WWE RAW The Little People’s Court - DEADLOCK Podcast Retro Review

[@kiddkingpin]

*sighs and rolls up sleeves*

[@perfectlyse9859]

U got this one chief I believe in u

[@MrFunkyJon]

Non-Patreon listeners, strap the fuck in. This is one of the most unhinged episodes of all time.

[@LeftStickGaming]

It's definitely the one I've gone back to the most this year.

[@jiovanysoltero923]

I’m Clenching

[@sammcmillan545]

First time listening since the original release. The bella/IRS/Miz/Tiger/special guest/ whoever the fuck else genuinely might be the greatest few minutes in mankind

[@MrFunkyJon]

@@sammcmillan545 And then that moment where Tony full on rambles and disassociates.

[@toomuchgravy8121]

the little whimper james does after the IRS reveal destroyed me

[@nikorazavi4775]

1:02:03 lol

[@TheProfProfessor]

Shawn’s eye canonically allows him to understand little people and black people

[@Heelvelsper]

at clash at the castle 2024 yesterday, during the sami zayn/chad gable match, there was a sign in the crowd that read "where's little peoples court?" :)

[@dorkswag1369]

Oh no, not the 2009/2010s

[@WillMakeFriedChicken]

What? Dont you realize the world was watching at this time.... Or maybe they werent dude!

[@future8772]

THE WORLD IS WATCHING

[@OurJosh]

@@future8772IF YA SMELLLLLLLLL 🗣️ YOU’RE FIRED 🗣️ GIVE ME A HELL YEAH! 🗣️

[@ethan_benfield]

Oh YES. Because the worse the show is. The more fun it is to listen to the boys shit on it.

[@MattThunder7759]

I know people don't like this era, but this was my childhood and I loved it

[@KamoMustafaWWE]

Deadlock reviewing Raw 2009? Are my eyes decieving me? We went 10 years into the future.

[@brentr0710]

I think we all know that below Hornswoggle's hell in that mall is only Hulk Hogan's Pastamania.

[@johnenigma8506]

Anyone who watched RAW during 2009 is entitled to financial compensation.

[@TheRealJayX__]

Nah fr

[@DyingIinyourarms]

Where do I claim it?

[@BrockSamsonVB]

What’s bad is I genuinely think it’s better than 2010.

[@dontmatterbecause1009]

The special guest host era was unbearable but 10 yr old me just ignored it

[@chip.chippa6416]

I tried so hard to keep it in my life but for me it was a Father Son ritual for years. My Dad hated it tbh called it pure bullshit most the time. But then he'd pop for Austin laugh his ass off. For an old Irish Catholic he let a lot of stuff fly. But then came the Katy Vick promo and it was done. I came back on my own in 09 when I was in college. Why I don't bloody know. But these lads make me rememeber why. This was literally me and my mates watching it back ripping the shit out of it. Raw 09 on your own or family was madness. With mates it was a drinking game.

[@yenkocamaro6965]

The Cena/Swagger match reminded me of a moment I had playing SVR 2011 when I was a kid, where I (playing as Swagger) countered Cena's top rope famouser with the push up taunt. I love that game

[@SomeDumbKid1]

The guest host era of Raw is so wretched that the boys would rather talk about the Bella Twins stepping on Tony Atlas with shit-covered feet

[@hankarmas]

Guest host era Raw 2009, undoubtedly the WORST time to be a wrestling fan in this era.

[@jiovanysoltero923]

Mine was the Raw “SuperShows” when both Smackdown storylines were crammed in a Raw show, making the Brand Split obsolete for a while.

[@tylercox1875]

@@jiovanysoltero923that and when they changed the logo and the authority became a thing

[@mitchellmills1234]

Hey I used to love that shit 😂 I got a dx shirt that said worlds biggest member on it when I was like 11 at the ZZ Top guest host and I still have no idea why they were the host in North Carolina 😂

[@dallasarnold1803]

Yup! It was a unwatchable time to be a WWE fan. Worst than 2017-2019.

[@javondrake3660]

My favorite time throughout WWE absolutely legendary. 2009 raw should be up there with 98/99 raw.

[@TheBlackPigeon]

1:22:23 Tony starts droppin' knowledge about life and the universe. Real heavy shit.

[@tigerdriver09]

Johnny's Dusty Rhodes impression is the most funniest and based thing i ever saw in my life

[@thatguyfromak5190]

God I forgot how much this broke them at the end. 2009 RAW was a different breed.

