#karatekidgate

If only Nina knew the truth*, she’d know that everything with her lover would be okay and

Nintendo? That very Nintendo that no one had ever mentioned in the show before Nina came up?

But while we haven’t reached neither Vegas, nor Nintendo, it’s important to notice: something from Cali expanded into very Nevada.

Last Pizza before Nintendo:

I recommend you to check the point 3, the block “Two guys, a girl and a pizza place” in the top of this post, bc I genuinely was in shock to find out what the pizza scene was inspired by

After last pizza, Vegas and Nintendo are waiting

for Nina to find out her lover is okay.

Domino’s watches:

Dominoes are gonna fall…

(those are the actual words leading into the painting scene: something from Cali expanded into very Nevada)

and that’s how dominoes of Domino actually start falling…

*There are also these important things about Papa’s speech:

1) it does sound byler coded, which stresses that Nina-Nintendo don’t work for byler just in this one specific scene, but actually was foreshadowed by that Papa’s story, which proves the connection

2) apparently, Papa lied about the ending; I don’t have a separate post on that exactly aside from the notes attached, but as you see, it definitely IS extremely crucial for byler

空手 — karate ; キッド— kid (Japanese)

Karate Kid in ST has been haunting me.

I knew that it’s a martial art movie, and saw no connection to ST ideas. Now that we suspect a time loop involving the shirt with the name of the movie (and an apparent BTTF ref), I wondered, whether I’d missed something. As far as I knew, the franchise had nothing to do with time travelling.

However… Turned out that it’s not exactly right 👀

something something about dreams and a coma, something something passed out Mike in 5x04, something something a trip to China sounds nice

And here’s a curious match with T85:

something something Saturday morning cartoon

Also “to do something different” in the part 3, is it like the DB wanted to do something different in their season 3? “Do a flying people movie”? “It’s like I could fly” you mean?

This is not the first ref. related to KK, I once went down Ralph Macchio rabbit hole, an actor from KK, and found out that this scene is an homage to the episode “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place” of the series “Happily divorced” about a couple where the ex-husband is a closeted gay man. Ik I’ve shared it, but it is so mind blowing, I believe it deserves more attention!

⚠️ but I recommend you to check the whole post, there are more juicy details:

Also I loved these finds about Karate Kid:

read now a recent post of @greenfiend about Cyrano, this is such a small detail, but I’ll be damned if that’s a coincidence

It’s reminded me of my old finds connected to Ralph Macchio. The whole post is here but I’ll share the exact relevant parts:

1️⃣ so, they put a poster of RM in ST 3x03 2️⃣ miraculously it turns out that he had a part in a series about a closeted gay man, and RM plays in an episode the title of which sounds 100% like:

almost 2 seasons of going from the poster to the direct reference in the end of the next season. And yk what makes it even better? The poster featured in the same episode where this scene happened:

Istg I’m writing it down and can’t believe it myself, that’s so wild, but these are fucking facts!

🍕while I’m at it, I want to recommend you also this analysis of mine, related to the pizza plotline

so now back to my point which is:

are we kidding here when we’re implying that such things can be coincidental? bsfr, as they say

It’s just a coincidence that Will mentions an actor who played in a Cyrano movie that was released the same year he says it? After this very trope from the show was “forgotten”? Yeah, right.

It’s just a coincidence that ST has the whole scene based on the episode of the show about a closeted gay man, and the title literally stresses that there are “Two” guys and a girl? Sureeeee.