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Post by buckybasser on May 6, 2018 17:01:24 GMT -5
A prior thread was hijacked (mostly by me) so I thought this topic would attract enough attention as a stand alone thread. I used the Crane Kick as a metaphor describing my replies to the Professor - perfectly appropriate given all my legendary takedowns  As a result, the new Cobra Kai YouTube series came up on my feed. It is already one of the biggest ever hits in exclusively online programming. I partook, partly because I liked the original motion picture & partly because one of the leads is related to someone I have known since grade school. I have never seen so much pop culture & politics crammed into any form of entertainment since All in the Family. Last Man Standing, South Park, or The Simpsons have got nothing on this! There is politics is crammed into almost every sentence!Bullying, disabilities, multi-culturalism, governmental regulation, amorphous sexuality, capitalism, socialism, and the high testosterone male stereotype... I trust the old man will despise this, but this is simply excellent entertainment for those who enjoy black comedy like myself, some of the best I have seen in years. The first two episodes are free and you can get a free trial subscription to watch the rest. Episode two has a creepy, overweight & idiotic government regulator at 4:05 - I love it! There is some profanity so not safe for work. >O |
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Post by Old Badger on May 6, 2018 17:50:54 GMT -5
You lost me at Crane Kick, lol! What the heck is this thing?
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Post by buckybasser on May 6, 2018 18:50:01 GMT -5
The Karate Kid was a hit 1980's movie that gained a pop culture following in the last decade through YouTube clips.
The Crane Kick is a kick to the face (actually illegal in most tournaments) that ends the original movie.
The old actors created an online series just loaded with politics & pop culture.
Watch the scene I mentioned and look how they put illegal immigration & government regulation into the same minute.
They even make fun of public school teachers & guidance counselors at one point - this series has got everything!
It is admittedly a bit trashy, but brilliantly done. I could see this as award-winning online material. I have a good pulse for this stuff.
It is almost like Pulp Fiction or Fargo. Check it out - you might get hooked.
>O
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Post by Old Badger on May 7, 2018 10:05:10 GMT -5
The Karate Kid was a hit 1980's movie that gained a pop culture following in the last decade through YouTube clips. Yes, I know about the movie, though I never saw it. Three things I got from that video: *Ralph Macchio has aged well. I mean, at 56 he's even more handsome than he was at the high point of his career in "My Cousin Vinny". *Best line: "You know where I had to hang out in the summer? On a filthy street in Newark with a broken fire hydrant." Actually, Macchio grew up on Long Island, but it's still a good line. In the summers, the older boys in my neighborhood would open a fire hydrant and use their cupped hands to make a spray that we used to cool off until the Fire Department came and turned it off. Eventually, the FD decided to use sprayers that had the same effect, but with a controlled flow that didn't make the system's water pressure dangerously low. We didn't have a pool. *Actually, the one who came across as kind of a jerk wasn't any of the targets you name, but the lummox of a sensei who couldn't even understand how to open a legal business and treated his worker like dirt. How'd you miss that? ;-) |
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Post by buckybasser on May 7, 2018 14:24:04 GMT -5
Very funny - of course you found my favorite character in the movie & new series!
In later episodes, Mr. Lawrence shows he has misogynistic tendencies & openly makes fun of people with disabilities & medical conditions.
Gee - do you think they were hinting at a certain politician Professor? I cannot imagine what one that could be!
The Hispanic student does try to help him along, and he starts to get a little better, but the first season ends with an ominous visitor from the dark side...
Macchio did look great & My Cousin Vinny is an all-time classic comedy. It was well-acted all around.
I still think Marisa Tomei steals the whole movie with this all time classic rant - it still makes me laugh and I already know most of the lines!
As you already know - Tomei's rant is not safe for work.
>O
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Post by Old Badger on May 7, 2018 21:56:03 GMT -5
I still think Marisa Tomei steals the whole movie with this all time classic rant - it still makes me laugh and I already know most of the lines! She steals the movie from start to finish. That scene happens to be The Fiancee's favorite, too. Mine: BTW, I grew up in the same neighborhood as Joe Pesci. In fact, for my first 2 years or so we lived across the street from each other. |
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Post by buckybasser on May 11, 2018 8:19:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I seem to remember you talking about your youth in the hallowed halls. I have only been to East Rutherford - for the Syracuse game where we got killed.
Pesci is great, but we agree on Marisa. She just absolutely crushed that role. I think she won an Oscar - if so it was well-deserved.
If you watch any more Cobra Kai, I think Episode 3 might be the most politically charged, but the politics run extremely thick through the entire series.
I suspect that soon all episodes will go free. The advertising is already built in - like the Coors Banquet Beer Jonny always orders and we always see the logo.
The way Jonny puts down the Coors, he might need to call these guys...
>O
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Post by Old Badger on May 11, 2018 15:28:26 GMT -5
I think she won an Oscar - if so it was well-deserved. Best Supporting Actress, 1993. |
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Post by buckybasser on May 17, 2018 21:54:35 GMT -5
The old man pointed out to me that this exclusively online show is getting some high level political discussion. Of course, we here at the Old Badger's Politics Forum were like 10 days ahead of the game. Your new source for breaking news?  I will admit this is a pretty well done interview involving the writers discussing their goals for the series on NPR... www.npr.org/2018/05/16/611727787/cobra-kai-looks-at-what-happened-after-the-karate-kid-beat-the-school-bullyThe ending signals even more smash mouth politics for Season 2 - with plenty of very conflicted characters. Johnny Lawrence was just starting to grow... Allowing female students, giving confidence to kids with a disability, and allowing for mercy. And yet just as we see the growth in Lawrence as a person, and even contemplation of what he has done, his much darker past returns... Do not watch this if you plan to watch the series, but rest assured that the politics are not going away! I disagree with the huge online sentiment that Lawrence is now "fixed" & will immediately team with LaRusso - the writers here are too clever for a quick fix. >O |
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Post by buckybasser on May 20, 2018 18:28:16 GMT -5
Now that individual clips are becoming available on YouTube, it will give more latitude for precision discussion about the politics of this series.
