No one could have guessed that when a scrawny kid from New Jersey moved to California with his mom, we’d still be talking about it four decades later. But that’s exactly what happened with The Karate Kid, the hit 1984 movie starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The inspirational sports tale spawned two sequels over […]
Watch the Unseen Pitch Trailer That Got Cobra Kai Made
After six seasons of action-packed, nostalgic karate action, it’s easy to see why Cobra Kai worked. But nine years ago, when word of the show first broke, even the biggest fans—such as me—were skeptical. Really? A Karate Kid TV show? Aren’t those guys like 60? Imagine how an executive must have felt when Jon Hurwitz, […]
Cobra Kai Filmed (But Cut) a Scene With Karate Kid Part II’s Theme Song
When I think about The Karate Kid franchise, two songs immediately come to mind: “You’re the Best” by Joe Esposito and “Glory of Love” by Peter Cetera. The former, famously used at the end of the original movie, didn’t appear on the Netflix show Cobra Kai until its final episode, a decision very carefully and […]
Cobra Kai’s Creators Answer Your Big, Post-Series Finale Questions
By now, hopefully, you’d had the chance to sit down and watch the final five episodes of Cobra Kai. Maybe you’ve even watched them two times or three times. Whatever the case, if you’ve seen them you certainly have a lot of questions. Questions centered on how much the ending of the show was on […]
The Deleted Cobra Kai Scene That Would’ve Changed Everything
Cobra Kai marks the end of a journey that began in 1984. That’s when a young New Jersey boy named Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moved to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California and learned karate to defend himself from classmates in a dojo known as Cobra Kai. The story has spanned five (now […]
Why Cobra Kai Never Brought Back That One Major Karate Kid Character
Now that it’s over, we can safely say Cobra Kai did it all. It checked seemingly every single box a fan of The Karate Kid franchise could’ve wanted, while also servicing all of the new characters introduced on the show. Well, with one exception. You know the one. It’s the one everyone has been asking […]
8 Things We Loved, and 4 We Didn’t, About Cobra Kai’s Final Episodes
The final five episodes of Cobra Kai are now on Netflix, ending an almost seven-year journey deep into the world of The Karate Kid. It’s a show we’ve held near and dear to our hearts since the beginning (read our love letter to it here) and these episodes are the cherry on top. The black […]