Brick Joke/Professional Wrestling


 * An especially satisfying example was seen at the No Way Out pay-per-view event in February 2004. Bill Goldberg (a Raw Superstar) was bearing a venomous grudge against then-WWE Champion Brock Lesnar (a SmackDown! Superstar) for having helped Kurt Angle eliminate him from the Royal Rumble Match nearly a month before. Midway through No Way Out, Goldberg entered San Francisco's Cow Palace and took a front-row seat, much to the displeasure of SmackDown! General Manager Paul Heyman. Lesnar, too, was perturbed by Goldberg's presence, and dared his nemesis to come into the ring and face him man to man. Goldberg started to get up to do just that, infuriating Heyman. "You stay right there, Goldberg - or I'll have you arrested!" he screamed. Goldberg ignored him, so Heyman had members of the arena security apprehend the Raw Superstar and lead him out of the arena in handcuffs (and, presumably, to jail). The show then continued, with both Heyman and Lesnar believing they'd succeeded in preventing Goldberg from causing trouble. But at the climax of the evening, during a WWE Championship match between Lesnar and Eddie Guerrero in which the referee had been knocked out, Goldberg inexplicably reappeared - unhandcuffed - and tackled Lesnar! One Frog Splash from the top of a turnbuckle later, and Eddie Guerrero had made history as the first cruiserweight to win the WWE Championship! The program then wrapped up with a happy ending: Eddie being hugged and congratulated by various members of his family.
 * This is essentially a Running Gag Brick Joke in wrestling. Keep track of how many times in a year a wrestler is either escorted out of the building or is declared to not be present, only to have said wrestler appear later.
 * The final resolution of WCW's "who drove the white humvee" plotline- at least a year after the angle fizzled out- was an example of this.
 * Along with a Retcon - it was originally a black Humvee. They reshot it with a white Humvee for The Reveal (such as it was).
 * During a backstage match between Booker T and The Big Show, Triple H drove by in the background on a forklift. What was originally a Big Lipped Alligator Moment turned out important when Rob Van Dam's lumberjacks for his lumberjack match against Triple H were mysteriously trapped in their locker room by a forklift.
 * Santino Marella would end up falling out of the ring under the bottom rope in the 2011 Royal Rumble. He would make a recovery about 10 minutes later when Alberto Del Rio was proclaimed the winner of the Rumble, and would almost win the match had he not boast about it and thus gave time for Alberto Del Rio to take him over the top rope.
 * Leading up to a WWE Championship match at the 2006 Royal Rumble, John Cena cut a promo directed at Edge, or more specifically, his then-valet Lita. The promo was essentially a long string of excuses to call Lita a "ho," which, of course, lead to a "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan reference ("HOOOOOOO!!!"). At the Rumble itself, Cena would come out on top, and a very agitated Edge would refuse a backstage interview with Todd Grisham. Lita took the interview instead to rant at Todd, and guess who shows out up of nowhere to make fun of her. Hint: "HOOOOOOO!!!"