[@gnosis_pr37]

I died when Pulse compared Miz to Denk😭

[@derickpelton3107]

The implication that Shawn had his eye messed up to unlock knowledge on how to talk to little people like fucking Odin is unhinged

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

That Tony Atlas laugh came out of nowhere and made me fall out my seat laughing

[@tylercox1875]

FEET

[@eddygm886]

GIMME DEM DELICIOUS FEET

[@justinkongglang7080]

Tony atlas laugh is so funny Like when he did a slammy award with David otunga and Tony just kept laughing at him

[@AnOldEnglishBloke]

James graduated high school in 2011? Fuck! Fair though that he would take a bullet to the brain rather than watch WWE in 2011. I left high school in 1996, and even here in England, wrestling was lit. Sure, it was rough at times, but it was the beginning of the goat era.

[@ews6724]

THE WORLD IS WATCHING

[@jiovanysoltero923]

Apparently James didn’t know.

[@MasterPancakes]

THE WORLD IS LAUGHING

[@GamingCreed47]

I think he should've called somebody.

[@jakeyboi8679]

Or maybe not dude

[@EvanSchatz]

THE WORLD IS WATCHING.... rawwwwwww

[@FranchiseVideosINC]

This may be my most listened to episode ever… Jesus Christ I LOVE it

[@ComXDude]

I appreciate the Left 4 Dead sidebar. Now I want to see NewLegacy play Versus Mode on stream.

[@user-im8ru2bt7u]

Deadlock reviewing the PG era is inspired booking brother

[@JacksonLane02]

Pain. And this is coming from someone who watched a bit of WWE in 2009/2010 but didn't fully watch WWE or wrestling til 2013

[@fredfuckstone914]

Bro if my first wrestling shows were 2009-2011 I wouldn't be a fan lol

[@mrmoviemanic1]

I don’t think 09 was the worst time. 2010-2015 was the worst time for me, 2017-2020 weren’t easy times either. But 09 felt like the last gasp of the fandom I wanted from WWE. After that it was never the same

[@user-im8ru2bt7u]

I’ve revisited this pod episode so many times on the Patreon now I’m doing it on KZbin 😂 please review more special guest era raw

[@CJExtreme98]

I remember being like, "yeah, i'm playing the Wii whenever there's a match/segment idc about" 😂

[@MoonMan619-s0n1c]

I know this era of WWE sucked, but man they make for fun Deadlock pod episodes.

[@gatlindowney7247]

WWE had me thinking little people couldn’t talk till i was like 12

[@JoeChillton]

No surprise South Park did the Tiger and golf club gag alot better than WWE. Shocker lol

[@cjc9328]

If you told them this episode took place 10 years earlier they would’ve said it’s the greatest thing ever

[@noahgilmore4837]

I really appreciate the boys marking out over how good L4D is

[@dalesomething]

well i just watched this whole video already dude. or did i brother????

[@LeftStickGaming]

I'm having a little bit of deja vu here brother. Or maybe I'm not dude.

[@gnosis_pr37]

HBK was dragged my midgets or maybe he didn't brother, maybe he just slipped

[@jamiewiesner135]

December 21 2009 the day the world stopped smiling? Dude that was dark.

[@jimmy3people0]

can corroborate, I was 9 in 2009 and basically the moment jeff hardy left I was done watching WWE for like 4-5 years

[@JackgarPrime]

You know the episode is fucked when it breaks fown into the boys Tony Atlas posting.

[@notstanley9204]

I had to pause this and listen to Maryses' theme after hearing that beautiful rendition by Tony

[@AJDaniels99]

Thank God for Smackdown around this time

[@grizzly_lariatto]

Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho & CM Punk were holding this company together with glue and duct tape

[@eltornadoAfm]

Smackdown, and all those live ROH shows I got to see in Toronto. If not for that I would've been done with wrestling

[@anonymousangel1064]

It's so rare to see the Boys so defeated by an episode. Truly magical shit.

[@Pancakes26]

1:00:09 one of the most unhinged backstage segments in wrestling history (also now one of my favorite deadlock moments ever)

[@illicitllama1694]

I was a loyal kid, I fought through Hogan/Bischoff TNA AND 09 DX, Vinny Mac needed the views, I personally take some credit in the fact they’re a global powerhouse now

[@grinkadink214]

Gew up in this era I 100% watched TNA and ROH and just legit anything else

[@eddygm886]

1:18:47 1:19:00 1:19:14 1:19:28 “UH HUH HUH HUH HUH!”😂

[@Gebraldo420]

2:40... I was waiting for my favorite Uncle Tony Quote... "Yeah, im gonna have to call bullshit on that one!"

