Eddie Guerrero shows up at the Playboy Mansion demanding to speak to Hugh Hefner. The bodyguard thinks he means his actual mother. The door gets slammed in his face. He walks away cool. Tommy Blacha and Rob Pasbani recap the September 14, 2000 edition of WWF SmackDown, live from the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona.

Foley books three tag matches to force the Unforgiven participants to coexist: Angle and Triple H vs T&A, Kane and Benoit vs the Acolytes, and Rock and Undertaker vs the Dudleys in a tables match. The stipulation is that if you attack your partner before the pay-per-view, your Unforgiven match is cancelled. The hosts count roughly six ways the stipulation gets broken before the night is over.

Triple H and Angle team up and spend the entire match trying to outshine each other against T&A. Test takes advantage of the dysfunction, pins Triple H clean, and gets the biggest singles win of his career to that point. T&A are not given a moment to celebrate. The hosts have a lot to say about that.

Edge and Christian, meanwhile, introduce the Hardys of the Future. Two elderly men dressed exactly like Matt and Jeff with the jinkos and the cutoff shirts come to the ring. Then Lita's music hits. It is a third old man. Edge says "dude, time travel rules" and he is not wrong.

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Other major discussion points include:

• Tazz buys a front-row seat directly behind Cole and Lawler, brings a bucket of popcorn, gets mic'd up throughout the Blackman vs Saturn hardcore match, and pours the rest of the popcorn on Cole on his way out
• Kane and Benoit have a dysfunction problem: Benoit walks out mid-match and leaves Kane in a two-on-one situation while the hosts puzzle over who technically broke the stipulation first
• Val Venis joins Right to Censor in white pants while everyone else wears black, says "I wasn't brainwashed" and "selective censorship is not wrong," and the crowd responds with a "ho" chant
• Rock asks Lillian "do you like pie?" and the hosts have a lot of questions about the internal logic of this new catchphrase
• Listener of the week: MKJ Comics writes in about his grandma who thought wrestling was real her whole life, called upset every time Triple H used a sledgehammer, and was buried with a John Cena wall clock
• PMFG weighs in: we are already in the bad creative period, the problems of 2001 started in 2000, and the Radicals died months in with no story

Chapter marks

• 00:00 Cold Open
• 00:22 Welcome / Phoenix / SmackDown 9/14/2000
• 03:18 Listener Comments / Jonathan on Kreski and Continuity
• 11:25 MKJ Comics: The Grandma Who Thought Wrestling Was Real
• 15:12 PMFG: "We're Already in the Bad Creative Period"
• 16:00 Back to the Show / America West Arena
• 18:29 Foley Opens / "I Answer to the Fans"
• 18:51 Tangent: Paul Heyman 2025 / "We Don't Answer to the Fans"
• 22:43 Opening Segment / Foley Books Unforgiven
• 25:10 Triple H Out / Tag Matches and Stipulations Announced
• 31:25 Kane and Benoit vs Acolytes
• 36:39 Triple H in Foley's Office
• 37:34 Eddie at the Playboy Mansion
• 38:58 Chyna Packs Her Bags
• 40:14 Val Venis / "I Wasn't Brainwashed"
• 42:52 Rikishi and Too Cool vs Right to Censor / Eddie Interferes
• 44:59 Test and Trish Backstage
• 45:36 Triple H and Angle vs T&A / Test Pins Triple H
• 50:46 Tazz Wants to Quit / Foley Books Tazz vs Lawler at Unforgiven
• 51:27 Edge and Christian: The Hardys of the Future
• 54:43 Blackman vs Saturn / Tazz Heckles from Front Row
• 56:32 Edge, Christian, and X-Pac vs Jericho and the Hardys
• 58:32 Rock Promo / Do You Like Pie?
• 1:00:04 Main Event: Rock and Undertaker vs Dudleys (Tables Match)
• 1:04:19 Final Thoughts and Sign-Off

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