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Hi, I'm Ralph Macchio.
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And I'm William Zabka.
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And we're going to take you
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through the winter ball scene,
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shot by shot.
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Ah, I've been here five minutes and I already see
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10 people I hate. It's Christmastime, all right.
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Tradition is tradition.
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Let's just hope Anthony doesn't get kicked
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out of another sleepover.
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Well, Santa has a big old bag of coal for him if he does.
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This scene is the annual winter ball
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at the country club,
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and Amanda and Daniel
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are heading there
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kind of begrudgingly, but heading out
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for a nice evening together, which they think
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would be uneventful.
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It was tons of extras, tons of food,
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but none of which you would want to eat,
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it was all cold chicken and peas, and all that stuff.
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The drinks looked good, but it was all, you know,
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of course, colored water, and
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we had a cool band set up there,
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and I believe they played some music in between,
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just for the fun of it.
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It's Christmastime, all right.
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I forgot what time of year was this,
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when we shot this scene?
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This was before Thanksgiving, right?
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Because we got done before Thanksgiving,
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and this was sort of toward the end.
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So, this scene was shot probably mid-November.
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There's nothing like movie-making and TV-making
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and the magic of creating Christmas, off-Christmas season.
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All the Christmas decorations you see in there
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were put on by the production, the production designer.
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We designed that whole area to, you know,
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have that festive sort of feel,
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which is sort of not the norm
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for Cobra Kai, to this point.
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Cobra Kai and Karate Kid, it's Halloween or bust, right?
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It's skeletons and shower costumes.
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So, it was kinda nice to have this festive Christmas-y
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feeling and this rivalry to play underneath all that.
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There was also, "December 19th," was the name
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of this episode.
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December 19th was the date of the All Valley tournament
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in the original Karate Kid film.
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Merry Christmas, Brett.
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The usual for me and Amanda, thanks.
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Coming right up.
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Daniel with an L.
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Oh, God, Ali, is it really you?
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I think so.
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Wow, I was hoping that I would run into you one day.
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It's funny that it's here though, huh?
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Yeah, right, right, the kid from Reseda,
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a member of the club.
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Yeah, well there's no more sneaking around in the kitchen.
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I'm sorry I just, you just look great.
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Ah, thank you, so do you.
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I'm so happy to see you.
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Yes.
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This is post-Ali and Johnny's sort of date
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at Golf N' Stuff.
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And Ali has invited Johnny to the winter ball
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at the country club.
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I just have so, so many questions.
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Hey, watch it, I'm wearing white here,
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you think I want that all over me?
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Johnny steps in with the white jacket on
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and a waiter comes by with a red sauce on pasta.
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And that's a direct callback to The Karate Kid
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when LaRusso was sneaking around the country club
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and he had a white shirt on and winds up colliding
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with the waiter and was doused with red spaghetti sauce.
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You're seeing a white garment and spaghetti sauce.
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And it's just the perfect thing for the OG fans
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who see that Johnny Lawrence will sidestep such an event
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where LaRusso wound up on his ass
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covered in spaghetti sauce.
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It's great that Daniel came in the first time
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and got spaghetti on him.
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And now he owns the joint, you know.
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"Hey John, give me this, give me that."
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And, I love how the tables are turned.
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Johnny probably couldn't have got in there
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unless Ali gave him an invite.
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You know, he lost his privilege long time ago there.
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Anytime we can take something,
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come from a different perspective,
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something we're all familiar with, but now we're looking
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at it from this prism or this angle,
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that is a big part of what works so well with the show.
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It's part of what makes it special.
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Johnny, come here.
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You remember Johnny Lawrence, right?
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How can I forget?
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For Johnny, this is the one episode
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and the previous one where, you know,
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he was somewhat happy for once, you know.
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He had the love of his youth came back
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and kind of sparked him up a little bit.
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So, he's stepping into this just kind of living
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almost a little bit in the past.
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But this is the girl that broke both of their hearts
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and left both of them or that they, you know,
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they both loved her at some time.
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Wow guys, this is a little West Valley reunion, huh?
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Crazy.
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Crazy, that is definitely the word for it.
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That's a nice suit, is that made of velvet?
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You sleep in that?
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You should talk there, Scarface.
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Okay, so I guess this is not the first time
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you've seen each other since high school.
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We've had a few run-ins.
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Just one or two.
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There's a little bit of that rivalry happening in there.
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And also Johnny's feeling a little bit like, you know,
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"This is my girl."
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But then, you know, Ali turns all that on the head
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and calls out both of their weaknesses and shortcomings.
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And all that was so fun to play with Lisa.
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It was a great scene, we had a lot of fun with this scene.
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It was just great to play,
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it was great for the three of us to be back in the game,
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if you will, and just have that history and chemistry
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just percolating.
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I love the immature, youthful gloating that Johnny has
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for a moment, like kind of rubbing it in Daniel's face,
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putting his arm around Ali.
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You know, "This was the girl you stole from me," kind
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of feeling, "But now she's mine, but she's not mine."
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And she's, you know, it was a very, very immature moment,
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which I think is really funny.
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It's perfect high school.
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Decades ago and you still have these--
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Yep.
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You know, they're bubbling, you know,
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like it's even happening now.
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It's just funny, it was great.
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Thanks so much for going through this scene shot by shot.
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