Mae Young's Son: A joke that paid off 14 years later...

Mae Young's Son: A joke that paid off 14 years later...

AsI was reading through TV Tropes, I came across this strange storylinefrom the “Brick Jokes” entry. The brick joke is when a writer sets up a joke that will receive a payoff much later in the episode or years later in another season. WWE probably did one of the strange and most clever payoffs in history, which happened this year.

Way back in 98, Mae Young, discovered she was pregnant. This seemed strange because she is so old. She had the baby, and it ended up being a human hand. No one knows why it happened, but it happened. Flashforward to 2012 and they paid it off with a man-sized hand introducing himself as Mae's son. Brilliant.

You can see the "birthing" video right here.

The Payoff

You can clearly that the side TV guys had no idea this was going to show up on the show.  Listen to their laughter.