#4 Too Cool
Too Cool shouldn’t have worked. Grandmaster Sexay and Scott 2 Hotty not only had two of the silliest names in WWE; they also had some of the goofiest ring gear. They looked ridiculous; they sounded ridiculous, and they had a gimmick that was guaranteed to fail.
But it didn’t. Instead of getting booed out of the building, Too Cool typically got one of the night’s biggest pops. Fans loved them, in spite of themselves. Every time they hit the ramp, the crowd was on its feet. They couldn’t get enough of them, and Too Cool became one of WWE’s most popular tag teams.
The addition of Rikishi helped boost their popularity, but Too Cool was over already. Though the trio looked more peculiar than Too Cool itself, fans didn’t mind. At that point, anyone within a hundred feet of Too Cool was automatically going to get over.
The three Superstars consistently brought the house down every time they were in the ring together. Fans loved their tag team work; they loved The Worm, and they loved The Stinkface. The dancing that came after the match was just icing on the cake.
The reason this gimmick worked is very simple; the men involved embraced it. Rather than work too hard to make it believable, or struggle with forcing it into any sort of realistic direction, Scotty, Grandmaster, and Rikishi just had fun with it.
If they were to be the clowns dancing down the ramp, then they were going to do it better than anyone else could. They were the comic relief that became a very well oiled tag team in the ring, and top notch entertainers on camera.
Too Cool is definitely the best example of right place, right time. But their effort made it all possible.
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