[@brent4g89]

It’s tough being a person who grew up with the pg era because that’s what started my love of wrestling so I do have many fond memories of things I really enjoyed but I’m also very aware of the bullshit of this time. Also funny old man dx was hilarious as a kid and now it’s hilarious for how cringe it is.

[@gnosis_pr37]

I need a sync of the DX segments😭

[@NuMetalfan1996]

Oh boy Raw was getting real rough at this time. I will defend July 2005 to June 2007 WWE to the day I die. But boy by this point WWE was really really in the mud. But Shawn Michaels has said that this is one of his all time favourite DX moments, in the Little People’s court.

[@tylercox1875]

I like dx in 2006-2010 😂

[@Adachifan54]

i think 2008 Raw and everything leading up to WM 25 was decent, but holy shit Raw was absolutely unwatchable until 2011. Smackdown Didn't really get bad until 2010 though.

[@leosault]

as soon as I heard the Hogan/Inoki story at the start, I knew I was in for a fucking ride

[@JeremiahPrice31]

Boys, this was my childhood, and not only that, this was when I started watching wrestling, when I was 9. However, the only thing I remember from this episode is the Little People's court, which as a kid, RULED (just like this version of DX, which is why I truly got into wrestling).

[@JayEmersontheman]

Oh hell yeah I’m so fucking ready for this one hahahah just had a good workout after deciding I need to get back into better shape, groomed my dog and bathed her, did some deep cleaning and trimmed my hair. Dropped dead in bed and saw this uploaded 15 mins ago!!? Oh WE ARE BACK

[@carlanderton3rd]

9:06 start

[@TheMatthardyv1]

thank you

[@carlanderton3rd]

@@TheMatthardyv1 no problem

[@simonhernandez5317]

I was a kid during that DX era that why I liked them I was 9 years old lol

[@KlaireMurre]

I still like them for that. I jist don't care to take wrestling as serious entertainment most the time. It's a glorified soap opera you bust out the pop corn for and shut the brain off

[@marcusfaze]

Timely episode, Happy Holidays Hogdippers

[@Kiddism101]

They need to do the episode with Grandmaster Saxay returned and got zero reaction from the kiddie PG crowd.

[@clintstewart5545]

you can feel their pain the pain they had of watching this particular show

[@tcwf21496]

Dude I loved this era of wwe! Of course I was like 12, and had just discovered wrestling in 2008 I also was a much bigger fan of TNA

[@dancolonna6590]

I think the tiger is a reference to the Detroit tigers, the team he was about to play for

[@ejmovement1613]

1:24:53 My dawg, where did Tony pull that Adam Sandler impression? LMAOOOO

[@gking2709]

Just leaving a LITTLE comment

[@tigerdriver09]

EHE EHE EHE

[@Osmundsaddler-4]

No one cares

[@gking2709]

@@Osmundsaddler-4 thanks for keeping it SHORT

[@Ironman1o1]

Oh god, oh fuck man!

[@zutharthirteen]

uhhh SMALL comment uhhhh MINI comment ahhhh

[@robertlee9602]

Alriiiight, I just remember dx going under the ring and Shawn still had that lazy eye.

[@ayok101]

It's right around this era that I stopped watching wrestling regularly

[@dallasarnold1803]

Well I stopped watching RAW and went on to watching SmackDown during that era. I will not stop watching WWE and wrestling because I'm still a professional wrestling fan and just like Ric Flair says, "I will never retire." I took a break from watching RAW ever again.

[@DevDoesMore]

Johnny Damon sounded exactly like Spinner from the Canadian show "Degrassi"

[@tigerdriver09]

the guest host on that episode was james' cat

[@herowesley1804]

I remember playing smackdown vs raw 2011, I'd go to my friend's to play and would beat his ass so bad that after a week he wouldn't play it with me when I went over

[@kevinhill6854]

Their McMahon parody skit was good because Shawn bouncing around as Shane. Other than that, this era of DX was brutal

[@natebarboza5717]

Yah buddy have a good day guys!!!

[@KyleSupremeo]

Me thinking about and then Johnny immediately after mentioning the bella twins shittin on dudes at 1:18:46 brought me much joy. Daniel Bryans beard was lookin a little darker

[@legendarygamering]

Im sorry deadlock but as a kid I loved this version of dx. I got to watch hbk and triple h be funny I didn't like them too much when they were serious and to this day I LOVE THIS LITTLE PEOPLES COURT SEGMENT.

[@chsftball57]

Why does John just have a hand drawn picture?

