
If you haven't gotten used to seeing this image by now, you're in luck: it's not going anywhere for at least 20 years.
At the start of the episode, we see Terry preparing for one of the occasional wrestling matches he's been doing lately. He tells us that he used to wrestle up to 300 times a year, but his body isn't what it used to be. This is an occasion, then to answer the age-old question: where do broken wrestlers go? Yeah, we know the answer is reality TV, but just go with it.
In the locker room, or maybe the green room, or maybe even more accurately, the cinder-block room, he talks about his underwear.
These are his "flying underwear" because they have a propeller on them that lifts him up in the air and allows him to hover over people with his butt to the sky like the god on earth that he is. Just kidding. They're his flying underwear because he wears them when he takes planes so as to avoid disasters. Yo, when he was in his 300-times a year heyday, those jawns must have stunk.
Then he shows us something else that apparently helps ward off in-air tragedy:
He says that red socks and red underwear are the "secret of safe airplane flying." And the secret of fashionable field hockey!
Then he does his wrestling and it apparently goes well. Does it ever not go well? After the match, he meets with this guy...

A corporate meeting in tights! Only in the weird, wild world of wrestling, kids! Vince takes issue in Terry's in-and-out approach to wrestling participation
. He wants more of a commitment. Terry has kids and a life that he needs tending to. Not to mention a reality show! Things get heated between them. It's pretty funny because they hit this cadence where someone says something and the next person says, "You done?" Blahblahblah..."You finished?" Boys and their peeing contests!
Back at the Miami pad, Terry explains what went down to Linda. He doesn't want to commit more time to wrestling because he's, you know, older. "We could use the money!" says Linda. "I didn't think I was going to have to wrestle at 54 years-old because my wife spends so much money I could never retire," says Terry. Rich people and their financial contests!
And then there's a scene when Terry sort of hobbles around and hurts his knee by walking.
Depressing!
Soon Terry gets a call from Vince asking him to participate in a match that's going to be broadcast on NBC. Terry isn't so sure, since he's got to help Brooke and Nick with their projects (music and racing, respectively). Vince offers him a deal: if Terry makes it out for the match, he'll play Brooke's video, bringing her to an audience that would largely never hear her music otherwise. Brooke is stoked.

She's all about it as long as the endeavor doesn't turn out "corny or cheesy." Those are relative adjectives, right?
And so, Terry uses his career in the name of furthering his daughter's career. Brooke travels to the match with him and helps him prepare.

During his beauty regiment, Terry notes that...

"If the Hulkamaniacs knew I as back here getting my hair straightened out using a pink brush, Hulkamania would be over." Dude, you traipse around in a feather boa. Your audience is forgiving.
Then Brooke
brings her father out to the ring and gets kind of choked up.
She says that she hopes that her career is as successful as her dad's. We all hope for that.
Then, her video plays on the Jumbotron.

If you liked "About Us" on the small screen, you'll love it on the big screen!
Back at home, Terry gets a fax from Vince one day. It states that he wants Terry to sign a 20-year contract with WWE. That would make Terry affiliated with the organization through his 74th birthday. Crazy! He meets with Vince about this. No tights this time, though.

Vince explains that it's more a matter of marketing the Hulk Hogan brand. He wants to be able to do this whether Terry is dead or alive. Classy! Terry still has his doubts. "Somebody once said Hulkamania will never die. Who was that?" asks Vince. "Somebody who apparently just got hit in the head with a steel chair," answers Terry. That's awesome. Self-awareness like that isn't so easy to come by...especially in a wrestler.
In the end, the deal is great enough that Terry decides
to sign on. He explains to his family that this is for their future security.

But he also encourages them to go out and do the things they love doing. Brooke needs to go sell records. Nick needs to go win races. Linda...well, she needs to, uh, do something. Terry suggests a make-up line or perhaps being an Avon lady (good luck in that neighborhood!). He tells her to sell her body. Can you imagine the very-special episode that that would produce?
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I would leave my husband for Terry
Posted by: Audrey | February 22, 2007 at 04:14 AM
Love the show, thanks for the entertainment by allowing us into your home (that has to be tough). Linda and Terry keep up the good work with Nick and Brook they grow up so fast. Your children are leveled headed (They were raised with love and restrictions). Beautiful children, enjoy life that is what it is all about. Looking forward to next season. Love to all of you.
Posted by: Pam Erdey | February 23, 2007 at 06:09 AM
omg i love this show like omg omg omg ha ha ha jk and i am a guy and i love you so much its not even funny.
Posted by: alex | February 25, 2007 at 09:53 PM
I think the first hogan show was better than this season's show. They should have Hulk and his family come to Detroit and make a show out of that--their learning to get used to that particular city in Michigan which also a little different from L.A. & Florida. That would be real interesting!
Posted by: izzy9 | February 27, 2007 at 10:58 PM
I love the show, I hope it is a positive thing for your family. Hulk, I wanted to tell you that seeing the way you interact with your children has really taught me a lot and has opened my eyes as to how I want to be with my son when he gets older (he's 3 now). You set a great example for me to aspire to!! THANKS!!
Posted by: John | March 02, 2007 at 02:13 PM
I have loved you ever since I saw you live 15 years ago in Spokane, WA I have a friend that is going to start taping the show for me, I don't have cable, and my husband and I are exited about watching. Your induction into the hall of fame still makes me cry, and the fact you are still on WWE makes me keep watching.
Posted by: Diana Collings | September 24, 2007 at 05:36 PM