WWE News: Jericho talks purpose of "creepy" vignettes, was a woman supposed to return with him?, who suggested he return without talking?

WWE star Chris Jericho says the pre-return vignettes that aired at the end of 2011 were simply supposed to reintroduce him to the TV audience and not represent anything more.

"They (fans) were looking too deep into it - WAY too deep," Jericho told the U.K. Sun in an interview. “It was just supposed to be a creepy thing. My idea was that it was the Mayan calendar in 2012 saying it’s the end of the world and I was going back and it’s the ‘end of the world as you know it.'"

Jericho says there was no change of plans after a girl was included in the vignettes. "The girl we just put in because she was creepy looking," Jericho said. "There was never supposed to be a girl coming in with me... It was exactly what it was intended to be - a cryptic little cool thing that led to me coming back and doing what I did.”

Jericho revealed that Vince McMahon suggested Jericho return to TV without saying a word to change up his standard return delivering a promo.

“That part was Vince’s idea. He was the one that suggested that and I thought it was great," Jericho said. "I like to do something different that people don’t expect. That’s what I’ve always been about, in everything I do.”