I'm going to look even further back into history, and bring up memories of The Gobbledygooker. If you don't know what that is, youtube it. Seriously, wheeling out a giant egg for weeks on end leading up to Survivor Series, and having it hatch into a giant turkey man? And what makes it worse is Mean Gene's "interviewing" of it.
"You can't be the GOBBLEDYGOOKER?!"
makes for horrid tv.