She really felt she dodged a bullet when she heard about Daniel going on trial in Alabama for that brutal murder/robbery.

That character makes so much more sense knowing that.

Probably a better gig than YouTube Red.

I guess after the third movie's plot and then having a remake that had kung fu instead of karate, I should know better than to expect any sense.

Then girl from the second movie dumps when that is done, and by third movie he is hanging out with a girl who assures him she has a boyfriend in another city that we never see, so she just wants to be friends.

And why is he opening a Kobra Kai dojo? He got tossed out in the opening to the second movie.

If they are trying for a parody of the Karate Kid movies, they are going to have a hell of time topping The Karate Kid III.

Since I give the writers here crap when they get pop culture wrong, I want to praise Danette for demonstrating solid knowledge of the entire original Karate Kid trilogy.

Scott Baio.

The first movie is realistic as teen sports movies go and solidly entertaining, and the second one is still somewhat grounded, but the third one really is ridiculously crazy. An '80s billionaire who dumps industrial waste for a living decides to put his career on hold so he can get petty revenge on a recent high…

On that note, I think 1997 might have been the last year in which I listened to music-based radio on purpose.

There are few scenes that combine both dread and comedy so effectively.

That sounds right. I stuck with the paper edition all through the '90s, and I seem to remember picking that up on Wednesday mornings.

At least we got that snappy rewrite of "Candle in the Wind"!

1997: The year I moved to Chicago and discovered The Onion, and by extension the AV Club.

I didn't mean to imply that you were faulting him. I'm just irritated that some of his fans were intent on hounding him away from working on the show. As you say, we are now at a point where the show will be worse for it, and we probably are never getting the full series of books anyway.

What does Arya know that Sansa doesn't? They were both there in King's Landing. Was there something specific Arya witnessed?

Yes, Melisandre is fine when it comes to working magic. When it come to more overtly religious things like prophecy and right action, she sucks.

As seen in the stirring finale of Home Improvement.

Martin's fans gave him shit whenever he got involved with the show for not working on the books. I can't really fault the guy for staying away from the show.