Was Cobra Kai influenced by How I Met Your Mother?
In How I Met Your Mother a recurring joke was that Barney "doesn't get movies", so in the Karate Kid he roots for Johnny Lawrence whom he claims to be the actual karate kid.
Later, Robin organizes a bachelor party for Barney and invites "the wrong Karate Kid", Ralph Macchio who is all suited up and kind of a Barney.
Now, YouTube has released via YouTube Red a new series continuing the events of The Karate Kid in which Johnny Lawrence is down on his luck (and apparently never got over his illegal defeat), and Daniel LaRusso is a suit-clad business man who is (at least a little bit) like Barney.
They even bring up the illegal face-kick thing, something that was also mentioned once or twice by Barney.
Was there any inspiration from the How I Met Your Mother incorporation of Billy Zabka and the Karate Kid when deciding to make the Cobra Kai series?
Best Answer
Build Series has a video where Billy Zabka and Ralph Macchio talk briefly about their time on the set of How I Met Your Mother, and how they took a photo at the end of their time on How I Met Your Mother, and when they sat down with the creators for Cobra Kai they talked about their ideas and they morphed into something much bigger.
Whether the show creators were further influenced, I do not know. But it certainly looks like both the main actors had their influences from their time on the show.
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Was the idea for Cobra Kai from How I Met Your Mother?
William Zabka's Karate Kid villain Johnny Lawrence was a frequent presence on How I Met Your Mother, potentially paving the way for the Cobra Kai renaissance. In hindsight, Netflix's (formerly YouTube's) Cobra Kai was too great an idea to not happen.What is Cobra Kai inspired by?
Cobra Kai, based on the beloved Karate Kid movies from the 1980s, has a dark inspiration. Creator Hayden Schlossberg revealed on Twitter that the HBO series Oz was the biggest inspiration, saying that \u201cthere is no Cobra Kai without Oz.\u201d It served as inspiration for Cobra Kai with its storytelling.Did Neil Patrick Harris have anything to do with Cobra Kai?
Actor Neil Patrick Harris has an unusual connection to the "Cobra Kai" universe through one of his own signature characters \u2014 insatiable bachelor Barney Stinson of "How I Met Your Mother." It's well-established during the course of the CBS sitcom that Barney idolizes Johnny and William Zabka.Is the mom the same in Cobra Kai?
Randee Heller reprises her role as Lucille LaRusso from The Karate Kid trilogy in the Cobra Kai series. In The Karate Kid films, Lucille is Daniel's supportive, widowed mother. Lucille's new job is reason they moved cross country to California, but Daniel struggles in their new home.How I Met Your Mother PREDICTED Cobra Kai.. Here's How
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