February 2, 201312 yr Author comment_5532612 Ted DiBiase is about to go shopping, in a limo with a license plate that has dollar signs on it. Pimp! A limo driver that looks like David Axelrod takes him about town while his entrance music plays. There is a WE ACCEPT TED sign on the door at his jeweler's store, which cracks me up.
February 7, 201312 yr comment_5533890 Just a fun skit. Things like this are major reasons why The Million Dollar Man character is remembered fondly by fans even today.
March 29, 201312 yr comment_5540181 DiBiase goes shopping. Noticed Sherri was with him in one of the brief video clips. Thought that partnership was later in year. Nice touch with the “We Accept Ted” sign on the door. Ted can’t decide what jewelry to buy so he buys it all.
May 30, 201312 yr comment_5545889 Really memorable stuff from Ted here and his treatment of the limo driver was great.
June 18, 201312 yr comment_5548286 Hey! Thats the same guy from the original Million Dollar Belt segments. Nice continuity. His prices, though. Jeez...
April 27, 201510 yr comment_5666371 I thought this was over the top by a fair bit. Yes, the whole character was designed to be that way, but it actually works better when it's toned down slightly. The original vignettes put over the same point (Teddy's a entitled rich man who uses his wealth and flaunts it in front of others just to be a prick) without obvious embellishments such as the vanity license plate and the "We Accept Ted" sign on the jeweler's door. Plus, the laugh's effective in small doses, but when he does it as often as he does here, it's just off-putting. In an earlier thread, I mentioned that they needed to give Savage a possible post-Mania feud should he have beaten Warrior. Crazy as it sounds, I think Teddy could have been it. Have him try to buy Sherri with the jewelry we saw in the skit, which Sherri accepts. Randy demands to know who's trying to tempt his queen, and we have a confrontation that leads to a Sherri turn. Liz comes back to counteract Sherri in Teddy's corner, and we're off and running. I think they might have been leaning that way before they turned Jake, because Randy wasn't happy at all when Sherri hooked up with Teddy after Mania, although she'd already turned on him by then. I'm not sure if this feud would have been the classic that the Jake feud was, but it wouldn't have been a bad substitute if they'd wanted Jake to stay a face, or if Warrior had stuck around to keep him busy after the turn.
October 28, 20177 yr comment_5818082 I never got into Ted when I saw anything WWF as a kid. But the guy really does everything well. He has his character down to a T and all of these segments with him are well-executed.
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