Young Rock Season 3 Episode 6: Dwayne Johnson’s “Young Rock” which tells us the lessons he learned on his way to becoming the icon he is right now has been quite a journey, Season 3 is currently airing on NBC and you can imagine how much love the show might be getting that the show has been able to re-create some of the most famous characters of that time like the wrestlers, managers and even the bookers.
As we move deeper into the world of Dwayne Johnson and his struggles, each episode gives us life lessons that Dwayne learned along the way, some good and some not. The recently released Episode 6 is the Christmas Special Episode where Dwanta Claus tells us two or three stories about Christmas with the three versions of Dwayne we’ve seen so far in the series.
Recap & Summary
It all starts in Hawaii in 1983 during Christmastime when Dewey has lined up his plans to get as Skeletor action figure as a Christmas Gift where he’s planned everything from the availability of the figure to the map of the place which is selling it based on his previous years’ experience where he got the Radish Baby.
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After Lea, his maternal grandmother persuades Dewey to get a present for his mother as well, he goes to the mall to find one for his mother. After taking advice from a mall Santa, Dewey puts googly eyes on a coconut and paints his head with glitter but that falls on the slippers that his mother had gotten from Mervyn’s Collections and loves wearing them at home. So, after the slippers are ruined, Dewey hides them and goes to the shop to find her mother that gift but finds them too costly and has to come out empty-handed.
However, saddened Dewey on the day of Christmas gets his Skeletor figurine but feels bad about her mother’s slippers. His mother loves the googly-eyed coconut gift and adores that. Dewey finds a gift under the Christmas Tree and finds those to be the new pair of slippers that he had ruined. He gifts them to her mother and he discovers a new passion for giving people Christmas gifts.
The Ending
The next story takes place in Bethlehem in 1988 to the point that the coconut with googly eyes has become a tradition and Dewey does that every year. Ata has been working as a cleaner and wants Dewey to come with and help. During work, their rich boss gifts them an ice cream machine which they are very happy to receive, and in response, Dewey says that they also have a gift in return and they will bring that to the party in the evening.
Ata takes Rocky and Dewey to the mall to find a gift for her boss and while Rocky enters a competition to win a free gift, Ata and Dewey go to a shop where they find everything costly but do end up buying a napkin sort of thing which was the cheapest thing available. Ata and Dewey find out that her boss had gifted them a used ice cream machine and do return their favor, they gift her the very same napkin they had bought.
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Dwayne recited this story to tell us that its not always cut and dry and its not always this simple that you get a gift and you give a gift.
The last story involves the third Dwayne who is now working as a heel in the WWF and is invited to Mick Foley’s Christmas Party and now Dwayne wants his Christmas Gifts to be grand and amazing so he gifts Mick Foley a weekend trip to the Bahamas which he isn’t very excited to get and Dwayne realizes that he did something wrong. However, Mick tells him that he has a thing so he can’t go. Dwayne exchanges his gift with Triple H and gifts a robe to Mick who then tells him that every Christmas he goes to gift the underprivileged kids and Dwayne asks to be a part of that and plays Grinch.
Everything ends on a happier note with Dwayne telling the audience that the best gift advice he ever got was from that mall Santa in Hawaii that it’s not about what the gift is. It’s about how it makes the person feel.