roman architecture. An aqueduct is supported on arches; camera zooms in on an arch, we see it is a pair of pants made of stone blocks. Close-up of a stone gate: zoom back so we can see it is the fly of a pair of mostly buried pants. The Colosseum: the arches are carved in pants. A series of temples; pillars are in the shapes of pants…]
“Brittle Bryan Danielson that’s what we call him now, Zack!”
“Brittle Bryan! I like that one, Nige, I like that one”
It sure was a double clam(digger) roast, hosted by Nigel and Zack on commentary. Here’s a supercut of some unhinged moments (check out this other supercut of it too) thanks to @sheinthatfandom for sending me the vids!!
Kevin Kelly I will curbstomp your ass do NOT tell Nigel to stop calling Bryan a clam digger
You having a dirty mind doesn’t mean that’s what it means
But then again it’s not like Kevin Kelly talks to any of the staff watches the product or even watches interviews so he wouldn’t know Bryan and Aubrey edwards are clam diggers and collect clams and keep them as pets
Now watching Collision! Here we go (under the cut cause it got really long):
Tony’s on commentary for Collision? Okay, I’m cool with that
Metalingus is a fantastic fucking song
Oh wow does Christian look good in that shirt. Goddamn.
The ‘Christian will you be my father?’ sign 😂
“Hit the bricks” “get to steppin” loving these coming from Christian
If not Luchasaurus or Jack Perry or whatever, I’m gonna need Adam to be the one to take that TNT belt off of Christian
Bryan!!
Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne banned from ringside. Fantastic
Ricky and Bill?? What the fuck do you two have to do with any of this
Oh right his whole thing with Bryan
“It’s your stupid silk slacks dumbass” “and you took it from the Rock” oh shit Adam
“That really sent me over the edge” I will never get tired of the dumb Edge jokes
I would absolutely love a Bryan/Adam team up. LOVE.
FTR? Really?
Oh cry me a fucking river you idiots
Oooh it’s brawl time
Well this inevitable eight man tag match is gonna be interesting
Oh I love that they played MJF’s Stand Up to Jewish Hate video package
CJ Perry is so gorgeous, my god
I do not like the ROH ring announcer at all
DANHAUSEN!!!!
Oh my god he said it’s almost time, I’m so excited
Juice!!
That son of a bitch needs to give Max his belt back
Wow, all of the tape on Cardblade. Poor Cock Strong
Oh my god the ring
Down on one knee and everything
“Nigel you don’t think-” 😂
The MJF chant 🥹
I swear to god if he takes the ring from Max I will lose my shit
And if Jay fucking White takes the belt from him I might actually have a breakdown
That motherfucker saying he has no friends, I swear to god I hope Max kicks his ass so hard
Dustin’s back!! It would be so fucking fantastic if he (or honestly anybody else) beat Juice in the battle royale
Don’t really like adding him to the long list of people trying to kill Max though
The “we’ve been trios champions for ___ days” thing is so good
“If it’s a thing to you, it’s a thing for all of us” awww
BILLY AND ANTHONY TRYING TO HELP CASTER 🥹 “just be a gentleman” I’m dying this is so sweet
Renee losing her shit was so funny
I adore Daddy Magic and Cool Hand Ang but Daniel Garcia can fuck off
. . . I do not care about Skye Blue at all
But never mind about that because IT’S STAT TIME!!!!
I’m pretty sure she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen
“What’re you doing? This isn’t you” oh Stat 😢
I love that Stat is out here just giving literally everyone she wrestles the best matches of their careers
Okay they can turn Skye Blue heel all they want but they cannot turn Willow heel, that’s ridiculous. Her joy is stronger than that black shit
And you’ll have to pry Staturday Nightingale out of my cold dead hands
OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS TONY
Oh Kenny vs Kyle is gonna be good
Yeah I’m really not in any hurry for Rush and his buddies to come back
Turbo Floyd is definitely on the list of worst wrestling names of all time
I really like that they have storylines from ROH progress (or even just reference them) on AEW TV
Sting on Wednesday?? Fuck yeah
Oh my god the render for Nick Wayne’s mom
Ooh that Mistico video package was fantastic
Time for Bryan vs Christian, this is going to be awesome
‘Christian did nothing wrong’ 😂
Oh shit, no time limit? Is that the first time they’ve ever actually said that? I feel like it might be. Like sure, they always ‘go as long as it takes’ but I don’t remember ever hearing them say that
“Necks by Christian Cage” “Who’s gonna sun this match, and why is it Christian Cage?” “Doesn’t need to mat wrestle a clam digger” Nigel is the best
I really need Excalibur on this show because I have no idea what so much of the stuff Bryan is doing is called and I would really like to
Love seeing Nigel on his feet in the background just losing his shit
That was a great match
Oh brawl #2
That was a really great show! Can’t wait for Wednesday
i need hades to wear an outfit made entirely out of clothes with stupid names. so far hes in creepers and clam diggers with a pussybow. is there a hat with a silly name