The character Eli (Lip) was born with a cleft palate & lip - meaning during his fetal stages the tissues in the roof of his mouth & lip dig not properly fuse.
I have great familiarity with the condition because my mom has acted as a surgical nurse in the Philippines where the condition is both more common & debilitating.
In some cases, you cannot get a perfect repair because there is simply not enough tissue available elsewhere in the body, and thus a scar is left.
With that background, the scenes show how coddling in the leftist-controlled public school system is often worse than the cold & hard reality delivered by Mr. Lawrence.
I do not make fun of people disabilities or deformities like Mr. Lawrence did here, in fact I actually donate time to teach disabled kids about fishing.
But the scenes here show how the ways of the left in the form of public education with political correctness & coddling only create failure & dependency.
Exactly the result desired for both recruitment & votes in the world's most failed political ideology.
Luckily, Hawk flipped the script...
>O
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Post by Old Badger on May 20, 2018 22:21:49 GMT -5
Now that individual clips are becoming available on YouTube, it will give more latitude for precision discussion about the politics of this series. Since you seem to be the only one watching the show, I think that, as Maj. Strasser once said, "You would find the discussion a trifle one-sided." |
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Post by buckybasser on May 21, 2018 0:13:23 GMT -5
Actually the first episode has over 32.5 million viewers & growing. Already over 1/4 of the number of people that voted in 2016. The series is a hot topic on political boards, but I think this is the only Badger board prescient enough to see the politics because... Well, because I am here. So as you bop around to your 78 rpm big band records in your D.C. Beltway Cave, I will keep trying to make you cool - or perhaps just somewhat normal. >O |
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Post by Old Badger on May 21, 2018 14:09:28 GMT -5
Actually the first episode has over 32.5 million viewers & growing. How many of them are posting here so there could be a discussion of the show? |
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Post by buckybasser on Jun 2, 2018 18:19:34 GMT -5
As expected, lots of this YouTube series is coming into short clips, and the politics are in every single episode.
An absolutely fantastic commentary on the public school system & reliance on government starts at :50 in this clip.
Demetri (well acted by the kid) is the absolute final product of the public schools.
Be politically correct & call the government for all your problems. Not so much...
>O
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Post by Old Badger on Jun 2, 2018 23:41:14 GMT -5
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Post by buckybasser on Jun 6, 2018 10:51:19 GMT -5
Yes Professor, I saw your thread... I too am a public product from K - J.D. My LL.M. was private.
I would love to see public K-12 phased-out because of the NEA's monopoly & leftist indoctrination agenda.
Your survey would have differed if folks were more informed about the covert reeducation occurring in the grade schools.
Mine kicked into high gear with endangered species in the 4th grade & U.N. Days in the 6th grade. Pure Marxist clap trap.
I would have loved to have attended Hillsdale College instead of Illinois, but I was neither experienced enough nor wealthy enough to know better.
I do not knock the existence of Public Land Grant / Research Universities - only their incredible bias towards the world's most failed political ideology.
>O
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Post by Old Badger on Jun 6, 2018 12:10:55 GMT -5
Your survey would have differed if folks were more informed about the covert reeducation occurring in the grade schools. Statements like these are what make you sound like a nut-case. You think teachers in, say, Kansas are running Commie "reeducation camps" along the lines of Mao's? All that time you've wasted with Rush & Co. has turned your brain to mush, if you do. By contrast, of course, 75 percent of "private" education in the US is run by the Catholic Church or other religious organizations, which actually do propagandize--explicitly, lol! link |
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Post by buckybasser on Jun 6, 2018 12:39:29 GMT -5
Anywhere the NEA is running their tax dollar money laundering scheme is fair game according to Mr. Limbaugh & the EIB Network. As I said, I saw it first hand in my grade school, but I did not understand what was being done to me at the time. Luckily my father taught me about Marx & labor unions. I tried NPR, so perhaps you should try Mr. Limbaugh Professor? 25 Years & counting and look what it has done for me!  >O |
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Post by Old Badger on Jun 6, 2018 12:45:11 GMT -5
Anywhere the NEA is running their tax dollar money laundering scheme is fair game according to Mr. Limbaugh & the EIB Network. And therein the problem with your thinking. Stop mouthing the Dittohead idiocies of Opioid Rush and start thinking for yourself. |
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Post by buckybasser on Jun 6, 2018 14:55:38 GMT -5
Your faculty lounge thinking versus cold hard (hilarious) reality of what thinking Americans know about liberalism in under 2 minutes...
I rest my case Professor. >O
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Post by Old Badger on Jun 6, 2018 15:53:55 GMT -5
I rest my case Professor. >OYes, and lost it on summary judgement. Thank you for making MY case with that crazy video, though. |
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Post by buckybasser on Jul 11, 2018 23:49:13 GMT -5
The 2nd season of Cobra Kai is said to pay much tribute to Pat Morita.
Not only with a special episode, but also with more plot inclusion.
Hopefully the Wisconsin roots will be included!
>O
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