[@Twangle_V1]

OH MY!

[@danielwoodruff9881]

Johnny Day-Mahn is here to host Raw.

[@EvanSchatz]

He's here to host rawwwwww

[@eddygm886]

1:25:39 This is where this episode really went off the rails😂

[@rtmachine2019]

I like SVR 2010 was the first WWE game I owned

[@mitchellmills1234]

as much shit as guest host raw gets the worst was the secret general manager of raw era where Michael Cole and john laryngitis were the main focus of the show. like two of the least charismatic people ever being your main villains for what feels like years.

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Nightmare realization: Triple H was a babyface from 2006-2013. We're about to have a whole generation standing on business to say Triple H is an all-time great babyface bc they grew up with that. TRIPLE H... BABYFACE!!

[@mastercorey_official]

Why does John Blud camera always stay off during recording a podcast

[@SebTakesOver]

"GIMMIE DAT DAMON!" 💀💀

[@future8772]

32:15 Tony speaking Sandman

[@TheChrisPhoenix]

Honestly to go to James point about guys coming into TNA and just seem like they don't care after a week or so is probably something to do with the scheduling I feel. Think about it, imagine filming about 4-5 episodes of wrestling in a span of 24 hours? That was TNA around this time period.

[@carlanderton3rd]

1:14:00 "You are an idiot ahhh!"

[@SometimesFunny1]

Here for the wheeze laughs

[@Darknova67]

Nope, I love this DX and hear me out. They came out on a freaking tank at SummerSlam. Badass. And that series of Triple H searching for shawn micheals and finding him as a chef where he eventually kicks the head off of an annoying kid, Gold. That sold me on them. The rest of their run could be complete ass, but they had a fun look, Tank, and attacked children. Based DX

[@omegusalpha7233]

svr 2010 slander gets you a fast pass to hell

[@Tribleman247]

Okay, I do have a reasoning as to why I love this whole seg so much and yes, its possibly one of the worst WWE segs of all time... BUT... This is possibly one of the best episodes of Always Sunny ever, with Shawn as Charlie and Hunter as Dennis

[@flippy7035]

I’m HUNGRY

[@JordanHosler]

Terrible terrible flashbacks

[@damiansein860]

Pain. Agony even

[@chucktweegee]

I was so lucky to be 12 when I watched this episode live, if I was 5 years older this would have stopped me from being a wrestling fan

[@AnOldEnglishBloke]

I was 30 years old when this episode came up. I was already checked out.

[@MaddDoggProductions]

Won't lie, being that this was my era of wwe, I feel like I should have taken a break from watching. Alot of this was pushed way back into my brain.

[@JackgarPrime]

A day that will live in infamy

[@AyakoHamadaFan]

I fucking loved this segment, this was my era, man.

[@dallasarnold1803]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@ronwapossibly]

i think this is why i associate wrestling with video games more than tv because even as a kid i hated this shit but svr07 was my shit as a kid

[@RGF91]

2009 raw 😫

[@dallasarnold1803]

Ah yes, The RAW with the parody of "The People's Court" take place in late 2009 in a christmas episode. This is the time WWE is unwatchable and going downhill from the 2009-2011 period, 2012-2013, it revived being good again and 2014-2015, going downhill again and 2016, slowly going uphill again, 2017-2020 it's downhill once again, 2021-present, this company is solid and decent and going uphill again.

[@undercovermonster]

SEE YA 4TH WALL

[@IZA_Grey]

I was playing the AEW game and got sad when I had to pack and smoke Tony Pizza Guy and then Chris Danger

[@zepher_blackstoc2366]

God I wanted to die so much during this raw.

[@dallasarnold1803]

Me too. Thank god those days are over forever.

[@elchomper.1063]

It took a good year or so before the charger didn't scare the hell out of me. Every time I'd drop my controller without fail. I put an ungodly amount of hours into l4d2 I gotta copy for 360 and I don't even have an Xbox of any sort. But if I do I got the only game I need. Even offline it's great. Impossible on expert with bots. But advanced can be hard when it wants to be. Easy is fun to Speedrun glitchless I did the entirety of hard rain in like 11 minutes.

[@Foxzolaire]

I would so watch you guys play L4D. Just sayin.

[@ad206]

24:42 There's not a chance in hell if I was between the ages of 7 and 12 in 2009, I'd have been a wrestling fan.

[@walterg9321]

But... but dx? Lol

[@idk6970]

Smackdown was a lot better at this time. Not saying it was the greatest era but it didn't have guest hosts 09 DX and Hornswoggle