The 10 Best WWE Superstar Appearances in TV Shows
It’s nothing new for pro wrestlers to make appearances on television shows outside of wrestling itself. Sometimes it’s a matter of serving as ambassadors of the business.
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Sometimes, it’s a legitimate acting opportunity for that wrestler to crossover into mainstream media. Regardless of the intention, or what show the performer made an appearance on, these moments did expose wrestling and its stars to a broader audience, if only for one TV episode.
Not all wrestlers on TV shows are created equally. Sometimes the appearances underscore the wrestler’s limited acting abilities and arguably set them and the business back. There are, however, those times when it does work out well in surprising ways, or work out so bad that they’re good—iconic for how silly the moment turns out to be.
This article takes a look back at a ten different times when wrestlers appeared on non-wrestling TV shows with memorable results that any hardcore fan ought to see at least one time.
#10 The Rock on That 70s Show
This was a pretty straightforward case of a wrestler getting exposure and lending some credibility for a show’s foray into wrestling.
It gets bonus points as an episode fan really ought to see if for no other reason than how surreal it is to see The Rock as just another wrestler. Sure, by the time this episode originally aired in 1999,
The Rock was already a main event talent, on his way to headlining his first WrestleMania not long after, but was hardly the star he would rise to become in WWE, let alone when his Hollywood career exploded in the years to follow.
Sometimes wrestlers on TV shows don’t venture too far from their established careers. In this case, The Rock actually played a wrestler on a wrestling show that the cast visits for this episode. (As a fun aside, it’s alluded that Rock is playing his actual father, Rocky Johnson, who wrestled in the 1970s.)